History TearJerker / RockMusic

** "Gone Away", which is a GriefSong dedicated to the girlfriend of Dexter Holland, who died in a car accident.

** "The Last Resort" is a bit of a GreenAesop, but the way it's told just ''[[SomeAnvilsNeedToBeDropped works.]]''

* "Fiddler on the Green" and "Love's Tragedy Asunder" by Music/DemonsAndWizards.

* * Edgar Winter's ''White Trash'' album from 1971 features some hard blues rock and a couple of blue-eyed soul numbers. The most poignant of the songs on the album is the beautiful piano ballad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPy4KwuujE "Dying To Live"]], which was written as an anti-war song during the final years of the Vietnam conflict. Winter's heartbreaking vocals and the soft slowness of the melody sells the song's powerful message, in which a soldier questions the paradox of fighting for his nation when nobody else really knows what they're actually fighting for:

* Edgar Winter's ''White Trash'' album from 1971 features some hard blues rock and a couple of blue-eyed soul numbers. The most poignant of the songs on the album is the beautiful piano ballad [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfPy4KwuujE "Dying To Live"]], which was written as an anti-war song during the final years of the Vietnam conflict. Winter's heartbreaking vocals and the soft slowness of the melody sells the song's powerful message, in which a soldier questions the paradox of fighting for his nation when nobody else really knows what they're actually fighting for:
-->"You know some people say that values are subjective\\
But they're just speaking words that someone else has said\\
And so they live and fight and kill with no objective\\
Sometimes it's hard to tell the living from the dead"

* Bad Wolves' cover of Music/TheCranberries' Zombie. Tommy Vext sounds so powerful but yet melancholic singing those {{Anvilicious}} lyrics.

** Though when Music/NewOrder have played it live it's become a bit of a singalong anthem. [[TooSoon Guess enough time has passed]].

** A Dying God Coming into Human Flesh even more so due to the recent death of Martin Eric Ain who performed lead vocals on this particular track.

** "Forever and one (Neverland)", from ''The Time Of The Oath''. Even if it's a BreakupSong, an AntiLoveSong, a LoveSong, or even [[spoiler:a dedication towards Ingo Schwichtenberg, the dead ex-drummer of the band who committed suicide]] [[note]]Something which wouldn't be so misplaced, since the band dedicated the entire album to his memory[[/note]], it makes you cry. And the ''Unarmed'' version is even worse in the tearjerking thanks to the redone music.

* As Cities Burn has two particularly noteworthy songs. "The Widow" is already a song that's pretty heart wrenching, but when Cody [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BMBmfhmHj4s played it live at Cornerstone in '07]] there couldn't possibly have been a dry eye in the whole place. The second is a song called "Timothy", which is about a friend named [[CaptainObvious Timothy]] who committed suicide prior to the writing of their second album, ''Come Now Sleep''.

* "Wings for Marie" and "10,000 Days" by Music/{{Tool}}, being a sort of tribute to Maynard James Keenan's mother. And the line "All right, now, it's time for us to let you go" at the end of the first part is shaking. "Fetch me the Spirit, the Son, and the Father, tell them their pillar of faith has ascended. It's time now! My time now! Give me my... give me my wings!" has already been mentioned on the CrowningMusicofAwesome page, but the emotional catharsis and [[{{CrowningMomentofHeartwarming}} heartwarming]] is what really brings tears.

** The concert version tells it as a full-blown story, then ''resolves'' it in the next song, "Old City Bar". See: CrowningMomentOfHeartwarming.

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

** "Bittersweet Symphony" might also get you sad.

* Our Lady Peace has a few:

*** "The Ragpicker's Dream", a bittersweet ballad about hoboes dreaming of happier days around the Christmas season, while in an alcoholic stupor and later being confronted and beaten by police.

* Kansas has a couple:

* "Televators" by TheMarsVolta. Seriously, listen to ''Deloused in the Comatorium'' from beginning to end and see if it doesn't make you cry like a little girl.

* Music/{{Weezer}} has a few as well, particularly "Butterfly" (the ending track of the dark ''Pinkerton'' album based on MadameButterfly, about Pinkerton singing reptentedly about his actions) and "Mykel and Carli" (which has taken on a new context to become one of the saddest songs in the world [[FunnyAneurysmMoment following the real Mykel and Carli's death]]. One can be brought to tears after reading the whole story, particularly the bit at the end where Rivers himself choked up while playing an acoustic version at their funeral).

** "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kPBzTxZQG5Q Here Without You]]." Is it a love song, or a song about a lost love? Anyone who's lost someone should avoid this one. Even more so with [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MfzpWE2n8ZY this tribute video]]. R.I.P. EddieGuerrero.

* Plumb has a few:

* Sick Puppies has a couple:

* Several songs from the album "Ghosts and Spirits", by artist Phil Woodward, most notably "The Grey Town", "Safety", "First Love", "Vetoing Heaven" (for sad), "The Lizard and the Stallion", "Saint Sarah" and "The Sunrise" (for happy). It's based on [[Creator/CSLewis C.S. Lewis']] [[TheGreatDivorce The Great Divorce]].

** And it that dosen't get you, "[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zi8wMWInVFs Sullivan]]" will. That song is about [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sullivan_brothers the five Sullivan brothers]] lost when the ''USS Juneau'' (CL-52) was sunk during WorldWarTwo. This was even before he found out about the details of the loss of the ''Juneau'' and the Sullivans, including survivors being left hanging in the lurch because reports of them got lost in a flurry of paperwork. Eight days after the sinking, the remaining ten of an estimated 100 survivors (two of the original survivors were from the Sullivan family, but later died while awaiting rescue) were finally retrieved.

* Music/{{Train}}'s "Drops of Jupiter": LyricalDissonance, what the song is about, and the whimsical sadness in the whole experiment...TaylorSwift's version is also tear jerking.