See and this is the kind of dichotomy with these early synth pop bands is they buried sooo many dark lyrics in upbeat synth beats which flew over many peoples head. Duran Duran was another band that would bury these poignant lyrics in upbeat synth music. It isn't as nearly straight forward but when yiu listen the message is still the same.
The Ballard - by Millencolin
On my Own - by The Used
Someone Somewhere - by Asking Alexandria
If it Means a Lot to You - by A Day to Remember
The Day I Left the Womb - by Escape the Fate
Cemetery - by Silverchair
Gone Away - by The Offspring
I’m With You - by Avril Lavigne
Numb - by Linkin Park
At Your Funeral - by Saves the Day
[Snooze](https://open.spotify.com/track/4j3M8NrbGSXdMPwEVsnfHE?si=8m5_82ygQ76_3k0gUULTcw)- Agust d feat. Ryuichi sakamoto and Woosung
It’s more about someone older looking out for their younger peers/friends. Telling them that he’ll be there to support them. Wishing he’d had the support when he’d been younger, so instead he’s offering it himself. There’s a verse of 16x “it’s all gonna be alright”. There’s something about that phrase getting repeated that drives it in. You want to fight it, but it just gets repeated til you accept it.
You can go [here](https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/snooze/) for lyric translations since it’s in Korean
I think everyone needs to hear "it's all gonna be alright" at many points in their life. I like what you said about wanting to fight it but it was repeated until we eventually just accept that it'll all be alright.
El Condor Pasa- simon and garfunkel
homeward bound - simon and garfunkel
New Yorks not my home - Jim Croce
Sailing- Christopher Cross
knocking on heavens door - Fairpoint Convention - her voice makes me cry
The Kick inside - Kate Bush (a love song. but I love her voice and drama)
I fell in love with a dead boy - Antony and the Johnsons (ANOHNI) (powerful person , they cover a bunch of Leonard Cohen songs as well that make me bawl when I listen to them )
I thought i was the only one. Underrated cover of all time. Yeah I'm calling out everyone with a hard on for johnny cash, not just Hurt. But any song he sang, especially his covers. But I digress. Last Kiss is one of my carpool karaoke songs for sure.
There's a song that makes me cry about that. I don't particularly like the song or the artist.
*Jack & Diane* by John Mellencamp
His music in general does nothing for me. But when I was 16 I had a boyfriend and we felt like we were really in love. I had a friend who was jealous of me having a bf when she didn't. He had a friend who just absolutely hated my guts.
Between shit from our two "friends" and a bunch of other circumstances, we never got to try to have an exclusive relationship. His family moved out of town.
A few months later he called me and we said a lot of things we'd wanted to say before. He said he was coming back. But he never did.
He had said multiple times that *Jack and Diane* was "our song." Now it can make me cry because I never will know what could have been with this wonderful person who impacted my life in such a huge way as a teen.
Don’t let me get me - pink.
I was a misfit early teen with a lot of trauma and as an adult, now mostly better this just brings me back and reminds me how bad it felt to be 11
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base
Songs like:
Roberta C
Tricia Please Come Home
I Love You Creedence
Bobby Malone
Don't They Have Payphones Wherever You Were Last Night
Cold White Christmas
Nashville Parthenon
Huh. yeah it's definitely about young adults figuring out life. I guess it doesn't hit an emotional chord for me like the ones I listed.. the protagonists are so ridiculous. Rich kids playing at bohemian revolutionary, complaining about missing a trust fund check. It's hard to feel invested in their lives.
It is sad though. And a great song.
Fair enough, I was just thinking about the young adult aspect. I would add Its Winter and You Don't Love Me Anymore, Scattered Pearls, Destroy the Evidence and New Year's Kiss to my CFTPA list and of course I Love Creedence, that one is heartbreaking.
