Sometimes when summer ends it takes a whole bunch of other stuff down with it. People move away, bars close, the rain sets in, maybe you even get your heart broken. No matter the reason, the changing of seasons kinda sucks until it doesn’t anymore. I’ve made a playlist with equal parts depressing indie music and vindictive pop to get you through the turbulence. Honestly, I went from crying to feeling kinda okay while listening to it. Hope it does the same for you.

(Note: Playlist has best effect if listened to IN ORDER.)

Track list, with key lyrics for your reference:

1. Sad Girl – Lana Del Rey
2. Calico Man – PHOX “And I will shout it from these corners that I may never love again”
3. Pretend You Love Me – Sonny and the Sunsets
4. Dark Parts – Perfume Genius
5. Not Your Lover – Blitzen Trapper “In my sleep I’m not your lover anymore/ When I wake I have to remind myself that I’m sleeping on your shore.”
6. All Too Well – Taylor Swift “You call me up again just to break me like a promise/ So casually cruel in the name of being honest.”
7. The Good That Won’t Come Out – Rilo Kiley “I think i’ll go out and embarrass myself by getting drunk and falling down in the street/ You say i choose sadness, that it never once has chosen me/ Maybe you’re right.”
8. Burn – Usher
9. It Is What It Is – Kacey Musgraves
10. Starring Role – Marina and the Diamonds
11. Saltwater – Beach House “Love you all the time/ Even though you’re not mine.”
12. One By One – Billy Bragg and Wilco
13. Unfucktheworld – Angel Olsen “Here’s to thinking that it all meant so much more.”
14. In Due Time – PHOX “And for years to come in the mornings/ You may think that I’m the best thing you’ve almost had/ In due time if I gain some self respect/ I could smile upon the day that we first met.”
15. Tangled Heart – Luluc
16. We’re Just Friends – Wilco
17. Stay – Rihanna
18. You Are What You Love – Jenny Lewis
19. The Mermaid Parade – Phosphorescent
20. Don’t Apply Compression Gently – Courtney Barnett “I may not be 100 percent happy but at least I’m not with you.”
21. Stupid – Kacey Musgraves “Love is stupid/ Don’t know why we always do it.”
22. If It Makes You Happy – Sheryl Crow
23. I Won’t Share You – The Smiths
24. I Care – Beyonce
25. Dancing On My Own – Robyn
26. The First Cut is the Deepest – PP Arnold
27. I Go To The Barn Because I Like The – Band of Horses
28. Really Don’t Care – Demi Lovato and Cher Lloyd
29. Tears in the Typing Pool – Broadcast
30. If I Needed You – Emmylou Harris
31. Chasing A Ghost – The Morning Benders
32. There Will Be No Divorce – The Mountain Goats “If i ever want to drive myself insane/ All i have to do is watch you breathing.”
33. Love Hurts – Roy Orbison
34. Happiness/The Gondola Man – Elliott Smith “What I used to be will pass away and then you’ll see/ That all I want now is happiness for you and me.”