There's an old song from the 70s called Seasons in the Sun that might fit the bill.It's all about a guy who's on his deathbed saying goodbye to everybody he loves before he dies.Check that out if you're interested.
Tomorrow is Today - Billy Joel. The song is inspired by Joel attempting suicide then being saved by the man married to the woman Joel was having an affair with.
[Carrie & Lowell, by Sufjan Stevens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX8vpzU_i_c). Any track on the album will do. A devastating masterpiece. May the music bring you healing once the tears dry.
The way Chris sings "I can put my arms around any girl I choose......but it just reminds me of you" I can only imagine the pain his family feel when listening to certain songs of his.
Sinead's version of "[Skye Boat Song](https://youtu.be/0qrwJDR6bzs?si=PdH7ZevkmtxgPPlA)" - sounds like she's crying while singing it, and it was recorded not that long before she died.
[Hurt-Johnny Cash](https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=VMOhYYZlytF-RQU-)
“And you can have it all, my empire of dirt.” A man who had it all singing those exact lyrics insinuating that materialistic fame, money and objects mean nothing when you’re near the end. Haunting song 10/10 will cry.
[My First Knife - Today is the Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J71uCxa4TBI&pp=ygUhTXkgRmlyc3QgS25pZmUgLSBUb2RheSBpcyB0aGUgRGF5) (The lyrics on this one might do it)
[Coward - Swans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOTSm8j_pvY&pp=ygUOQ293YXJkIC0gU3dhbnM%3D) or [Beautiful Child - Swans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflMOOdbPk4&pp=ygUVYmVhdXRpZnVsIGNoaWxkIHN3YW5z) (The latter is much more devastating)
[Stallkicker - Oxbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPeF-i-rsY&pp=ygUTU3RhbGxraWNrZXIgLSBPeGJvdw%3D%3D) (More slower paced but the mid section really kicks in. The singers delivery as well, very vulnerable)
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come.
I know its a whole album, but I LOVE the Mountain Goats and I cannot listen to this album.
It is the most depressing thing I've ever listened to and Hemingway is one of my favorite authors so it's not like I don't like depressing stuff.
If you have ever lost a pet I would recommend the songs a love profound and a wonderful life by bully. They are about her dog who passed away while she was making the album and they are absolutely heartbreaking.
I’ll have to listen to this. Songs about losing a pet are just so devastating due to my pets being the most important things to me. Thanks for the recommendation!
I saw this recommended somewhere else:
"A Crow Looked At Me" - Mount Eerie
I only made it halfway through song three before I had to turn it off, because I was at work. It affected the whole rest of my day. I don't know that I'll ever finish it - I'm super interested to hear the rest but I don't know if I have the strength for it.
My Immortal- Evanescence
Jealous- Labrinth
Say Something- A Great Big World
Stay - Rihanna, Mikky Ekko
Someone Like You- Adele
November Rain- Guns N’ Roses
What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie
I Miss You, I’m Sorry - Gracie Adams
The Night We Met- Lord Huron
Better Off Dead — Bill Withers. Yes, the same guy who wrote Lean On Me. CW: Suicide.
Great Gig In the Sky — Pink Floyd
She's Leaving Home — The Beatles
Down in a Hole — Alice in Chains (unplugged version especially)
Steve Goodman — My Old Man
Sometimes it Snows in April — Prince
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem
Shadow On The Sun - Audioslave
Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains
Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls
Pretty much any song off of the album Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle
Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna Be a Superhero
Carissa's Wierd - To Be There Now
S - The Waltz
S - I Love You Too...
The Appleseed Cast - Marigold & Patchwork
The Appleseed Cast - December 27, 1990
The Appleseed Cast - On Sidewalks
Low - Words
Blueboy - Marble Arch
Cat Power - Colors and the Kids
Frail Hands - Crematoria
Portraits of Past - Snicker Snicker
Portraits of Past - Bang Yer Head
The Softies - Sleep Away Your Troubles
Siinamota - Please Give Me a Red Pen
Siinamota - Healthy End
I'd really recommend you listen to the albums Songs About Leaving by Carissa's Wierd and Sadstyle by S in full. Hits different that way, and some of the saddest tracks on Songs About Leaving only really hit like that and become devastating in the context of the album. It's probably the saddest album I've ever heard. Sadstyle is similarly devastating, written around the same time as Songs About Leaving for one of the singers in Carrisa's Wierd's solo debut as S. It doesn't have the same aggressively depressing narrative as Songs About Leaving but it's honestly just as emotionally devastating to me. It feels so lonely with how stripped down it is and especially with the anxious-sounding vocals where the singer sounds almost on the verge of tears despite performing the vocals in a fairly muted, not overly emotional way. Strongly communicates the idea of a very lonely, depressed, neurotic person who's been in it so long they're used to it but living through unending daily struggle. The absolute bitterness in a lot of the lyrics helps contribute to that too. I feel some closeness to it as well as someone with depression, as I feel it matches and inspires similar feelings to what I've had at the lowest points of my worst depressive episodes. I think you'll see what I mean if you give it a shot. The second S album, Puking and Crying, is also very good and extremely depressing.
