Tell Everybody - Roisin Murphy
One - U2
It's All Over Now - Aimee Mann
You Won't See Me Cry - Wilson Phillips
Never is a Promise - Fiona Apple
Crying - Roy Orbison and KD Lang
Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
Next Time (Won't Give My Heart Away) - Keyshia Cole
Caught a Lite Sneeze - Tori Amos
Somebody That I Used to Know - Gotye with Kimbra
Someone Like You - Adele
We Belong Together, Without You - Mariah Carey
I Will Remember You - Amy Grant
Superstar/Until You Come Back to Me - Luther Vandross
Ave Maria by Vavilov
Driver's License - Olivia Rodrigo

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Anonymous wrote:Brandi Carlile, her voice and melodies make me ugly cry. The lyrics are often about relationships that aren’t working, but the lyrics are vague enough that it feels like it’s about me

If you want just one song, it’s hard to pick, but I’ll say “By the way, I forgive you”

+1 to Brandi - I'd suggest The Story or Again Today.

Another good country one is Anymore by Travis Tritt. Not really a break up song, but definitely sad.

Anonymous wrote:Annie Lennox - Why
Sinead O’Connor - Last Day of our Acquaintance
Lucinda Williams - Changed the Locks

Annie Lennox's Why is gutwrenching.

Anonymous wrote:REM Everybody Hurts


I think you need to add some woman power songs as well Like Gloria Gaines, I Will Survive or Melissa Etheridge Like the Way I Do or Alanis Morissette You Oughta Know

Everybody Hurts is perfect! You could also add Pictures of You by The Cure or Creep by Radiohead.

Independent Women, Part 1 by Destiny's Child could be good for your power song playlist!

Hugs to you, OP and all of you going through this!

Time to Say Goodbye - Andrea Bocelli and Sarah Brightman

Definitely a sad feel but actually a hopeful song. I crank it in my car, and it always make me teary.

Anonymous wrote:Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

And watch the live version where Stevie Nicks is practically screaming “you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loves you” while looking directly at Lindsey Buckingham.

+1 - That version is amazing!

George Michael, Elton John, Toni Braxton, Whitney Houston, Journey

Silver Springs by Fleetwood Mac

And watch the live version where Stevie Nicks is practically screaming “you’ll never get away from the sound of the woman who loves you” while looking directly at Lindsey Buckingham.

Anonymous wrote:Brandi Carlile, her voice and melodies make me ugly cry. The lyrics are often about relationships that aren’t working, but the lyrics are vague enough that it feels like it’s about me

If you want just one song, it’s hard to pick, but I’ll say “By the way, I forgive you”

Brandi Carlile, her voice and melodies make me ugly cry. The lyrics are often about relationships that aren’t working, but the lyrics are vague enough that it feels like it’s about me

Old school:

Linda Ronstadt - Long, Long Time
Nielsen - Without You
Classic IV - Traces
Bee Gees - How Can You Mend a Broken Heart
Manilow - Even Now, Trying to Get the Feeling, Mandy

Sarah Slean--Blue Parade

The Vision of Love 1990 Mariah album has amazing scorned lover songs - Someday, Prisoner, I don’t wanna cry, All Alone in Love…

Mary J Blige - Not Gon’ Cry from waiting to exhale album .. wow.

Boyz to Men- end of the road, water runs dry, four seasons of loneliness.

New Edition- Can You Stand the Rain

Keith Sweat- Twisted

Ashanti - Foolish

Keyshia Cole- Let Him Go, Zero, Trust and Believe (this is the BEST one).

Jodeci - Cry for You

Newer stuff:

Feels Like and Moving On, by Anna of the North

Sad to Breathe by The Japanese House

Stay Away and Crying on the Bathroom Floor by Muna

Less than I Do by The Band Camino

Guns N Roses---November Rain
Damien Rice--The Blower's Daughter
Sarah McLachlan--I Don't Know How to Let You Go
Tori Amos--Hey Jupiter, Putting the Damage On
Madonna--Live to Tell, Take a Bow, You'll See
Fiona Apple--Sleep to Dream, Never is a Promise, Get Gone, Love Ridden

Anonymous wrote:Classical: while YMMV, this 2nd movement from Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 23 always makes me sob.
https://youtu.be/vne1E6VH23s?si=xCYFASIv59ynecSU

Good call to PP with Phil Collins!

Maybe too on the nose, but Mozart's Lacrimosa. I played it on repeat when I learned about a close family member's terminal diagnosis.