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Posting sad songs daily. I love music that makes me feel something. I hope you enjoy
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SSOTD @ssotd.bsky.social · Nov 27
When you are sad and listen to a sad song, your brain releases a neurochemical that soothes you. It is the same one that is released between mothers and infants during nursing. Basically, I am uplifting the world, one song at a time! #sadsongs #uplifting #happiness
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Feeling Good by Nina Simone. I think this is a perfect new year song. "It's a new dawn, it's a new day. It's a new life for me, yeah." About liberation, freedom and a new start. Positive song with a sad feel. #musicksky #nowplaying #ninasimone
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Nina Simone - Feeling Good (Official Video)
YouTube video by NinaSimoneVEVO
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January 2, 2026 at 2:42 AM
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Where Have All The Flowers Gone by Pete Seeger (Peter, Paul and Mary). Sad and timely folk song. "Where have all the young men gone. They're all in uniform. Oh when will we ever learn." From a Cossack folk song, pro environment and anti-war. #musicsky #nowplaying #Bugonia
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Where Have All the Flowers Gone - Peter, Paul and Mary 1962
YouTube video by Paul L Gaston
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December 29, 2025 at 10:54 PM
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For All You Give by the The Paper Kites (feat. Lucy Rose). Beautiful SSOTD. "I think about it like a man in need. Every time I'm gone." Bittersweet song about missing someone but giving all the love and effort they give back to them. #musicsky #nowplaying #paperkites
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The Paper Kites - For All You Give (feat. Lucy Rose)
YouTube video by thepaperkitesband
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December 26, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Keep Me In Your Heart by Warren Zevon. Classic heartbreaker. He knew he was dying when he wrote this. "Shadows are fallin' and I'm runnin' out of breath. Keep me in your heart for a while. If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less." Hits hard. #musicsky #nowplaying
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Warren Zevon - Keep Me In Your Heart
YouTube video by MNRK Nashville
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December 18, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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Vacation by the Florist. Great band and song! "I don't know how to be what I wanted to be when I was five." This SSOTD is the perfect song, nostalgic, sad and anxiety filled. #musicsky #nowplaying #maybeitwill

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Florist - Vacation (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Double Double Whammy
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December 17, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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Sober by Tool. Powerful SSOTD. "Why can't we not be sober? I just want to start things over. And why can't we sleep forever? I just want to start this over." Great video. About addiction and the pull to use. About a friend of the band. #musicsky #nowplaying #tool
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TOOL - Sober (Official Video)
YouTube video by TOOLVEVO
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December 12, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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Party Song by the great Keaton Henson. "i'm sorry, can't make your party, I'll be busy burning." About lost love and his feelings seeing her with a new love. "and I'm afraid I'd kill your lover while your back was turned." Keaton Henson is perfect. #musicsky #nowplaying
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Party Song
YouTube video by Keaton Henson - Topic
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December 10, 2025 at 10:50 PM
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By Your Side by Sade. Smooth SSOTD! "You think I'd leave your side, baby. You know me better than that." Powerful song about love overcoming life's hardships. Brings me right back to that time and those feelings. #musicsky #nowplaying #sade
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Sade - By Your Side - Official - 2000
YouTube video by SadeVEVO
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December 9, 2025 at 8:11 PM
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I'd Have To Think About It by Leith Ross. Love this! "You never loved the same amount." About never getting over love, even when it was not great. The devastating line "I love you more than my future spouse." Written about a lost love. #musicsky #nowplaying #thinkaboutit
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I'd Have To Think About It
YouTube video by Leith Ross - Topic
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December 8, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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Creep by Stone Temple Pilots. Great unplugged version. "All's I got is time, got no meanin', just a rhyme." "Think you're kind of neat, then she tells me I'm a creep." Scott Wieland said it was about growing up and not knowing where you fit. #musicsky #nowplaying #halftheman
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Stone Temple Pilots - Creep (MTV Unplugged) (MTV Hits LA)
YouTube video by Matias Zarate
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December 5, 2025 at 9:21 PM
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A Day in the Life by the Beatles. Deep SSOTD. "He blew his mind out in a car. He didn't notice that the lights had changed." Lennon wrote the first part after he read about the death of his friend. Originally banned for the last line. #musicsky #nowplaying #beatles
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The Beatles - A Day In The Life
YouTube video by TheBeatlesVEVO
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December 3, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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Bag of Bones by Mitski. Powerful and beautiful SSOTD. "Mercy on me, would you please spare me tonight? I'm tired of this searching, would you let me go?" The song is about seeking sexual validation but left feeling empty. Shake this poet out of the beast! #musicsky #nowplaying
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Mitski - Bag of Bones (Official Audio)
YouTube video by Mitski
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December 2, 2025 at 10:52 PM
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The Freshmen by the Verve Pipe. Nostalgic and sad. "For the life of me, I cannot believe we'd ever die for these sins, we were merely freshmen." About a love triangle, leading to abortion and suicide. Tragedy to a catchy tune. #musicsky #nowplaying #freshman
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The Verve Pipe - The Freshmen (Official Video)
YouTube video by VervePipeVEVO
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December 1, 2025 at 9:52 PM
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This Year's Love by David Gray. Perfect holiday sad song. "This year's love had better last. Heaven knows it's high time." I like this song because it shows contrast between fear, desperation and elation that comes with finding love. #musicsky #nowplaying #sweepme

