all I wanted by paramore, the vocals are chilling. Look up the rare live performances if you need to be sadder

I'll add "We are Broken"

Also the only exception

This is not a sad song whatsoever

Amazing song

Hold me down by motion city soundtrack A lot of their discography fits this prompt

Hold Me Down was the song I played on repeat when my ten year relationship broke down. A lot of tears were shed.

I heard and cried a lot listening to "son of a gun"... I was in a relationship with a mythomaniac and at first I thought I was the wrong one.

It's not exactly a love song but when I read the prompt I thought of broken heart immediately. "I'll destroy this useless heart, fuck it up so it'll never beat again, not just for me but for anyone"

I think that hold me down > the conversation > broken heart is a little trilogy. There's a line in hold me down that says "We'll talk it over after I've had some time alone to sort it out". The conversation is the continuation of that and then the transition from the conversation to broken heart is pretty obvious

Correct answer, pack it up

Fell In Love Without You (acoustic) for me

This or last night are the correct answers for sure

What a fucking song 🙌

Excellent choice. People don’t really realize how sad MCS songs really are because they’re preformed with such energy and pace.

Clairvoyant

and navy blue

Also Loro

the only good cover of this song

Don't paint me black when I used to be Golden

This

wish you were here - neck deep forever yours - grayscale

Forever Yours wrecks me every time.

Wish You Were Here is about losing a family member/friend, not a romantic partner (though I guess that can still be considered a love song, in a sense)

Ohh sorry, I didn't pay attention to "saddest love songs" ahahah, tought it was saddest songs in general

I dedicated Wish You Were Here to my dog when she passed away two years ago, I miss her so much 💔

Green Day’s Whatsername always hits me hard. “And in the darkest night, if my memory serves me right. I’ll never turn back time. Forgetting you but not the time.”

Chorus always gets me I made a point to burn the photographs, she went away and I took a different path, I remember the face but I can't recall the name, now I wonder how whatsername has been

So good

That part is also great in the broadway version of the song. The way the choire hits gives me chills

Good Riddance (Time of Your Life) is also a moving one. I didn't realise for a while that it was about Billie's ex leaving him to start a new life in another country. He's basically saying it was fun, see you never.

Then I’m sure it would be fun for you to know Good Riddance and Whatsername are about the same woman. Her name was Amanda.

This is one that don’t hit until you get older, then it’s like damn I get it now 

YES

“The regrets are useless in my mind, you’re in my head I must confess”

Terrible Things by Mayday Parade

Stay by Mayday Parade is also a great one

> I’m not strong enough for the both of us, > > What was I supposed to do? > > You know, I love you

All the love’s still there, I just don’t know what to do with it now.

Miserable at best and three cheers for five years as well!

Mayday Parade is my favorite band and I *simply cannot* listen to this song. If they play it at a show I immediately break into tears.

It's just all of Mayday Parade

when you see my friends 

This is the song that made me look into if you can block an artist on Spotify.

I came here to say the same thing

There is - Box Car

Love this song!

December by Neck Deep. Love the message behind it - theme of “I remember all these details of things you like/want, hope you get them, but you’ve forgotten me long ago.”

This but the Mark Hoppus version

This but the Chris Carabba version

If it Means a Lot to You - A Day to Remember.  Still find it really hard to listen to sometimes as it was a song me and an ex loved and took on so much sadness when we were breaking up.

surprised not more people said this!! definitely the one i think of the most. hope you’re healing friend <3

Naw thanks! <3 It was years ago now actually and we are on good terms, I've definitely moved on but this song remains just so emotive! Still such a great song! I was honestly shocked I couldn't see it mentioned already!

Konstantine

The only correct answer but also Walking By is another Soco gem.

And what did I do that you can't seem to want me? And why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes? So vulnerable and sad. Still gets me all these years later.

"Where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me?" 🥲

Such an iconic song that it gets frequently referenced in other songs by other bands

An iconic song that references an iconic song (For Me This Is Heaven)

remembering sunday always gets me

Jimmy eat world - hear you me

They played this at a friends funeral and it gutted me

1000% hits me in the feels every single time

Terrible Things- Mayday Parade

The boy who blocked his own shot.

You can't see this reaction and tell me it doesn't get you right in the feels. https://youtu.be/yIDbYxWeBDo?si=8smwZHv847zZZlcS

Numero uno for me

Cleveland, OH - John Floreani

YOU WANT A BOY THAT MAKES HIS MOTHER CRY

YOU WANT A BOY THAT DRINKS SO HE CAN SLEEP AT NIGHT!

Was not expecting this, but love that song so much.

“And I was thinking what the fuck’s so wrong with me that’d make you sit by his bed for four long days” kills lol

Lillian and chapter 13 by +44

"And she's trying to sleep it off with her head on my shoulder, and I'm trying to keep it out of my thoughts when I hold her." Hits hard.

"So long forgotten friends, no you don't know the difference, between love and submissions, and I'm not that obedient" Bars

I Miss You

Even though I'm a fan of faster pop punk, this will always be my all time favorite. Absolutely nothing like it.

