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 school

he said you’re going by Joy
you cut your hair like a boy
& you don’t talk to your old friends

I found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alright

I’ve walked around with you on my mind
the names we used at the time
you know I’ve changed myself since then

I’ve thought on things that we said
what if we’d had the kid
I guess he’d be 15

I found a picture from before the fight
we’re in natural light
& you’re sitting on my lap
like everything’s alright

Roads by Portishead.

Bright Eyes - When Winter Ends. https://youtu.be/5-B7va1HaF0

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