36 Best Sad Songs – Songs With Sad in the Title
Last Updated: July 31, 2023 | Written by Matthew Campbell (Editor of My Wedding Songs and wedding DJ)
When you think of sad songs you think about songs to play on our music player that have topics of sadness.
We do things a bit differently on our list of top 10 sad songs. All of our song lists have the word sad in the song title.
Sad songs listed below can go well with our list as cry songs, as well as sad songs, can make you cry.
When thinking of sad songs you may think of crying, frowning, unhappy, depressed, and gloomy. We will help you out by offering our list of top 10 sad songs.
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- “SAD!” by XXXTENTACION (Pop – 2018)
- “You should be sad” by Halsey (Alternative – 2020)
- “Another Dad Love Song” by Khalid (R&B – 2017)
- “Summertime Sadness” by Lana Del Rey (Alternative – 2017)
- “Sad In The Summer” by Diplo, Lily Rose (Country – 2023)
- “Way Less Sad” by AJR (Alternative – 2021)
- “Rich & Sad” by Post Malone (Hip Hop – 2018)
- “NO SAD SONGS” by Niko Moon (Country – 2021)
- “Sad Songs” by ILLENIUM, Said The Sky, Annika Wells (Dance – 2019)
- “Sad Song” by We The Kings, Elena Coats (Alternative – 2013)
- “Happy & Sad” by Kacey Musgraves (Country – 2018)
- “SAD B!TCH” by Anne-Marie (Pop – 2023)
- “I Cannot Be (A Sadder Song)” by Post Malone, Gunna (Hip Hop – 2022)
- “SAD F**k” by Ryan Mack (Pop – 2021)
- “Sad Nibba Hours” by Papithbk (Hip Hop – 2019)
- “This Is What Sadness Feels Like” by JVKE (Pop – 2022)
- “I Was Sad Last Night I’m OK Now” by tobi lou (Hip Hop – 2019)
- “Sad People” by Kid Cudi (Hip Hop – 2020)
- “SAD GIRLZ LUV MONEY” by Amaarae, Kali Uchis, Moliy (Afro-Pop – 2021)
- “Sad Machine” by Porter Robinson (Dance – 2014)
Popular Songs About Sadness
Sad But True – Metallica
Released in 1993 on the album Metallica
Genre: Heavy Metal
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I’m your dream, mind astray
I’m your eyes while you’re away
I’m your pain while you repay
You know it’s sad but true
Sad Songs (Say So Much) – Elton John
Released in 1984 on the album Breaking Hearts
Genre: Rock
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
They reach into your room
Just feel their gentle touch
When all hope is gone
You know sad songs say so much
Sad Beautiful Tragic – Taylor Swift
Released in 2012 on the album Red
Genre: Country
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
We had a beautiful magic love there
What a sad beautiful tragic love affair
Another Sad Love Song – Toni Braxton
Released in 1993 on the album Toni Braxton
Genre: R&B
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
It’s just another sad love song
Rackin’ my brain like crazy
Guess I’m all torn up
Be it fast or slow
It doesn’t let go
Next, read the biggest cry hits.
So Sad To Say – The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
Released in 2000 on the album Pay Attention
Genre: Ska
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
So sad to say
What we had has gone away
Ya could say it’s sad
Think of what we could have had
Sad Man’s Tongue – Volbeat
Released in 2007 on the album Rock the Rebel/Metal the Devil
Genre: Heavy Metal
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I got my pocket full of real tales
And a broken guitar mode
Guitar mode
And the story keep on rollin’
Out from a sad man tongue
A Sad Country Song – David Allan Coe
Released in 1974 on the album The Mysterious Rhinestone Cowboy
Genre: Country
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
When you’re tired of being alone
Put in a dime
And I’ll take the time
To sing you a sad country song
Sad – Maroon 5
Released in 2012 on the album Overexposed
Genre: Rock
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
The words that you needed so bad
And I’m kicking the dirt cause I never gave you
The place that you needed to have
I’m so sad, sad
Sad Eyes – Robert John
Released in 1979 on the album Robert John
Genre: Rock
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sad eyes, turn the other way
I don’t want to see you cry
Sad eyes, you knew there’d come a day
When we would have to say “goodbye”
Sad-Eyed Lady of the Lowlands – Bob Dylan
Released in 1966 on the album Blonde on Blonde
Genre: Folk
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sad-eyed lady of the lowlands
Where the sad-eyed prophet says that no man comes
My warehouse eyes, my Arabian drums
Should I put them by your gate, or sad-eyed lady, should I wait?
SAD (Imanbek xxx Remix) – Rasster & Erin Bloomer
Released in 2020 on the album SAD
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Who am I? Who am I? Sad to let go
You decide, you decide, gonna let me know
Suicide if you ever try to let go
don’t be sad – Tate McRae
Released in 2020 on the album don’t be sad
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Don’t be sad, the sun is shining
Just be happy, why you whining?
Waiting room is getting crowded
You’re not special
Check out the biggest dying hits.
