Hit me with your top 3 sad songs that aren't about love or getting dumped

[arxianfall]

A tout le monde is high up there on the list. I arrived late to their concert and this was the song they were playing, so I heard part of it live.

[ReneVergence]

I don't know how you feel about musicals, but this song is incredible and basically outlines the character's revelation that they've wasted their life. It's my favorite song from this show and sounds fully like the dynamic and emotionally complex crisis it's meant to protray.

Just look up the story behind this song. It's so painful. I could make a list of metal songs like this alone.

And here we have one of my favorite musicians, Hozier. This is apparently a traditional Irish song which I believe he slightly modified (I'm not Irish I just read some of the comments). It's hauntingly beautiful, but just listen to it.

Since I listen to a lot of sad music, I'm including some honorable mentions that have also hurt me:

Most of the songs from Les Miserables (I was first exposed to the movie so I don't know too much about the normal musical versions) but I Dreamed a Dream sung by Anne Hathaway was probably the single most sad song from that experience.

Also Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. I can't fully describe why but that song always makes me cry so I can't stand listening to it.

[kaylynx]

My favorite because it sounds so upbeat and happy but it's totally not

See you again is a classic

Thought About You always kills me, too

[DualDragons]

I have two from disturbed

This one is the sadder sounding one, and it is about drug addiction and the struggle to keep on living

This one doesn't sound sad, but it's about the devil trying to convince the person to commit suicide in order to see his dead lover again

[IzzyStarr]

Redemption by Besomorph & Coopex

[Suisid]

1: Migrene

2: Where do babies come from?

3: Boys will be boys

[AnonymousHouseCat]

@joannekwan I love Johnny Cash’s cover of Hurt! I used to listen to it all the time in high school!

[AnonymousHouseCat]

haha one of my hobbies is listening to sad music and crying, and I even have different playlists for being sad in the winter and summer. Apparently I inherited it from my grandma
Anyway, I won’t share all of them, because it probably reveals too much about me and my mental health history (no shame in it though, get help if you can/need to!) I’m doing a lot better these days!
1) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M9SVzapqfNU
On a Day Like Today by Keane: I related to this one in college a lot before/during when I started going to therapy. At the time, I didn’t know why I was struggling, I just knew that, after meeting high expectations for years, I was suddenly struggling and letting everyone down and had no clue how to explain it to them. Another reason I like this song is because there are just a few lyrics, but I feel like you can combine them/ break them up in a lot of different ways to get new layers of meaning.

2) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC_P-VRLU8c
Kitchen Sink by Twenty One Pilots: Not really sad, more inspiring than anything, but has also made me cry. Particularly the part where Tyler screams “leave me alone,” because I listened to it for the first time when I was probably the busiest I had ever been, was under a lot of stress, and everything just felt like too much.

3) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fC26XpXjSVw
A Rush of Blood to the Head by Coldplay: This one doesn’t really make me sad, more calming, but has that somber feel and is on my summer “sad cowboy” playlist haha. I guess it also astral projects me back to a childhood full of beige summers where everything seemed yellow and bleak and it was too hot to go outside, but this was playing on my family’s stereo.

[R.n.P]

[RoyalBean_AllidynMae]

Hero 'n Villian duet, Natalie Chavez I just-- I start crying when I listen to this.

Lonely Eyes by the front bottoms

line without hook.

[SurvivALIST]

Believe it or not, I love sad songs. If ever I get so addicted to songs that seemingly screams at me, I have some sad songs to tame those earworms although sad songs became my new brain pests instead.

                          Worst Day of My Life by Alec Benjamin

Like what the song says, experiencing rejection in a day is the worst thing that could ever happen to me. At one time, I found myself listening to only this song the whole day.

                           False Confidence by Noah Kahan

I'm someone who overthinks excessively and has the tendency to be naive thinking that my work or worth can easily be accepted by other people because they're the "professionals". This songs puts me on guard to my insecurities.

                               Perfect by Simple Plan

At one time, I sang this song the entire day thinking about who I might have pissed off. Well, I did get on the nerves of the people in our house saying that my song is depressive.

Although this makes it the fourth, I truly liked Demons by The Wanted. It may be a break up song but this verse made me jam to it:

"All my life, I played like a winner
Now all I see looking back in the mirror
Demons in my head
The demons in my head, oh oh
All this time, the saint was a sinner
The joke's on me, a stone cold killer
Demons in my head
The demons in my head, oh oh"

Well, there you go. Happy Sad Song Fest! (NIE: "Happy Sad"? )

[Puck]

Johnny Cash, best concert I ever been to and I don´t think that will ever change.
At some point he told the security to let us (the rockabilly crowd) to the front of the stage,
I stood in the middle, right in front of Johnny Cash and he starred right into my eyes while singing

[iHateFridays]

Honestly Slipping through my fingers by ABBA is pretty sad, it's from the perspective of a mother watching her kid growing and leaving home ;(

[GumshoeComix]

cover of smashing pumpkins song
i love smashing pumpkins but this one just hurt me to listen to.
the song is about Billy Corgan's abusive homelife when he was younger.

The song tells of a story of a father who cant schedule time for his kid and before he knows it the kid is grown up and they hardly talk anymore.
the song's supposed to serve as a warning for putting work before your kids.

this song is based on a true story of someone P!NK used to be friends with (not boyfriend) who died of an overdose
the comments on the video make it even harder cause so many people can relate to it.
and as someone who had friends who would abuse drugs to an intense degree it hits home
I'm so happy they're sober now ;;

i have more i'd wanna post but you said 3

[BeautifulDoubt]

Liability- Lorde. It mentions a past person but its more about being abandoned by so many people for having to omuch muchness. (the whole Melodrama album is chef kiss

On Meloncholy Hill- Gorrillaz, Its just a vibey lonely longing song, wanting somewhere to belong in. Settling.

Joji- yeah right. Knowing people are lying but like...being so lonely you dont even care...you just want to be near anyone.

[Kittyfox]

Ayyy another Lorde fan here

[akemikae]

This is easily one of the most haunting and depressing songs I've ever heard. It's also beautiful.

Hollywood Undead has an astonishing amount of very heartfelt music, and this is one of my favorites. It's sort of uplifting, but it's also very much singing about grief.

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I for some reason cannot think of a third song that isn't about relationships. lol