History TearJerker / Vocaloid

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3f4zJQ-G4QE Hirari Hirari]]'' by Hatsune Miku. It's a song about grieving for a loved one that has passed away and wanting to see them again. Combine that with soulful piano music and you're all set.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4q9yaWJkI DUNE]]", Creator/KenshiYonezu's first Vocaloid song in the four years since "Donut Hole" and the theme song of Magical Mirai 2017 (as well as a marker for Miku's 10th birthday bash). You'd think with all those credentials the song would be a nostalgic look at how the system has grown, but it's quite somber. A more serious Miku, followed by heavily clothed musicians representing producers, wander around a dust bowl of a planet in the hopes of planting an apple tree that we later see a more common Miku making music under. They pass a castle resembling a birthday cake, starting off a slew of references to previous hits and Miku advises them to "salute to the graves of the masses/ the life that was born from the Melt sensation". Some of the pack leaves on their own, some join other desert walkers, and she keeps marching on and on with new people waiting on the horizon. The symbolism, and what it represents for the whole of Vocaloid, can be taken as a half-nostalgic half-bitter eulogy for the entire Vocaloid phenomenon, and Hachi's own involvement in it. And that's not getting into the symbolism for the ones that left the pack, who are alleged to represent late vocaloid producers Samfree and Powapowa-P.

** Another notable cover is Music/JubyPhonic [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSCwqCsSK1g English cover.]] Her voice is expressive in a way that the quality of the cover is competitively the same as Mafumafu's.

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KCn0p6HX2UU Mafumafu's cover of the song]] might even be more saddening than the original. Mafumafu expresses the sadness in the song even more strongly than Yuki does. It is widely regarded as superior compared to Yuki's.

** Another notable cover is [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fSCwqCsSK1g JubyPhonic's English cover.]] Her voice is expressive in a way that the quality of the cover is competitively the same as Mafumafu's.

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-->The [dead young warrior, unknown of, still becomes a bird and flies across the sky

* Miku sings a very sad song in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blVxYEMbVFk As I'm Not Human]]", in which she laments that she will never bear children because she's an android. The lyrics itself are full of innuendo, but this only makes it even more of a tearjerker because sex has ic Wizard of Oz"]], despite being adorable and silly, has some sad moments; particular examples include Scarecrow Kaito lamenting the fact that everyone laughs at him for not being smart enough (one of his lyrics is even borderline HeroicSelfDeprecation[[note]]"It's time for the stupid clown's circus/where everyone points and laughs"[[/note]]) and Witch Meiko singing about her feelings of loneliness.

''Hoo boy!'' Did these Music/{{Vocaloid}} artists create some ''[[TearJerker tragically sad]]'' songs or what?!

* Most if not all of Okame-P's songs [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fOe2sSQzxZU are known]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=30w-PlDZWn0 for being]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uhq3dd-QcqQ REALLY sad]], but none more than [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UiXX-4byMAY "you're not alone".]] It seems to be about regret for past sins, realizing there's nothing you can do and wishing someone you scorned well for the future.
** [[http://vocatranslations.blogspot.ca/2011/03/appendyoure-not-alone.html Here are the English lyrics, because the only english subbed video I could find is so low in audio quality it's not worth listening to.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f5XSLCoJRUE Hanatan's]] cover is even more emotional, with her delicate, yet powerful handling of the lyrics. It's simply beautiful. This link also has english lyrics in the description.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eh39VWPIj4 Jubyphonic has an English cover]], and her rendition of it starts off as nothing short of utterly devestating, but is wonderfully uplifting in the final verse.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxkcT6hpk2w "If" by Muryoku-P.]] This tear-jerking ballad describes the thoughts of a terminally ill or wounded patient who is told they have until the morning to live. It's a raw, heart-wrenching rendition of the thoughts someone would have in this position. [[spoiler: Not to mention, the way the final line cuts off a syllable early as Luka dies passes on right in front of the listener, just delivers a huge blow to the metaphorical solar plexus.]]

* Music/{{hinayukki}}'s ''[[https://www.nicovideo.jp/watch/sm6875060 Time Forgotten One]]'', sung by Kaito. It's about [[spoiler:a statue doomed to spend his entire life waiting for his long-dead best friend]].
* At first, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3BFvN-idN1s Reboot]]'' seems to be a relatively cheerful and relaxed song about a group of three friends going through their childhood together. [[spoiler: Then one of them gets hit by a truck trying to retrieve a charm that flew off one of the girl's backpacks... ]] The rest of the PV is absolutely ''heartwrenching.''
* By Gumi, ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcaO0yaTI2I&list=UUIdt_eG9X8lptbfrVL3DF-Q&index=30&feature=plcp Gensou Uta]]'' a ''Illusionary Song'', a rather [[MindScrew ambiguos song]] with a proper dose of [[StarCrossedLovers sadness]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J0ceA2XZqDA&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Rin's "Flames of Yellow Phosphorous"]] is not happy. Of course, it's by Mothy. Mothy also wrote [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJny2S00dOA moonlit bear]], [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3xuun25DHVM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Miniature Garden Girl]], The Daughter of Evil Series, and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCGTuXtuLIM&safety_mode=true&persist_safety_mode=1&safe=active Desert Bluebird]]. All of which are tear jerkers.
** Another tipoff about this song? 1, the first few pictures are Rin burnt at the stake, 2, it's based off ''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''.

--> "We aren't considered humans, so that's imposible..."

%%** "Regret Message" (and "Daughter of White" makes it worse) [[spoiler:But "[[{{Reincarnation}} Re_birthday]]" is there to make everything better!...assuming you actually interpret it to mean he DOES get better.]]

** "Prisoner" and "Paper Plane" are another two that break hearts as if they were fragile china. The highest-rated comment on "Paper Plane" is currently "3:20 total break down," which references [[spoiler: when Len starts singing.]] ''Sob.''