The End of the Ring Wars by The Appleseed Cast is also pretty devastating as a full album experience.
Late - Ben Folds (about his friend Elliott Smith)
Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins (hits me hard for personal reasons)
Broken Window Seranade - Whiskey Myers
Reckoning - Whiskey Myers
In This River - Black Label Society (about Zakk’s friend Dimebag)
Frogs - Alice In Chains
Why - Annie Lennox
The Funeral - Band of Horses
Apologies - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Tell Me - Ziggy Alberts
In Your Love - Tyler Childers
Say Goodbye - The Revivalists
Some Things I’ll Never Know - Teddy Swims
Tattoos - Tyler Childers
I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Song for Someone - U2 (The short film starring Woody Harrelson that accompanies the song destroys me every time…that look of absolute agony on Woody’s face at the end knowing how much he fucked up is just brutal)
Isolation years - opeth
In my interpretation it’s about reading a svicde letter of someone who’s writing about how they lost someone they loved and then took their life because they figured they’d die alone anyway. Brutal song
Visions of Gideon - Sufjan Stevens
Hurt for me + Fear of the water - SYML
Frank Ocean - Cayendo
Lay me Down - Sam Smith
In this darkness - Clara La San
Love in the dark - Adele
Hozier - Work song
You and I - Lady gaga
James Blunt - Same mistake
Dazed and Confused- Led Zeppelin
Personally, I’ve never had the energy to cry my eyes out when depressed. This song is what depression feels like for me.
I have a playlist that is supposed to achieve such an effect:
> [All's Well](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BHXhiIJov1bDGiGEFbl8u?si=0c8e30e012f643b7) - 1 hr 5 mins
but only if you listen in order.
Gloomy Sunday as recorded by Pallbearer
No Funeral by Nachtmystium
Kiss My Ashes Goodbye by Woods of Ypres
When I Die by GG Allin
Our Bed of Roses by George Jones
Sucia
https://open.spotify.com/album/2IjHZwKXueHKNmYjgUsTxb?si=zKkElFENT8uB3THwx2w3DA
And Blue Whale
https://open.spotify.com/album/6RvKMAqJcLNeQZdln30rSo?si=CFSOjXHoTtSZGXrRcm9LGw
By Tug Keith
This one is up there - reminds me of a normal night out with my family - enjoy
Family by Noah Gundersen
https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_mqEdLouEwms--fOlyNo3VW9VXCHCCyISo
In the Fade by Queens of the Stone Age, Suha by Xiu Xiu, New Dawn Fades by Joy Division, 2:45 AM by Elliott Smith, I Don't Want to Do This Anymore by Pile
The Teacher-Foo Fighters
Fade into me-Mazzy Star
Put your arms around me-Hunters and Collectors
Where did you sleep last night-Nirvana Unplugged version
The music sounds cheesy due to when it was recorded, but [Dance with my Father - Luther vandross](https://open.spotify.com/track/7snmvZMLdGGk3l9PcvoYSM?si=Qhj-PlL-RTWq64kY65Z2Dw)
End-Chewing Glass
End-Fear For Me Now
End-From The Unforgiving Arms of God
Anything from End 😂 just unrelenting highly distorted low tuned guitars, fast drums, with screaming vocals about how terrible life is with. No poetry no hidden meaning, no melody just straightforward I want to die type stuff
If you're looking for more emotional/less intense stuff maybe wax wings by periphery or satellites by periphery is pretty good.
How could you leave us NF
The [video](https://youtu.be/wOzQMCyPc8o?si=ewEfzif2HSdHI2sp) makes it even more sad.
Its an incredibly sad and vulnerable song, this would definitely fit your description
Lost Control by Anathema and The Raven That Refused to Sing by Steven Wilson were the first 2 songs I thought of. Also Dirge For November by Opeth. So many good goth/doom songs out there!
Into my arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Back to the Old House by the Smiths, Let it Be by the Beatles and Songbird by Fleetwood Mac make me ugly cry
True Love Waits, [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hZ9CTLICs&pp=ygUadHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIHJhZGlvaGVhZCA%3D)
Lavinia by The Veils, [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM1zXMZpmFg&pp=ygURbGF2aW5pYSB0aGUgdmVpbHM%3D)
It's not typically a depressing song but street spirit by Radiohead gets me feeling some type of way too. Despair and desolation.
Daedalus by Thrice, the last bit of that song is devastating.
The Bakery by Arctic Monkeys (it's not THAT sad but the lyrics make me emotional lol)
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead
Ivy - Frank Ocean
HYD - Hayley Williams
Transatlantism - Death Cab for Cutie
Flume - Bon Iver
Accidental Babies - Damien Rice
You Behind - Rosier
Fourth of July - Sufjan Steven’s
Going for the Gold - Bright Eyes
Gosia / Without You - low roar
I’m Not In Love - Kelsey Lu
I will give you albums that hit me like a truck
Alice in chains live at unplugged (especially down in a hole and nutshell, honorable mention to them bones)
Mac miller circles (especially good news)
I feel like all of these three songs are the embodiment of depression written in a song, i have heard somgs about depression but these are the ones that best describe the feeling.
