[Masterpiece] Tear-jerking Western songs. The tears won’t stop… truly sad songs [2026]
Music has a mysterious power to heal the heart and, at times, move us to tears.
In this article, we introduce timeless Western songs that transcend language barriers and resonate deeply with the soul—sad and heartrending masterpieces.
The bittersweetness of love, the sorrows of life, the pain of parting…
We present a selection of exquisite melodies and lyrics that have touched hearts around the world, across genres and eras.
If you’re carrying something heavy in your heart right now, these songs will surely stay close to your feelings.
Please enjoy these treasured classics in the playlist here.
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[Masterpiece] Tear-Jerking Western Songs. The tears won’t stop… Truly Sad Songs [2026] (21–30)
Like a StoneAudioslave
This is a song by Audioslave, the American supergroup formed by Chris Cornell of Soundgarden and members of Rage Against the Machine.
It is said to portray the state of mind of someone at the end of their life, quietly waiting to reunite with a loved one in the afterlife.
The late Chris Cornell’s powerful yet heartrending vocals gently embrace profound themes of solitude and mortality.
You can almost picture someone waiting alone, like a stone, in complete stillness for that moment to come.
Coupled with a guitar solo that feels like an inexpressible cry from the heart, it’s an affecting track that squeezes the chest with an unbearable loneliness.
the way things gobeabadoobee
Beabadoobee is a British singer-songwriter.
While she excels at ’90s alternative rock and dream pop, “the way things go” is a ballad that portrays a heartbroken woman looking back on the past and letting her unresolved feelings build up.
Her high, airy vocals convey that bittersweet state of mind without holding anything back.
It’s also a song about long-distance love, so those who’ve experienced it may find it especially relatable.
F**k it I love youLana Del Rey
A standout singer-songwriter from New York, Lana Del Rey released this track on her August 2019 album Norman Fucking Rockwell!.
While many of her songs express sadness, this piece—despite its seemingly aggressive title—also carries a melancholy tone and an overall wistful atmosphere.
Many listeners will relate to Lana’s lyrics, which intertwine her journey of leaving her hometown in pursuit of success for California with her feelings for the man she loves.
I Always Wanna Die (Sometimes)The 1975
As of 2020, all three albums they had released had reached No.
1 on the UK charts, making THE 1975 a band at the top both in name and in reality.
This track, which closes their third album released in 2018, A Brief Inquiry into Online Relationships, is, within their genre-spanning sound, a fairly simple rock ballad.
Its startling title carries a characteristically British, paradoxical nuance, and even amid sorrow and resignation, you can sense a subtly ironic kind of optimism.
Viva La VidaColdplay
Coldplay is an award-winning British rock band.
This song was released in 2008.
At the 51st Grammy Awards, it won in three categories.
Its Japanese title is “Utsukushiki Seimei” (“Beautiful Life”), but it sings of the sorrow of a king driven from his country.
The TeacherFoo Fighters
Dave Grohl, the frontman and principal songwriter of the world-renowned rock band Foo Fighters, has etched his name into rock history.
Needless to say, he was the drummer for the legendary band Nirvana and carries the past of losing his close friend Kurt Cobain.
In December 2022, he was once again struck by tragedy with the sudden death of Taylor Hawkins, who had long been the Foo Fighters’ drummer, and that August, he also lost his mother, Virginia Grohl, who had always supported his musical life.
Overcoming such unbearable realities, he dedicated the song “The Teacher” to the two of them.
It is a dramatic track running over ten minutes—the longest in the band’s history—and while the lyrics convey Dave’s profound sorrow with piercing intensity, the strength of the words, which express gratitude to those who have departed and offer the courage to move forward again, is sure to bring tears.
when the party’s overBillie Eilish
As of 2020, Billie Eilish had become the most famous teenage female singer.
Her lyrics aren’t dreamy or adolescent in tone; instead, they’re introspective, often centering on loneliness and self-loathing, and at times convey feelings so real they’re chilling.
Billie softly sings lines of bravado to a crush who won’t pick up the phone, saying she likes “the silence when I walk home alone” and that she “can lie, too.” These delicate emotions—where sadness and anger intertwine—surely resonate not only with people her age, but with adults as well.