** It's answer song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-TJBdRV76I proof of life]]" isn't much better, Rin tries to convince herself that everything would be alright and kept on singing. Even with Len comforting her she still couldn't deny the fact that her time would be up. In the end she died, with her last words being "thank you".

* Meiko's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qb4xkEiewIw&feature=related The Thought To Tell]] is one of her few examples of this. [[spoiler: She's been reborn as a girl, but [[PastLifeMemories still retains the love]] [[LesYay for a girl]] who was her art student and has been reborn as her best friend. Her friend also remembers fragments of their past life. Do they get together? Nope, girl gets hitched to a guy that looked like who Meiko was in her past life, and [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy poor Meiko attends the wedding to wish them well.]] ]]
** The second part to the story, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GUApFg-dHuM&feature=related Cradle Of Destiny]], [[BittersweetEnding just makes it worse]]. [[GainaxEnding Maybe.]] [[spoiler: It takes place a while after the wedding, the scene alternating between the girl crying alone in her room and Meiko on a cliff [[GrayRainOfDepression in the rain]] reflecting on their past and present lives, ending with Meiko [[SkywardScream collapsing to her knees screaming.]] The scene then switches to the girl being pulled along by her daughter, who happens to look like Meiko, to show her a painting she made that would seem to imply [[DrivenToSuicide that she is Meiko]]. While the girl is looking at her daughter's painting, she runs off and is picked up by [[MindScrew someone who looks like Meiko, but goes completely unnoticed much like the man Meiko was did when comforting her.]] With the vague ending and the husband's absence from everything except the flashbacks, this does leave the ending able to be interpreted [[EarnYourHappyEnding in a happier]] [[HasTwoMommies light however]].]]
* The ''Star Girl and The Illusionary Paradise'' saga... ;___; Not all the songs [[LyricalDissonance sound depressing]] yet given the context you can't deny the tragicness behind each song...

*** ''Especially'' [[ItMakesSenseInContext if you know the context:]] To quote one Youtuber's comment,[[spoiler: "I can only tell you that things like this has happend, and still does. Children are kidnapped, and deformed into freaks. For example, they could crush their bones so they grew together wrong, slice things of and more, and the children were also used for sexual services. And if they said no, or tried to escape, they got acid pour in their faces. That's what the flowers in the vid stands for."]] Now try watching that ending montage without crying. *sniff*

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=36L34Hf0_U4&feature=related Depression of the Young Literati]]. The title tells it all, doesn't it? It's contagious.
** As with ''Hello, How Are You'', don't be surprised if it [[TruthInTelevision strikes a few chords.]]
*** In particular, consider that a common code for suicide is in fact, "going away".

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbfBjZyVsJM Why Don't You Call Me Yet?]] is about the singer wanting the person she is in love with to call her, while being too afraid that he has forgotten who she is to call him herself. In the end of one of the [=PVs=], [[spoiler: Rin kneels on the floor, looking as if she has given up hope as the song ends. After a moment of silence, her phone goes off, to her disbelief. She answers it with a cheerful greeting, only for a final shot of her crying tears of joy to show up, leaving the viewer to assume that the man she loves has indeed called her.]]
** There is also a fanmade pv that has Len playing the guy who has yet to call her back. It is eventually revealed that [[spoiler:the reason why he missed their date was that he was at the doctor, finding out that the surgery he had to get to remove a brain tumor could potentially kill him or turn him into a brain-dead vegetable. He then avoids calling her because he's thinking of breaking off the relationship so that she won't be too hurt if he dies. The end of the video is Rin getting a call from Len when he's in the hospital after his surgery. I'm not a fan of the Rin x Len shipping by any means, but this video still made me bawl like a child.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q7QxAnAZSrg 69]] by Rin and Len. Rin is some form of doll that has lived for 69 years and is beginning to break down and die. Len realizes she is going to be gone soon and tells her that she's still beautiful even though she's falling apart and they both express their love for one another as the song goes on. Rin has an [[IWantMyBelovedToBeHappy I Want My Beloved To Be Happy]] moment as she dies, thanking him for caring about her and telling him that even though she's gone, she wants him to continue to be happy and love again. [[spoiler:The end of the PV implies that Len is about to suffer the same fate, so she won't be without him for too long.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BPjS-Ul6ycA Alluring Secret~White Vow]], Miku's response song to Alluring Secret~Black Vow, is utterly heartbreaking. [[spoiler: ''"I can take this black dress off someday..."'']] *Sniff*

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X--s0TRhKdY 15 Years Pursuing a Cute Boy]] is about a girl who writes poems to the one she likes for 15 years. Still awaiting a response, she keeps writing even after sustaining severe retrograde amnesia, remembering nothing but her love for the boy. Her memories come back [[spoiler: and she remembers that he's been dead for 15 years]].
*** Ditto for [=VY2=]'s cover by the same artist, now with [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hDIQ2Ypxv7Y a PV]].
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3G_DOlHuNS0 The Beast. by Hatsune Miku.]] It tells the story of a girl who trades away her mortality for a beautiful, ageless body. Just... Oh, just listen. Make sure you have tissues handy.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dH2SsHwiIqM +REVERSE]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul4c4-sotFI -ERROR]] by Lily. In +REVERSE, [[spoiler: Lily realizes she's fading away, and says, "Even in the flow of time, it seems I can't go against it...When I first realized it by being loved..."]] In -ERROR, [[spoiler:Lily is still dying, and she realizes this, too. She says goodbye to her friends and master...and eventually gets mad because it feels like her master doesn't care. It ends with her saying, "But I still want to breath...Just like the end of the dream I showed you, even works are stuck, ERROR."]]

-->''Have they reached you?''
-->''Even though my final words are lined up in my singing voice''
-->''The colors blur...''