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DAVID GRAY - This Year’s Love (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by David Gray
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November 25, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Hello in There by the great John Prine. Deep and classic SSOTD. "Well it's been years since the kids had grown. A life of their own and left us alone". About the loneliness and isolation of old age. Also, the importance of showing kindness. #musicsky #nowplaying #hellointhere

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John Prine - Hello In There (Live From Sessions at West 54th)
YouTube video by John Prine
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November 24, 2025 at 11:07 PM
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I Know Places by Lykke Li. Heartbreaker of a song! "The high won't fade here, babe. No, the high won't hurt here, babe." Great Swedish singer. "coming home, come unfold, babe." About addiction, love and safety. #musicsky #nowplaying #unfold!
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Lykke Li - I Know Places
YouTube video by cjerrr
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November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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How Soon is Now? by the Smiths. Sad all the way through. "You shut your mouth, how can you say, I go about things the wrong way? I am human and I need to be loved, just like everybody else does." Shy, lonely and desperate for love. Like all of us. #musicsky #nowplaying #smiths
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The Smiths - How Soon Is Now? (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Smiths
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November 19, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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O-o-h Child by The Five Stairsteps. Straightforward SSOTD.
"Some day when your head is much lighter." Some great covers of this song. Bittersweet song because things are bad now but someday! Released during the civil rights movement. #musicsky #nowplaying #hope
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The Five Stairsteps - O-o-h Child (Audio)
YouTube video by LegacyRecordingsVEVO
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November 18, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Mama, You Been on My Mind by Bob Dylan covered by Jeff Buckley. Love this SSOTD cover. Oh the lyrics! "perhaps it is the color of the sun cut flat and covering the crossroads I'm standing at." Written about a recent breakup, i about yearning and distance. #musicsky #nowplaying
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Mama, You Been on My Mind (Studio Outtake - 1993)
YouTube video by Jeff Buckley - Topic
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November 17, 2025 at 8:03 PM
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Helpless by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young. Great SSOTD for a Friday! "And in my mind I still need a place to go. All my changes were there." Written about Neil Young's childhood battle with Polio. About nostalgia, pain and love, like all sad songs :) #musicsky #nowplaying #CSNY

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Helpless
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November 14, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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Let Her Go by Passenger. A lot of sad words for a basic sad idea. "'cause love comes slow and it goes so fast." Also, "everything you touch surely dies." A lot of sadness about not realizing what you have until it's gone. #musicsky #nowplaying

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Passenger | Let Her Go (Official Video)
YouTube video by Passenger
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November 13, 2025 at 10:18 PM
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The Only Exception by Paramore (Acoustic). This is a tearjerker. "When I was younger, I saw my daddy cry. He broke his own heart." The song is about losing faith in love until you find someone to love and then they leave. I mean come on! #musicsky #nowplaying #paramore
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PARAMORE - THE ONLY EXCEPTION - ACOUSTIC - 2010
YouTube video by Paramore History
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November 12, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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Bygones by Keaton Henson. First, I love anything by Keaton Henson! This is a devastating song. "I am going to live if it kills me." and my favorite line "I got all my baby teeth, all buried underneath my grown ones." Anxiety & failed escape through art. #musicsky #nowplaying #me
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Keaton Henson - Bygones (Lyrics)
YouTube video by Sonic Lyric
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November 11, 2025 at 9:42 PM
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Ask by the Smiths. This song has been in my head all week. An upbeat SSOTD, but always makes me a little sad. "writing frightening verse to a buck-tooth girl in Luxembourg." Overall, if it's not love, then it's the bomb that will bring us together. #musicsky #nowplaying #smiths
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The Smiths - Ask (Official Music Video)
YouTube video by The Smiths
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November 7, 2025 at 10:25 PM
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Usually, I post a sad song of the day but, today I am posting a sad poem of the day. This one gets me to my bones:
November 6, 2025 at 10:42 PM