69 Best Emo Songs For A Raging Party
Emo is a subgenre of rock music characterized by emotional, often confessional lyrics. Emo could even be considered a style of pop-punk and alternative rock music as well.
Popular artists of the Emo genre include My Chemical Romance, Jimmy Eat World, Fall Out Boy, Weezer, Brand New, and Paramore.
Best Emo Songs List
5 Seconds of Summer – She Looks So Perfect
Released in 2014 on the album 5 Seconds of Summer
Notable Lyrics: “Your lipstick stain is a work of art / I got your name tattooed in an arrow heart / And I know now that I’m so down”
Popularity: 400 million Spotify streams, 209 million views on YouTube
All Time Low – Dear Maria, Count Me In
Released in 2007 on the album So Wrong, It’s Right
Notable Lyrics: “‘Cause I got your picture, I’m coming with you / Dear Maria, count me in / There’s a story at the bottom of this bottle / And I’m the pen / Make it count”
Popularity: 399 million Spotify streams, 71 million views on YouTube
Avril Lavigne – Sk8er Boi
Released in 2002 on the album Let Go
Notable Lyrics: “He was a skater boy / She said, “See you later, boy” / He wasn’t good enough for her / Now he’s a superstar”
Popularity: 406 million Spotify streams, 230 million views on YouTube
Black Veil Brides – In The End
Released in 2013 on the album Wretched and Divine: The Story of the Wild Ones
Notable Lyrics: “In the end / As we fade into the night (oh whoa oh oh) / Who will tell the story of your life”
Popularity: 151 million Spotify streams, 154 million views on YouTube
Black Veil Brides – Knives and Pens
Released in 2009 on the album We Stitch These Wounds
Notable Lyrics: “One final fight / For this tonight / Whoa… / With knives and pens we made our plight”
Popularity: 44 million Spotify streams, 135 million views on YouTube
blink-182 – All the Small Things
Released in 1999 on the album Enema of the State
Notable Lyrics: “Just say it ain’t so, I will not go / Turn the lights off, carry me home / Na-na, na-na, na-na, na-na, na, na”
Popularity: 763 million Spotify streams, 326 million views on YouTube
blink-182 – What’s My Age Again?
Released in 1999 on the album Enema of the State
Notable Lyrics: “What the hell is call ID? / My friends say I should act my age / What’s my age again?”
Popularity: 497 million Spotify streams, 90 million views on YouTube
Bowling for Soup – 1985
Released in 2004 on the album A Hangover You Don’t Deserve
Notable Lyrics: “Since Bruce Springsteen, Madonna, way before Nirvana / There was U2 and Blondie, and music still on MTV”
Popularity: 260 million Spotify streams, 62 million views on YouTube
Boys Like Girls – The Great Escape
Released in 2006 on the album Boys Like Girls
Notable Lyrics: “Throw it away / Forget yesterday / We’ll make the great escape”
Popularity: 163 million Spotify streams, 47 million views on YouTube
Brand New – The Quiet Things No One Knows
Released in 2003 on the album Deja Entendu
Notable Lyrics: “Today’s the day we drop out / Gave up my body and bed / All for an empty hotel / Wasting words on lower cases and capitals”
Popularity: 54 million Spotify streams, 14 million views on YouTube
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Breaking Benjamin – The Diary of Jane
Released in 2006 on the album Phobia
Notable Lyrics: “Something’s getting in the way / Something’s just about to break / I will try to find my place in the diary of Jane / So tell me how it should be”
Popularity: 436 million Spotify streams, 208 million views on YouTube
Bring Me The Horizon – Can You Feel My Heart
Released in 2013 on the album Sempiternal
Notable Lyrics: “Can you hear the silence? Can you see the dark? / Can you fix the broken? Can you feel my heart? / Can you feel my heart?”