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NC4hzLQaTKM From Y to Y]]''. It's melancholy tune and pace just gives a hint of what kind of BreakupSong it is. Then try listening to this well made [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o06MMDYP5oo English dub version]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=akVA6q7tRNA This version of Pierrot]]. [[spoiler:The kind clown who did all he could to try and make the girl he cared for happy presumably dies, though there is a happier interpretation: His saying that the "lying Pierrot has now vanished" may only refer to the side of him that lied all the time and wore the mask. The last picture in the PV suggests that he may still be [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments alive and happy with his friend]].]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U_C321Z7ziM This]] PV of ''Pierrot'', which actually ''remains true'' to the song's lyrics, unlike the above (although beautifully animated) PV. There's something about [[spoiler:the comforting words of a child making the pierrot shed his facade]] that hits me every time.

* There's this song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R9h_aL9-5FE Somewhere, people are dying]]. The refrain has lines along of "Somewhere, people are dying / And it's of no concern to me / But I'm still sad". [[spoiler: oh, and the person also apologizes to God for being born, not being dead, merely living and being happy.]]

* In the otherwise scare-filled song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k0uU2PZVfM8 Kaito Ga Uninstall]], we have a tear jerker when Kaito [[spoiler: is about to kill Rin and Len]]. If you pause at just the right moment, you can see [[spoiler: [[BigBrotherInstinct Len shielding Rin]] [[HeroicSacrifice with his own body]] to protect her]]. Awwww...

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZxvPWLt_Fc&feature=channel_video_title The Heap Princess and Apostrophe]] "What do you call it when there's not a soul to love you? No one will love me; I'm all alone." This is one heart-wrenching song because [[spoiler:it's about a girl left behind from a war between machines and humans. She thought she was the only person alive until she met a kind robot. "Don't look at me you'll make me cry so many tears", the reason why she says this is because the gentle robot reminds her of someone she used to love [possibly her brother] who died. The robot gets into a fight with other robots because the drones that were left over had killed the girl and the robot still wants to protect her even if it means dying, too.]] "No one has ever doomed with no one to love them. And for you...I was the one who loved you."
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5-ojjyb5fnw Cinderella ~another story~]] is pretty touching as well. [[spoiler:It puts a tragic twist to the classic fairytale in that Cinderella (Rin) has been transformed into a white cat for not returning from the ball at midnight, rendering her forever separated with the prince (Len). This is sung as they both remember the instant they had together, fully aware of this fact.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u__ZMJplaPg oFFENCe]]. [[spoiler: The whole song is about Miku's regret and guilt after she killed her lover in a fit of jealous rage- describing how she still feels his presence and how she can never forget the moment she murdered him. And to top it off, the final verse implies she kills herself too.]]

-->''In the first Winter... [[spoiler: Even though... We promised....]]''

-->''So in the fourth Spring... I... [[spoiler:I killed you...]]''

-->''[[spoiler:The smile of you, who flew out of this window and died,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:I won't ever forget it]]''
-->''[[spoiler:Not even tomorrow.]]''

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=csLqT7uQ5g0 Summertime Record]], which is the final song of the Kagerou Project, is this as well, being a very melanchonic song of someone remembering the past happy and horrible days, wishing to meet everyone again, but realizing that they have to say goodnye.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anCUsLhEhi4 Dear Mother]]'' by Miku. [[spoiler: "Thank you, mother...thank you, mother...I finally understand...please watch over me now...for I am now a mother too."]] [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments Aww...]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhYWGo4K1ds Time-Warped After Chopping My Stag Beetle]] has a funny title and is, at least two-thirds of the way, a random-sounding, amusing, song. Then, the TearJerker hits when Gumi [[spoiler:meets her future self. She tells Gumi that, from now on, she'll have regrets and get hurt, but...]]
-->''[[spoiler:But if, for each of these,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:You waste your life looking back,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:One day, it will give you a terrible fever.]]''
-->''[[spoiler:I want to just let things go.]]''
-->''[[spoiler:So, return as if you never came,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:And I'll surely be happy.]]''
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7-LInujZw0&feature=plcp HEAVEN]] can have you in tears from the get-go, because the first scene is the [[spoiler:man's death]]. Simply put, the song is about a couple who have been together since high school and the woman realizes that she's slowly losing her vision. However, it doesn't put a rift in their relationship, and the man still proposes to her. The woman's vision can be cured with an operation, but sadly, once her vision is cured she learns her [[spoiler:lover is dead]].

* Maybe it's just a personal thing, but [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XOyCXmfJmiU "Answer"]] makes me switch from perfectly fine, to a blubbering mess of tears.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYD2YaD_L-c "Requiem of the Endless World."]] Len fights to find Rin, [[spoiler:only to get there just too late, finding her already dead. Ends up being a DefiedTrope as they both survive and seal the dragon away forever in which it's a different Tearjerker.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NaalAvSbmBQ Night Walker]] is a [[NightmareFuel rather eerie]] example of a dead man who drags himself out of his grave to be with the love of his life, not remembering anything other than that he loves her. Over the course of the song he remembers more about her, such as her name... and [[spoiler:the fact that she killed him.]] Despite that, he still drags himself to her door not out of revenge, but because he still loves her.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1pQSZMPJr-w Mathematics]] sung by Hatsune Miku. It's gloomy ambient song about a depressed girl, who tries to understand whether her feelings and thoughts are true or not.

