What are your favorite songs to cry to?
Bonus pts if its a sad song that is not about a romantically broken heart.
My go to song to initiate tears has been most recently was,
Zombie by The Cranberries.
I never knew the song was about Ireland and what was going on there at the time. For me, the song always spoke to me because of trauma from my childhood, and the subsequent years of mental turmoil that developed as a result.
"But you see, it's not me, it's not my family
In your head, in your head, they are fightin'
With their tanks and their bombs
And their bombs and their guns
In your head, in your head, they are cryin'
In your head, in your head
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie
What's in your head, in your head?
Zombie, zombie, zombie-ie-ie-ie, oh"
To me, these lines were always about the war waged in my head over my past dictating my present.
I wanted to make a playlist to listen to when I begin to cry, and find more songs to add to it to continue letting the tears out. My main issue is I've spent lots of time at this point in my life listening to my collection of sad songs, and was hoping to find new ones to rip open wounds with. Below I will list out a bunch of different kinds of sad songs that I've listened to constantly over the last decade.
Selfish - Daylight
On the Way to Dad's - Daylight
Enough - Daylight
I've Seen it All - Björk
Bloodhail - Have a Nice Life
ifyouhadazuneihateyou - Bones
Headache - Grouper
Rejoice - Julien Baker
Tonight - Sibylle Baier
Story Of An Artist - Daniel Johnston
Peek A Boo - Daniel Johnston
A Soulmate Who Wasn't Meant to Be - Jess Benko
Real Death - The Microphones
No, The Moon - Teen Suicide
Ice Boy - Corbin
I'll Get By - Pianos Become The Teeth
Honeybee - Seahaven
Hotel in Minsk - Jonatan Leandoer96
Flowers and You - Touché Amoré
Allen Page's Midnight Ride - Panucci's Pizza
Yung Sherman - Bladee
Bells for Her - Tori Amos
The End of the World - Rooster (Yung Gud)
Frozen Tundra - Bobby Raps, Corbin
Cellophane - FKA Twigs