If Claire had to give even a small portion of the love she had for Grayson to a child that was not her own there's no way she'd have been able to do all she did for him. Mondays aside, Robert Smith isn’t known for being a cheery bloke: even his most upbeat pop songs get pretty dark as soon as you start listening to the lyrics.

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Anyone who thought in 1997 that Radiohead had reached the depths of bleakness with OK Computergot a big surprise three years later, when the band released Kid Aand it turned out there were whole oceans of mumbling electronic melancholy they had yet to plumb.

Like most great songs, the lyrics alone don’t tell the story, but the simple refrain gets at the heart of the temporary nature of our lives contrasting with our human urge for permanence: “Please remember me. Luckily Darren Jessee provided the refrain, “She’s a brick and I’m drowning slowly/ off the coast and I’m headed nowhere” for Folds’ distressed falsetto. As a poem or monologue it’s a masterpiece: listening to it is like accidentally spying on somebody else’s broken marriage, where all the pain is masked by repression and resignation.

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I still remember the exact spot where I first I heard “Trapeze Swinger,” which is pretty unusual for me—I have a decent memory for where I’ve read certain unforgettable books, but songs tend to blend in space and time, since you can listen to them over and over and gradually erase the point of origin. The natural flow and everyday observations highlight that there are some things we’ll only cherish when it’s too late. Trip hop provided the tasteful music fan’s weepy soundtrack of choice for much of the ’90s, with tracks like Portishead’s ‘Roads’ inspiring plenty of late-night bedroom sob-alongs. The remaining cranes were finished by friends and family, and the poor young victim of WWII was ultimately buried with them. Like most of Jeff Mangum’s work, there are times when you have to put in some effort to parse the expressionistic imagery (“blister please with those wings in your spine…how he’d love to find your tongue in his teeth”) but at other times, the emotion is plain and jarring.Featured on Grant’s debut album The Queen of Denmark, this soulful piano ballad may sound like something The Carpenters might have recorded back in the ‘70s. A hauntingly beautiful tale of unrequited love, “Pale Blue Eyes” is about recognizing you’re being used and allowing it to happen anyway.

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When Beck released Sea Change in 2002, gone were his freeform experimentations in the jigsaw jazz and get fresh flow. I hurt myself today/ to see if I still feel,” Cash sings over wispy acoustic guitar and piano chords, his ancient baritone quivering in the darkness. Sign up to unlock our digital magazines and also receive the latest news, events, offers and partner promotions.It’s written from the perspective of his deceased grandfather, who implores his still-living wife to “sleep oh sleep, my Vivian” because “heaven is too cold without you. The robin, the whippoorwill, the midnight train—they all mourn with him to meet his quavering drawl, the imagery paralleling the sonic atmosphere.

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I have spent the day immersed in the author’s brutally honest story of raising a child with mental illness. Saudade may be defined as “a deep emotional state of nostalgic or profound melancholic longing for an absent something or someone”, but it can also be the first step on a path to better, brighter times. Creedence’ is a perfect example: a love friendship between two women is left to slip away into a permanent friend zone, while the narrator ekes out a loveless living as a lawyer’s typist. But when “Fond Farewell” was released almost a year to the day after his apparent suicide, this was the song that wrecked me.

Whether you’re going through a public divorce or you’ve got a week-long school crush, the lyrics to Someone Like You (sometimes it lasts in love, but sometimes it hurts instead) will get you good. by the admonishing acoustic cut “Lost Cause,” a hallucinatory goodbye letter to an unknown lover, Beck’s repeated refrain of “I’m tired of fighting” sounds as eerily comforting today as it did over a decade ago. But the instrumental makes it an absolute tearjerker, with a lilting piano motif that says wet Parisian streets, broken hearts and the knowledge she’s not coming back. George wrote ‘Time’ about his secret love for Culture Club drummer Jon Moss, which only makes it sadder: he’s mourning the end of the affair before it even began.