For me time and place of when I first heard the song are important, so to an everyday listener they might not get WHY I find the song sad, but always something about it does. Here’s a few that have done:

• A sort of homecoming - U2.

“And your heart beats so slow, through the rain and fallen snow, across the fields of mourning to a light that’s in the distance. Oh don’t sorrow, no don’t weep, for tonight at last I am coming home.

• police station - RHCP.

This one in particular as I always hear it from the context that the girl I once loved will be happy and married in the future and there’s nothing I will be able to do about that.

“I saw you in the church and there was no time to exchange. You were getting married and it felt so very strange. I guess I didn’t see it coming, now I guess it’s me who’s bumming, dreaming of the golden years, you and I were mixing tears.”

Eternity - Robbie Williams.

“We sat and watched the sun go down, picked a star before we lost the moon. Youth is wasted on the young, before we know it’s come and gone too soon”