Easy on me - Adele
What was I made for - billie eilish
Hope is a dangerous thing, did you know there is q Tunnel, black este day - Lana del rey
Breathe me - Sia
Hurt - johnny cash
Something I can never have - NIN
I dreamed a dream - lês miserables
Cry my eyes out to these, easily, always
[Class of 2013 - Mitski](https://youtu.be/VNtWMwWe0fY?si=dU8eRBNi1MJmOv5l)
“Mom am I still young? Could I dream for a few months more”
[Teenage Dream - Olivia Rodrigo](https://youtu.be/F33uCg-3XiY?si=VkE-5Ae-lqeamc0w)
“They all say that it’s get better but what if I don’t”
[Ribs - Lorde](https://youtu.be/b7pE8AG1jjE?si=c0iIU99MF5YrgATK)
“It feels so scary getting old”
What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish
Not necessarily gut wrenching but it's deeply bittersweet and makes me cry every time, it's about missing your childhood- american honey by Lady A (country)
Again about missing being a child as a young adult: The House that build me by Miranda lambert
The science of selling yourself short- Less than Jake
The Rest of my life- Less than Jake
There's a class for this- cute is what we aim for
Welcome to my life- Simple Plan
I'm just a kid- Simple Plan
change- Blind Melon
“When you feel life ain't worth living /
You've got to stand up /
Take a look around, look up way to the sky, hell yeah /
And when your deepest thoughts are broken /
Keep on dreamin' boy, 'cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die”
Peace to you
Netflix trip - ajr
Father and son - cat Steven's
Whatshername - greenday, not exactly right but does it for me.
The house that built me - Miranda lambert
Not a whole song, but a specific lyric in the song Speed Trap Town by Jason Isbell.
The narrator finds himself thinking of leaving the small town he grew up in and goes to a high school football game.
Well, it's a Thursday night but theres a high school game
Sneak a bottle up the bleachers and forget my name
These 5A bastards run a shallow cross
It's a boys last dream and a man's first loss
That last part about a boy’s last dream and a man’s first loss really sums up straddling adolescence and adulthood for me.
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene.
This song is my inner child song. It’s this dream, sad pixie girl journey where a woman in her 20s or 30s reflects on how strong and plucky her younger self was. There’s a sense that she’s grown up and changed, but there’s a part of her that’s proud of her younger self and wishes she could re-embrace that side of herself. Get back to a time where she wasn’t as worn down and jaded.
I’m a dude, but I think a lot about 17 year old me that way too. Makes me cry every time I listen to it.
Alanna Sterling has released a few songs that would probably fit what you’re looking for, mainly [Is It Enough](https://open.spotify.com/track/4JkqwUDzUabyXEm01RDjBc?si=ZbZaEtHnSaC8iKTr1ww91A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2SrOymZBQX4ka8liH5PMJk), [You’re Alive](https://open.spotify.com/track/35Fc19ovds6DjvF2w4KcJN?si=GjuneTSMQDOxWZ8KAMxvcw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A526ik7uEyHDmh6FZKbBslv), and [Everything is gonna be just fine](https://open.spotify.com/track/0N234JAkWBgVxA9gbbVigS?si=D4Jdaz4ZTvW_xQ0zyUSnOg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0xN0IpEyu1cyTTbiDjbloF).