-->I said "thanks" and [[spoiler: [[DrivenToSuicide I hung myself.]]]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MnKoiKTigoI Seasonal Feathers]] is as utterly soul-crushing as it is [[SugarWiki/AwesomeMusic beautiful.]] To go into details, it starts with a HappilyMarried couple, who live and work until one summer, the husband (Len) gets sick. They are of course too poor to afford the medicine so the wife (Rin) keeps on weaving tapestries and other things to sell because "I will not let your life fall like those maple leaves", hurting and almost ruining her fingers even as he still calls them beautiful. [[spoiler: Then we find out why she has been mentioning feathers all the song as she is about to use the last of them- she was a crane turned into a human before they met.]] The worst part is? We never do find out if she managed to finish/get the medicine in time.
* Iroha's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MaP2jmDZkk Sigh]]", sung by Rin, is about a girl who cannot stop sighing.... until her [[GuardianAngel 'angel']] appears, that is. But the worst of it is when we learn why she was sighing and why he was there in the first place-- [[spoiler:1: to unlock her memories of his early death so she can be subconsciously relieved of the burden he inadvertently placed on her, and 2: those weren't sighs, those were ''breaths'' to warm up the angel's cold and dying hands when he was in the hospital.]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXdYPWUF7-0 Your Sky is Sorrowful. ]] You can see the ending coming even from a mile away, especially with the monologue at the beginning by the boy's now-grown-up little brother. But it still hits HARD. Especially when you realize that [[spoiler: the boy is a kamikaze pilot and have no chance of surviving the song.]]

-->The [[spoiler: dead young warrior, unknown of, still becomes a bird and flies across the sky]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] may hit home for people who were abused by their parents. Told in the perspective of the mother, her son grows up his whole life while she grasps him tightly through the usage of crushing verbal abuse, making him feel more and more worthless. She tells him that she will take care of him and that only by staying with her will he ever have any chance in life. Growing up to believe this, he stays even though he feels depressed about it. This continues on and on, with the abuse getting worse and worse [[spoiler: until he finally commits suicide, feeling that he has no purpose in life. Only after he kills himself does the mother realize what she has done wrong, and the lyrics change from "You're a useless child" to "''I'm'' a useless child".]]
** [[spoiler:Even worse, a common fan theory regarding the song is that [[TheChainOfHarm the mother was abused as a child by her own parents,]] and treats her son horribly because it's the only way she understands how to show "love".]]
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TAc-hX3aoUc&feature=youtu.be "Everlasting Night"]], the "True enD" to "The Lost Libretto" series, ends with Miku [[spoiler:pulling a HeroicSacrifice to save everyone else from the GroundhogDayLoop. When they realize what she's about to do, everyone rushes in to try and stop her. They're too late]].
** It's even worse when you remember that in the first song (Bad End Night)[[spoiler: they were willing to kill her to break the GroundhogDayLoop, but in this one, we see that they've grown so fond of her that they'd rather continue the GroundhogDayLoop than kill her, which in the end becomes useless as she overheard them and decides to do it herself. [[BrokenSmile She smiles]] [[BrokenTears while crying]]. Before doing the deed she even has a flashback of the manor's residents.]]
* Miku sings a very sad song in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blVxYEMbVFk As I'm Not Human]]", in which she laments that she will never bear children because she's an android. The lyrics itself are full of innuendo, but this only makes it even more of a tearjerker because sex has become something meaningless due to her impossibility of experiencing true human sensations.
* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rl2upvUhugY "The Music Wizard of Oz"]], despite being adorable and silly, has some sad moments; particular examples include Scarecrow!Kaito lamenting the fact that everyone laughs at him for not being smart enough (one of his lyrics is even borderline HeroicSelfDeprecation[[note]]"It's time for the stupid clown's circus/where everyone points and laughs"[[/note]]) and Witch!Meiko singing about her feelings of loneliness.
* The song "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH5_sKwDw1E Goodbye]]", by [=VocaCircus=], sung by Miku is a very sad song about a person who thinks her life is worthless and is contemplating suicide. [[spoiler:The PV makes it even sadder because at the moment she's jumping to her death, you can see her face of regret. Though, it's implied at the end she still survives.]]
* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elFMyYYiWA I'm Sorry I'm Sorry]]" by Kikuo is not only NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, but it is incredibly sad as well. The cannibalism described in the song that [[AbusiveParents the father]] does to his daughter is a clear metaphor for rape/sexual abuse. She is found by a man who pities her promises to take care of her, and she, having fallen in love with him, runs away. But when he doesn't treat her the same way her father did, when he doesn't sexually abuse her, what her father has taught her is love her whole life, she runs back to her father, where she is presumably [[spoiler:raped to death by her father and his friends]]. The amount of blaming the victim does to themselves, (hence the title "I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry") is expressed all too well in this song.
** Depending of how you choose to interpret what was really happening outside of [[UnreliableNarrator the girl's point of view]] or even how old she's supposed to be, it's even worse: The "Big Brother" whom she ran away with was '''not''' some DoggedNiceGuy like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the girl]] thought he was, or even a ManipulativeBastard stringing her along with promises of love, but rather a legitimately good-hearted man (whether he was a teacher, a social services worker or even just a horrified bystander) who was just trying his best to show her actual kindness and give her a normal life, [[HappilyAdopted maybe even gaining her custody]], but by that point [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad she had been so mentally warped]] by her monster of a father that she just ran away back to her abusive home. [[spoiler: Cue the DownerEnding.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJWJ4YR9Mqw Cruel Clocks]] is about a young boy who finds a robot girl living in his clock. He befriends the girl, who watches him grow into a young man. One day, the man is blinded, leaving the girl to care for him. It's during this time that the two develop feelings for one another. Sadly, tragedy strikes when[[spoiler: the man is murdered, leaving the girl all alone.]] In a fit of rage, she destroys the clock tower he was working on, [[spoiler: believing it to be responsible for his death.]] At the end of the song, the girl is finally able to cry, and despite being a robot, it's implied that one day, [[spoiler: she'll be able to enter heaven and see her beloved again.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=idLksB9YUIw I'm Drowning in a Wave of Sadness]]. Which [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin lives up to it's name very fully]].