You should be sad – Halsey
Released in 2019 on the album Manic
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Oh, I feel so sorry
I feel so sad
I tried to help you
It just made you mad
Let Me Be Sad – I Prevail
Released in 2019 on the album TRAUMA
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Let me be sad
Even for a little while
‘Cause it’s all that I have left
When all I see are the memories, I don’t want to lose a thing
Let me be sad, let me be sad
SAD! – XXXTentacion
Released in 2018 on the album ?
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You decide, if you’re ever gonna let me know, yeah
Suicide, if you ever try to let go, uh
I’m sad I know, yeah, I’m sad I know, yeah
Sad Song – We The Kings featuring Elena Coats
Released in 2013 on the album Somewhere Somehow
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Without you, I feel torn
Like a sail in a storm
Without you, I’m just a sad song
I’m just a sad song
Lord of the Sad and Lonely – Kid Cudi
Released in 2013 on the album Indicud
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Lord of the sad and lonely
And the ones that feel like s*** on the daily
Don’t let these phony ****s and h**s
Be the ones that bring you low
Why Should I Be Sad – Britney Spears
Released in 2007 on the album Blackout
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Why should I get back, feel sad, who knows?
Just take it all as a sign that we’re through
Goodbye
Sad Girl – Everlast
Released in 2004 on the album White Trash Beautiful
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sad girl living on the east side of the city
Proud woman, boy, she don’t want none of your pity
Sad girl got no one to rely on
Proud woman don’t need your shoulder to cry on
Sad Sad Sad – The Rolling Stones
Released in 1989 on the album Steel Wheels
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Now you’re sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
Sad sad sad
But you’re gonna be fine
There’ll Be Sad Songs (To Make You Cry) – Billy Ocean
Released in 1986 on the album Love Zone
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
There’ll be sad songs to make you cry
Love songs often do
They can touch the heart of someone new
Saying, “I love you”
Who’s Sad – Smokey Robinson
Released in 1981 on the album Being with You
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sad, who’s sad, ooh, baby, not me
Just because you my love behind
Sad, who’s sad, not me
Just a couple more years and I’ll be fine, fine
Sad Eyes – Bruce Springsteen
Released in 1980 on the album The River
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You show up and then you shy away
But I know pretty soon you’ll be walkin’ this way
Because sad eyes never lie
Sad eyes never lie
It’s A Sad Affair – Peter Frampton
Released in 1979 on the album Where I Should Be
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Everyday and now I think of you
But all I’ve got to say
To me it’s a sad, sad affair
Nobody Likes Sad Songs – Ronnie Milsap
Released in 1979 on the album Images
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Nobody like sad songs, the ones about goodbyes
Songs about broken hearts with tears in your eyes
Nobody like sad songs but since you went away
Seems like sad songs are all I can play
The Sad Cafe – Eagles
Released in 1979 on the album The Long Run
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
We thought we could change this world
With words like love and freedom
We were part of the lonely crowd
Inside the sad cafe
It’s Sad To Belong – England Dan & John Ford Coley
Released in 1977 on the album Dowdy Ferry Road
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Oh, it’s sad to belong to someone else
When the right one comes along
Yes, it’s sad to belong to someone else
When the right one comes along
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad? – Derek & the Dominos
Released in 1973 on the album In Concert
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Like a bird on the wing, got a brand new song to sing
I can’t keep from singing about you
Why does love got to be so sad?
Sad Tomorrows – Marvin Gaye
Released in 1971 on the album What’s Going On
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Ain’t seen nothing but trouble baby, paraphernalia is my name
There’s a place where the feeling awaits me
Self destructions in my hands
Sad Lisa – Cat Stevens
Released in 1970 on the album Tea for the Tillerman
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
She walks alone from wall to wall
Lost in her hall, she can’t hear me
Though I know she likes to be near me
Lisa, Lisa, sad Lisa, Lisa
Ballad Of The Sad Young Men – Roberta Flack
Released in 1969 on the album First Take
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
All the sad young men, seek a certain smile
Someone they can hold, for just a little while
Tired little girl, does the best she can
Trying to be gay, for a sad young men
Sad Girl – The Intruders
Released in 1968 on the album Cowboys to Girls
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Sad girl
Hold your head up high
Things are gonna change I know
As time goes by
Because that’s the way it goes
Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa-Fa (Sad Song) – Otis Redding
Released in 1966
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
I keep singin’ them sad sad song y’all
Sad song is of all I know
So Sad About Us – The Who
Released in 1966 on the album A Quick One
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
So sad about us
Sad that the news is out now
Sad, suppose we can’t turn back now
Sad about us
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Mr Dyingly Sad – The Critters feat. Michael Province
Released in 1966 on the album Younger Girl
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
Brightens your smile, pray tell me
How all the while you can be
So mystifyingly glad
I’m Mr. Dieingly Sad
So Sad (To Watch Good Love Go Bad) – The Everly Brothers
Released in 1960 on the album It’s Everly Time
Most Meaningful Lyrics:
You said nothing could change your mind
It breaks my heart (breaks my heart) to see us part
So sad to watch good love go bad
Have a favorite sad song, not on my list? Please share it below so that we can add your song.
The Critters – Mr. Dieingly Sad
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h27rFCiL96Y
Thanks Craig. We will add it to the list.
Why Does Love Got To Be So Sad?
Derek & the Dominos
Thanks JT. We will add it to the list!