The 22 Saddest Christmas Songs Of All Time

Seriously, it's been a year. Get over it.

The upbeat tempo helps make it easy to forget that this song is about spending Christmas alone. New Year's, too.

So ... you actually might not be home for Christmas? Bummer.

Jim pulls through at the end of the song so it's not all bad, but Jim spends 95% of this song dying.

Blitzen! Nooooooooo!

If only boyfriends and girlfriends could fit down chimneys.

...What is actually going on here.

They listen to this song and cry into their fruitcakes and try to sleep until New Year's.

This one starts off kind of sexy, reminiscing on skinny dipping in a pool, but then, woops! She's dead. Merry Christmas, guys.

The lyrics are sad, but the harmonized moaning and wailing in the background make them even sadder.

But what if Santa doesn't know to bring your presents to you on the corner?

Maybe now is a good time to start considering liquor a "friend."

Maybe now is a good time to start hanging out with Charles Brown and his new friend up there.

No Christmas song should ever contain the word "sorrow."

One day the world won't be such a horrible, murderous, sucky place! Til then, everything is awful.

A charming song about a boy who watches kids playing with their new Christmas toys, then presumably goes home to play with old syringes and broken razor blades.

If there's one thing a sad Christmas song loves, it's orphans wandering the streets alone.

Two minutes of a newscaster reading horrible headlines about how terrible everything is with "Silent Night" in the background. Why.

Nothing says Christmas like images of soldiers chained up in foreign prisons.

A man who can't land a ride while hitchhiking in the cold on Christmas Eve admits that if he had a car, he'd leave wouldn't stop for a hitchhiker, either. Tis the season!

One of the most widely loved and hated of the season, "Christmas Shoes" (popularized by Newsong) has long been thought to be the saddest Christmas song on earth. UNTIL...

A homeless kid named Billy finds Santa and asks him if he can go live with Jesus in Heaven where the people are much nicer than the abusive family he ran away from, then dies.