Popularity: 439 million Spotify streams, 142 million views on YouTube
Escape The Fate – Situations
Released in 2006 on the album Dying Is Your Latest Fashion
Notable Lyrics: “Darling what is going on? / Honestly, that never happened / Lying is your favorite passion / Leave me, go where you belong”
Popularity: 71 million Spotify streams, 68 million views on YouTube
Evanescence – Bring Me To Life
Released in 2003 on the album Fallen
Notable Lyrics: “Bring me to life / I’ve been living a lie / There’s nothing inside / Bring me to life”
Popularity: 711 million Spotify streams, 1.1 billion views on YouTube
Fall Out Boy – Sugar, We’re Goin Down
Released in 2005 on the album From Under the Cork Tree
Notable Lyrics: “We’re going down, down in an earlier round / And sugar, we’re going down swinging / I’ll be your number one with a bullet”
Popularity: 607 million Spotify streams, 129 million views on YouTube
Fall Out Boy – Thnks fr th Mmrs
Released in 2007 on the album Infinity on High
Notable Lyrics: “One night and one more time / Thanks for the memories, even though they weren’t so / Great, “He tastes like you, only sweeter”
Popularity: 511 million Spotify streams, 172 million views on YouTube
Falling in Reverse – The Drug in Me Is You
Released in 2011 on the album The Drug in Me Is You
Notable Lyrics: “I’ve lost my goddamn mind, it happens all the time / I can’t believe I’m actually meant to be here / Trying to consume, the drug in me is you”
Popularity: 169 million Spotify streams, 100 million views on YouTube
Fountains of Wayne – Stacy’s Mom
Released in 2003 on the album Welcome Interstate Managers
Notable Lyrics: “Stacy’s mom has got it goin’ on / She’s all I want / And I’ve waited for so long”
Popularity: 353 million Spotify streams, 168 million views on YouTube
Good Charlotte – Lifestyles of the Rich & Famous
Released in 2002 on the album The Young and the Hopeless
Popularity: 177 million Spotify streams, 37 million views on YouTube
Good Charlotte – The Anthem
Released in 2002 on the album The Young and the Hopeless
Notable Lyrics: “Uh, what I’m saying is / This is the anthem, throw all your hands up / You, don’t wanna be you”
Popularity: 315 million Spotify streams, 80 million views on YouTube
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Green Day – American Idiot
Released in 2004 on the album American Idiot
Notable Lyrics: “Welcome to a new kind of tension / All across the alienation / Where everything isn’t meant to be okay”
Popularity: 678 million Spotify streams, 219 million views on YouTube
Green Day – Basket Case
Released in 1994 on the album Dookie
Notable Lyrics: “Sometimes, I give myself the creeps / Sometimes, my mind plays tricks on me / It all keeps adding up”
Popularity: 746 million Spotify streams, 299 million views on YouTube
Gym Class Heroes – Cupid’s Chokehold / Breakfast in America
Released in 2005 on the album The Papercut Chronicles
Notable Lyrics: “Take a look at my girlfriend / She’s the only one I got / Not much of a girlfriend / I never seem to get a lot”
Popularity: 367 million Spotify streams, 121 million views on YouTube
Hawthorne Heights – Ohio Is for Lovers
Released in 2004 on the album The Silence in Black and White
Notable Lyrics: “And I can’t make it on my own / (And I can’t make it on my own) / Because my heart is in Ohio”
Popularity: 85 million Spotify streams, 29 million views on YouTube
Jimmy Eat World – The Middle
Released in 2001 on the album Bleed American
Notable Lyrics: “It just takes some time / Little girl, you’re in the middle of the ride / Everything, everything’ll be just fine”
Popularity: 614 million Spotify streams, 91 million views on YouTube
Linkin Park – In the End
Released in 2000 on the album Hybrid Theory
Notable Lyrics: “I had to fall / To lose it all / But in the end / It doesn’t even matter”
Popularity: 1.3 billion Spotify streams, 1.4 billion views on YouTube
Linkin Park – Numb
Released in 2003 on the album Meteora
Notable Lyrics: “I’ve become so numb, I can’t feel you there / Become so tired, so much more aware / I’m becoming this, all I want to do / Is be more like me and be less like you”
Popularity: 1.1 billion Spotify streams, 1.8 billion views on YouTube
Lit – My Own Worst Enemy
Released in 1999 on the album A Place in the Sun
