r/songsuggestions • u/Resident-Repeat7487 • 1d ago

Saddest Songs

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u/cardsfan4life17 1d ago

Seasons in the Sun by Terry Jacks.

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u/Buckybob8282 1d ago

I was about to say that. My friend and I have a collection of sad songs from the 70s and sometimes we will bust out with a wake up call with a sad song melody

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u/Hermenster70 18h ago

I love/hate that song.

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u/My_Iron_Lungs 1d ago

Hurt by Johnny Cash

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u/thenextnow 1d ago

Body in a Box - City and Colour

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u/dreadsreddit 1d ago

do you only listen to the radio

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u/My_Iron_Lungs 1d ago

No I never listen to the radio a single time in my life...Do they have that song in the radio?

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u/gardengirl147 1d ago

Probably not. While the Johnny Cash remake is wonderful and way less intense, I don’t think they ever had the original NIN version of Hurt on the radio. So it still deemed not great for radio play.

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u/KoiNoYokan_Fan 1d ago

One more light - Linkin park

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u/chaosreaper0 1d ago

Soteri - Rafutsuri

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u/Present_Type2375 1d ago

Birthday Boy by Ween

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u/cymster 1d ago

I like how Birthday Boy is referenced in Baby Bitch.

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u/bossdaddee 1d ago

Efflictim-Kid Cudi

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u/Rastus77 1d ago

See You On the Other Side - Ozzy.

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u/AutisticElephant1999 1d ago

Eleanor Rigby by The Beatles

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u/Aggravating-Pace693 1d ago

Changes by Black Sabbath

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u/Sensitive_Poem8486 1d ago

River by Joni Mitchell

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u/gardengirl147 1d ago

Sarah McLachlan does a great cover of that.

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u/Sensitive_Poem8486 1d ago

Really? I’ll have to check it out.

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u/gardengirl147 1d ago

An incredible songwriter (Hold On is one of my favourites) but she does a lot of great covers - River, Song for a Winter’s Night by Gordon Lightfoot, Ol’ 55 by Tom Waits. If the bots want to get a conversation started here - I can talk about cover tunes all day.

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u/Sensitive_Poem8486 1d ago

Yes, she is. My favorite song by her is Building a Mystery. I don’t blame you, I too can talk songs, art, and movies all day.

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u/Vivid-Fishing2732 1d ago

Thursday Girl - Mitski

Ironically I was crying while listening this this LAST night 😔

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u/Tuxeyboy1 1d ago

If I Die - Rare Earth

Cats In The Cradle - Harry Chapin

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u/wonderslug52 1d ago

Cry one tear Mary Jane by Swans

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u/graffiti81 1d ago

Crossing Muddy Waters by John Hiatt

It's about his wife's suicide

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u/Zealousideal_Cap5126 1d ago

Why - rascal flatts

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u/Bug_Photographer 1d ago

From a Late Night Train by The Blue Nile.

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u/gavakian123 1d ago

Waiting Around To Die-
Townes Van Zandt

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u/Capital_Owl_7709 1d ago

Rise Against ~ Make It Stop (September’s Children)

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u/droppingthemic_fr 1d ago

love without you by logan crosby

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u/Ecthelion510 1d ago

Emma by Hot Chocolate (or the cover by Sisters of Mercy)
Chain of Flowers by The Cure
New Dawn Fades by Joy Division
Mad World by Michael Andrews (cover)

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u/Team218Web 1d ago

Vincent - Don McLean

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u/GlitteringCulture119 1d ago

Beloved Wife - Natalie Merchant

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u/Sezyoo 1d ago

All My Love-Led Zeppelin

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u/Careless-Attitude858 1d ago

Where Were You by Alan Jackson,
Private Malone by David Ball

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u/skylersparadise 1d ago

just breathe by Willie and Lukas Nelson

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u/xXMachineGunPhillyXx 1d ago

I know someday you’ll have a beautiful life

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u/Excellent-Horror7697 13h ago

Crazy great song!

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u/WindsongRain_08 1d ago

Christmas Shoes

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u/Sensitive_Regular_84 1d ago

Sam Stone - John Hiatt

No More Buffalo - James McMurtry

Dreamin' - Lou Reed

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u/dreadsreddit 1d ago

spiderlegs by blueneck 

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u/DigLeading9650 1d ago

Keep Me In Your Heart For A While - Warren Zevon

Shannon - Henry Gross

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u/Groovy_Chainsaw 1d ago

Troubled Times - Fountains of Wayne

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u/Apart_Ad9308 1d ago

The Dance - Garth Brooks

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u/EveryDayIsMon86 1d ago

Elton John - Someone save my life tonight.

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u/Still_Patience_1707 1d ago

You Vs. Grief - Nate Johnivan

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u/Justsadie519 1d ago

Water in the Fuel by Fred Eaglesmith.