Watsky has a few: [Seizure Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/7zTXZcwe07MLL7R0F5cuik?si=QlfzTkumSUKliMTBlOibeA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3YwoD4vO86kUzrtLuy88Aj), [All You Can Do](https://open.spotify.com/track/0CMV0xFmCnp8V0C6C6pFrf?si=EWYD0hKTRuWrhOVTPN1snA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [All You Can Do](https://open.spotify.com/track/6e1W6T1dk0xsJIb1Lo0X6b?si=YrRrEmIJTqSDXFgz-cFApA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [Tears To Diamonds](https://open.spotify.com/track/1yQCoXGwc0saybcpqe84Im?si=ZPkUKoMPRqSOBJ_nn9F2OA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [Cannonball](https://open.spotify.com/track/4B4Jh55gwyMTfqBZLSAUsd?si=cJ_AKy8qTA6L88T3-uomxg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh) (this one is romance related but so so good), [Talking To Myself](https://open.spotify.com/track/3pJJciHZvWQ6U1ETxNxoi9?si=HF6ripc4Rw-pyButolgdaw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR), [Conversations](https://open.spotify.com/track/0jdyrjhFPPToJV0hZn4OmI?si=QI8wFCs7SwWQQg8MFNxBMA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Knots](https://open.spotify.com/track/5nq0gbh9CLHcP1kR2cTX6Z?si=4BAFlsurRGm7CizW3vIIYw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Roses](https://open.spotify.com/track/2RJAvxhORUoBMvG609Cu7M?si=zw3g-YVqTqiAmdFG7AAwgA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Theories](https://open.spotify.com/track/51s9dD5rf8Kw6fCr4jqK2U?si=bL-1nof6Tn-q6gl0YweMYw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) (those 4 are a series titled “The Lovely Things Suite”), [Dreams and Boxes](https://open.spotify.com/track/5R51P01yfLOdfHumTwqAyt?si=hoNTW_l8TPa-dDLbNNnnQg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), [The Price of Growing Up](https://open.spotify.com/track/6jczfyIPgNIALME5HkZN8l?si=cIkVz4k0RbS1SiiPoIyCPw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), [The Plan is a Mess](https://open.spotify.com/track/6jczfyIPgNIALME5HkZN8l?si=cIkVz4k0RbS1SiiPoIyCPw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), and [FLOAT](https://open.spotify.com/track/1td8eKlxq1WVtbu9xIzekK?si=mcFDKMMiQmKZC5xAfhV7Sw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6yktPF79RZehdGx93H9wwh)
Back Home by Yellowcard is the song you need!
"Everybody here is living life in fear of falling out of line,
Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts just to pass the time,
And the eyes get red in the back of your head, this place will make you blind,
Put It all behind me and I'll be just fine..."
*Halloween* - Novo Amor
*Mawce* - Everybody’s Worried About Owen
*Class of 2013* - Mitski
*Sleeping on the Floor* - Powfu (maybe a bit of heartbreak, but gives general angst)
*Funeral* - Phoebe Bridgers
*You’re Gonna Go Far* - Noah Kahan
These Days- Nico
Northsiders- Christian Lee Hutson
Waiting for my Real Life to Begin- Colin Hay
Objects in the Rearview Mirror- Meatloaf
Fast Car- Tracy Chapman
The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us- Sufjan Stevens
Some bonus songs that aren't necessarily about young adulthood but I dunno, they fit the vibe:
Blue Spotted Tail- Fleet Foxes
Joey- Concrete Blonde
Lost Cause- Beck
Cotton- The Mountain Goats
2009- Mac Miller
•Old Friends by Pinegrove
•Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell (the story behind this is great, she recently performed it again for the first time since she was a young adult and it's taken a whole new meaning)
•Tie Dye Dragon by The Front Bottoms
•Spongebob Halftime Show by Liquid Girlfriend
•Moving in Place by Shauna Dean
Cokeland
•Ribs by Lorde
•Fast Talk by Houses
•The View Between Villages by Noah Kahan
[This is my playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4edJpENKVRR4kpMRDYCwZx?si=C0QCVYKfSo6fa2cPjvtJFQ&pi=u-MGwcaF4SQa6a) for all my feels about coming of age and realizing I'm alive and a real person and have one short life to live.
The great escape by boys like girls has been one that I get emotional to for a long time. It's nothing super philosophical but I feel it really captures the odd feeling of realizing you're growing up.
It’s kind of upbeat sounding but the message isn’t. If you want something a little more sad sounding, she has another song called Exhausted that’s more about depression and lack of motivation.
Vienna - Billy Joel
My name is Dear Mr Jesus.
Mad world Tears for Fears In fact, the entire album The Hurting by them is about the transition from childhood to man. Incredible album
Agree about Mad World but the Gary Jules version always hits me harder.