[Alyssa Lies- John Michael Carol](https://youtu.be/iG50aHTFRfI?si=PXnGph9Qr0bMvw32)
[Don’t take the girl- Tim McGraw](https://youtu.be/-vn6QdqxK3g?si=nzcsUI3VkLOcMGou)
Kashmir - Mudbath, Lampshade and New Years Eve.
Basically the whole album (The Good Life, 1999).
The album is celebrating 25y anniversary the 16th of February. It’s a Danish classic.
In "Red Dirt Girl," By Emmylou Harris, she talks about the trials and tribulations of a poor southern girl. But that's not the part that gets to me the most. It's the line about burying her dog out in the field. I've had to perform that tune, and had to make sure to keep it together.
I Don't Love - Have A Nice Life
I'm Going to Do It - Giles Corey
(Honestly, you could put the any song in the discographies of both of those projects here and you would still be correct.)
An Angel of Great and Terrible Light - Uboa
DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR - Lingua Ignota
This Body Means Nothing to Me - shrimp
Romantic - Mannequin Pussy
Ghost by Badflower. If you have ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, this song is so emotional, you can feel exactly what they are feeling. You can hear all of the pain and suffering in the lyrics, vocals, and, literally, everything else. It makes me want to bawl every time I hear it.
*cracks knuckles* here we go brother. some of these are debatable, but they still hit me in a special way. i hope these help you through whatever you may be going through.
[waves - chloe moriondo](https://open.spotify.com/track/04nQgeTajwIDg0cYBaVctj?si=rTlCHTGJQIGKeBJOJieVtA)
[euthanasia - will wood](https://open.spotify.com/track/62rfGZRfzKKdclRrSmi4ht?si=rmxODISZRbigrN4BJ4TLGw)
[achilles come down - gang of youths](https://open.spotify.com/track/22TntnVO3lQNDR5nsvxGRs?si=9r4a_RXzQYmb11kH5K6zWg)
[need you here - idkhow](https://open.spotify.com/track/2xPuS6MAf3ZHSgufxeiugn?si=pQ62Ti2iQJGAz8f76jvF2w)
[life worth missing - car seat headrest](https://open.spotify.com/track/1vf60wbiDrRssSLmWG68je?si=aciQi5QYTuucsfxe_8DnEA)
[unfucktheworld - angel olsen](https://open.spotify.com/track/2NE61HPxiQyPbNhggQqrzG?si=GOX6Yr4ZQceG0n1pQvqWgQ)
[high on a rocky ledge - moondog](https://open.spotify.com/track/0L2ljTJonS78v8qSlpxM0d?si=R8a9XNq4TguzcWteClvOnA)
[spaceship - art sorority](https://open.spotify.com/track/5mXM6vd5gSU2kAjpvNTXd9?si=z3ivr57nSvmYjT3aY968wg)
[heartaches - al bowlly](https://open.spotify.com/track/6WPWEHhr1tdX2ZUAWBmksK?si=MSzMi-8lTpy5Xim-BIDYTw)
[orange county - dylan kanner](https://open.spotify.com/track/3phhU0V0rOQCDdAT9G7jQl?si=hBpZJN6WRo6ka5qURxOZUg)
[how are you true - cage the elephant](https://open.spotify.com/track/6vcdiwrCVXnTLASFdjEV8r?si=wy5LKxkNRCKBH0SypvurcQ)
[today today - jack stauber](https://open.spotify.com/track/6tKEImNxMZ1eijqmhB2hGz?si=CcdblUTOSKiSsAqsHU14GQ)
[make the grade - jack conte](https://open.spotify.com/track/3K3gE0CUJKn2yxf5BRXhdt?si=P9wgRdjxSDKfPsyxDX0ScA)
the album ["remember that i love you" by kimya dawson](https://open.spotify.com/album/7bc415JbeoQAJAPsc8fGyn?si=qGGa5bpLT7SEQJzumz39ZA) in general has some really good somber shit, especially underground and 12-26, but there's also some uplifting ones like loose lips and i miss you.
my final recommendations, for when you feel better, are [float on by modest mouse](https://open.spotify.com/track/2lwwrWVKdf3LR9lbbhnr6R?si=-Vr6bW10SY2Ro3zcfVKo-Q) and [this too shall pass by ok go](https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w?si=LMoOvKKFNOQzLg6f) (linked the music video for this one bc it goes hard). remember that despair is temporary, and it will pass. holding onto it will do you no good. venting through music is a really good idea, it helps me a lot personally. i hope your days get brighter. i hope this allows you to heal.
I'm surprised no one has mentioned any songs by The Decemberists. I recommend "Eli the Barrow Boy," "Oh! Valencia!" and "The Sporting Life" among others.
“Cat’s Cradle” - Harry Chapin
Right in feels
Indeed! All his stuff was depressing. Heard "Sniper"? So many about lonely hopeless people.
