Sometimes, life hits you with things that are best coped with by being all sad and looking at the window. The feeling you get when you’re on a long bus ride back from a 7th grade field trip, thinking about how you just got humiliated by the person you’ve had a massive crush on for years. Pretty brutal — especially for the hot-shot with those frosted tips — but potentially empowering.
So with that in mind, here’s a playlist for the middle school emo kid in all of us — the person who tends to surface during particularly harrowing commute home.
1. Empty Apartment – Yellowcard
2. Helplessness Blues – Fleet Foxes
3. Runaway – Kanye West ft. Pusha T
6. Story Of A Lonely Guy – Blink-182
)8. Sign Language – Kinetics & One Love
10. I’m Just A Kid – Simple Plan
11. The No Seatbelt Song – Brand New
12. Stop This Train – John Mayer
14. Piazza, New York Catcher – Belle & Sebastian
15. Wherever You Will Go – The Calling
16. Bonfire Heart – James Blunt
17. We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together – Taylor Swift
18. Ain’t Gotta Work – Hoodie Allen
19. Say Something – A Great Big World
20. Motorcycle Drive By – Third Eye Blind
21. The Saddest Song – The Ataris
22. Screaming Infidelities – Dashboard Confessional
23. I’m Coming Home – Diddy-Dirty Money ft. Skylar Grey
24. The Freshman – The Verve Pipe
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*It’s a bummer you have to qualify this song with an asterisk. 