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nEJ-m6KNddI Jailbreak/Datsugoku]]. Dear God, Jailbreak/Datsugoku. Unlike other Neru songs, this one has more concrete and clear story, topped off with beautiful animation and visuals by Sidu. The story is told from the perspective of a boy named Kawasemi, who lives in a dystopian, caged-in city with his friend, Kuina. The two (especially Kuina) dream of building a plane that could break the cage bars and take them out of the city. Years pass, and the two boys grow older. Kawasemi still holds on to their dream, but Kuina has lost hope and joined the tyrannical police force. Kawasemi spends many years building the plane Kuina drew in his blueprints. The two meet again (for presumably the first time in years), now on opposite sides. Kuina is determined to stop Kawasemi from his attempt at escape, but Kawasemi takes off nonetheless. [[spoiler: Unfortunately, this only ends in tragedy, as the plane winds up malfunctioning and exploding. The final shot of Kawasemi's goggles falling before Kuina's eyes indicate that Kawasemi probably didn't survive.]] Even worse? [[spoiler: It would seem Kawasemi never believed he would survive in the first place. He sacrificed himself to give Kuina something to believe in, and even though the plane wound up crashing, he still broke through the bars of the cage.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=daz0kV4KdfI Fakery Tale]] is the first Vocaloid song that made me depressed when I heard it. Said song is implied to be about a deceased person singing to their grieving lover. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNGhdIpjDTo This English cover]] sung by rachie just makes it even sadder.

* Meiko, Gakupo and Miku's backstories in the Synchronicity trilogy. Meiko's best friend Teto was the previous sacrifice to the dragon and the memory of her being taken haunts Meiko up to that point (as well as leading her to [[HeelFaceTurn oppose Luka]]). Gakupo's mother worked as a scholar who was an expert on dragons, but for some reason [[DrivenToSuicide threw herself off of a tower]] when he was just a kid (if you [[FreezeFrameBonus pause the video at just the right moment]], you can see a younger Gakupo crying over a book his mother had shown him when he was a kid). And lastly, Miku was [[BrainwashedAndCrazy forced]] to be the guardian of the dragon, as revealed by a flashback of her being restrained and crying as a mask is forced onto her face. This one, however leads to a heartwarming/awesome moment when [[spoiler:Len cuts the mask off of Miku's face, freeing her for good]].

* The ZOLA Project song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ujOfuQ6UoJY Crossbill]]. In a world where gods pit humans and demons in a war against each other, Wil is forced to choose between his two best friends Kyo (Hero) and Yuu (Demon Lord). Wanting to recover their friendship, he [[RageAgainstTheHeavens denounces the gods]] and [[DrivenToMadness goes insane]], [[MoralEventHorizon even turning his gun onto his friends]]. However, he finds out that he cannot hurt them at all, as "their bodies have been changed", and [[DrivenToSuicide chooses to off himself in despair]]. His friends split his soul between the two of them so that he would always be with them and... continue to fight each other. [[spoiler:And in the end, after Kyo and Yuu end up killing each other, Wil's soul is reformed, [[DownerEnding leaving him alone once more]].]]

--> (later) WIL: ''[[spoiler:"Like I said... There's no point if I'm to be alone..."]]''

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpsN9Lzf_fA The Hanged Girl in the Haunted House]] starts off with a summer festival with rumours of the titular girl. A group of kids travel there, but don't see her, even though she sees them. She tells herself that she's not dead, even though she can't even pet a cat. A boy notices her briefly before leaving. At the end [[spoiler: The girl says that she only lasted for one summer, and then pictures show her meeting a blonde girl. The titular girl hangs herself because the blonde girl was a ghost who disappeared. The boy rushes to see the girl after realizing that he knows her. He sees her as she disappears and, devastated, kills himself. The title appears and the word boy replaces the word girl.]]

** Let's not forget [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsHD2N4iwr8 the PV]], shall we?

* Kikuo's recent song, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqaVWWMaRxY Hikari yo/Oh light]] includes a slightly unnerving PV, but the lyrics and general ambience of the song are both quite sad. Possible interpretations are depression or a person in a coma.

* [[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=auL8by-yAY0 Star Lily Dance Performance]] seems like a happy ending to the otherwise gory Onibi series, but nope! The song may be about the two main characters being together in peace, but in reality [[spoiler: Gumi's character Mai is actually dead and the entire song is just her dying dream.]] You just couldn't end the series on a happy note, could you Masa.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BRfFTBnxQOY&t The Shoeshiner and Maria]], a horribly sad song about a shoeshiner and a girl. [[spoiler: The shoeshiner's alcoholic father abuses him constantly. The girl, who is compared to Saint Maria (hence the name of the song), is the only person in said shoeshiner's life who treats him with kindness. Unfortunately, they are forced to not talk as often, due to the Shoeshiner's ever-changing schedule. As a keepsake, Maria gives him an amulet, which the boy treasures forever. Then, the father, after a particularly bad bout of gambling, tries to take the amulet from his son so he can sell it. The shoeshiner refuses, and gets beaten by his father badly, so much so that it's presumed the shoeshiner died from his wounds, and yet, he still manages to keep the amulet Maria gave him.]]
* [[https://youtube.com/watch?v=CiEC329xPos Blessed Messiah and the Tower of AI]] is an incredibly sad song by Hitoshizuku x Yama. Miku plays the part of a seamstress chosen to be the next Messiah in a world reduced to a wasteland. To save the world, she must travel to the tower of AI and take the blessings bestowed upon her. Miku is accompanied by her 9 friends [[note]]Kaito, Meiko, IA, Mayu, Gumi, Gakupo, Luka, Rin and Len[[/note]] to the tower. However, when she reaches for the first blessing, Kaito cuts in and steals the blessing. At his apparent betrayal, the friends are in turmoil, and one by one they vanish as they steal the nine blessings. Nothing left, heartbroken and angry by her friend's betrayal Miku walks up the stairs to the altar, flameless torch in hand- only to find she had completely misinterpreted their actions. [[spoiler: The nine 'blessings' were in actuality sacrifices, so each of her friends will now suffer in various ways (being drowned, burnt to death, dying of thirst, trapped in darkness, buried alive, struck by lightning, torn apart by gales, frozen from the inside out and having to crawl on magma, respectively) for eternity]]. Miku is in tears, but has no choice but to carry out the ritual with their sacrifices, the creator of "nine sorrows"[[note]]So the AI in the title can refer to either the love of the companions who sacrificed themselves or the sufferings they must endure[[/note]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yyiCYneHZ5I Tightrope]] by Creep-P toes the line between this and NightmareFuel. It tells the story of a tightrope walker who's an ArmoredClosetGay, to the point where he feels disgust even speaking to other men. He keeps himself focused during practices by removing the safety net underneath him (knowing that the fear of death will keep him from making any mistakes). However, he [[HopeSpot finally meets a man he doesn't feel disgusted by]]...[[spoiler: ...only for him to see said man flirting with a woman during the tightrope walker's performance. He's so upset that he missteps, falling to his death.]]

