10 Emotional Rock Songs That Will Make You Cry

10. One More Light - Linkin Park

Linkin Park always had a bit of a tortured streak in their lyrics from day one. Aside from some of the adolescent stuff that came through on Hybrid Theory that we can cringe at today, you can tell that Chester Bennington really poured his heart and soul into every single word he sang on those records. It's a different matter entirely though when that kind of pain turns real.

Though One More Light was released a few months prior to Chester's tragic suicide, the entire song feels recontextualized knowing what was to come in the next few months. While the song was originally meant as a sort of tribute to one of the band's close friends at their label who had passed away, hearing Chester sing lines about being supportive when someone is at their lowest is absolutely haunting to think about these days.

Granted, there have always been these kind of words sprinkled throughout the other records, like the solemn goodbye on Leave Out All the Rest or surrendering to the void on something like Waiting For the End. This was intended to be a message of hope though, and after Chester's passing, this basically feels like him talking to us from beyond the grave. Chester was always a bit of a sensitive soul in the world of hard rock, but if he had only listened to the advice that he sang in this song, we may be talking about the new music he would be releasing today.