Saddest Songs of All Time

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Sadness is a subjective feeling which can be generally termed as emotional pain associated with feelings of despair, rejection, loss, loneliness, disappointment and sorrow. Music as we know is quite capable of generating emotions. There are songs which can tug at your very heart strings to invoke those depressing feelings and leave you quite miserable. While happy songs are quite upbeat with a peppy melody and positive lyrics, sad songs take on slow gloomy rhythms accompanied by soft vocals and disheartening lyrics. These songs are mostly tributes to loved ones who have passed away and some are dealing with heartbreak while others are about personal loss. While there is a blurred line between sad songs and songs about heart break, the tone, mood and emotion sets apart the latter from the sad songs as well as the fact that the sad songs which are also about heartbreak deals with the pain one is going through instead of bitter feelings towards the other party. 

So Evanescence's Hello is crowned as the saddest song with its extremely emotional lyrics accompanied by a haunting Amy Lee on the piano. The song is about how Amy Lee still remembers how she found out about her 3 year old sister's death when she was 6 years old. At second place is Ross Copperman's Holding On and Letting Go with Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven at a close third. Evanescence has 4 entries on the list with Sarah McLachlan having 3 entries. So here are the saddest songs of all time:

1. Evanescence – Hello
2. Ross Copperman – Holding on and letting go
3. Eric Clapton – Tears in heaven
4. Don Mclean – Vincent
5. Vonda Shepard – 100 tears away
6. R.E.M. – Everybody hurts
7. Spiritualized – Lay it down slow
8. The Carpenters – Goodbye to love
9. Elton John – Candle in the wind
10. Skeeter Davis – The end of the world
11. The Band Perry – If I die young
12. Nelly Furtado – All good things come to an end
13. Evanescence – You
14. Vonda Shepard ft. Emily Saliers – Baby don’t you break my heart slow
15. Great Big World ft. Christina Aguilera – Say something
16. Pearl Jam – Last kiss (Original by Wayne Cochran)
17. Gary Jules – Mad world
18. Boz Scaggs – We’re all alone
19. Chental Kreviazuk – Leaving on a jet plane (Original by John Denver)
20. Gabrielle – Out of reach
21. Bob Dylan – Knockin’ on heaven’s door
22. Timbaland ft. OneRepublic – Apologize
23. Sarah McLachlan – Angel
24. Enya – Only time
25. Gilbert O’ Sullivan – Alone again (naturally)
26. Mariah Carey & Boys II Men – One sweet day
27. Jewel – Foolish games
28. Sarah McLachlan – Rainbow connection (Original by Kermit the Frog)
29. Evanescence – My immortal
30. Simon & Garfunkel – The sound of silence
31. The Beatles – Yesterday
32. U2 – With or without you
33. Sam Smith – I’m not the only one
34. James Blunt – Goodbye my lover
35. Peter & Gordon – World without love
36. Patti Smith – No mistakes
37. Miranda Lambert – Over you
38. Adele – Someone like you
39. Joshua Radin – Closer
40. Whitney Houston – I will always love you (Original by Dolly Parton)
41. Lifehouse – Broken
42. Roy Orbison – In the real world
43. Wiz Khalifa ft. Charlie Puth – See you again
44. Cyndi Lauper – Time after time 
45. Avril Lavigne – Nobody’s home
46. Radiohead – Creep
47. Johnny Cash – Hurt
48. Sarah McLachlan – I will remember you
49. Mike + The Mechanics – The living years
50. Coldplay – Fix you

Till the next chord…

At Ease!!!