Saddest rock songs

Wild Horses

The Stones

Ziggy Stardust

Bowie

The man who sold the world

Bowie

Fleetwood Mac

Dreams

Never forget

Fleetwood Mac

I'll Never Cry by Alice Cooper

Beth by Kiss

Love Is Like Oxygen by Sweet

Wild World by Cat Stevens

The saddest song I've ever heard is If You Could Read My Mind. Gordon Lightfoot wrote it while he was going through a divorce.

Echo Park by Keith Barbour

Not Living Next Door To Alice by Smokie

Hard Luck Woman by Kiss

The Last Time

Rolling Stones

All The Young Dudes by David Bowie, Mott The Hoople

Alien by The Atlanta Rhythm Section

Man On The Corner by Genesis

by Dead Poet Society

Even though I grew up a huge Kiss fan, Beth is an especially hard song for me to listen to. When I was younger I knew a girl named Beth, I really liked her too, but then all of a sudden her family moved away. I was maybe 8 or 9 years old at the time, and hearing that song just made me cry. To this day it's still hard to listen to.

To add to the list, I find the Motorhead song called Don't Let Daddy Kiss Me to be especially sad and depressing. I won't go into details because I'm sure the subject of the song could be triggering, though I'm sure the title alone could be enough for some to get an idea. I'm a huge Motorhead fan, but I find that one hard to listen to.

La Guns-Ballad of Jayne

Something in the Way by Nirvana. Leaves you feeling very sad, very despondent.

Ever (Foreign Flag) by Team Sleep. Touchingly sad. Beautiful.

Alice in Chains "Nutshell"
It's not just the lyrics that make it sad, it's the music, the tone, and the fact that the singer died from a prolonged seclusion immersed in addiction.

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight, and yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Ooh
Ooh-ooh
Ooh
Ooh-ooh
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find, and yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Ooh
Ooh-ooh
Ooh
Ooh-ooh

Shades Of Gray by the Monkees

Water Of Love by Dire Straights

Sentimental by Porcupine Tree

Bohemian Rhapsody.

Mamaaa,
Just killed a man,
Put a gun against his head, pulled my trigger,
Now he's dead
Mamaaa, life had just begun,
But now I've gone and thrown it all away
Mama, oooh,
Didn't mean to make you cry,
If I'm not back again this time tomorrow,
Carry on, carry on as if nothing really matters

Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto (in Japanese) , A Taste Of Honey (in English)

Killer Joe by The Rocky Fellers

96 Tears by ? And The Mysterians

World without Love -Peter and Gordon

Mexico by James Taylor (with David Crosby back up vocal)

Someone To Lay Down Beside Me by Karla Bonoff, Linda Ronstadt

I'm Dreaming by Jennifer Warnes

Sky High by Jigsaw

Everybody Knows by The Dave Clark Five

I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night by The Electric Prunes

Traces by The Classics Four

Eleanor Rigby comes immediately to mind.

Has a different tinge of emotion but Wildfire by Michael Martin Murphey struck me as a very sad song when I was a youngster.

No shortage of sad songs out there. We need them I think.