Top 10 Sad Songs 1

Sad songs bring up feelings of remorse, emptiness, loneliness and melancholy. Listening to a good sad song can certainly but you in a bad mood, but if you’re feeling depressed they can help you feel like your not alone, and by bringing out your sad feelings they can help you face them and move on with your life.

Coming in at number ten is Stand Inside Your Love by the Smashing Pumpkins. The smashing pumpkins have their fare share of depressing songs but I think this one tops the list. Stand Inside Your Love. It doesn’t talk about a bad break up or lost love, but instead about being so much in love that it hurts. It talks about it being unbearable to imagine living without each other.

Strange Days by Matthew Good Band is my number nine pick. The song talks about a deep depression, and being alive but feeling dead inside. It talks about going through the motions of day to day live while feeling empty inside. There are undertones of being uncertain about the future, and feeling that your life is going nowhere. This is a feeling that we can probably all relate to at some point in time.

Gasoline by Moist comes in at number eight. This song just sounds sad. The lyrics talk about feelings of having hurt someone you’ve loved, and feeling regret for causing this person pain. The feeling of having knowingly hurt someone that you cared deeply for can make you feel horrible, and this song makes that point.

My Immortal by Evanesence is my number seven pick. My Immortal is a haunting song, particularly the acoustic piano version. The lyrics tell the story of lost love, and how hard it is to move on and leave behind feelings you had for a loved one. The song talks about being haunted by the face of a lost lover, and still being in love even though the relationship is over. Moving on and putting a relationship in the past is one of the hardest experiences in life, and only time can make your feelings of hurt go away.

Sarah McLaclhan’s Do What You Have To Do is my number six choice. Sarah McLachlan is a master of the sad song, and so many of her songs could be on my list. Do What You Have To Do is particularly sad because it tells the story of losing a loved one, and how difficult it is to say goodbye and push thoughts of that person out of your mind. These thoughts can take over your mind and be so consuming that they can leave you feeling drained and depressed.

All of these songs express deep sadness, but they pale in comparison to the songs on part two of my list, so stay tuned!