Tear Jerker / The All-American Rejects

This power-pop group has written plenty of emotional songs.

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• "Swing, Swing," the song that made them famous, is about as shamelessly melodramatic as a 2000s emo song can get, and all the better for anyone going through a difficult breakup.
• "Dirty Little Secret". The song itself is emotional, with a chorus far from the standard love-song drivel: "Tell me all that you've thrown away/Find out games you don't wanna play/You are the only one that needs to know..." But once you see the video and everyone holding post cards up to the camera (with secrets varying from "I have more body hair than any woman should" to "I had gay sex at church camp" to "I only love two of my children"), you'll be bawling. Or at least having soul pains from the fact that the secrets are real, even if the people are actors.
• "It Ends Tonight"
  Just a little insight
  won't make this right
  It's too late to fight
  It ends tonight
• "Straightjacket Feeling"
  Today I'm fine without you
  Run away this time without you
  And all the things you put me through
  I'm holding on by letting go of you
• "Another Heart Calls"
  Tyson: I'm sorry
  Allison: So what?
  Tyson: But you don't think I've said enough
  I'm sorry
  Allison: I don't care!
  You were never there!
• "Breakin"
  In a clear view there's a silhouette
  And I watch you and I can't forget
  Knew we were done when I locked that door
  Yeah I figured it out now
  Breaking's what your heart is for
• "Believe" is this and heartwarming.
  I don't ever wanna believe
  No I don't ever wanna believe, yeah
  that when we die
  that we all leave
  I don't ever wanna let go
  I hope that you see, yeah
  that there's a part of you that's left inside of me
• "Heartbeat Slowing Down"
  I fucking hate this town
  I wanna burn it down
  I never felt so cold
  And when I burn this town
  I hope I burn it down
  and leave me on my own
• "Drown Next to Me" is mostly heartwarming, but the dark metaphors put it in this section.
  I walk in the water 'cause I can hardly breathe
  We can leave the ones who love us
  You’re all I ever need
  We’ll tell each other lies
  that I know we’ll both believe
  Just sand in the water
  Drown next to me
• "There's a Place" is about childhood friends (with the narrator in love with his friend) growing increasingly distant from each other as the narrator sings about the inevitable.
  In your heart, that's where I'll always be
  Now close your eyes and I will never leave
  It's funny how I see us hand in hand
  I miss you already, understand
  That I know that you aren't ready
  But you don't get to pick the day
  That the worst one in your life will land right on
  I can hear you beg for more
  I can hold you in this song