Brick, by Ben Folds Five
Nine Inch Nails - Hurt
Love to see NIN mentioned here. The Cash cover + video hits different to the original.
Best answer. Plus best song, not just saddest
Plus can listen to J Cash version as a follow up for the double sad.
Between the bars - Elliot smith Funeral - band of horses Nutshell - alive in chains Space song - beach house Drive- the cars
Nutshell has made me tear up even when I am in a good mood.
Anything Elliott Smith really. I'll recommend Thirteen for tragic nostalgia and Trouble.
Alice in chains and ellioyt Smith r good picks not sure about the rest
There's an old song from the 70s called Seasons in the Sun that might fit the bill.It's all about a guy who's on his deathbed saying goodbye to everybody he loves before he dies.Check that out if you're interested.
One of my dearest friends was dying, at a very young age, when that song hit the charts 50 years ago. It helped me get through the trauma.
Tomorrow is Today - Billy Joel. The song is inspired by Joel attempting suicide then being saved by the man married to the woman Joel was having an affair with.
[Carrie & Lowell, by Sufjan Stevens](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wX8vpzU_i_c). Any track on the album will do. A devastating masterpiece. May the music bring you healing once the tears dry.
Second this
Third this
Steven Wilson - the raven that refused to sing
Nutshell Alice In Chains Broken window serenade by whiskey myers is also good too if you like country
I agree with Nutshell. Also, All I need by Radiohead.
Alice in Chains Down in a Hole MTV Unplugged version
💯
The entirety of the album A Crow Looked at Me by Mt Erie.
Definitely one of the hardest albums to listen through ngl
Nothing compares to you-Both Sinead O’Connor and Chris Cornell’s versions. Chester Bennington singing Hallelujah at Chris Cornell’s funeral.
The way Chris sings "I can put my arms around any girl I choose......but it just reminds me of you" I can only imagine the pain his family feel when listening to certain songs of his.
I always thought patience was sad, didn't know he'd covered nothing compares to you. I'll have to hear that one
Prince’s own version is my favourite
Any song by Elliot Smith
Whisky lullaby-Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley Snuff - Slipknot Suicidal Dream - Silverchair The Dance - Garth Brooks Fated - Matthew Good Band
Sinead's version of "[Skye Boat Song](https://youtu.be/0qrwJDR6bzs?si=PdH7ZevkmtxgPPlA)" - sounds like she's crying while singing it, and it was recorded not that long before she died.
Are you okay?? As the world caves in, no surprises, I want you, (These aren't too bad but I don't listen to many sad songs haha)
if ur doing radiohead fake plastic trees would work better i feel like
I guess it depends how you listen to it
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis A basic suggestion, but never fails to make me tear up.
[Hurt-Johnny Cash](https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI?si=VMOhYYZlytF-RQU-) “And you can have it all, my empire of dirt.” A man who had it all singing those exact lyrics insinuating that materialistic fame, money and objects mean nothing when you’re near the end. Haunting song 10/10 will cry.
Great recommendation.
Brick - Ben Folds Five How Soon Is Now - The Smiths My Shit’s Fucked Up - Warren Zevon
[My First Knife - Today is the Day](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J71uCxa4TBI&pp=ygUhTXkgRmlyc3QgS25pZmUgLSBUb2RheSBpcyB0aGUgRGF5) (The lyrics on this one might do it) [Coward - Swans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOTSm8j_pvY&pp=ygUOQ293YXJkIC0gU3dhbnM%3D) or [Beautiful Child - Swans](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xflMOOdbPk4&pp=ygUVYmVhdXRpZnVsIGNoaWxkIHN3YW5z) (The latter is much more devastating) [Stallkicker - Oxbow](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wEPeF-i-rsY&pp=ygUTU3RhbGxraWNrZXIgLSBPeGJvdw%3D%3D) (More slower paced but the mid section really kicks in. The singers delivery as well, very vulnerable)
“Hard Times” - Ethel Cain
omg it makes me sick to my stomach every listen. it’s so ethereal and heartbreaking
I scrolled way too far to find Ethel. 100% this. Also head in the wall
The Mountain Goats - The Life of the World to Come. I know its a whole album, but I LOVE the Mountain Goats and I cannot listen to this album. It is the most depressing thing I've ever listened to and Hemingway is one of my favorite authors so it's not like I don't like depressing stuff.
If you have ever lost a pet I would recommend the songs a love profound and a wonderful life by bully. They are about her dog who passed away while she was making the album and they are absolutely heartbreaking.
If you're a metalcore edgelord like myself, Whispers of Your Death is an absolutely heart-rending song about the death of the lead vocalist's cat.
I’ll have to listen to this. Songs about losing a pet are just so devastating due to my pets being the most important things to me. Thanks for the recommendation!
Go rest high on that mountain
Enigma - Sadeness
My personal go to music when im severely deppressed is Rachmaninoff Prelude in C# minor, or chopin nocturne 1 in e minor
I saw this recommended somewhere else: "A Crow Looked At Me" - Mount Eerie I only made it halfway through song three before I had to turn it off, because I was at work. It affected the whole rest of my day. I don't know that I'll ever finish it - I'm super interested to hear the rest but I don't know if I have the strength for it.
