Whatever the emotion, sad songs seem to help ... Originally written by Sam Cooke just two weeks before his untimely death, Otis Redding’s version of “A Change Is Gonna Come” delivered ...

But the very saddest country songs of the 2020s share personal experiences with death. No. 1, No. 2 and No. 3 on our list of sad songs from the decade are all story songs about loss and grief ...

and new life instead of a continued cycle of death. The audience who sings the originally sad lyrics to his song, "Alive," is ...