* Kurage-P's "My R" tells the story of a suicidal high schooler encountering other girls on the rooftop she plans to jump off of (who could be interpreted to either be separate characters or different aspects of herself). Every time, the girls talk about killing themselves for reasons she finds {{Wangst}}y, she tells them off, and decides not to kill herself that day. This goes on until she finds someone with similar reasonings to her--this girl is abused at home...but unlike every other time she can't tell her off because she feels she doesn't have the right to. She only silently pleads for her not to jump, which she doesn't. And after all that, what does she do? Since she doesn't have any more distractions (or just ran out of reasons to kill herself), [[DownerEnding the girl just decides to jump guilt free]].
** [[spoiler:Turns into happy tears songs later when "Diary of Underage Observation" is released; the subject of this song noticed "My R's" heroine's struggle and prevented her from killing herself that final time.]]

** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tBU2Q0Jsxfg Yuugen no Onmyoji]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0boy54I0WzA Tsubaki]] ~Oni to Onmyoji~ are about an Onmyoji (VY2) and a demon (IA) he has to expel [[spoiler: after they fall in love.]]
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D3BTSyso5Wo Mushinronsha no Alchemy]] and [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-xZtk08tJKc Toumeika]] ~Kagakusha to Yuurei~ are about a scientist (Gakupo) who wants to bring his loved (Luka) one back through doubious means. [[spoiler: It's become TearJerker when the yuurei (which means ghost/spirit in Japanese) say that...]]
-->''[[spoiler:My transparent arm,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:Embrace your sadness.]]''
-->''[[spoiler:I cry aloud on my back,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:That once a comforting hand was stroking.]]''
-->''[[spoiler:If you hold it back with a transparent hand,]]''
-->''[[spoiler:the spilled love will wet my cheeks.]]''

* "[[https://vocadb.net/S/199566 Aster]]" by Harumaki Gohan, a {{Retraux}}, 80s-esque synthwave song about a lonely cyborg. The cyborg is a teenager living on her own in what seems to be a virtual world, having been [[ParentalAbandonment abandoned by her parents]], [[WellDoneSonGuy who she wishes she could meet and be loved by again]]. [[MrImagination She takes to her fantasies, as she knows she's leading a hopeless life]], and is implied to refuse to face her reality. As the song goes on, she realizes that ''both'' her life and fantasies are not much more than fakes, and [[spoiler:[[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]]]].

* [[https://vocadb.net/S/59965 The Gentle Hedgehog]] by Shibainu is about a DefrostingIceQueen, who has shut out everyone and doesn't let anyone get close to her. She reveals that this is because of past trauma ("There was much gentleness in me, but it’s been stabbed to death."), and puts up the stoic act so as to not hurt anyone. Even so, there's a boy who tries to get close to her, and she even tries to protect him, but [[BreakHisHeartToSaveHim she keeps shutting him out because she's afraid of bringing him into her problems]]. [[spoiler:The boy, having been through his fair share of trauma, [[DrivenToSuicide tries to jump off a building]] - [[BungledSuicide but Miku catches him just in time to save him]], and tells him [[SugarWiki/HeartwarmingMoments she loves him]].]]

* The lyrics to [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQif9ijUWJk Smoke of Midnight]] make it seem like the song is about someone drowning at night - [[DrivenToSuicide possibly of their own volition.]] The fact that the soft piano accompanying them is a far cry from Babuchan's usual heavy dosage of NightmareFuel doesn't help. [[spoiler:We quickly see a return to form with a LastNoteNightmare, though.]]

* [[https://youtu.be/VM7y5nDEh2g Fake Diva]] is sung by Miku and Kasane Teto, all about how Teto was originally just an April Fool's joke and was doomed to die at midnight in a ceremonial fire and be forgotten. It's sung as if it is in memory of Teto, with Miku trying to keep her memory alive and bring light to the cruelty Teto was shown. At the strike of midnight, Teto, surrounded by fire, had finally dropped the act and come clean: [[IJustWantToBeLoved "I... Wanted to sing, too."]] [[spoiler: Thankfully, Miku is there to save her, and the song [[MoodWhiplash takes]] a much [[HeartWarming/{{VOCALOID}} happier]] turn from there.]]
-->[[spoiler: Of course, you can sing, dear.]]
** It's also worth mentioning this song is a parody of [[Music/EvilliousChronicles Daughter of Evil]]. For people who know what ended up happening to [[spoiler: Teto's character, Chartette, in that song's series [[KillItWithFire the fact that Teto almost dies in a fire in this song]] may leave a bit of a bad taste in your mouth.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c5lYY174LUM Sunflower of Parting Regrets]] by Hitoshizuku × Yama△ has different level of sadness. The story centers around a pair of siblings (Rin and Len, of course) during a time of war. After their father dies in duty and their mother commits suicide, they are left to care for themselves. Eventually when the brother is old enough he's sent to the war as well and laments that he would've at least liked to see the sunflowers they planted grow again, having gotten so used to seeing them every year. When the sister, known to cling to the past, begs him to stay he comforts her and swears to fight for her future. [[spoiler: However the brother dies, and the sister lives on alone and continues to plant the sunflowers each year well in to her adulthood]]

** While the original song uses Hatsune Miku, one of the more notable covers (by cillia) uses Fukase in the place of the scientist and Otomachi Una in the place of Near. Both synthesizers give a lot of warmth to the lyrics, and as the scientist lay dying the Fukase version makes it sound like he's giving one more passionate internal monologue while Una sounds like she's doing everything in her power to convey her affection for her master.