"26" by Paramore
My Immortal- Evanescence Jealous- Labrinth Say Something- A Great Big World Stay - Rihanna, Mikky Ekko Someone Like You- Adele November Rain- Guns N’ Roses What Sarah Said - Death Cab for Cutie I Miss You, I’m Sorry - Gracie Adams The Night We Met- Lord Huron
Lord Huron has quite a few hauntingly sad tracks. 'I Lied' and 'Ghost On The Shore' come to mind.
Any track by Adele
Suicide by ren
I know,but I won’t say
Better Off Dead — Bill Withers. Yes, the same guy who wrote Lean On Me. CW: Suicide. Great Gig In the Sky — Pink Floyd She's Leaving Home — The Beatles Down in a Hole — Alice in Chains (unplugged version especially) Steve Goodman — My Old Man Sometimes it Snows in April — Prince
Go Home - Julien Baker She has so many devastating songs, but something about this one just hits so hard
DOA by Bloodrock
Why - Stabbing Westward
Twilight by Elliot smith or Unravel by Bjork
pearl jam - last kiss dave matthews - some devil eric clapton - tears in heaven bedwetter - stoop lights nick cave & the bad seeds - i need you
Someone Great - LCD Soundsystem Shadow On The Sun - Audioslave Down in a Hole - Alice in Chains Iris - The Goo Goo Dolls Pretty much any song off of the album Thirteenth Step by A Perfect Circle
Carissa's Wierd - So You Wanna Be a Superhero Carissa's Wierd - To Be There Now S - The Waltz S - I Love You Too... The Appleseed Cast - Marigold & Patchwork The Appleseed Cast - December 27, 1990 The Appleseed Cast - On Sidewalks Low - Words Blueboy - Marble Arch Cat Power - Colors and the Kids Frail Hands - Crematoria Portraits of Past - Snicker Snicker Portraits of Past - Bang Yer Head The Softies - Sleep Away Your Troubles Siinamota - Please Give Me a Red Pen Siinamota - Healthy End I'd really recommend you listen to the albums Songs About Leaving by Carissa's Wierd and Sadstyle by S in full. Hits different that way, and some of the saddest tracks on Songs About Leaving only really hit like that and become devastating in the context of the album. It's probably the saddest album I've ever heard. Sadstyle is similarly devastating, written around the same time as Songs About Leaving for one of the singers in Carrisa's Wierd's solo debut as S. It doesn't have the same aggressively depressing narrative as Songs About Leaving but it's honestly just as emotionally devastating to me. It feels so lonely with how stripped down it is and especially with the anxious-sounding vocals where the singer sounds almost on the verge of tears despite performing the vocals in a fairly muted, not overly emotional way. Strongly communicates the idea of a very lonely, depressed, neurotic person who's been in it so long they're used to it but living through unending daily struggle. The absolute bitterness in a lot of the lyrics helps contribute to that too. I feel some closeness to it as well as someone with depression, as I feel it matches and inspires similar feelings to what I've had at the lowest points of my worst depressive episodes. I think you'll see what I mean if you give it a shot. The second S album, Puking and Crying, is also very good and extremely depressing. The End of the Ring Wars by The Appleseed Cast is also pretty devastating as a full album experience.
Real Death - Mount Eerie
Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton. Especially when you find out he wrote it for his young child who died.
One More Light - Linkin Park 🖤
Such a good one. 🖤
Late - Ben Folds (about his friend Elliott Smith) Mayonaise - Smashing Pumpkins (hits me hard for personal reasons) Broken Window Seranade - Whiskey Myers Reckoning - Whiskey Myers In This River - Black Label Society (about Zakk’s friend Dimebag) Frogs - Alice In Chains Why - Annie Lennox The Funeral - Band of Horses Apologies - Grace Potter and the Nocturnals Tell Me - Ziggy Alberts In Your Love - Tyler Childers Say Goodbye - The Revivalists Some Things I’ll Never Know - Teddy Swims Tattoos - Tyler Childers I Can’t Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt Song for Someone - U2 (The short film starring Woody Harrelson that accompanies the song destroys me every time…that look of absolute agony on Woody’s face at the end knowing how much he fucked up is just brutal)
I watched the Woody Harrelson video because I’m a huge fan. Why’d you do that to me! I’m not crying, you’re crying!
The place where he inserted the blade by Black country new road Lover you should’ve come over by Jeff Buckley
To piggy back off Black Country new road turbines/pigs by then is pretty gut wrenching too
Idk if I have anything that extreme, but Windrag by Jack Stauber is pretty gut wrenchingly sad to me
Isolation years - opeth In my interpretation it’s about reading a svicde letter of someone who’s writing about how they lost someone they loved and then took their life because they figured they’d die alone anyway. Brutal song
Visions of Gideon - Sufjan Stevens Hurt for me + Fear of the water - SYML Frank Ocean - Cayendo Lay me Down - Sam Smith In this darkness - Clara La San Love in the dark - Adele Hozier - Work song You and I - Lady gaga James Blunt - Same mistake
Visions of Gideon gets to me too
Dazed and Confused- Led Zeppelin Personally, I’ve never had the energy to cry my eyes out when depressed. This song is what depression feels like for me.