Notable Lyrics: “Please tell me why / My car is in the front yard, and I’m / Sleeping with my clothes on / I came in through the window last night / And you’re gone, gone”
Popularity: 247 million Spotify streams, 49 million views on YouTube
Metro Station – Shake It
Released in 2007 on the album Metro Station
Notable Lyrics: “Now if she moves like this, will you move her like that? / Come on, shake shake, shake shake, a-shake it”
Popularity: 211 million Spotify streams, 117 million views on YouTube
Midtown – Give It Up
Released in 2004 on the album Forget What You Know
Notable Lyrics: “Give it up, give it up / Don’t fall for the same things / Give it up, give it up / Don’t fall for mistakes that I’ve made”
Popularity: 7 million Spotify streams, 791 thousand views on YouTube
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Motion City Soundtrack – Everything Is Alright
Released in 2005 on the album Commit This to Memory
Notable Lyrics: “Tell me that you’re alright / Yeah, everything is alright / Oh please, tell me that you’re alright”
Popularity: 75 million Spotify streams, 4 million views on YouTube
My Chemical Romance – Helena
Released in 2004 on the album Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge
Notable Lyrics: “Well, if you carry on this way / Things are better if I stay / So long and goodnight”
Popularity: 290 million Spotify streams, 172 million views on YouTube
My Chemical Romance – Welcome To The Black Parade
Released in 2006 on the album The Black Parade
Notable Lyrics: “To carry on / We’ll carry on / And though you’re dead and gone, believe me / Your memory will carry on”
Popularity: 584 million Spotify streams, 273 million views on YouTube
New Found Glory – My Friends Over You
Released in 2002 on the album Sticks and Stones
Notable Lyrics: “You were everything I wanted / But I just can’t finish what I’ve started / There’s no room left here on my back”
Popularity: 125 million Spotify streams, 35 million views on YouTube
Panic! At The Disco – I Write Sins Not Tragedies
Released in 2005 on the album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out
Notable Lyrics: “I chimed in with a, “Haven’t you people ever heard of / Closing the goddamn door?!” / No, it’s much better to face these kinds of things”
Popularity: 707 million Spotify streams, 372 million views on YouTube
Papa Roach – Last Resort
Released in 2000 on the album Ready to Rumble
Notable Lyrics: “‘Cause I’m losin’ my sight, losin’ my mind / Wish somebody would tell me I’m fine”
Popularity: 842 million Spotify streams, 178 million views on YouTube
Papa Roach – Scars
Released in 2004 on the album Getting Away with Murder
Notable Lyrics: “I tear my heart open—I sew myself shut / And my weakness is that I care too much / And our scars remind us that the past is real / I tear my heart open just to feel”
Popularity: 200 million Spotify streams, 117 million views on YouTube
Paramore – Still Into You
Released in 2013 on the album Paramore
Notable Lyrics: “Let ’em wonder how we got this far / ‘Cause I don’t really need to wonder at all / Yeah, after all this time, I’m still into you”
Popularity: 518 million Spotify streams, 224 million views on YouTube
Paramore – That’s What You Get
Released in 2008 on the album Riot!
Notable Lyrics: “That’s what you get when you let your heart win / Whoa-oh-oh-oh / I drowned out all my sense with the sound of its beating / And that’s what you get when you let your heart win”
Popularity: 194 million Spotify streams, 207 million views on YouTube
Pierce The Veil – King for a Day featuring Kellin Quinn
Released in 2012 on the album Collide with the Sky
Notable Lyrics: “You told me, “Think about it,” well, I did / Now I don’t wanna feel a thing anymore / I’m tired of begging for the things that I want”
Popularity: 239 million Spotify streams, 151 million views on YouTube
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Plain White T’s – Our Time Now
Released in 2006 on the album Every Second Counts
Notable Lyrics: “This is the dance for all the lovers / Takin’ a chance for one another / Finally it’s our time now”
Popularity: 13 million Spotify streams, 20 million views on YouTube
Rise Against – Savior
Released in 2008 on the album Appeal to Reason
Notable Lyrics: “That’s when she said, “I don’t hate you, boy, I just want to save you / While there’s still something left to save!”