Some song series, such as ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' and ''Music/KagerouProject''. have [[TearJerker/EvilliousChronicles their]] [[TearJerker/KagerouProject own]] pages.

* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' and ''Music/KagerouProject'' have [[TearJerker/EvilliousChronicles their]] [[TearJerker/KagerouProject own]] pages.

* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' has [[TearJerker/EvilliousChronicles its own page]].

* Haku sings a very sad song in "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blVxYEMbVFk As I'm Not Human]]", in which she laments that she will never bear children because she's an android. The lyrics itself are full of innuendo, but this only makes it even more of a tearjerker because sex has become something meaningless due to her impossibility of experiencing true human sensations.

* Meiko, Gakupo and Miku's backstories in the Synchronicity trilogy. Meiko's best friend Teto was the previous sacrifice to the dragon and the memory of her being taken haunts Meiko up to that point (as well as leading her to [[HeelFaceTurn oppose Luka]]). Gakupo's mother worked as a scholar who was an expert on dragons, but for some reason [[DrivenToSuicide threw herself off of a tower]] when he was just a kid (if you [[FreezeFrameBonus pause the video at just the right moment]], you can see a younger Gakupo crying over a book his mother had shown him when he was a kid). And lastly, Miku was ''forced'' to be the guardian of the dragon, as revealed by a flashback of her being restrained and crying as a mask is forced onto her face. This one, however leads to a heartwarming/awesome moment when [[spoiler:Len cuts the mask off of Miku's face, freeing her for good]].

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPMhkIiapIA "Candle Queen" by GHOST and Silver Chord]]. The song describes a manipulative girl who loves stirring up drama and plays the victim in response to criticism. As a result of all this, the song ends with her losing all of her friends and everything she ever built up. While she's ultimately pitiful, it's made clear that the Candle Queen [[TragicVillain only has herself to blame]].

* Re_Birthday, part of the [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Clockwork Lullaby series]], talks about how the character Len plays is stuck in complete sensory deprivation with nothing to do but mull over all the bad things he's done in his life. [[spoiler: Though the ending where he gets reborn makes up for it.]]
** Len's Append just took Re_Birthday [[UpToEleven to a whole new level of sad]]. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJdBKyQVH3M&feature=channel_video_title Here, have a listen.]] Grab a tissue.

** It's also worth mentioning this song is a parody of [[Franchise/EvilliousChronicles Daughter of Evil]]. For people who know what ended up happening to [[spoiler: Teto's character, Chartette, in that song's series [[KillItWithFire the fact that Teto almost dies in a fire in this song]] may leave a bit of a bad taste in your mouth.]]

* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jkh7xMZyY0s Time Forgotten One]]'' by Kaito. It's about [[spoiler:a statue doomed to spend his entire life waiting for his long-dead best friend]].

* ''Music/EvilliousChronicles'' has its own page.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6elFMyYYiWA I'm Sorry I'm Sorry]]" by Kikuo is not only NightmareFuel and NauseaFuel, but it is incredibly sad as well. The cannibalism described in the song that [[AbusiveParents the father]] does to his daughter is a clear metaphor for rape/sexual abuse. She is found by a man who pities her promises to take care of her, and she, having fallen in love with him, runs away. But when he doesn't treat her the same way her father did, when he doesn't sexually abuse her, what her father has taught her is love her whole life, she runs back to her father, where she is presumably [[spoiler: raped to death by her father and his friends]]. The amount of blaming the victim does to themselves, (hence the title "I'm Sorry, I'm Sorry") is expressed all too well in this song.
** Depending of how you choose to interpret what was really happening outside of [[UnreliableNarrator the girl's point of view]] or even how old she's supposed to be, it's even worse: The "Big Brother" whom she ran away with was '''not''' some DoggedNiceGuy like [[ThroughTheEyesOfMadness the girl]] thought she was, but rather a legitimately good-hearted man (Be a teacher, a social services worker or even just a horrified bystander) who was just trying his best to show her actual kindness and give her a normal life, [[HappilyAdopted maybe even gaining her custody]], but by that point [[BadIsGoodAndGoodIsBad she had been so mentally warped]] by her monster of a father that she just ran away back to her abusive home. [[spoiler: Cue the DownerEnding.]]

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HinT8DXYdDk You're a Useless Child]] may hit home for people who were abused by their parents. Told in the perspective of the mother, her son grows up his whole life while she grasps him tightly through the usage of crushing verbal abuse, making him feel more and more worthless. She tells him that she will take care of him and that only by staying with her will he ever have any chance in life. Growing up to believe this, he stays even though he feels depressed about it. This continues on and on, with the abuse getting worse and worse [[spoiler: until he finally commits suicide, feeling that he has no purpose in life, and only after he kills himself does the mother realize what she has done wrong, and the lyrics change from "You're a useless child" to "''I'm'' a useless child".]]
** [[spoiler:Even worse? A common fan theory regarding the song is that the mother herself was abused as a child by her own parents, and treats her son horribly because it's the only way she understands how to show "love".]]