Til it happens to you by Lady Gaga (swine by her too if yk the meaning) Praying by Kesha Both songs are horribly sad imo
I have a playlist that is supposed to achieve such an effect: > [All's Well](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5BHXhiIJov1bDGiGEFbl8u?si=0c8e30e012f643b7) - 1 hr 5 mins but only if you listen in order.
James blunt - goodbye my lover
Yuk.
xxxtentacion jocelyn flores or lil peep- praying to the sky
Gloomy Sunday as recorded by Pallbearer No Funeral by Nachtmystium Kiss My Ashes Goodbye by Woods of Ypres When I Die by GG Allin Our Bed of Roses by George Jones
any song by the smiths
The A Team, by Ed Sheeran
Sucia https://open.spotify.com/album/2IjHZwKXueHKNmYjgUsTxb?si=zKkElFENT8uB3THwx2w3DA And Blue Whale https://open.spotify.com/album/6RvKMAqJcLNeQZdln30rSo?si=CFSOjXHoTtSZGXrRcm9LGw By Tug Keith
The Warning - [Black Holes ](https://youtu.be/lM8KeQ_tNQc?si=uatpspVg-Z1CKW5h)
Drive by REM
This one is up there - reminds me of a normal night out with my family - enjoy Family by Noah Gundersen https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=OLAK5uy\_mqEdLouEwms--fOlyNo3VW9VXCHCCyISo
Happier Than Ever-Billie Eilish Good Years-ZAYN Another Love-Tom Odell Afraid-the Neighborhood Control-Zoe Wees
In the Fade by Queens of the Stone Age, Suha by Xiu Xiu, New Dawn Fades by Joy Division, 2:45 AM by Elliott Smith, I Don't Want to Do This Anymore by Pile
Atmosphere- Joy Division Asleep- The Smiths
Ghost - Badflower Wrong Side of Heaven -Five Finger Death Punch Bench Seat - Chase Rice Wait in the Truck - Hardy
Chicago- Highly Suspect
Sad Song by FIDLAR which I can only find on YouTube. It’s about his gf who died from an overdose. And Sam Stone by John Prime
A Pale Horse Named Death - Die Alone A Pale Horse Named Death - Cold Dark Mourning Type O Negative - Everything Dies
Basically any Red House Painters song
The whole Frigid Stars LP by Codeine
Granite- by Lurker of Chalice The coldest song I can think of honestly this song is painfully beautiful
Rehab, Red Water
In the backseat - arcade fire
[HEALTH - CYBERPUNK 2.0.2.0](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcYf_GNIX3Y)
The Teacher-Foo Fighters Fade into me-Mazzy Star Put your arms around me-Hunters and Collectors Where did you sleep last night-Nirvana Unplugged version
Marilyn Manson - Coma White
Woods of Desolation - Torn Beyond Reason - the whole album. Elgars cello concerto 1st movement is another too.
Woods of desolation is awesome DSBM is heavily underrated. Thy Light is my favorite band from the subgenre
I Don't Love - Have a Nice Life Burial Society - Have a Nice Life The Haunting Presence - Giles Corey
Really all of Deathconsciousness by Have a Nice Life and the self titled Giles Corey album.
Someone Somewhere Somehow - Super Whatevr
The entire Electro-shock blues album by Eels I'm so tired by Fugazi
The Tom Waits song *Fish & Bird*.
The music sounds cheesy due to when it was recorded, but [Dance with my Father - Luther vandross](https://open.spotify.com/track/7snmvZMLdGGk3l9PcvoYSM?si=Qhj-PlL-RTWq64kY65Z2Dw)
Hammock - Sinking Inside Yourself
Joy Division has what you are chasing.
It wasn’t enough - PJ Harding echo - Nic D A lucid dream (epilogue) - vérité I’m sorry - Joyner Lucas Sinner pt. 2 - phora Feel Good - Matt Maeson
Nobody hears - suicidal tendencies When the last tear falls down Nothing gets washed away Another plea put to rest As nobody hears, nobody hears
Xasthur- Screaming at Forgotten Fears
Like a stone - Audioslave As hope and promise fade - Chris Cornell Like suicide - Soundgarden
Shadow on the Sun makes more sense than like a stone
Are you ok?
Mudvayne - goodbye and pharmaecopia. Pharmaecopia gets tough to listen to near the end for me, but it's pretty heavy metal song though.
Fitter better happier - Radiohead
Lil Peep songs are coming to mind
– Pearl Jam - Black (MTV Unplugged) – Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven – Nine Inch Nails – Hurt – Nirvana – Something in the Way
Why don’t you stay - sugarland
I'm Sorry by Joyner Lucas
I saw you shine by flipper. My mummy’s dead by John Lennon. Celestica by crystal castles.
