Top 5 Songs That Have Helped Me Through My Grieving Process

Music can help so many people through some of the most challenging times of their lives, whether grieving the loss of friendship or the death of a loved one. In the last 2 1/2 years, I have lost three people very close to me.

Here are five songs that have helped me through this tough time of my life. I hope they do the same for you.

1. Until it happens to You by Sasha Alex Sloan (2020)

Until it Happens to You explores the idea that until you experience losing someone close to you don’t honestly know what grief and loss feels like. In the songs, she sings:

2. End Of Youth By Ed Sheeran (2023)

End of Youth illustrates grief and loss changes a person and how it’s genuinely the moment you become an adult.

In the chorus, he sings:

3. Hasn’t Hit Me Yet by Seth Giler (2017)

Hasn’t Hit Me Yet explores the surreal feeling that you know someone’s gone, but I can’t fully comprehend it or imagine a life without the person you lost.

He sings let me hold it together because I can’t accept I’ve never been in the world without you in it.

4. The World Keeps Spinning by Kalie Shorr(2019)

The World Keeps Spinning captures the feelings of losing someone and feeling like your world stopped, but the world keeps going on like nothing has happened. In the song, Shorr sings the powerful lyrics:

5. These Tears by Andy Grammer(2023)

These Tears explores the feeling when you finally realize you’re going to be okay after losing a loved one, and even though the person is no longer in the physical world, you feel them.

In the chorus, he sings:

I’m learnin’ how to be alone

I’m broken, but give it time

I’m gon’ be alright.

These tears mean it’s settlin’ in

That I’m not gon’ see you again

‘Til one day in another life

But I’m gon be al —; I’m gon’ be alright.