Emotional music that's not emo?

I love music that can have strong emotional meaning behind the lyrics, or with the lead singer actually showing emotion, rather than the senseless screaming to the backdrop of shitty music. I'm not talking about emo music....that's just basically "WAHHH I'M GETTING RICH OFF OF SAYING MY LIFE SUCKS WAAHHHH BAWWWWW I HAVE NO TALENTS BUT I'M RICH HAWWWW WAAHHH BAWWWWW". I want something kinda true.

Try some 'They Might Be Giants'.

Like many of my fellow nerds, a strong unrequited love exists within me. Listening to 'Withered Hope' made me feel like such an Emo until I realised it was actually quite an upbeat song... it just had depressing lyrics.

I think it was John Flansburgh who said that publicly crying doesn't entice sympathy from him, and that the most depressing person in the world is the person who hasn't quite grasped the fact that he has a terrible life and is depressed.