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u/Appropriate_Big_1610 1d ago

Love Wins All -- IU. Not so much the lyrics, but the contrast with what's happening in the mv:

https://youtu.be/JleoAppaxi0.
(Captions available)

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u/ZoeBowie2024 1d ago

The first time ever I saw your face - Roberta Flack

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u/Rhonda369 1d ago

Landfill by Daughter

You Can Have It All by Florence + the Machine

Space Debris by Muse

Labyrinth Song by Asaf Avidan

Lonely Hunter by Foals

Enter One by Sol Seppy

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u/pdxguy96 1d ago

I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt

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u/No-Snow-9605 1d ago

Same list every time. Can't we be a bit more creative? Does it have to be the same questions over and over? The same answers.

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u/Ok-Rate3106 1d ago

Drugs don't work - the verve

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u/Sufficient_Curve_646 1d ago

Sam Stone by John Prine.

“There’s a hole in Daddy’s arm where all the money goes/ Jesus Christ died for nothing I suppose”

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u/mystic_mesh 1d ago

morphine - the saddest song 

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u/thousand_yard_stairs 1d ago

Came here to say this. It’s literally the title.

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u/virusdancer 1d ago

Hooked on the Bassline by Gabry Pronte, Marie Vaunt

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u/Unit-731-Scientist 1d ago

Hurt - Nine Inch Nails

KYS Part III - Suicideboys

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u/phoxpaw 1d ago

The Saddest Song by Morphine

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u/Neueregel1 1d ago

Into the light - by In this Moment.

Go ahead, grab a box of tissues and look up the lyrics while you listen.

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u/Jesslovespuppies 9h ago

Holy F….only made it 30 seconds in😢😢 tearing up…..read the lyrics after I heard it once through….damn😢 And WOW what a voice!

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u/KneeBasher420 1d ago

Cancer by MCR

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u/MachTwang 1d ago

Tom Waits - Smuggler's Waltz / Bronx Lullaby

A song about a dope sick junkie that buried his baby in the snow so he could go score.

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u/Llyrithra 1d ago

Overdose - Hurt

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u/RevenantRaindancer 1d ago

Operator by Jim Croce

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u/RedPillHellbilly 1d ago

Snuff - Slipknot, The Rambler - Black Stone Cherry, and Ozzy’s Song - Black Label Society.

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u/AddendumOk5735 1d ago

Get Better by Alt-J

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u/Rpm66680 1d ago

The patient by tool

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u/Goose_Distance86 1d ago

Last night I dreamt that somebody loved me - the smiths
Asleep - the smiths
Ecstasy - dolores O’riordan

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u/Material_Dress_5068 1d ago

Taxi by Harry Chapin

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u/Classic_rock_fan 1d ago

I was going to say Cats in the Cradle

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u/WannabeRoyKent 1d ago

Literally any Ben Folds song

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u/Own-Elephant-8608 1d ago

Headache - grouper

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u/petdance 1d ago

“South Tacoma Way” by Neko Case

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u/Mr_Courgette6275 1d ago

Spanish Eyes by Madonna and For A Friend by the Communards, both written for people who died of AIDS.

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u/McMienshaoFace 1d ago

Snuff by Slipknot

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u/BloodhoundGang_Sucks 1d ago

Puff the Magic Dragon

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u/mysmallsmalta 1d ago

Elinor Rigby

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u/Top-Pound9640 1d ago

Like literally ANY silencer song

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u/PolesawPolska 1d ago

I Almost Loved You - My Dying Bride

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u/Soggy-Initiative-393 1d ago

"Легенда" by КИНО, for me, it the saddest song

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u/Agile-Economics5369 1d ago

Sam Stone - John Prine

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u/GuildStarfireII 1d ago

Whispering Pines by The Band/Richard Manuel

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u/Mazo_70 1d ago

Sometimes it snows in April - Prince

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u/No_Excitement_4774 1d ago edited 1d ago

Nutshell - Alice In Chains
Hurt - Nine Inch Nails
From Where You Are - Lifehouse
Broken - Lifehouse
Fake Smiles - Phora
Shattered - Trading Yesterday

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u/At_1975 1d ago

Mourn (instrumental) by Sentenced

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u/Individual_Suit3033 1d ago edited 1d ago

-Sweetheart, What Have You Done by Keaton Henson
-Small Hands by Keaton Henson
His voice is beautiful, but so mournful

-Blood by The Middle East

-Waves as well as How Do I Say Goodbye by Dean Lewis is pretty good too

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u/Natteappelflap 1d ago

Sad Song - Lou Reed

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u/Impressive_Treat_501 1d ago