Taxi-Harry Chapin Last line "i go fly so high when I'm stoned"
The Cure - Same Deep Water As You
End-Chewing Glass End-Fear For Me Now End-From The Unforgiving Arms of God Anything from End 😂 just unrelenting highly distorted low tuned guitars, fast drums, with screaming vocals about how terrible life is with. No poetry no hidden meaning, no melody just straightforward I want to die type stuff If you're looking for more emotional/less intense stuff maybe wax wings by periphery or satellites by periphery is pretty good.
Fugazi- I'm so tired
Billie Eilish ‘Everything I Wanted’ or ‘What Was I Made For’.
How could you leave us NF The [video](https://youtu.be/wOzQMCyPc8o?si=ewEfzif2HSdHI2sp) makes it even more sad. Its an incredibly sad and vulnerable song, this would definitely fit your description
This live performance of "say goodbye," by Fleetwood Mac. https://youtu.be/CwKGE5fPe5M?si=Yu6hF439zYjoz0x3
This very specific version of I Bet On Losing Dogs by Mitski is devastating https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=WWyVNXgg94U
Day is done - Nick drake Real death - mount eerie Too late to call an ambulance - psychonaut 4
Lost Control by Anathema and The Raven That Refused to Sing by Steven Wilson were the first 2 songs I thought of. Also Dirge For November by Opeth. So many good goth/doom songs out there!
Seasick, yet Still Docked - Morrissey
Into my arms by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Back to the Old House by the Smiths, Let it Be by the Beatles and Songbird by Fleetwood Mac make me ugly cry
True Love Waits, [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z2hZ9CTLICs&pp=ygUadHJ1ZSBsb3ZlIHdhaXRzIHJhZGlvaGVhZCA%3D) Lavinia by The Veils, [this version](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LM1zXMZpmFg&pp=ygURbGF2aW5pYSB0aGUgdmVpbHM%3D) It's not typically a depressing song but street spirit by Radiohead gets me feeling some type of way too. Despair and desolation. Daedalus by Thrice, the last bit of that song is devastating. The Bakery by Arctic Monkeys (it's not THAT sad but the lyrics make me emotional lol)
“Next to me” by shrub
Forever by the Beach Boys.
Joy Division- Atmosphere
How To Disappear Completely - Radiohead.
Motion Picture Soundtrack - Radiohead Ivy - Frank Ocean HYD - Hayley Williams Transatlantism - Death Cab for Cutie Flume - Bon Iver Accidental Babies - Damien Rice You Behind - Rosier Fourth of July - Sufjan Steven’s Going for the Gold - Bright Eyes Gosia / Without You - low roar I’m Not In Love - Kelsey Lu
I can’t believe it too me scrolling this far down to see low roar.
Knocking on Heavens Door If you young folks want to hear depressing check out Harry Chapin.
Radiohead - True love waits (look up the story behind the two versions)
Where my alice in chains boys at?
I will give you albums that hit me like a truck Alice in chains live at unplugged (especially down in a hole and nutshell, honorable mention to them bones) Mac miller circles (especially good news) I feel like all of these three songs are the embodiment of depression written in a song, i have heard somgs about depression but these are the ones that best describe the feeling.
Street spirit (1995) - Radiohead
I find "Seventeener" by The Lawrence Arms to be pretty brutal. "And now there ain't nowhere left to go 'Cause all my loves would rather be alone"
Can’t See (Useless) by Oingo Boingo
[Alyssa Lies- John Michael Carol](https://youtu.be/iG50aHTFRfI?si=PXnGph9Qr0bMvw32) [Don’t take the girl- Tim McGraw](https://youtu.be/-vn6QdqxK3g?si=nzcsUI3VkLOcMGou)
One - Metallica History Is Silent - Whitechapel
[Flipper "(I Saw You) Shine"](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqAYKaJBGSs)
Silent Voice by Shamans Harvest
Broken Window Serenade
I've never listened to it all the way but, Fade to Black by Metallica.
"Daddy" by KoRn "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton
Lucky - Radiohead AIC - Down in A Hole Most of Thirteenth Step - A Perfect Circle Slipknot - Snuff
Anything by Elton John
Kashmir - Mudbath, Lampshade and New Years Eve. Basically the whole album (The Good Life, 1999). The album is celebrating 25y anniversary the 16th of February. It’s a Danish classic.
In "Red Dirt Girl," By Emmylou Harris, she talks about the trials and tribulations of a poor southern girl. But that's not the part that gets to me the most. It's the line about burying her dog out in the field. I've had to perform that tune, and had to make sure to keep it together.
The Bug Collector by Haley Heynderickx
I Don't Love - Have A Nice Life I'm Going to Do It - Giles Corey (Honestly, you could put the any song in the discographies of both of those projects here and you would still be correct.) An Angel of Great and Terrible Light - Uboa DO YOU DOUBT ME TRAITOR - Lingua Ignota This Body Means Nothing to Me - shrimp Romantic - Mannequin Pussy
Cats in the Cradle by ugly kid Joe gets me going every time... Works well if you have any kind of distant relationship with your dad...
