Amanda Palmer’s The Bed Song (YT link)
Lately I get got by Rise Against’s People Live Here (YT link)
The National - About Today
Radiohead - Pyramid Song
Sufjan Stevens - Carrie & Lowell (album)
Adam’s Song by Blink 182
Your heart is a muscle the size of your fist by Ramshackle Glory
Jolene as covered by Jack White. Dolly Parton singing it is also great, but to me it comes off as just another country song about infidelity. When Jack White covers it, it seems to take on a whole other perspective, but I guess that also depends on the listener too and what they project onto it.
Mad World - specifically the Gary Jules version. Even Tears For Fears like what he did with it.
The Living Years - Mike + The Mechanics
As I get older, it gets harder to listen to it.
Oldie but Goldie & the saddest song I’ve ever heard: Gilbert O’Sullivan - Alone Again (Naturally)
"Somewhere Out There " from American Tail
Blonde Redhead, “For the Damaged”
Gets me every time:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZzdF77CoLE0
I got some news on you from a friend
you’re in Charlotte again
teaching Spanish at high schoolhe said you’re going by Joy
you cut your hair like a boy
& you don’t talk to your old friendsI found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alrightI’ve walked around with you on my mind
the names we used at the time
you know I’ve changed myself since thenI’ve thought on things that we said
what if we’d had the kid
I guess he’d be 15I found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alrightRoads by Portishead.
Bright Eyes - When Winter Ends. https://youtu.be/5-B7va1HaF0
Ahh shit. I read the rest of this thread, and an honorable mention is Tom Waits - Long Way Home. https://youtu.be/hdyscH9TsnA
Chemo limo by Regina Spektor is mine.
Beautiful song, but it can be too sad for me sometimes if I’m in a more empathetic mind frame
There’s the absolute classic: Halpelujah by Leonard Cohen which is just a beautiful song about the end of love
But my personal favorite is: I Will Follow You Into the Dark by Death Cab for Cutie, really the whole Plans album is amazing and wrecks me still.
White Sparrows by Billy Talent always gets to me when I listen to it
They gave her one more day
To say the words I couldn’t say
I’m crying in pain, crying in pain
And I’m not looking for answers
No, I’m not looking for answers
But dear God, why did you choose her?
White sparrows fell from heaven and carried her away
Black arrows cut the strings of my heart, I kneel and pray