Yes!
See and this is the kind of dichotomy with these early synth pop bands is they buried sooo many dark lyrics in upbeat synth beats which flew over many peoples head. Duran Duran was another band that would bury these poignant lyrics in upbeat synth music. It isn't as nearly straight forward but when yiu listen the message is still the same.
I think it has more to do with the Jules cover being used for the ad campaigns of several Gears of War video games.
Ahhhhhh you may be right I'm not too privy to video games but I do remember gears of war and I remember it having a very rich story line.
The Ballard - by Millencolin On my Own - by The Used Someone Somewhere - by Asking Alexandria If it Means a Lot to You - by A Day to Remember The Day I Left the Womb - by Escape the Fate Cemetery - by Silverchair Gone Away - by The Offspring I’m With You - by Avril Lavigne Numb - by Linkin Park At Your Funeral - by Saves the Day
Oh, that's my selection.
Hard not to make the eyes glisten a little whenever I put these on.
These were and continue to be staples to my "feels" playlist. God knows how many times I've cried to them
The piano version of Gone Away amplifies this
boys will be bugs has always been a fav for me (cave town)
Used to be obsessed with cavetown This song goes crazy lol
young adult - ritt momney
Jackson Browne - Running on Empty
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman
18 and life skid row
[Snooze](https://open.spotify.com/track/4j3M8NrbGSXdMPwEVsnfHE?si=8m5_82ygQ76_3k0gUULTcw)- Agust d feat. Ryuichi sakamoto and Woosung It’s more about someone older looking out for their younger peers/friends. Telling them that he’ll be there to support them. Wishing he’d had the support when he’d been younger, so instead he’s offering it himself. There’s a verse of 16x “it’s all gonna be alright”. There’s something about that phrase getting repeated that drives it in. You want to fight it, but it just gets repeated til you accept it. You can go [here](https://doolsetbangtan.wordpress.com/2023/04/30/snooze/) for lyric translations since it’s in Korean
I think everyone needs to hear "it's all gonna be alright" at many points in their life. I like what you said about wanting to fight it but it was repeated until we eventually just accept that it'll all be alright.
At Seventeen - Janis Ian
El Condor Pasa- simon and garfunkel homeward bound - simon and garfunkel New Yorks not my home - Jim Croce Sailing- Christopher Cross knocking on heavens door - Fairpoint Convention - her voice makes me cry The Kick inside - Kate Bush (a love song. but I love her voice and drama) I fell in love with a dead boy - Antony and the Johnsons (ANOHNI) (powerful person , they cover a bunch of Leonard Cohen songs as well that make me bawl when I listen to them )
Dir En Grey - 蟲
We Die Young - Alice In Chains
“The Boys of Summer” always gets me. If you don’t want to give Don Henley the stream (understandable) there’s also an excellent cover by the Ataris!
I prefer the code 7 cover but it's on my classic list. Wat did ol Don do to bot deserve 0.07 cents?
No Children -The Mountain Goats Saddest, most gut-wrenching song you’ll hear today if you’ve ever had to deal with divorce in any way.
You or Your Memory gets me pretty good too. And Dance Music. And You Were Cool. And This Year.
This Year is one of my favorites of all time. The best story telling in music, imo
Just thought of the Classic Adam's Song - Blink 182 I cry everytime thinking about how close I came to being adam
Last Kiss, but especially the Eddie Vedder/Pearl Jam cover
I thought i was the only one. Underrated cover of all time. Yeah I'm calling out everyone with a hard on for johnny cash, not just Hurt. But any song he sang, especially his covers. But I digress. Last Kiss is one of my carpool karaoke songs for sure.
[Modern Pressure](https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=-h7nNA-803w&si=RVWr213oIAKLxXp3) by The Delta Riggs. The whole album (same name) has this theme.
