For sitting on the floor
When grief feels too big for a chair.
Sometimes grief doesn’t want you upright.
It pulls you down.
To the carpet.
To the corner of the room.
To a place where your body feels safer low to the ground.
This is grief that’s too heavy to hold together.
Too big to explain.
Too present to tidy up.
These songs aren’t here to lift you, calm you, or help you make sense of anything.
They’re here to meet you where you are -
on the floor, breathing, surviving, not needing to move yet.
You don’t need to listen carefully.
You don’t need to finish anything.
You can let the music sit in the room with you.
Songs
Adele - Million Years Ago
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Why this song
Quiet and reflective.
This song carries a sense of longing and distance that sits low to the ground for moments when grief feels heavy, familiar, and close to the body.
Céline Dion - Immortality
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Why this song
Longing without urgency.
A song you can sink into when everything feels slow and heavy.
Shakespeare’s Sister - Stay
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Why this song
This song sits low to the ground.
It holds desperation and need without trying to make it tidy - for moments when standing feels impossible.
Birdy - Not About Angels
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Why this song
Quiet and emotionally still.
It lets sadness exist without explanation or resolution.
Florence + The Machine - No Choir
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Why this song
Spare and honest.
This song allows grief to exist without beauty, resolution, or comfort for moments when sitting on the floor feels like the only possible place to be.
Sleeping At Last - Turning Page
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Why this song
Slow and body-based.
Good for when your nervous system needs gentleness more than words.
Miley Cyrus - Used To Be Young
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Why this song
Soft, exposed, and human.
It allows sadness and memory to sit quietly, without needing strength or movement.
Ben Harper - Amen Omen
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Why this song
Gentle and worn-in.
This song feels like sitting with grief rather than speaking to it steady, close, and unguarded.
Sinéad O’Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U
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Why this song
Bare and emotionally stripped.
A song that allows grief to be exactly as it is, without defence.
Lady Gaga - I’ll Never Love Again
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Why this song
Slow, raw, and unguarded.
This song lets grief sit fully in the body, without comfort or resolution for moments when the weight of loss feels impossible to hold upright.
A quiet permission
You don’t need to get up.
You don’t need to pull yourself together.
You don’t need to make sense of anything yet.
Sitting on the floor is allowed.
Staying there is allowed.
These songs will wait with you.
