Do you have any songs that you love but can't listen to because they make you too sad?

Not really, but there's a few I can't listen to when I drive because I know I'm going to cry, and that ain't safe

Travelin soldier, the Dixie chicks version is a big one.

Then there's still my hero, by jellyroll. I'm dealing with some of that stuff now, and it's fucking brutal.

There's others, because I'm a sappy old bastard, but I don't reckon you want a big list

Pretty much all of the "Jets to Brazil" albums.

The lyrics are just. Too. Good.

A lot of Anathema and Opeth songs remind me of my ex.

Roy Orbison songs. I'm still pretty sad about his death.

Sara Bareilles - She Used To Be Mine

And there's also Tonight Alive's Amelia that I couldn't finish listening to even once because it was too heartbreaking

Bones in the Ocean hurts me in ways that it has no business doing so.

I've never suffered a loss of any great magnitude. I've never even been to sea, though I desperately wish I had been.

Steven Wilson - Routine

You have to be in the right headspace for Iron & Wine's "Each Coming Night"

outer wilds OST

Elliott Smith is amazing, but I def can't listen to him without wanting to immediately shoot up illicit opiates and ruin my queer lil life again.

Literally anything by Alice Boman 😢

This song always does it for me, even after a decade and some years.

Her Space Holiday - Sleepy California

Since learning the reason the song was written and the meaning behind it, Gotye - Bronte makes me sob like a baby

Sekilos Epitaph. I listened to it a lot when my loved one died.

Tommee Profitt - There for you
But it's a good cry.

Green light rod wave, basically any or most of rod wave.

On The Nature Of Daylight - Max Richter

It's a beautiful piece of music but it's been used as the background for so many sad movie sequences it tends to just make me sad. It's been used in Arrival and Shutter Island to name a few. I actually can't listen to it when I use psychedelics bc it turns my mood melancholy af.

Every once in a while I try to play Dear McCracken and sing through the last part. The way I start ugly crying means I can't put it on a playlist where I'll actually pay attention to the song.

Phil Ochs - When I'm gone

Freak Kitchen - Breathe

There is that highly suspect song I loved but then I watched the music video and now I get anxiety when I hear it.

Now playing Highly Suspect - Lydia