Similar Worlds Music League: What's the saddest song?

Music league's week 2 playlist is now available. Please note this is a game with a full complement of people but I'm posting this public in case you want to just discuss music, post songs of your own, and have a community vote for the song that fits the prompt.

Players: @CountScrofula @Starcrossed @basilfawlty89 @MethDozer @foldedunfolding @Straylight @poisonouscupcake @DerSilberneKonig1 @SW-User @crownedwithlaurel97 @Burnley123 @JRVanguard @SW-User, and two others.

This week the players have posted the saddest song they know of, the playlist was just revealed so feel free to listen along if you're interested!

Playlist Link: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2QxvU7yUFSvNbKJzAEHZnb?si=1eee4f0aa7c74348

Through the Roof 'n' Underground - Gogol Bordello
Beggar - Richard Dawson
As the Footsteps Die Out Forever - Catch 22
In Loving Memory - Alter Bridge
Nothing Compares 2 U - Chris COrnell
Cancer - Twenty One Pilots
So You Wanna Be a Superhero - Carissa's Wierd
Don't Answer Me - Alan Parsons Project
Mansion - NF, Fleurie
Me and a Gun - Tori Amos
Fourth of July - Sufjan Stevens
Enemy - Flyleaf
Liability - Lorde
Lonely - Akon

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CountScrofula · 41-45, M

Okay playlist thoughts (carefully avoiding my own song):

- I did not like like half of this lmao you all need to do a better job of being depressed.

- Carissa's Wierd and Sufjan Stevens had the best sad songs. The Carissa's Wierd song is the bleakest song about suicide I've ever heard and Sufjan can write a TUNE, man.

- Me and a gun by Tori is harrowing and definitely gets points.

- The Catch 22 song was baffling why would you write an upbeat 2-tone song about your dying mother. If I got out my trombone and started skanking to my dead dad my family would have me shot.

- Gogol Bordello is a favourite band of mine. Apparently this tune was on the soundtrack to a movie about suicide which makes it a worthy inclusion but the song didn't make me sad.

Straylight · 31-35, F

@CountScrofula I put in my comment about Catch 22 that I have a soft spot for upbeat sounding songs with bleak lyrics.
I’ve loved Gogol Bordello since I’d heard Wonderlust King a thousand years ago.