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Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris

"He told her - little sister, gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again. Well, he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come for Lillian."

And "nobody tells you 'bout the blues when you got 'em, you just keep falling cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end, least not for Lillian."

AND

"Nobody knows when she started her skid, she was only 27 and she had 5 kids. Might have been the whiskey, might have been the pills, might have been the dream she was trying to kill."

Such a tearjerker, a very cathartic song when you need to cry. Boulder to Birmingham too.

Mine was Mazzy Star, look on down from the bridge. It was mine long before Rick and Morty existed.

Look on down from the bridge There's still fountains down there Look on down from the bridge It's still raining up here Everybody seems so far away from me Everybody just wants to be free

For me it is:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I hope you'll be a star

In somebody else's sky

But why

Why

Why can't it be

Why can't it be mine"

1. Sad music when you’re sad is, ironically, a way to feel better, or at least to feel safer. In those moments, feeling like you’re psychically alone is devastating, and music that reminds you that other people have felt like you do is a tether to connect you to people when you’re at your lowest.
2. Loreena McKennitt is superior to Enya.
3. Neither of them wrote the world’s saddest song. A redneck from Bandera, Texas wrote the world’s saddest song. Sorry for the Spotify link.

For me it’s Of Countless Stars, the final dungeon theme of Endwalker.

This but watching Scrubs for me, some of those episodes just hit you like a ton of bricks. It's cathartic...

Sometimes it really does have to get worse before it gets better.

I guess no one's an Enya fan, eh?

Enya - Only Time

You are all wrong, the worlds saddest song is this; https://youtu.be/mGtrNZwqpCY

Wake ... from your sleep.

The drying of your teeeeeaaaaars.

Today ... we escape.

We escaaaaaape.

the squealing tires, the busting glass..

the painful screams that I....heard last

https://youtu.be/hyaIDqOjkj4

44 Second Mark

Get Better by Alt-J is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard, and it hits in just the way you're talking about. Hurts so good.

Get Better - Alt-J