** While the original song uses Hatsune Miku, one of the more notable covers (by cilia) uses Fukase in the place of the scientist and Otomachi Una in the place of Near. Both synthesizers give a lot of warmth to the lyrics, and as the scientist lay dying the Fukase version makes it sound like he's giving one more passionate internal monologue while Una sounds like she's doing everything in her power to convey her affection for her master.

** While the original song uses Hatsune Miku, one of the more notable covers (by cilia) uses Fukase in the place of the scientist and Otomachi Una in the place of Near. Both synthesizers give a lot of warmth to the lyrics, and as the scientist lay dying the Fukase version makes it sound like he's giving one more passionate internal monologue while Una sounds like she's doing everythign in her power to convey her affection for her master.

** While the original song uses Hatsune Miku, one of the more notable covers (by cilia) uses Fukase in the place of the scientist and Otomachi Una in the place of Near. Both synthesizers give a lot of warmth to the lyrics, and as the scientist lay dying the Fukase version makes it sound like he's giving one more passionate internal monologue.

* TearJerker/EvilliousChronicles has its own page.

** While the original song uses Hatsune Miku, one of the more notable covers (by cilia) uses Fukase in the place of the scientist and Una in the place of Near. Both synthesizers give a lot of warmth to the lyrics, and as the scientist lay dying the Fukase version makes it sound like he's giving one more passionate internal monologue.

* Natsushiro Takaaki's "Near" is a series of conversations from an ailing programmer and the andrioid girl he lives with. He ruminates on the meaning of life, sometimes asks for Near's opinion on things, and all the while struggles to keep up with his medicine until he asks one final question on his deathbed. Poor Near is left tearfully singing about how much she loves her master as he takes his last breath. The PV makes this worse; there is a counter for each question and answer the pair exchanged, and how much time it took between each sentence. When the master dies, her Q/A log finishes with one less response from the master and the day counter gets slower and slower as we watch Near cry, contrast to the days flying by as she takes and gives answers.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4q9yaWJkI DUNE]]", Creator/KenishiYonezu's first Vocaloid song in the four years since "Donut Hole" and the theme song of Magical Mirai 2017 (as well as a marker for Miku's 10th birthday bash). You'd think with all those credentials the song would be a nostalgic look at how the system has grown, but it's quite somber. A more serious Miku, followed by heavily clothed musicians representing producers, wander around a dust bowl of a planet in the hopes of planting an apple tree that we later see a more common Miku making music under. They pass a castle resembling a birthday cake, starting off a slew of references to previous hits and Miku advises them to "salute to the graves of the masses/ the life that was born from the Melt sensation". Some of the pack leaves on their own, some join other desert walkers, and she keeps marching on and on with new people waiting on the horizon. The symbolism, and what it represents for the whole of Vocaloid, can be taken as a half-nostalgic half-bitter eulogy for the entire Vocaloid phenomenon, and Hachi's own involvement in it. And that's not getting into the symbolism for the ones that left the pack, who are alleged to represent late vocaloid producers Samfree and Powapowa-P.

* Natsushiro Takaaki's "Near" is a series of conversations from an ailing programmer and the andrioid girl he lives with. He ruminates on the meaning of life, sometimes asks for Near's opinion on things, and all the while struggles to keep up with his medicine until he asks one final question on his deathbed. Poor Near is left tearfully singing about how much she loves her master as he takes his last breath. The PV makes this worse; there is a counter for each question and answer the pair exchanged, and how much time it took between each sentence. When the master dies, the day counter gets slower and slower as we watch Near cry, contrast to the days flying by as she takes and gives answers.

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4q9yaWJkI Sand Planet]]", Hachi's first Vocaloid song in the four years since "Donut Hole" and the theme song of Magical Mirai 2017 (as well as a marker for Miku's 10th birthday bash). You'd think with all those credentials the song would be a nostalgic look at how the system has grown, but it's quite somber. A more serious Miku, followed by heavily clothed musicians representing producers, wander around a dust bowl of a planet in the hopes of planting an apple tree that we later see a more common Miku making music under. They pass a castle resembling a birthday cake, starting off a slew of references to previous hits and Miku advises them to "salute to the graves of the masses/ the life that was born from the Melt sensation". Some of the pack leaves on their own, some join other desert walkers, and she keeps marching on and on with new people waiting on the horizon. The symbolism, and what it represents for the whole of Vocaloid, can be taken as a half-nostalgic half-bitter eulogy for the entire Vocaloid phenomenon, and Hachi's own involvement in it. And that's not getting into the symbolism for the ones that left the pack, who are alleged to represent late vocaloid producers Samfree and Powapowa-P.
* "[[https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=Cn4fAx2JqT4 Sleepyhead]]" by Steampianist and morbid-morsel seems innocent at the surface, about a girl sleeping in on her seventh birthday, and the narrator trying to wake her up so she can celebrate. But, if you analyze the lyrics enough, you realize that she won't wake up because she died in her sleep, and the narrator continues to try, knowing she has passed.
* Kurage-P's "My R" tells the story of a suicidal high schooler encountering other girls on the rooftop she plans to jump off of (who could be interpreted to either be separate characters or different aspects of herself). Every time, the girls talk about killing themselves for reasons she finds {{Wangst}}y, she tells them off, and decides not to kill herself that day. This goes on until she finds someone with similar reasonings to her--this girl is abused at home-- but unlike every other time she can't tell her off because she feels she doesn't have the right to;only silently plead for her not to jump, which she doesn't. And after all that, what does she do? Since she doesn't have any more distractions (or just ran out of reasons to kill herself), [[DownerEnding she just decides to jump guilt free]].

* "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sH92A1du050 soundless voice]]" tells the story of Len and a dying Rin, he tries his best to keep her alive but the condition she has worsens and she tragically dies, ''right when he was about to say he loves her''... yeah, [[DownerEnding you might want to het the Kleenexes for this one]].