Popularity: 519 million Spotify streams, 172 million views on YouTube
Simple Plan – I’m Just a Kid
Released in 2002 on the album No Pads, No Helmets…Just Balls
Notable Lyrics: “I’m just a kid / And life is a nightmare / I’m just a kid / I know that it’s not fair / Nobody cares / ‘Cause I’m alone and the world is having more fun than me”
Popularity: 220 million Spotify streams, 52 million views on YouTube
Simple Plan – Welcome to My Life
Released in 2004 on the album Still Not Getting Any…
Notable Lyrics: “And no one’s there to save you / No, you don’t know what it’s like / Welcome to my life”
Popularity: 198 million Spotify streams, 144 million views on YouTube
Sleeping With Sirens – Alone featuring MGK
Released in 2013 on the album Feel
Notable Lyrics: “I don’t want to die alone (No one should have to die alone) / I could fall apart here and now / I don’t want to die alone”
Popularity: 100 million Spotify streams, 43 million views on YouTube
Sleeping With Sirens – Do It Now Remember It Later
Released in 2011 on the album Let’s Cheers to This
Notable Lyrics: “Remember when they said that what we want can never be done? / When it all comes falling down, we’ll do what we want to / Said we’ll do what we want to, yeah, yeah, yeah”
Popularity: 38 million Spotify streams, 34 million views on YouTube
Slipknot – Duality
Released in 2004 on the album Vol. 3: (The Subliminal Verses)
Notable Lyrics: “I push my fingers into my eyes / It’s the only thing that slowly stops the ache / If the pain goes on, I’m not gonna make it!”
Popularity: 497 million Spotify streams, 348 million views on YouTube
Sum 41 – Fat Lip
Released in 2001 on the album All Killer No Filler
Notable Lyrics: “I don’t wanna waste my time / Become another casualty of society / I’ll never fall in line”
Popularity: 320 million Spotify streams, 129 million views on YouTube
System Of A Down – Chop Suey!
Released in 2001 on the album Toxicity
Notable Lyrics: “I don’t think you trust / In my self-righteous suicide / I cry when angels deserve to die”
Popularity: 904 million Spotify streams, 1.2 billion views on YouTube
Taking Back Sunday – MakeDamnSure
Released in 2006 on the album Louder Now
Notable Lyrics: “I just wanna break you down so badly / Well I trip over everything you say / I just wanna break you down so badly / In the worst way”
Popularity: 134 million Spotify streams, 33 million views on YouTube
The All-American Rejects – Dirty Little Secret
Released in 2005 on the album Move Along
Notable Lyrics: “I’ll keep you my dirty little secret (Dirty little secret) / Don’t tell anyone or you’ll be just another regret / (Just another regret, hope that you can keep it)”
Popularity: 331 million Spotify streams, 104 million views on YouTube
The All-American Rejects – Gives You Hell
Released in 2008 on the album Gives You Hell
Notable Lyrics: “When you see my face, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell / When you walk my way, hope it gives you hell, hope it gives you hell”
Popularity: 460 million Spotify streams, 170 million views on YouTube
The All-American Rejects – Move Along
Released in 2005 on the album Move Along
Notable Lyrics: “And even when your hope is gone / Move along, move along just to make it through / Move along / Move along”
Popularity: 206 million Spotify streams, 70 million views on YouTube
The Ataris – The Boys of Summer
Released in 2003 on the album So Long, Astoria
Notable Lyrics: “I can tell you / My love for you will still be strong / After the boys of summer have gone”
Popularity: 116 million Spotify streams, 18 million views on YouTube
The Killers – Mr. Brightside
Released in 2004 on the album Hot Fuss
Notable Lyrics: “But it’s just the price I pay, destiny is calling me / Open up my eager eyes, ’cause I’m Mr. Brightside”
Popularity: 1.5 billion Spotify streams, 498 million views on YouTube
The Killers – Somebody Told Me
Released in 2004 on the album Hot Fuss
