💔 Soft Sadness: Dreamy Ballads for Lost Souls
A cinematic journey through heartbreak, longing, and memory.
Let these soft, emotional ballads wrap around you like fading light through a rainy window. Each track is a slow descent into beauty and melancholy-tender vocals, delicate piano, ambient textures, and a quiet kind of ache that lingers long after the last note fades.
This playlist is for anyone who's ever loved deeply, lost quietly, or stood still in the echo of a goodbye. Whether you're grieving, healing, or simply floating through the stillness, these songs hold space for what words can't say.
Put on your headphones, close your eyes, and let yourself feel. 🌧️
🎧 Tracklist with Timestamps:
(0:00) – Falling Like Snow - A hauntingly beautiful portrayal of fleeting love, where the beloved feels achingly close yet perpetually out of reach, like snow that melts before it can be held.
(3:50) – Last Dance - A poignant goodbye wrapped in the tenderness of a final dance, where love lingers in each step even as it slips away.
(7:11) – Somewhere, Still - A wistful journey into the realms of memory and longing, where love persists beyond time and space, alive in dreams and whispered hopes.
(10:20) – You Still Live Here - A raw and tender exploration of lingering heartbreak, where the absence of a loved one feels as vivid as their presence, etched into every corner of life.
(13:19) – Lost In Time - A poignant journey through the fragments of a love that lingers in memories and shadows, where the heart aches to hold what time has taken away.
(16:35) – Half Of A Heart - A deeply personal and aching reflection on the aftermath of love, where the heart learns to beat again but forever carries the weight of what's been lost.
(20:03) – The Last Dance - A heart-wrenching plea to savor a final, fleeting moment of connection, where every step and silence speaks the love words cannot.
(23:23) – Falling Through Time - A hauntingly beautiful ode to the inescapable pull of the past, where love's echoes refuse to fade, leaving both pain and cherished memories intertwined.
(27:15) – If Only You'd Stayed - A tender and devastating reflection on the quiet, everyday heartbreaks of losing someone, where the life you dreamed together lingers in untouched objects and unspoken words.
(31:14) – Paper Hearts - A poetic and achingly fragile depiction of love's delicate beauty, where even the most fleeting connections leave behind a lasting glow amidst the ruins.
(34:33) – The Quietest Goodbye - A profoundly moving exploration of the unseen and unspoken, where the absence left by a quiet goodbye becomes a deafening silence that lingers in every corner of the heart.
🌙 Mood & Inspiration
This playlist was created with a very specific feeling in mind: the soft sadness that sits with you in quiet moments. Not the storm of grief, but the mist it leaves behind. The kind that finds you in the middle of a memory, or in the silence between words.
Each song carries a breathy, vulnerable vocal, with gentle piano and floating harmonies that give the impression of time standing still. If you love artists like Daughter, AURORA, Agnes Obel, or cinematic soundtracks like If Beale Street Could Talk or Her, this will feel like home.
💬 Share Your Story
If you connected with any of the songs in this playlist…
✨ Drop a comment below and share one thing that helped you get through a hard time.
Let's create a space of kindness, honesty, and healing for anyone who stumbles into this music. You never know who might need to read your words.
📌 Popular Use Cases:
• Late-night drives
• Healing after heartbreak
• Rainy day journaling
• Ambient music for writing or dreaming
• Background for emotional short films
• Crying (yeah, that's valid too)
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