Music for weeping: A miserabilist examines world's saddest songs

Life is terrible. The world hates you. Even your mother and father have forsaken you. But at least there's someone who's more misunderstood than you. "Safe in your place deep in the earth/That's when they'll know what you were really worth," sings Nick Drake in "Fruit Tree," one song among hundreds addressed in "This Will End in Tears," writer Adam Brent Houghtaling's detailed survey of sad songs.

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