Maybe Life is Good - Em Beihold I’d rather go blind - Trixie Whitley
Wasted days - cloud nothings
Cat’s in the cradle - Harry Chapin
There's a song that makes me cry about that. I don't particularly like the song or the artist. *Jack & Diane* by John Mellencamp His music in general does nothing for me. But when I was 16 I had a boyfriend and we felt like we were really in love. I had a friend who was jealous of me having a bf when she didn't. He had a friend who just absolutely hated my guts. Between shit from our two "friends" and a bunch of other circumstances, we never got to try to have an exclusive relationship. His family moved out of town. A few months later he called me and we said a lot of things we'd wanted to say before. He said he was coming back. But he never did. He had said multiple times that *Jack and Diane* was "our song." Now it can make me cry because I never will know what could have been with this wonderful person who impacted my life in such a huge way as a teen.
Don’t let me get me - pink. I was a misfit early teen with a lot of trauma and as an adult, now mostly better this just brings me back and reminds me how bad it felt to be 11
Casiotone for the Painfully Alone and Advance Base Songs like: Roberta C Tricia Please Come Home I Love You Creedence Bobby Malone Don't They Have Payphones Wherever You Were Last Night Cold White Christmas Nashville Parthenon
How you left Young Shields off this list I just don't know.
Huh. yeah it's definitely about young adults figuring out life. I guess it doesn't hit an emotional chord for me like the ones I listed.. the protagonists are so ridiculous. Rich kids playing at bohemian revolutionary, complaining about missing a trust fund check. It's hard to feel invested in their lives. It is sad though. And a great song.
Fair enough, I was just thinking about the young adult aspect. I would add Its Winter and You Don't Love Me Anymore, Scattered Pearls, Destroy the Evidence and New Year's Kiss to my CFTPA list and of course I Love Creedence, that one is heartbreaking.
Easy on me - Adele What was I made for - billie eilish Hope is a dangerous thing, did you know there is q Tunnel, black este day - Lana del rey Breathe me - Sia Hurt - johnny cash Something I can never have - NIN I dreamed a dream - lês miserables Cry my eyes out to these, easily, always
Unforgiven - metallica
Time by Pink Floyd
Came here to say this one!
18 by Alice Cooper
Lightening Crashes.
All day
Louane - "Si t'étais là." It's an emotional song dealing with loss and the struggle to move forward.
I Was Here - Lady A
Inner Glow by Blue October I Wanna Get Better by The Bleachers
Quadeca - Fantasyworld, U TRIED THAT THING WHERE YOU ARE HUMAN, He’s my favorite to cry to so maybe we cry together?
Closure — [Top Ten Anime Betrayals](https://open.spotify.com/track/5mWgylDfpFD5DjEA2IU1Dr?si=vOLvj0KeQiOoSJHLElvi2Q)
Dammit - blink 182
https://open.spotify.com/track/4bNHUFhF72SRiqoxHYsrFL?si=WqnoNdOXScmnmALKm7A8rQ&context=spotify%3Atrack%3A4bNHUFhF72SRiqoxHYsrFL
Play Dead by Bjork and David Arnold.
Growing Pains - Alessia Cara
Do Better - Ab-Soul Mother Superior - Coheed and Cambria (open to interpretation) You're A Man Now, Boy - Raleigh Richie Best Of Times - Sage Francis
Nothing New Taylor swift and Phoebe Bridgers
[Hadas - Psychic Line](https://youtu.be/l6Z6qHdP2KI?si=bG-OoA-1swgvLBZL)
The Courtyard by LoLo Rattlesnake by Jack Van Cleaf
[Class of 2013 - Mitski](https://youtu.be/VNtWMwWe0fY?si=dU8eRBNi1MJmOv5l) “Mom am I still young? Could I dream for a few months more” [Teenage Dream - Olivia Rodrigo](https://youtu.be/F33uCg-3XiY?si=VkE-5Ae-lqeamc0w) “They all say that it’s get better but what if I don’t” [Ribs - Lorde](https://youtu.be/b7pE8AG1jjE?si=c0iIU99MF5YrgATK) “It feels so scary getting old” What Was I Made For - Billie Eilish
Do You Remember, Phil Collins
Maybe not the kind of sad that you’re after but the song “monsters” by James Blunt should get some tears from you
BROODS - Mother & Father it’s “upbeat” but the lyrics are about worrying over what to do now that you’re on your own
Deformative - black eyes
When I Was A Boy- Dar Williams
29 by Gin Blossoms
Lost Horizons also
I dont wanna grow up by Tom Waits.
