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The Top 20 Saddest Christmas Songs

Gather round the Christmas tree and get ready to cry!

Phoebe Bridgers - Christmas Song (Official Audio)

Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, but sometimes you're not feeling the cheer.

Or maybe you just love sad music and want to get in the holiday spirit. Whatever your reason for listening to melancholy music, there are plenty of devastating Christmas songs to help you cozy up with a cup of spiked cider and the blues. From indie gems to old classics, are our favorites.

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Los Angeles-based dark dream-pop artist Opāru introduces the music video for "Ghost To Follow."

Opāru, aka Dianna St. Hilaire, who borrowed her name from the Japanese term for the opal birthstone, explains the song, "You are so strong and wise and powerful but you live in the shadow of who you really are so that people around you will accept you. You're so afraid that if you break through to your true beauty that you will lose those around you."

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Directed by Morningstar Sargenti, the video depicts a kind of watery dance against the stark vastness of the desert, as Opāru's haunting tones narrate her longing for liberation.

"I watch the world go by / For you / I'll be your ghost / And I still wake up alone."

Gather round the Christmas tree and get ready to cry!

Christmas is supposed to be a time of joy, but sometimes you're not feeling the cheer.

1. McCarthy Trenching — Christmas Song

2. Julien Baker — Decorated Lawns

3. Brent Butler — Brooklyn Christmas Eve

4. Sufjan Stevens — Sister Winter

5. Elvis Presley — Blue Christmas

6. Wham! — Last Christmas

7. Taylor Swift — Christmases When You Were Mine

8. Joni Mitchell — River

9. NewSong — The Christmas Shoes

10. The Everly Brothers — Christmas Eve Can Kill You

11. 7 O'Clock News/Silent Night — Simon and Garfunkel

12. Prince — Another Lonely Christmas

13. Greensleeves

14. Elmo & Patsy — Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer

15. The Carpenters — Merry Christmas Darling

16. Tom Waits — Christmas Card From A Hooker In Minneapolis

17. Marvin Gaye — I Want to Come Home For Christmas

18. Darlene Love — Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)

19. Miley Cyrus — My Sad Christmas Song

20. LCD Soundsystem — Christmas Will Break Your Heart

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The magic and secret joy of romantic rituals.

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Future-electro with dark ethereal undertones.

Los Angeles-based dark dream-pop artist Opāru introduces the music video for "Ghost To Follow."

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