Saddest Song ever heard

tears in heaven-saddest song
all of my love is kind of sad too

 

Let Her Cry by Hootie and the Blowfish is pretty sad. From what I get out of it, it's about a guy who loves a girl who has severe depression and got into drugs and has been generally spiralling downwards. The singer wants to leave her but he can't because he loves her too much and still has hope that she'll return back to the person she used to be. *sniff* Always gets me.

 

man i used to love that song so much...i havent heard it for yrs....was so sad!

 

"sad lisa" by cat stevens (usuf islam!) oh man...sing it with feeling, and then tell me it's not sooo sad

 

any thing ben did about mean girls

 

Allright "last Kiss" by pearl Jam
and "when the Levee Breaks" by Led Zepplin

 

i think Dreamer by Ozzy and Imagine by John Lennon because of how you realize how much the world is unlike the one they are talking about.

 

-Jeff Buckley - Grace, Last Goodbye, Halleluja... God, his music is beautiful, yet sad.
-Portishead - sour times, glory box
-Nick Drake - Place to be
-Jefferson Airplane - Coming Back to me
-the beatles - While my guitar gently wheeps, elenor rigby...
...that is all I can think of right now.Why is it that the saddest songs are the most beautiful.

 

Some of them are not new in this thread, but here I go:

• Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (Jeff Buckley version is even better)
• The partisan - Leonard Cohen (16 Horsepower & Noir Desir version is darker and almost tragic)
• Diamonds and rust - Joan Baez
• Hurt - NIN (check out the Johnny Cash version, and watch the video clip if you can for the full effect)

(To be continued...)

 

Go with rodia ~ Leonard Cohen songs such as ~
Last Years Man ~ gotta be the gloomiest opening ever!!
The rain falls down on last years man,
thats a bible in his pocket, and a razor in his hand.....

 

Lenny Kravitz - Fly away...

 

anyone mentioned Radiohead yet? now thats what i call depressing... especially song entitled Exit music (for a film)

 

agh cant stand radiohead... hearing that bloody bloke whining is enough to make anyone suicidal.

err anyway...

sad songs:

Many songs by Springsteen are quite sad but beautiful too a few to mention are:

Racing in the Street
The Promise
Stolen Car (check out Patti Griffins cover too)
My fathers house
Paradise
Downbound train

the list goes on hehe...

random other depressing but brilliant songs are:

Patti Griffin - Rain
Ben Harper - Amen Omen
Sun Kil Moon - Carry Me Ohio
Gillian Welch - Revelator
Kathleen Edwards - Mercury

I could go on but i'd never finish the list

 

One So Black - Bongwater
City Bird - Of Montreal
Love - Robyn Hitchcock
Somewhere over the rainbow - Judy Garlan
You Got the Silver - Rolling Stones

...and about 300 others

Glass Hotel - Robyn Hitchcock
Mother - J Lennon
Indoor Fireworks - Elvis Costello
Memory Motel - Rolling Stones
Dead Melodies - Beck

 

free bird - lynyrd skynyrd
sea and the rhythm - iron & wine
i have no idea what the name of it is, but that song where they just say hallelujah (sp?) a bunch, so sad.

 

Iron and wine are a great band ...have a listen to their song called 'Each Coming Night' i think ive fallen in love with it

 

This Time by the Smashing Pumpkins. You can hear him almost crying on the album in this song.

This time I need to know
I really must be told
If it's over
It's up to you, you know
The things you want to hold
Are in pieces
Crashing down
Crashing down again
Crashing down
Crashing down my freinds
I've got to move it on
I've got to sing my song
While I still can
Dispatch the last alarms
Hand out the last few charms
There's no surprises
Only love
Only love can win
Crashing down
Crashing down again
Only love
Yeah only love will win
Crashing down
Crashing down again
This time I need to know
I really must be told
That it's over
I've lived my life alone
My every step foretold
To never linger
And yet it haunts me so
What are we letting go
Our spell is broken
Crashing down
Crashing down my friends
Crashing down
Crashing down again
Only love
Yeah only love will
Be enough
Yeah only love will win
For every chemical
You trade a piece of your soul
With no return
And who you think you know
Doesn't know you at all
Their drain is needless
Someday we'll wave hello
And wish we'd never waved goodbye
To this romance
We'll drink up every line
And shoot up every word
Till there's no more
Crashing down
Crashing down my friends
Only love
Only love can win
So cry these tears we'll cry as all
We've held so long to fall apart
As the curtain falls we bid you all goodnight

The Show Must Go On by Queen

Empty spaces - what are we living for
Abandoned places - I guess we know the score
On and on, does anybody know what we are looking for...
Another hero, another mindless crime
Behind the curtain, in the pantomime
Hold the line, does anybody want to take it anymore
The show must go on
The show must go on, yeah
Inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on

Whatever happens, I'll leave it all to chance
Another heartache, another failed romance
On and on, does anybody know what we are living for ?
I guess I'm learning (I'm learning learning learning)
I must be warmer now
I'll soon be turning (turning turning turning)
Round the corner now
Outside the dawn is breaking
But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free
The show must go on
The show must go on, yeah yeah
Ooh, inside my heart is breaking
My make-up may be flaking
But my smile still stays on

Yeah yeah, whoa wo oh oh

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies
Fairytales of yesterday will grow but never die
I can fly - my friends
The show must go on (go on, go on, go on) yeah yeah
The show must go on (go on, go on, go on)
I'll face it with a grin
I'm never giving in
On - with the show

Ooh, I'll top the bill, I'll overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the show
On with the show
The show - the show must go on

 

Fairytale of New York
The Pogues
It's pretty damn sad

 

Bruce Springsteen - Downbound Train​

​

I had a job, I had a girl​

I had something going, mister, in this world​

I got laid off down at the lumber yard​

Our love went bad, times got hard​

Now I work down at the car wash​

Where all it ever does is rain​

Don't you feel like you're a rider on a downbound train​

She just said, "Joe, I gotta go​

We had it once, we ain't got it anymore"​

She packed her bags, left me behind​

She bought a ticket on the Central Line​

Nights as I sleep, I hear that whistle whining​

I feel her kiss in the misty rain​

And I feel like I'm a rider on a downbound train ​

​

Last night I heard your voice​

You were crying, crying, you were so alone​

You said your love had never died​

You were waiting for me at home​

Put on my jacket, I ran through the woods​

I ran till I thought my chest would explode​

There in the clearing, beyond the highway​

In the moonlight, our wedding house shone​

I rushed through the yard​

I burst through the front door, my head pounding hard​

Up the stairs I climbed​

The room was dark, our bed was empty​

Then I heard that long whistle whine​

And I dropped to my knees, hung my head and cried​

Now I swing a sledge hammer on a railroad gang​

Knocking down them cross ties, working in the rain​

Now, don't it feel like you're a rider on a downbound train ​

Now tell me that isnt a sad song!​

 

the shadows: Suicide is painless (mash theme, marilyn manson also did a b.s. version)
Paul simon: The late great johnny ace
Paul simon: darling loraine
Great Big Sea: the chemical workers song
Supertramp: the logical song, not eviscerally emotional.
Harry Chapin: remember when the music
Harry chapin: Sniper
Harry Chapin: Dreams go by
James taylor: Fire and rain, if you know the story behind it the ultimate saddest story of all time
Don McLean: American pie
Jim croce: Operator
Jim croce: (I know he's not the origina l artist and just covered it but) old man river

And Goodbye yellow brick road was about him coming out if I remember correctly