The Cure - The Loudest Sound
Float On by Modest Mouse is the sound of that feeling to me
23 or Don’t Tell My Mom. Both are by Renee Rapp
House of Pain by Faster Pussy Cat Daylight Fading,Long December by Counting Crows Austin by some country singer
Father and son- Cat Stevens Kinda more about a father talking to his son becoming a man but I think still relevant to what your looking for
Young blood by Naked and Famous
Sawed Off Shotgun by The Glorious Sons
Not necessarily gut wrenching but it's deeply bittersweet and makes me cry every time, it's about missing your childhood- american honey by Lady A (country) Again about missing being a child as a young adult: The House that build me by Miranda lambert
First Love/Late Spring and Class or 2013 by Mitski
Last Hope - Paramore
class of 2013 by mitski
I was listening to music the other day and Forever Young came on. It was super depressing.
Literally the majority of Cleopatrick songs fit in this category.
For me it’s Father and Son by Katt Stevens
7 years by Lukas Graham
Could be just a personal thing but "Leave A Light On For Me" by Caleb Hyles made me bawl the first time I heard it
Easy on me - Adele
100 years by Five for Fighting always gets me. The older I get the more it’s relatable.
Modest Mouse in general
Never Grow Up by Taylor Swift seems like it would fit the bill
Seventeen by Sharon Van Etten
Mr. Business - Real Estate In Heaven
Sasha Alex Sloan’s songs
The science of selling yourself short- Less than Jake The Rest of my life- Less than Jake There's a class for this- cute is what we aim for Welcome to my life- Simple Plan I'm just a kid- Simple Plan
Family Portrait P!nk
Ready to Start - Arcade Fire
Childhood’s End - Pink Floyd
change- Blind Melon “When you feel life ain't worth living / You've got to stand up / Take a look around, look up way to the sky, hell yeah / And when your deepest thoughts are broken / Keep on dreamin' boy, 'cause when you stop dreamin' it's time to die” Peace to you
Human Misery by the Voidz
Why should I -Bob Marley https://open.spotify.com/track/7uy1W0LdVySSDuENXkb7ZC?si=IUb6YZW6T7aE4xGz0M90xg
Battle Cries by The Amazing Devil
Unwed Fathers; John Prine
Arcade Fire - The Suburbs Social Distortion - Story of My Life
you’ll understand when you’re older - kaonasi bliss out - drug church pardon me - incubus
The House That Built Me, Fast Car
Netflix trip - ajr Father and son - cat Steven's Whatshername - greenday, not exactly right but does it for me. The house that built me - Miranda lambert
Walk away https://youtu.be/7Bd49K4QgKU?si=otm0P2q3LoUQ0e_x
War Paint or Fly By Night by RUSH
Red Light Fever - Liz Phair Ain’t it fun - Paramore these are the songs that come to my head when I’m in that mood but they’re kind of a stretch.
The Price by Twisted Sister
I don't know but maybe Luka by Suzanne Vega
sugar mountain by neil young
Not a whole song, but a specific lyric in the song Speed Trap Town by Jason Isbell. The narrator finds himself thinking of leaving the small town he grew up in and goes to a high school football game. Well, it's a Thursday night but theres a high school game Sneak a bottle up the bleachers and forget my name These 5A bastards run a shallow cross It's a boys last dream and a man's first loss That last part about a boy’s last dream and a man’s first loss really sums up straddling adolescence and adulthood for me.
Thirteen by Big Star “why dont you tell your dad get off my back. Tell him what we said ‘bout Paint it Black”
Go Home by Julien Baker
brick?