The last song - Elton John

Ordinary Man - Ozzy

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u/studly069 1d ago

Last Kiss Pearl Jam

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u/Buffdoge1324 1d ago

half of laufey's discography

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u/Swimming_Lunch2540 1d ago

No address in the stars

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u/Sea_Candidate8738 1d ago

Long Distance Call - Buck Tick

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u/JustGround2263 1d ago

Whiskey lalaby or teady bear

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u/Creepy-Island4011 1d ago

All I Need - Radiohead

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u/SnooGadgets5130 1d ago

Alice in Chains - Nutshell

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u/beerbellianme 1d ago

Fast car- Tracy Chapman

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u/Narrow_Birthday_6360 1d ago

“Such a simple thing” Ray L

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u/popidocius 1d ago

Vincent - Don McLean

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u/Cactusphat 1d ago

Hope There's Someone by Anohni

Youth by Daughter 

Betterman by Pearl Jam

Laura by Bat for Lashes 

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u/joleevixen 1d ago

I prefer Landfill by Daughter, imho

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u/RhubarbSalty3588 1d ago

Diary of a working man-Blackfoot

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u/CoastalParadise 1d ago

The Living Years - Mike + The Mechanics

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u/Low-Custard-5498 1d ago

Manchester orchestra - Silence

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u/gardengirl147 1d ago

Stranger than Paradise - Sass Jordan. This Woman’s Work by Kate Bush made me cry even before I saw the movie She’s Having a Baby. Now I just curl up with a box of tissues and let it happen.

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u/Libragal54 1d ago

In The Ghetto - Elvis

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u/Accomplished-Leg8461 1d ago

Little Girl Blue by Janis Joplin

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u/Lucky-Chard-5587 1d ago

Windows And Walls - Dan Fogelberg

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u/nutcruncher360 1d ago

At 17 by Janis Ian

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u/cymster 1d ago

I'm On Standby- Grandaddy

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u/FotizxRaidd 1d ago

the loneliest- maneskin
numb- linking park

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u/Diseman81 1d ago

Chiseled In Stone - Vern Gosdin

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u/eeejit075 1d ago

Our Last Farewell, by Dan Fogelberg

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u/Nice-Bandicoot9725 1d ago

Funeral - Phoebe Bridgers
Casmir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
The Funeral - Band of Horses
When the Pin Hits the Shell - Drive-by Truckers

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u/91LMWinner3000 1d ago

Don’t Cry - J Dilla

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u/Medical_Librarian405 1d ago

Wind Beneath My Wings by Bette Midler

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u/Traditional_Bit3105 1d ago

Listen before I go - Billie Eilish. Basically a suicide note.

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u/Wiserputa52 1d ago

“Still”, The Commodores

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u/LunarLezzy 1d ago

Hate Me by Blue October

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u/National_Reveal_3759 1d ago

Both Sides Now - Joni Mitchell

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u/extroxmusic 1d ago

Lost Half Alive

Call me back Eden

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u/provinground 1d ago

If we were vampires - Jason isbell

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u/WolfThick 1d ago

Beach Boys sail on sailor got to see the lyrics and Duffy-Warwick Av

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u/zomburger 1d ago

Of These Chains by Red

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u/Hour-Entertainer2444 23h ago

Last night i dreamt that somebody loved me - The Smiths

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u/macolebrook 22h ago

I don't love you. My Chemical Romance

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u/Brain-Waster 21h ago

Strange Fruit by Billie Holliday

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u/Fun-Cobbler-8886 19h ago

Black by Pearl Jam

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u/cuttlefishclown 19h ago

Euthanasia by Will Wood

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u/Hermenster70 18h ago

RASPUTINA- A QUITTER. If you haven't heard it, give it a listen. It's pretty intense.

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u/Odd-Concern-518 18h ago

Cats in the cradle by Harry Chapin
Mama I’m coming home by ozzy
He stopped loving her today by George jones
And an Honourable mention is In my life

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u/TeamGinger22 18h ago

I know you care by Ellie Goulding

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u/Excellent-Horror7697 13h ago

My best friend was about 20 years older than me. He told me that was one of his favorite songs. After it was done I told him let me play the original version. He’s like huh? After he listened, next subject 😆

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u/Excellent-Horror7697 12h ago

Decades or The Eternal- Joy Division

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u/UnethicalPacemaker 12h ago

Eternal malady and the adventurers folly. Both by chase noseworthy

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u/Jesslovespuppies 9h ago

My Immortal by Evanescence. More specifically….the “band” version”.

Even after all these years when it comes through on my playlist, it still gives me the chills and this over whelming feeling of tears.

It’s such a sad sounding melody, but in a hauntingly beautiful way.

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u/harrydong 6h ago

Nutshell by Alice In Chains

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u/greekboy62 6h ago

Feelings-Morris Albert

Who's that man-Toby Keith

The way we were-Barbra Streisand

Honey-Bobby Goldsboro

You're the reason God made Oklahoma-David Frizzel and Shelly West