Notable Lyrics: “Well somebody told me you had a boyfriend / Who looked like a girlfriend / That I had in February of last year / It’s not confidential, I’ve got potential”
Popularity: 553 million Spotify streams, 199 million views on YouTube
The Offspring – The Kids Aren’t Alright
Released in 1998 on the album Americana
Notable Lyrics: “Chances thrown, nothing’s free / Longing for what used to be / Still it’s hard, hard to see / Fragile lives, shattered dreams”
Popularity: 554 million Spotify streams, 208 million views on YouTube
The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus – Face Down
Released in 2006 on the album Don’t You Fake It
Notable Lyrics: “Do you feel like a man when you push her around? / Do you feel better now, as she falls to the ground? / Well, I’ll tell you my friend, one day this world’s going to end”
Popularity: 351 million Spotify streams, 121 million views on YouTube
The Used – All That I’ve Got
Released in 2004 on the album In Love and Death
Notable Lyrics: “I’ll be just fine / Pretending I’m not / I’m far from lonely / And it’s all that I’ve got”
Popularity: 50 million Spotify streams, 12 million views on YouTube
The Used – The Taste of Ink
Released in 2001 on the album USED
Notable Lyrics: “So here I am, it’s in my hands / And I’ll savor every moment of this / So here I am, alive at last / And I’ll savor every moment of this”
Popularity: 105 million Spotify streams, 1.9 million views on YouTube
The Wonder Years – Came Out Swinging
Released in 2011 on the album Suburbia I’ve Given You All and Now I’m Nothing
Notable Lyrics: “I came out swinging from a South Philly basement / Caked in stale beer and sweat under half-lit fluorescents / And I spent the winter writing songs about getting better”
Popularity: 21 million Spotify streams, 4.5 million views on YouTube
Thirty Seconds to Mars – The Kill
Released in 2005 on the album A Beautiful Lie
Notable Lyrics: “Come break me down / Bury me, bury me / I am finished with you”
Popularity: 400 million Spotify streams, 209 million views on YouTube
We The Kings – Check Yes Juliet
Released in 2007 on the album We the Kings
Notable Lyrics: “Don’t sell your heart, don’t say we’re not meant to be / Run, baby run, forever we’ll be / You and me”
Popularity: 222 million Spotify streams, 28 million views on YouTube
Weezer – El Scorcho
Released in 1996 on the album Pinkerton
Notable Lyrics: “I’m a lot like you, so please / Hello, I’m here, I’m waiting / I think I’d be good for you / And you’d be good for me”
Popularity: 7 million views on YouTube
Yellowcard – Ocean Avenue
Released in 2003 on the album Ocean Avenue
Notable Lyrics: “If I could find you now things would get better / We could leave this town and run forever / Let your waves crash down on me and take me away”
Popularity: 280 million Spotify streams, 50 million views on YouTube
Yellowcard – Only One
Released in 2003 on the album Ocean Avenue
Notable Lyrics: “Here I go / Scream my lungs out and try to get to you / You are my only one”
Popularity: 100 million Spotify streams, 43 million views on YouTube
Slow Dance Emo Hits
Green Day – Boulevard of Broken Dreams
Released in 2004 on the album American Idiot
Notable Lyrics: “My shallow heart’s the only thing that’s beatin’ / Sometimes, I wish someone out there will find me / ‘Til then, I walk alone”
Popularity: 519 million Spotify streams, 674 million views on YouTube
Hinder – Lips of an Angel
Released in 2005 on the album Extreme Behavior
Notable Lyrics: “And I never wanna say goodbye / But, girl, you make it hard to be faithful / With the lips of an angel”
Popularity: 260 million Spotify streams, 281 million views on YouTube
Secondhand Serenade – Fall For You
Released in 2008 on the album A Twist In My Story
Notable Lyrics: “Or I won’t live to see another day, I swear it’s true / Because a girl like you is impossible to find / You’re impossible to find”
Popularity: 112 million Spotify streams, 30 million views on YouTube
