50 Best Sad Songs About Rainy Days
Rainy Day Sad Songs That Actually Hit
There’s a strange kind of stillness that creeps in when it starts raining and you weren’t expecting it. Not the theatrical kind, not even the soft, cozy version they write poems about. It’s the type that pulls everything a little lower, makes the air heavier, makes texts feel colder. The sky drops and your brain kind of caves in a little with it. You start overthinking things you’d shrugged off last week. There’s traffic outside and the lights feel too yellow and you’re in this weird pocket of time where nothing feels urgent but everything feels off. That’s where these songs live.
Some of them sound quiet even when they’re loud. Others feel like they were made in a bedroom with the blinds half-closed and no one replying fast enough. They don’t rush to the hook. They sit in the space between things happening and things not happening. You’ve got pop, rock, country, and R&B songs that play like a conversation you didn’t get to finish. The kind that wraps around your brain and makes you remember a fight you swore you were over. Or a person you haven’t thought about in three months until the bridge drops and suddenly you’re pacing.
Rain doesn’t always feel like closure. Sometimes it’s a loop. Windows fogged, clothes still damp, head full of noise and nowhere to put it. These tracks don’t try to solve it. They just meet you there, in the middle of it, and make the mood a little louder. Here are the best sad rain songs to sit in for a while.
Top 10 Sad Rain Songs
1. 'Rainy Days and Mondays'—The Carpenters
2. 'Crying in the Rain'—The Everly Brothers
3. 'November Rain'—Guns N' Roses
4. 'Have You Ever Seen the Rain?'—Creedence Clearwater Revival
5. 'Purple Rain'—Prince
6. 'Here Comes the Rain Again'—Eurythmics
7. 'Rain King'—Counting Crows
8. 'Riders on the Storm'—The Doors
9. 'The Sound of Silence'—Simon & Garfunkel
10. 'Someone Like You'—Adele
Melancholy Weather Songs #11—20
11. 'Fix You'—Coldplay
12. 'Hallelujah'—Leonard Cohen
13. 'Creep'—Radiohead
14. 'Tears in Heaven'—Eric Clapton
15. 'Yesterday'—The Beatles
16. 'Everybody Hurts'—R.E.M.
17. 'Gloomy Sunday'—Billie Holiday
18. 'Mad World'—Tears for Fears
19. 'Summertime Sadness'—Lana Del Rey
20. 'Only Love Can Break a Heart'—Gene Pitney
Rainy Mood Songs #21—30
21. 'Don't Speak'—No Doubt
22. 'My Heart Will Go On'—Celine Dion
23. 'I Will Always Love You'—Whitney Houston
24. 'Un-Break My Heart'—Toni Braxton
25. 'Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)'—Phil Collins
26. 'Hello'—Lionel Richie
27. 'Careless Whisper'—George Michael
28. 'Every Breath You Take'—The Police
29. 'With or Without You'—U2
30. 'Total Eclipse of the Heart'—Bonnie Tyler
Downtempo Rainy Day Songs #31—40
31. 'Nothing Compares 2 U'—Sinead O'Connor
32. 'I'm Not in Love'—10cc
33. 'The Scientist'—Coldplay
34. 'All By Myself'—Celine Dion
35. 'Goodbye My Lover'—James Blunt
36. 'You Say'—Lauren Daigle
37. 'A Thousand Years'—Christina Perri
38. 'Someone You Loved'—Lewis Capaldi
39. 'drivers license'—Olivia Rodrigo
40. 'Happier Than Ever'—Billie Eilish
Emotional Weather Songs #41—50
41. 'When the Party's Over'—Billie Eilish
42. 'Train Wreck'—James Arthur
43. 'Say Something'—A Great Big World & Christina Aguilera
44. 'Liability'—Lorde
45. 'Dancing On My Own'—Robyn
46. 'Chasing Cars'—Snow Patrol
47. 'The A Team'—Ed Sheeran
48. 'Stay'—Rihanna ft. Mikky Ekko
49. 'Love Yourself'—Justin Bieber
50. 'When We Were Young'—Adele
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