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These are songs that weren't on the lists or I just overlooked. They may not all be sad to everyone, but the certainly are to me:

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
Mark Schultz - He's My Son (VERY sad song)
Trapt - Stories
Sarah McLachlan - Building a Mystery
Systematic - Leaving Only Scars
Saliva - Bleed for Me
Brand New - Play Crack the Sky
Disturbed - Darkness
TrustCompany - Deeper Into You
Staind - Epiphany (already listed but repeat worthy anyway)
Staind - Layne
Hoobastank - What Happened to Us
Fingertight - Magical
Smile Empty Soul - The Other Side
The Juliana Theory - As It Stands
Shinedown - 45
12 Stones - Photograph
Closure - Crushed
Seven Wiser - Losing Grip
Submersed - You Run
Earshot - Should've Been There
Pillar - Rewind
3 Doors Down - If I Could Be Like That
3 Doors Down (feat. Bob Seger) - Landing in London
Sum 41 - Pieces
Breaking Point - Nothing Left At All
Seether - Plastic Man -

-- TheOtherMe

There are many Beatles sad songs that I love, despite the sorrow. Some have been mentioned already: Yes It Is, Let it Be, She's Leaving Home, Yesterday (the pinnacle of beautiful sad songs). I'd like to add:

Eleanor Rigby - picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream. Waits by the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? A whole song about loneliness, and Paul did it beautifully.

For No One - your day breaks, your mind aches. There will be times when all the things
she said will fill your head, you won't forget her. And in her eyes, you see nothing, no sign of love behind the tears. Cried for no one, a love that should have lasted years...

I'll Be Back - You could find better things to do than to break my heart again. This time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend...

I'm A Loser - well gosh the title explains it all.

Misery - another self explanatory song.

This Boy - Oh, and this boy would be happy just to love you, but oh, my, oh that boy won't be happy till he's seen you cry ....

Paul takes the cake with sad songs, he is brilliant at songwriting all around and has written amazing sad songs and amazing cheerful songs. I want to add a couple Paul solo sad songs:

Here Today - written as a tribute to John.
Somedays - from the Flaming Pie album
Little Willow - written for Ringo's first wife when she died.

Thanks and I love your site!
- Gabrielle

There are many Beatles sad songs that I love, despite the sorrow. Some have been mentioned already: Yes It Is, Let it Be, She's Leaving Home, Yesterday (the pinnacle of beautiful sad songs). I'd like to add:

Eleanor Rigby - picks up the rice in a church where a wedding has been, lives in a dream. Waits by the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the door, who is it for? All the lonely people, where do they all come from? All the lonely people, where do they all belong? A whole song about loneliness, and Paul did it beautifully.

For No One - your day breaks, your mind aches. There will be times when all the things
she said will fill your head, you won't forget her. And in her eyes, you see nothing, no sign of love behind the tears. Cried for no one, a love that should have lasted years...

I'll Be Back - You could find better things to do than to break my heart again. This time I will try to show that I'm not trying to pretend...

I'm A Loser - well gosh the title explains it all.

Misery - another self explanatory song.

This Boy - Oh, and this boy would be happy just to love you, but oh, my, oh that boy won't be happy till he's seen you cry ....

Paul takes the cake with sad songs, he is brilliant at songwriting all around and has written amazing sad songs and amazing cheerful songs. I want to add a couple Paul solo sad songs:

Here Today - written as a tribute to John.
Somedays - from the Flaming Pie album
Little Willow - written for Ringo's first wife when she died.

Thanks and I love your site!
- Gabrielle

The Who - Behind Blues Eyes - No one knows what it's like to be hated, to be faded, to telling only lies

Kansas - Dust in the Wind - All we are is dust in the wind, everything is dust in the wind
Please add these two, because they're essential to the sad song genre!

You forgot the sadest songs of them all. It got me crying...
Melissa Etheridge - It will be me
-Mattias Johansson

Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Allison Krauss is a heart wrenching song about a young man who leaves for World War II leaving the love of his life behind, but he promises to return safe and sound to him. Though when he returns he only finds his lady love has been cheating on him. He then turns to the bottle, he drinks and drinks. He put the bottle to his head and pulled the trigger does not mean that he or she killed themselves with gun they drank themselves to death. Then she blames herself and just cannot find the strength to get up off her knees. You really need to see the music video to get the complete affect of the song! But in my book the saddest song ever!
-gogocountrygal