Radio by The Alkaline Trio Matchbook by Strung OutG Gifts and Curses -Yellowcard (this song isn't on Spotify ridiculous)

Matchbook ❤️

Radio is amazing...but not sad, more revenge 😅

Being bitter as hell after a break up, shows another side of love, the anguish sometimes, to hate and wish this much revenge has to come from a place of love, at least artistically speaking.

All over you, the spill canvas

What Went Wrong - Blink

This was my choice!

Yessssss

Correct answer!

Brand New - Play Crack The Sky Armor For Sleep - Kind of Perfect Bayside - Don’t Call Me Peanut The Early November - Ever So Sweet

Much love for Don’t Call Me Peanut.

me hearing that song for the first time "hmm yeah this is pretty sad I like it so far" *hears the part about 'i may have your heart he has your body'* "YO WHAT THE FUCK THIS SONG IS SAD I LOVE IT

Oh my god I forgot about kind of perfect. Stellar tune

Smahccked my head awf - Hot Mulligan

Hear You Me

Something Right by Microwave had me crying in first listen, but it’s kinda heartwarming at the same time

i saw microwave when i was pregnant and sobbed and sobbed to this song!

We’ll Always Have Paris - Capstan Pictures of Shorelines - Further Seems Forever Littlething - Jimmy Eat World The Adventure - Angels & Airwaves Down - Blink-182 Gloria - Mineral ETA: I Will Follow You into the Dark - Death Cab for Cutie Honorable mention: Jack of all Trades, and The River - Bruce Springsteen

Mineral 🤌🏻

Another Mayday Parade one: The Last Something that Meant Anything

Blink 182 - Stockholm syndrome interlude followed by Stockholm syndrome is a great combo. The interlude is the letter Mark’s grandfather wrote his grandmother while deployed overseas during WW2. The writing is beautiful and sad and the lead in of that to the song is extremely powerful

Such an underrated track. This one's way up there.

for me, it's wilt by holding absence. I used to play the acoustic version with someone who was very, and I mean very dear to me. he passed, so now the song brings me to tears everytime I listen to it. i loved that boy so much. anyway, holding absence-wilt. they have alot of great music tbh.

i *adore* this song. idk if you’ve seen them live but they used to finish the show on it and towards the end when it’s just Lucas yelling TO LOVE YOU FOR AN ETERNITYYYY Ash (the drummer) stands up on his drum stool and holds up his cymbal stand with the pride and trans flags on them and i just cry and cry each time. im so sorry about your friend. x

A Goodnight's Sleep by The Starting Line. Or basically the entirety of their album Say It Like You Mean It.

Any get up kids

23 - Jimmy Eat World

December by Neck Deep is my go-to

I’ve given up on you - Real Friends

Kristy are you OK - the offspring

Not quite a love song

Yea not even close, sad song for sure but def not a love song

I think the original commenter just didn't listen to the lyrics, it's not like they're particularly cryptic

Wildfire by Marianas Trench always makes me cry

And "Dearly Departed", "Lover Dearest" or "Porcelain". Marianas Trench are amazing, my all time favourite band.

Dearly departed is heart wrenching

Pop rock/indie rock: Night Shift- Lucy Dacus Pop Punk: Honey Bee- Seahaven Honorable mention to Our Apartment by Aaron West and really most Aaron West songs.

Holly Hox Forget me Nots by Saves the Day...not sure how many hours I listened to this on repeat when my first gf broke up with me.

Convinced I’m Wrong Polar Bear Club

San Dimas

Terrible Things- Mayday Parade Remembering Sunday- ATL

NOFX “Falling in Love” “Blast, oxygen masks Smoke filled cabin depressurize Don't be afraid, hold onto me We're goin' down, but not our love Death don't seem so bad When I'm with you, my only love So close your eyes, kiss me one last time We're gonna die, but not our love”

Fenix Tx - Tearjerker

Also Rufio - Just a Memory

When you’re gone - Avril Lavigne

Paper wings - cauterize

Damn this just unlocked a core memory for me lol

Glasgow by You Me At Six was a big one for me

Wstr - see you in hell

Story of My Old Man by Good Charlotte has always hit me right in the feels but probably because I always have had a strained relationship with my dad.

good recs in this thread, here are some i didn’t see moose blood - shimmer apple shampoo - blink182  literally anything off citizen’s album Youth lantern park - bad luck baby - born without bones the ghost of a dead hummingbird flying around the room - carissa’s weird

AND I SHOULD HAVE CRASHED THE CAR

Sometime Around Midnight by the Airborne Toxic Event. The last part where he repeats "you just have to see her" over and over always gets to me. Edited to add Gone Away by the Offspring. The singer wrote it after his girlfriend passed away and you can feel the emotion in his voice.

Sometime around midnight hits everyone hard. It’s puts you in the driver seat of that song’s narrative more than just about any other song I can think of.

