10 Emotional Rock Songs That Will Make You Cry
2. Fake Plastic Trees - Radiohead
Most of the best examples of emotional songs on this list usually come back to some form of love song. That one emotion has been fueling some of the best songs to ever grace the charts for years now, and it's not going to stop any time soon. It's a hard emotion to put into words, but Radiohead are good with what they have on Fake Plastic Trees.
Granted, most Radiohead fans could take their pick of many different songs from their catalog that will make your eyes wet, and Fake Plastic Trees is certainly in that camp. On the first few listens though, it originally sounds like this guy is annoyed more than anything, looking at all of the artificial sides of the world and saying how much it wears him out from day to day. As the song ramps up with the strings though, he finds one woman who looks too much like the real thing to actually let go.
He understands that he's going to be in for another hollow experience, but he's happy to at least get some form of happiness whenever he can. The line 'if I could be who you wanted' might seem pretty simple, but Thom is willing to turn into the person that she wants him to be just to know that she will stay with him. This man clearly wants something stable, but if it means that he'll have a moment's happiness right now, he will gladly settle for less. Chances are he's still there, waiting for real love that's never going to come.