[Masterpiece] Tear-jerking Western songs. The tears won’t stop… truly sad songs [2025]

White HorseTaylor Swift

Taylor Swift – White Horse

If you ask young Americans today for a sad song, I’m sure this one would be the most popular.

Taylor Swift’s songs are all wonderful, but I used to think they were a bit too bright and poppy.

However, this song beautifully conveys sadness.

F**k it I love youLana Del Rey

Lana Del Rey – Fuck it I love you / The greatest

A standout singer-songwriter from New York, Lana Del Rey released this track on her August 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.

While many of her songs express sadness, this piece—despite its seemingly aggressive title—also carries a melancholy tone and an overall wistful atmosphere.

Many listeners will relate to Lana’s lyrics, which intertwine her journey of leaving her hometown in pursuit of success for California with her feelings for the man she loves.

Viva La VidaColdplay

Coldplay – Viva La Vida (Official Video)

Coldplay is an award-winning British rock band.

This song was released in 2008.

At the 51st Grammy Awards, it won in three categories.

Its Japanese title is “Utsukushiki Seimei” (“Beautiful Life”), but it sings of the sorrow of a king driven from his country.

I Want It That WayBackstreet Boys

Backstreet Boys – I Want It That Way (Official HD Video)

This is a song by the five-member American pop idol group Backstreet Boys.

It was released in 2001 as the lead single from the album Millennium.

Although they had been popular in Europe, this track became the catalyst for their breakthrough in their home country.

It’s a quintessential pop song of the ’90s that poignantly sings about the heartbreak caused by differences in how men and women think.

The Show Must Go OnQueen

Queen – The Show Must Go On (Official Video)

A song written by guitarist Brian May.

It sings about the need to make the most of being alive.

In addition to being used in the film “Moulin Rouge,” the piece was performed in a dramatic style in 1997 by Elton John and an Italian ballet company.

War is a GodJesse Welles

War is a God

Jesse Wells, a singer-songwriter from Arkansas who is often called the conscience of modern America.

In 2024, he was chosen as Saving Country Music’s inaugural Songwriter of the Year, a testament to his widely acclaimed talent.

Woven into this work is a searing question: Why must those who believe in the same God kill one another over a single interpretation of scripture? The words, carried by a quiet guitar, come across as a stern indictment of people who persist in conflict.

This piece is a track from the album “Middle,” set for release in February 2025.

When you feel the emptiness of consuming distant wars as mere information, why not listen to his voice and consider what we can do?

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)The 1975

I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)

As of 2020, all three albums they had released had reached No.

1 on the UK charts, making THE 1975 a band at the top both in name and in reality.

This track, which closes their third album released in 2018, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, is, within their genre-spanning sound, a fairly simple rock ballad.

Its startling title carries a characteristically British, paradoxical nuance, and even amid sorrow and resignation, you can sense a subtly ironic kind of optimism.