Top Sad Western Songs [2025]
I think everyone feels lonely sometimes.
There are times when you want to see someone or lean on someone.
But when you can’t tell anyone, try relying on music.
I’ve put together a selection of Western songs that gently keep you company when you’re feeling lonely.
- Ranking of Melancholic Western Songs [2025]
- Western songs to listen to when you feel lonely: world classics and popular hits
- Western Music Yami Song Rankings [2025]
- Ranking of Tear-Jerking Western Songs [2025]
- [Masterpiece] Tear-jerking Western songs. The tears won’t stop… truly sad songs [2025]
- Saddest Western Songs Ranking [2025]
- When you’re hurting and feel like you want to disappear… timeless Western songs to listen to at times like these
- Top Sad Songs by Female Western Artists: Popular Rankings [2025]
- Most Moving Western Songs Ranking [2025]
- [2025] Moving Western songs that touch the heart: A roundup of recommended masterpieces
- Top Cry-Inducing Western Songs Ranking [2025]
- Tear-jerking Western songs: The world's recommended weep-inducing tracks
- Ranking of Sad Songs and Popular Tracks by Foreign Female Artists [2025]
Lonely Western Music Songs Ranking [2025] (61–70)
You Could Be HappySnow Patrol64rank/position
Whether one takes this song as whiny or as bittersweet yet beautiful depends on the listener.
The lyrics are entirely in the first person, almost like a monologue.
The band Snow Patrol has a relentless dedication to their performance in pursuit of beautiful melodies.
This song evokes the clear, deep winter snow and puts you in a poetic mood.
You’ve Got a FriendCarole King65rank/position
Carole King’s classic song “You’ve Got a Friend.” As the title suggests, it’s a song dedicated to a dear friend, and it won Song of the Year at the 1972 Grammy Awards.
It has been covered by many renowned artists, including James Taylor and Donny Hathaway.
If you’re feeling down or struggling in a friendship, please give it a listen.
It’s a song that really drives home the importance of friends, so it might even help you work things out.
I Am A RockSimon&Garfunkel66rank/position
A track that sings about a person who is distancing themselves from the world.
It was originally released as a Paul Simon solo in 1965, and then released as Simon & Garfunkel in 1966.
It has been covered by many artists, including The Hollies.
I’m Not In Love10cc67rank/position
A song by Tenshiishi whose sense-laden musical taste is elevated to deeper heights by gentle, understated vocals, making its deep style irresistibly addictive.
It’s considered a nighttime staple—melancholic yet allowing you to luxuriate in a comfortably refined atmosphere.
Lonely BoyAndrew Gold68rank/position
A song depicting a child who, after the birth of his younger sister, feels a sense of loneliness as if abandoned by his parents.
Many people consider the song autobiographical for Andrew Gold, but despite the strong similarities, the artist has denied this.
Solitary ManNeil Diamond69rank/position
An American pop artist who produced numerous hit songs from the 1960s to the 1980s.
“Solitary Man” means a lonely man, and the song strongly conveys the feeling of loneliness.
It has been covered by many people and is a song beloved by musicians.
All By MySelfEric Carmen70rank/position
It is based on Rachmaninoff’s Piano Concerto No.
2 (written in 1901), and its choral section is taken from “Let’s Pretend,” a song Eric Carmen wrote in 1973 for the band Raspberries, of which he was a member.
The song is about emotions that everyone feels at some point in life.
It was covered by Celine Dion in 1996.