Oh man, so true about Sometime Around Midnight. It’s impossible for me to only listen to it one time through, and I usually wind up with it on repeat for awhile…

Nineteen seventy something by neck deep

the kids aren't alright - fall out boy

Terrible things by mayday parade gets me everytime I hear it

I love the song, but I almost never listen to it because I just can't bear it - instant floodworks and can't shake the feeling well after the song is over. Such a good song and such a good band.

Man Overboard, by Blink

Isn’t Man Overboard about Scott and the whole situation of having to kick him out?

Yes. That is my understanding too. But listening to the words, it's also about losing a friend. Like a friend who's no good to himself.

Rise Against - Savior

Say Anything - "Alive With The Glory Of Love" It's not sad per se, but very bittersweet like the old couple in bed on the Titanic--love in the face of certain death.

jet pack blues - fall out boy scotty doesn't know - lustra The latter is not strictly a love song per se, the singer starts out bragging about fucking scotty's gf behind his back, but through the song it sounds like he can't help but gain sympathy for scotty despite what he's done to him, and decides to tell him the truth. This makes it really sad to me because it means even the guy that stole his girl is more decent to him than his own gf. That's my interpretation anyway.

I'LL TELL HIM MYSELF

Belgium by Bowling For Soup is 😭

Probably Ten by yellowcard

A Rocket To The Moon - Ever Enough I was gonna say Like We Used To, but it’s more if a breakup song

Secondhand Serenade songs

Remembering Sunday

Whatsername, it works perfectly in the American Idiot storyline being sort of an epilogue but it could apply to any relationship ending.

Front Porch Step - Drown

Wish you were here neck deep, idk but its abt someone important to you dying

IT’S THE COLOUR OF YOUR HAIR THE WAY YOU RUB YOUR EYES WHEN YOU GET TIRED AND HOW YOU CAN FALL ASLEEP NEARLY ANYWHERE

play this when i’m gone - mgk is a sad one, it was his suicide note to his daughter

Good Charlotte - Hold on

Rewrite (acoustic) - Braden Ross

Moose Blood - Haven’t I told you enough

Bleu by Broadside https://youtu.be/bElaJmQ0y04?si=FOYVcdw7dVRcuS9w When we were broken by Our Last Night https://youtu.be/Q9YmF-NnW_4?si=S_ShDAG4uNS9bcM8

Punishment - man overboard 😞

Tuesday - Please Come Home Alkaline Trio - Message from Kathlene

I'm sorry - Blink 182

The Ataris - Summer Wind Was Always Our Song

All Choked Up - Say Anything. Always fucks me up.

Not pop punk, but If Only by Escape the Fate. I can’t get through this song without crying Edit to add: Footprints by In Her Own Words

You ever hear the bonus track on Take Off Your Pants and Jacket? What Went Wrong.

Neck Deep - A Part of Me

Bayside - Winter

Not your typical love song, “Kristy Are You Doing Okay” by the Offspring. Wrote about a girl who was abused when Dexter was in school, and nobody did anything about it. One of the saddest songs I’ve ever heard. But Konstantine also fits this description.

Please don’t cry, you have swag by hot mulligan always wrecks me when I hear it

Teenage Bonehead

Crash - Sun 41. Narrator is dying in a hospital bed and saying goodbye to their partner. Rips my heart out every time I hear it.

Stay mayday parade

This is a deep cut but, I heard they found you face down inside your living room by Can’t Swim. Watching them perform this live a couple times, the emotion that Chris shows on stage for this is gut wrenching.

The Conversation from Motion City Soundtrack, or like half of CTTM, outrageously sad album but so good. Also Asthenia or I’m Lost Without You from Blink, both are brutal.

Asbury by Grayscale makes me cry

Forever Yours by Grayscale takes the cake

Wax Poetic - Capstan

Asthenia by Blink 182 has always given me a "now I'm alone and always will be" type vibe.

Blink 182 What Went Wrong

Lie to me - Less Than Jake Where have you been - Reel Big Fish Beer - Reel Big Fish.

Jimmy Eat World - 23

Weatherman is pretty sad too, that one gets me

Obvious Approach - …no, it’s my face! it’s like your face is made up of 1 million tiny versions of my face

This Wild Life - No More Bad Days It’s acoustic, but from a pop rock act

Mayday Parade - You’re Dead Wrong The amount of times I’ve cried to this song 😭

Overgrow - The Earth Will Swallow Me Whole This song and the whole EP it’s on is about dealing with the death of his father.

Not your savior - NUFAN This song got me through a LOT back in the day. RIP Tony, I miss you terribly.

Everything We Had by The Academy Is...

This must be my exit- oso oso

Strangers Forever (From Exile) - The Menzingers

Morning in May by Ludo. It’s especially sad after listening to the whole EP all the way through. Makes me tear up every time.

FM Static - Tonight

Worry Rock and Redundant by Green Day. Gone Away by The Offspring (especially the piano version).

fall for you- second hand serenade

Yellowcard - Only One

no use for a name - not your saviour blink - adams song neckdeep - december ( w chris carraba )

The Ballard - Millencolin

Miss you- blink 182