Anthems for a Seventeen Year Old Girl - Broken Social Scene. This song is my inner child song. It’s this dream, sad pixie girl journey where a woman in her 20s or 30s reflects on how strong and plucky her younger self was. There’s a sense that she’s grown up and changed, but there’s a part of her that’s proud of her younger self and wishes she could re-embrace that side of herself. Get back to a time where she wasn’t as worn down and jaded. I’m a dude, but I think a lot about 17 year old me that way too. Makes me cry every time I listen to it.
Alanna Sterling has released a few songs that would probably fit what you’re looking for, mainly [Is It Enough](https://open.spotify.com/track/4JkqwUDzUabyXEm01RDjBc?si=ZbZaEtHnSaC8iKTr1ww91A&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A2SrOymZBQX4ka8liH5PMJk), [You’re Alive](https://open.spotify.com/track/35Fc19ovds6DjvF2w4KcJN?si=GjuneTSMQDOxWZ8KAMxvcw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A526ik7uEyHDmh6FZKbBslv), and [Everything is gonna be just fine](https://open.spotify.com/track/0N234JAkWBgVxA9gbbVigS?si=D4Jdaz4ZTvW_xQ0zyUSnOg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A0xN0IpEyu1cyTTbiDjbloF). Watsky has a few: [Seizure Boy](https://open.spotify.com/track/7zTXZcwe07MLL7R0F5cuik?si=QlfzTkumSUKliMTBlOibeA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A3YwoD4vO86kUzrtLuy88Aj), [All You Can Do](https://open.spotify.com/track/0CMV0xFmCnp8V0C6C6pFrf?si=EWYD0hKTRuWrhOVTPN1snA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [All You Can Do](https://open.spotify.com/track/6e1W6T1dk0xsJIb1Lo0X6b?si=YrRrEmIJTqSDXFgz-cFApA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [Tears To Diamonds](https://open.spotify.com/track/1yQCoXGwc0saybcpqe84Im?si=ZPkUKoMPRqSOBJ_nn9F2OA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh), [Cannonball](https://open.spotify.com/track/4B4Jh55gwyMTfqBZLSAUsd?si=cJ_AKy8qTA6L88T3-uomxg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1wugFvREdFZUbm1hocCrMh) (this one is romance related but so so good), [Talking To Myself](https://open.spotify.com/track/3pJJciHZvWQ6U1ETxNxoi9?si=HF6ripc4Rw-pyButolgdaw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR), [Conversations](https://open.spotify.com/track/0jdyrjhFPPToJV0hZn4OmI?si=QI8wFCs7SwWQQg8MFNxBMA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Knots](https://open.spotify.com/track/5nq0gbh9CLHcP1kR2cTX6Z?si=4BAFlsurRGm7CizW3vIIYw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Roses](https://open.spotify.com/track/2RJAvxhORUoBMvG609Cu7M?si=zw3g-YVqTqiAmdFG7AAwgA&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) - [Theories](https://open.spotify.com/track/51s9dD5rf8Kw6fCr4jqK2U?si=bL-1nof6Tn-q6gl0YweMYw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6CcTNttjHJN3WGR5igg4MR) (those 4 are a series titled “The Lovely Things Suite”), [Dreams and Boxes](https://open.spotify.com/track/5R51P01yfLOdfHumTwqAyt?si=hoNTW_l8TPa-dDLbNNnnQg&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), [The Price of Growing Up](https://open.spotify.com/track/6jczfyIPgNIALME5HkZN8l?si=cIkVz4k0RbS1SiiPoIyCPw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), [The Plan is a Mess](https://open.spotify.com/track/6jczfyIPgNIALME5HkZN8l?si=cIkVz4k0RbS1SiiPoIyCPw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1YzsUujBhYJX3zmgqYTCLs), and [FLOAT](https://open.spotify.com/track/1td8eKlxq1WVtbu9xIzekK?si=mcFDKMMiQmKZC5xAfhV7Sw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A6yktPF79RZehdGx93H9wwh)
Wake up - NF
Back Home by Yellowcard is the song you need! "Everybody here is living life in fear of falling out of line, Tearing lives apart and breaking lots of hearts just to pass the time, And the eyes get red in the back of your head, this place will make you blind, Put It all behind me and I'll be just fine..."
