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* Music/{{FleetwoodMac}}, "Landslide".

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* Music/{{FleetwoodMac}}, Music/{{Fleetwood Mac}}, "Landslide".



* Inverted in "Daddy" by Music/{{Korn}}, in which the lead singer Jonathan Davis himself breaks into tears and sobbing for a good few minutes.

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* Inverted Evoked in "Daddy" by Music/{{Korn}}, in which the lead singer Jonathan Davis himself breaks into tears and sobbing for a good few minutes.



* Music/{{Kiss}}' "Beth:"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkojuUSDO8]]
->Oh Beth, I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now.

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* Music/{{Kiss}}' "Beth:"[[https://www.Music/{{Kiss}} [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkojuUSDO8]]
->Oh
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--> "Oh
Beth, I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now."
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* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SPSpdYBLNho "Goodbye (Once Upon A Time)"]], the [[DownerEnding closing track]] from Music/{{Saga}}'s 1985 album ''Behaviour''.
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* Abandoned Pools (the band from CloneHigh) has a few:

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* Abandoned Pools (the band from CloneHigh) ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'') has a few:

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* "[[Music/Quadrophenia Love Reign O'er Me"]] by Music/TheWho.
--> [[Music/Tommy "See me/
Feel me/
Touch me/
Heal me"]]

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* "[[Music/Quadrophenia Love Music/TheWho - 'Love Reign O'er Me"]] by Music/TheWho.
--> [[Music/Tommy
Me," the Overture from ''Tommy:'' "See me/
Feel me/
Touch me/
Heal me"]]
me[=/=]Feel me[=/=]Touch me[=/=]Heal me"


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* Music/WarrenZevon - "Empty-Handed Heart"
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** Then there's "Putting the Dog to Sleep," an emotionally candid BreakupSong pulls no punches from the get-go:
-->Prove to me I'm not gonna die alone.
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** "Whatever" could be this since [[ChrisBenoit Chris Benoit's]] death. [[note]]He used it as his theme song in WWE.[[/note]]

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** "Whatever" could be this since [[ChrisBenoit Chris Benoit's]] Wrestling/ChrisBenoit's death. [[note]]He used it as his theme song in WWE.[[/note]]
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* Anything by Music/GoodCharlotte... "Emotionless" and the hidden track at the end of "Meet My Maker" are some particularly notable examples...

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* "Love Reign O'er Me" by Music/TheWho.

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* "Love "[[Music/Quadrophenia Love Reign O'er Me" Me"]] by Music/TheWho.Music/TheWho.
--> [[Music/Tommy "See me/
Feel me/
Touch me/
Heal me"]]
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** "Perfect", especially painful if you've had a disapproving parental figure.
-->"'Cause we lost it all\\
Nothing lasts forever\\
I'm sorry I can't be perfect..."
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* Music/{{Kiss}}' "Beth:"[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHkojuUSDO8]]
->Oh Beth, I hear you callin', but I can't come home right now.
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** "Timelessness" from Obsolete. Talk about hope draining.

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Times are hard, getting harder. I'm born to lose, and destined to fail.

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Times are hard, getting harder. [[DespairEventHorizon I'm born to lose, and destined to fail.]]
** You think the studio version is depressing, wait until you hear the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mkfnNUdeo3w acoustic version.]] With Mike Ness sounding like he's about to break down at any given moment, along with the accordion solo and slower tempo, the acoustic rendition left this troper in tears.
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** 'Till The End' from their final album Bad Magic.
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* TheTeaParty has a few:

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* TheTeaParty Music/TheTeaParty has a few:
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* Coming Right Along by ThePosies , the final track off of Frosting on the Beater. Especially when Jon Auer's backing vocals come in around the 2:20 mark

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* Coming Right Along by ThePosies Music/ThePosies , the final track off of Frosting on the Beater. Especially when Jon Auer's backing vocals come in around the 2:20 mark
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* The tearjerker potential for many Music/BlindGuardian songs is closely related to how much you like whatever character Hansi is singing about. However, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar"]] should do it, whether or not you like [[TheSilmarillion Finrod Felagund]] -- and, whether or not you like Turin,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91byWU9hDY "Harvest of Sorrow"]] should also do it.

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* The tearjerker potential for many Music/BlindGuardian songs is closely related to how much you like whatever character Hansi is singing about. However, [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3lWspOLN5rY "The Eldar"]] should do it, whether or not you like [[TheSilmarillion [[Literature/TheSilmarillion Finrod Felagund]] -- and, whether or not you like Turin,[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x91byWU9hDY "Harvest of Sorrow"]] should also do it.
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* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]]'s song "Teenage Dream", especially if you associate it with the one scene in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''. - MGC

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* [[Music/MarcBolan T. Rex]]'s song "Teenage Dream", especially if you associate it with the one scene in ''ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''.''Film/ScottPilgrimVsTheWorld''. - MGC
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* Music/SocialDistortion's "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NWjehpGSO0 Ball and Chain]]" is about a man who struggles with alcohol addiction and tries to escape it, only to wind up facing the same problems and finding himself in a broken, ruined life.
--> Well I passed the bar on the way to my dingy hotel room.\\
I spent all my money. I've been drinking since half past noon.\\
Will I wake there in the morning, or maybe in the county jail?\\
Times are hard, getting harder. I'm born to lose, and destined to fail.
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** Also, "Matchstick Girl", a {{filk song}} of ''TheLittleMatchGirl''.

