50 Best Sad Songs About Sisters
Songs That Hit When Missing Your Sister Gets Heavy
There’s a kind of silence that shows up when your sister’s not around. Not the peaceful kind. The kind that creeps in on the walk home or when you're scrolling through old photos without meaning to. The stuff you’d normally text her feels heavier when it stays in your head. Some of these tracks live in that space. Where the bond's tight, even when the circumstances aren’t. It’s not always a tragedy. Sometimes it’s a quiet distance, a dumb fight nobody circled back to, or the way growing up splits people in weird directions. You throw on a song and it lands hard because it sounds like something she’d play first.
These aren’t big, sweeping anthems trying to make sense of it all. They don’t hold your hand. They sit with the lump in your throat, the voicemail you replayed, the thing you should’ve said that got swallowed in a sigh. Some of them sound like driving past a childhood place and realizing you don’t belong there the same way anymore. Others sound like grief wearing sweatpants. And it cuts across pop, rock, country, and R&B songs with the kind of lyrics that don’t soften the hit. You can hear the ache before the words even come in.
It’s weird how certain voices feel like memories talking back. They don’t try to explain the dynamic or unpack the fallout. They just play through and leave something cracked open. These songs lean into that strange sister-shaped feeling that never fully settles, and they don’t pretend to fix it. Here’s the playlist that knows exactly where that hits.
Top 10 Sister Sad Songs
1. 'My Sister'—Reba McEntire
2. 'Slipped Away'—Avril Lavigne
3. 'Someone Great'—LCD Soundsystem
4. 'Wish You Were Here'—Pink Floyd
5. 'Gone Away'—The Offspring
6. 'Daniel'—Elton John
7. 'Fire and Rain'—James Taylor
8. 'Hear You Me'—Jimmy Eat World
9. 'Marjorie'—Taylor Swift
10. 'My Sister'—Juliana Hatfield
Songs Exploring Sisterly Sadness #11—20
11. 'Always Gold'—Radical Face
12. 'Welcome Home'—Radical Face
13. 'Out of Time (Live)'—Blur
14. 'City on a Hill'—Mon Rovîa
15. 'Love is Only a Heartbeat Away'—Jamie T.
16. 'Magnets Pt. 1 & 2'—Slothrust
17. 'It's All So Incredibly Loud'—Glass Animals
18. 'First Thing to Go'—Hayley Williams
19. 'Echo in the Corner of the Room'—The Frights
20. 'Saw You in a Dream'—The Japanese House
Understanding Sisterly Loss in Music #21—30
21. 'Time'—The Alan Parsons Project
22. 'Knockin' On Heaven's Door'—Bob Dylan
23. 'Always'—Killswitch Engage
24. 'Requiem'—AngelMaker
25. 'So Far Away'—Avenged Sevenfold
26. 'Back to the Old House'—The Smiths
27. 'Bridge Over Troubled Water'—Simon & Garfunkel
28. 'Swallowing Bruises'—Myles Bullen
29. 'Dearly Departed'—Marianas Trench
30. 'While We're Young'—Marianas Trench
Songs on Sister Bonds and Grief #31—40
31. 'Ashes of Eden'—Breaking Benjamin
32. 'Here Comes the Flood'—Peter Gabriel
33. 'Ripples'—Genesis
34. 'And You and I'—Yes
35. 'Heaven's in Here'—Tin Machine
36. 'Us and Them'—Pink Floyd
37. 'More Than This'—Roxy Music
38. 'Golden Embers'—Watchhouse
39. 'Orange Juice'—Noah Kahan
40. 'Give Heaven Some Hell'—Hardy
Sisterhood Challenges in Sad Songs #41—50
41. 'Brother'—Madds Buckley
42. 'DNA'—Lia Marie Johnson
43. 'Family Line'—Conan Gray
44. 'The Mother We Share'—CHVRCHES
45. 'Martha'—Rufus Wainwright
46. 'Letter To A Sister Friend'—Ursula Rucker featuring Vicki Miles
47. 'Sweet Sister Sorrow'—The Primitives
48. 'Oh, Sister'—Bob Dylan
49. 'I Miss My Sister'—R. Kelly
50. 'Sister'—K.Flay
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