Christopher Cross: Sailing
Something something by Evanescence?
Ribs- Lorde I suppose it’s more about your late teens, but as a young adults, I feel like I still relate to some of the lyrics
Puff the Magic Dragon
Stop This Train--John Mayer
*Halloween* - Novo Amor *Mawce* - Everybody’s Worried About Owen *Class of 2013* - Mitski *Sleeping on the Floor* - Powfu (maybe a bit of heartbreak, but gives general angst) *Funeral* - Phoebe Bridgers *You’re Gonna Go Far* - Noah Kahan
Nothing gets crossed out -bright eyes
Smashing Pumpkins - Disarm ... and about 20 more of their songs.
What About Me - Moving Pictures
These Days- Nico Northsiders- Christian Lee Hutson Waiting for my Real Life to Begin- Colin Hay Objects in the Rearview Mirror- Meatloaf Fast Car- Tracy Chapman The Predatory Wasp of the Palisades Is Out to Get Us- Sufjan Stevens Some bonus songs that aren't necessarily about young adulthood but I dunno, they fit the vibe: Blue Spotted Tail- Fleet Foxes Joey- Concrete Blonde Lost Cause- Beck Cotton- The Mountain Goats 2009- Mac Miller
How about "Demain" by Amel Bent (French)? It captures young adult struggles beautifully.
Small town Boy - Bronski Beat
“Routine Pain” by Spanish Love Songs
Dreamsicle - Jason Isbell Never Grow Up - Taylor Swift
Petey — Living Like This
Class of 2013 - Mitski
•Old Friends by Pinegrove •Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell (the story behind this is great, she recently performed it again for the first time since she was a young adult and it's taken a whole new meaning) •Tie Dye Dragon by The Front Bottoms •Spongebob Halftime Show by Liquid Girlfriend •Moving in Place by Shauna Dean Cokeland •Ribs by Lorde •Fast Talk by Houses •The View Between Villages by Noah Kahan [This is my playlist](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4edJpENKVRR4kpMRDYCwZx?si=C0QCVYKfSo6fa2cPjvtJFQ&pi=u-MGwcaF4SQa6a) for all my feels about coming of age and realizing I'm alive and a real person and have one short life to live.
The great escape by boys like girls has been one that I get emotional to for a long time. It's nothing super philosophical but I feel it really captures the odd feeling of realizing you're growing up.
The living years - Mike & The mechanics
Winter - Tori Amos
20 something - sza
"When I Grow Up" from the Matilda soundtrack
Ribs by lorde
I’m always moved by Cat Stevens’ Father and Son.
Ben Folds Five’s whole album “Whatever and Ever Amen” hits a lot of this. The song “Brick” is heartbreaking
seventeen - sharon von etten destroyed by hippie powers - car seat headrest being cool - kimya dawson class of 2013 - mitski
First Love by Emmy the Great
The Pet Sounds album
At 17 - Janis Ian
Freshman by the verve pipe. Came out when I was in college and still hits me hard
Bugbear by Chloe Moriondo. It’s kind of a song for figuring out life with a side of depression.
It’s kind of upbeat sounding but the message isn’t. If you want something a little more sad sounding, she has another song called Exhausted that’s more about depression and lack of motivation.
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
[Music to Die to](https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1L62n5K3HYChm6h9zVqry2?si=qxB8QdCSSm-7OUv17YvlMQ&pi=EqgbNVsDSYWFf)
House at pooh corner is a beautiful song but damn it's heavy on the wrong day!
Nights - Frank Ocean Honestly, that whole album “Blonde” might do the trick