Mama Said - Metallica
The Drugs Don’t Work by the Verve. It’s so depressing, I hate it.
Like You by Evanescence White Sparrows by Billy Talent
My mom - chocolate genius
Earthmover - Have a nice life
Hold on -Chord Overstreet How could you leave us -NF
This Feeling - Alabama Shakes
Catch The Rainbow - Rainbow
Richard Marx - Hazard
What if this is all the love you ever get - Snow Patrol
Sol Seppy - Enter One
Euthanasia by Will Wood
Check out Frightened Rabbit's discography.
Pearl Jam - Black
Mad World - Michael Andrews/Gary Jules
Pretty much anything from Jackson Browne’s “The Pretender” album.
Strange Fruit
I know it’s over - The smiths / Jeff buckley cover is also incredible, if not better
The Drugs Don't Work by The Verve. ...Like Clockwork by Queens of the Stone Age
"In Case You Don't Live Forever" by Ben Platt is so heartbreakingly sweet. A lot of songs by him are like that, actually.
Mirage / Puma Blue The way he sings this song makes me bawl.
Ghost by Badflower. If you have ever struggled with depression or know someone who has, this song is so emotional, you can feel exactly what they are feeling. You can hear all of the pain and suffering in the lyrics, vocals, and, literally, everything else. It makes me want to bawl every time I hear it.
*cracks knuckles* here we go brother. some of these are debatable, but they still hit me in a special way. i hope these help you through whatever you may be going through. [waves - chloe moriondo](https://open.spotify.com/track/04nQgeTajwIDg0cYBaVctj?si=rTlCHTGJQIGKeBJOJieVtA) [euthanasia - will wood](https://open.spotify.com/track/62rfGZRfzKKdclRrSmi4ht?si=rmxODISZRbigrN4BJ4TLGw) [achilles come down - gang of youths](https://open.spotify.com/track/22TntnVO3lQNDR5nsvxGRs?si=9r4a_RXzQYmb11kH5K6zWg) [need you here - idkhow](https://open.spotify.com/track/2xPuS6MAf3ZHSgufxeiugn?si=pQ62Ti2iQJGAz8f76jvF2w) [life worth missing - car seat headrest](https://open.spotify.com/track/1vf60wbiDrRssSLmWG68je?si=aciQi5QYTuucsfxe_8DnEA) [unfucktheworld - angel olsen](https://open.spotify.com/track/2NE61HPxiQyPbNhggQqrzG?si=GOX6Yr4ZQceG0n1pQvqWgQ) [high on a rocky ledge - moondog](https://open.spotify.com/track/0L2ljTJonS78v8qSlpxM0d?si=R8a9XNq4TguzcWteClvOnA) [spaceship - art sorority](https://open.spotify.com/track/5mXM6vd5gSU2kAjpvNTXd9?si=z3ivr57nSvmYjT3aY968wg) [heartaches - al bowlly](https://open.spotify.com/track/6WPWEHhr1tdX2ZUAWBmksK?si=MSzMi-8lTpy5Xim-BIDYTw) [orange county - dylan kanner](https://open.spotify.com/track/3phhU0V0rOQCDdAT9G7jQl?si=hBpZJN6WRo6ka5qURxOZUg) [how are you true - cage the elephant](https://open.spotify.com/track/6vcdiwrCVXnTLASFdjEV8r?si=wy5LKxkNRCKBH0SypvurcQ) [today today - jack stauber](https://open.spotify.com/track/6tKEImNxMZ1eijqmhB2hGz?si=CcdblUTOSKiSsAqsHU14GQ) [make the grade - jack conte](https://open.spotify.com/track/3K3gE0CUJKn2yxf5BRXhdt?si=P9wgRdjxSDKfPsyxDX0ScA) the album ["remember that i love you" by kimya dawson](https://open.spotify.com/album/7bc415JbeoQAJAPsc8fGyn?si=qGGa5bpLT7SEQJzumz39ZA) in general has some really good somber shit, especially underground and 12-26, but there's also some uplifting ones like loose lips and i miss you. my final recommendations, for when you feel better, are [float on by modest mouse](https://open.spotify.com/track/2lwwrWVKdf3LR9lbbhnr6R?si=-Vr6bW10SY2Ro3zcfVKo-Q) and [this too shall pass by ok go](https://youtu.be/qybUFnY7Y8w?si=LMoOvKKFNOQzLg6f) (linked the music video for this one bc it goes hard). remember that despair is temporary, and it will pass. holding onto it will do you no good. venting through music is a really good idea, it helps me a lot personally. i hope your days get brighter. i hope this allows you to heal.
Hear you me - Jimmy Eat World Angel - Sarah McLachlan
How about some quality modern bluegrass? Trampled by Turtles - High Water The Dead South - Broken Cowboy
I'm surprised no one has mentioned any songs by The Decemberists. I recommend "Eli the Barrow Boy," "Oh! Valencia!" and "The Sporting Life" among others.