50 Best Sad Songs About Rain
Best Rain-Themed Songs That Actually Feel Like Rain
Some days you don’t need a whole story. The clouds roll in, the window fogs up, and your brain gets weirdly quiet. Not sad in the dramatic way, but in that low buzz of nothing-feels-right kind of way. Rain doesn’t always bring catharsis. Sometimes it just hangs there, and the songs that match it don’t push for resolution either. They hover, a little soggy, a little stuck. The good ones make you feel like time’s stalling out, like everything’s paused between something you can’t name and something you’re not ready for.
There’s something strange that happens when rain and music sync up. Not in the cinematic downpour kind of way but when the track playing sounds like it’s been waterlogged for hours. The vocals trail off, the drums hit like soft taps on a windshield, the guitars blur out at the edges. These aren’t storm anthems or full breakdowns. They feel quieter, almost bored with sadness. And that’s kind of the point. You can hear it in certain pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that don’t try to turn the weather into poetry. They leave things damp, fogged, a little off.
You could be walking through a grocery store parking lot with wet shoes. You could be staring out the bus window wondering why the hell your phone’s still on 1%. Maybe nothing big happened today but it still feels like something cracked open in the air. These are the tracks that sound like that. Here are the best sad songs that feel like rain.
Top 10 Rain Songs
1. 'Purple Rain'—Prince
2. 'November Rain'—Guns N' Roses
3. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?'—Creedence Clearwater Revival
4. 'Rainy Night in Georgia'—Brook Benton
5. 'Here Comes the Rain Again'—Eurythmics
6. 'I Wish It Would Rain'—The Temptations
7. 'Crying in the Rain'—The Everly Brothers
8. 'Only Happy When It Rains'—Garbage
9. 'Rain Song'—Led Zeppelin
10. 'Why Does It Always Rain on Me?'—Travis
Exploring Sad Rain Songs #11—20
11. 'Fire and Rain'—James Taylor
12. 'A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall'—Bob Dylan
13. 'Riders on the Storm'—The Doors
14. 'Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain'—Willie Nelson
15. 'Rain King'—Counting Crows
16. 'Mandolin Rain'—Bruce Hornsby and the Range
17. 'Kentucky Rain'—Elvis Presley
18. 'Early Morning Rain'—Gordon Lightfoot
19. 'Rainy Days and Mondays'—The Carpenters
20. 'Stormy Weather'—Etta James
Focusing on Emotional Rain Songs #21—30
21. 'Set Fire to the Rain'—Adele
22. 'Come Rain or Come Shine'—Ray Charles
23. 'It's Raining Again'—Supertramp
24. 'Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head'—B.J. Thomas
25. 'Fool in the Rain'—Led Zeppelin
26. 'I Can See Clearly Now'—Johnny Nash
27. 'Laughter in the Rain'—Neil Sedaka
28. 'Singin' in the Rain'—Gene Kelly
29. 'Rain and Tears'—Aphrodite's Child
30. 'The Sound of Silence'—Simon & Garfunkel
Understanding Reflective Rain Songs #31—40
31. 'Hurt'—Johnny Cash
32. 'Tears in Heaven'—Eric Clapton
33. 'Everybody Hurts'—R.E.M.
34. 'Fix You'—Coldplay
35. 'Hallelujah'—Leonard Cohen
36. 'Nothing Compares 2 U'—Sinead O'Connor
37. 'Yesterday'—The Beatles
38. 'Wish You Were Here'—Pink Floyd
39. 'Mad World'—Tears for Fears
40. 'Glycerine'—Bush
Exploring Evocative Rain Songs #41—50
41. 'My Heart Will Go On'—Celine Dion
42. 'Dust in the Wind'—Kansas
43. 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'—Simon & Garfunkel
44. 'Ain't No Sunshine'—Bill Withers
45. 'Crazy'—Patsy Cline
46. 'At Last'—Etta James
47. 'Stand By Me'—Ben E. King
48. 'The Boxer'—Simon & Garfunkel
49. 'Candle in the Wind'—Elton John
50. 'No Woman, No Cry'—Bob Marley
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