Songs Tagged: sadness

12 songs

Annie Likes to Walk

BMI: 67958003

Annie Likes to Walk

balladfolklullabyremembrancesadness

A lullaby-like ballad that follows one woman's walks to the shore where the waves do what words cannot. It is gentle, patient, and a little heartbreaking.

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A Way from Here

BMI: 73851912

A Way from Here

depressiondespairhopefulloverueful

A song of exhaustion and emotional suffocation, written from the point where even rest and breath feel out of reach. It moves through weariness toward a distant hope of peace without pretending the way there...

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Desperate Times and Drastic Measures

BMI: 17711311

Desperate Times and Drastic Measures

americanabreakupcountryfolklonely

A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...

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Song for David

BMI: 79740868

Song for David

admirationfolkfriendshipgrieflonely

A tender song of absence and longing, carried by the feeling that memory can make the whole world echo with one missing person. Its sadness is direct but never heavy-handed, more ache than despair.

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Edge of Night

BMI: 79740965

Edge of Night

breakupdespairphilosophicalreflectiveregret

A haunted breakup song that drifts from private hurt into a larger question about whether real feeling ever held. Its images of empty halls, cobwebs, and lingering debris give it the feel of grief after the...

What's this All About

BMI: 79740996

What's this All About

bluesfolkrelationshipsadnesssoul

A blues-soul song about waiting and confusion in a relationship. The narrator has been patient, the partner absent, and the refrain asks the most direct possible question. Three verses approach the same...

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Always Mine

BMI: 79740992

Always Mine

lovesadnesstenderunrequited love

A tender, complicated love song about the part of another person that remains within us even when life refuses permanence. It is less a claim of possession than an acknowledgment that deep feeling leaves a...

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Columbia

BMI: 79740991

Columbia

americanafolkgriefliterarypolitical

A song, about the loss of something the narrator loved enough to call Columbia. The verses work through grief in the traditional way — what was, what isn't, the attempt to make a new song out of it. The bridge...

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