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** Also, "Matchstick Girl", a {{filk song}} of ''TheLittleMatchGirl''.''Literature/TheLittleMatchGirl''.
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* Music/{{FleetwoodMac}}, "Landslide".
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* "Everything" by Material Issue. Very obviously inspired by Bread's soul-crushing "Everything I Own", it’s about a lost love on the surface, but the lyrics can also strike a chord with someone who has recently lost a loved one:

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* "Everything" by Material Issue. Very obviously inspired by Bread's soul-crushing "Everything I Own", it’s it's about a lost love on the surface, but the lyrics can also strike a chord with someone who has recently lost a loved one:
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** This song is made ''even more'' heartbreaking with the fact that the lyrics were printed on the service bulletin for lead singer-songwriter Jim Ellison's funeral. He suffocated himself with carbon monoxide in his garage at age 32, for reasons that to this day are not fully known.

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** This song is made ''even more'' heartbreaking with the fact that the lyrics were printed on in the service bulletin for lead singer-songwriter Jim Ellison's funeral. He suffocated himself with carbon monoxide in his garage at age 32, for reasons that to this day are not fully known.
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* "Everything" by Material Issue. Very obviously inspired by Bread's soul-crushing "Everything I Own", it’s about a lost love on the surface, but the lyrics can also strike a chord with someone who has recently lost a loved one:
-->''And I would give everything that I own''\\
''I'd give you my heart and this skin and these bones''\\
''The sun, the moon, the earth, the sky''\\
''The motorcycle that I like to ride...''
** This song is made ''even more'' heartbreaking with the fact that the lyrics were printed on the service bulletin for lead singer-songwriter Jim Ellison's funeral. He suffocated himself with carbon monoxide in his garage at age 32, for reasons that to this day are not fully known.
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* "Paralytic States" by {{Against Me}} from "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" can be tear-inducing for the transgender community.

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* "Paralytic States" by {{Against {{Music/Against Me}} from "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" can be tear-inducing for the transgender community.
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* "Paralytic States" by {{Against Me}} from "Transgender Dysphoria Blues" can be tear-inducing for the transgender community.
** "Never quite the woman that she wanted to be, never quite the woman that she wanted to be..."
** "Standing naked in front of that hotel bathroom mirror. In her dysphoria's reflection, she still saw her mother's son.
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**.5 - The Gray Chapter is an album-long eulogy for Paul Gray, Slipknot's bassist, who died of an overdose in 2010. The lyrics of every song on the album except for Killpop, Custer, The Negative One, and Override are either directly or indirectly related to Gray's death. Even the music of XIX was inspired by the band carrying the coffin to its grave.

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*** "Lucky Man"; an archaic tome of a young man, rich beyond wildest dreams, leaving it all to fight for King and Country

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*** "Lucky Man"; an archaic tome of a young man, rich beyond wildest dreams, leaving it all to fight for King and CountryCountry.


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** From 1973's Brain Salad Surgery:
*** Still, You Turn Me On is a total TearJerker, moreso if you believe the interpretation that he's singing it to a ''dead woman.''
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* "Miss Murder" by Music/{{AFI}} is about a superstar who [[DrivenToSuicide commits suicide]] after her fall from stardom.
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** The original song is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin plea from a cat named Virtute,]] begging her owner to be happy again. The contrast between the original, which was quite upbeat, and the slow, mournful nature of the sequel is jarring.

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** The original song is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a plea from a cat named Virtute,]] begging her owner to be happy again. The contrast between the original, which was quite upbeat, and the slow, mournful nature of the sequel is jarring.
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** The original song is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin plea from a cat named Virtute,]] begging her owner to be happy again. The contrast between the original, which was quite upbeat, and the sequel is jarring.
*** The song includes a threat/promise to bite her owner if he doesn't improve because she is just that frustrated. Many fans believe that she finally made good on it, which is why she was put outside on the night she left. To top it all off, the original strongly implies that her owner was suffering from depression. Imagine how much worse he would feel now.

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** The original song is a [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin plea from a cat named Virtute,]] begging her owner to be happy again. The contrast between the original, which was quite upbeat, and the slow, mournful nature of the sequel is jarring.
*** The song includes a threat/promise to bite her owner if he doesn't improve because she is just that frustrated. Many fans believe that she finally made good on it, which is why she was put outside on the night she left. To top it all off, the original strongly implies that her owner was suffering from depression. Imagine how much worse he would feel now.now, not knowing where she is or if she is still alive and that he was the one to put her outside.

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