depressing songs...

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  1. Platinum_twf

    Platinum_twf Member

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    what do you think is the most saddest and depressing song ever made....
     
  2. hailtothekingbaby

    hailtothekingbaby Yowzers!

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    Shape of Despair - Still-motion. Keywords are heavy, crawling, esoteric, repetitive, hypnotising, desperate, and beautiful.

    My Dying Bride - Sear me III. Keywords are slow, esoteric, hypnotising, fragile, emotional (understatement!), desperate, and beautiful.

    I think everyone should have heard these two songs at last once. They're both doom metal, but very different. They are songs I like to play on repeat for long times in a row because they're just so indescribably beautiful. Really.
     
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  4. HappyDrivin

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    "Shirts and Gloves" Dashboard Confessional *if u miss somone*
    "Dont Be Denied" *when Widespread Panic does it, makes me think of Mikey"
     
  5. Unkle_John

    Unkle_John Member

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    "End of the tour" ~ They Might be Giants (John Henry Album)

    I have never had an experience quite like the night when i realized what "The End Of The Tour" is about. It is the absolute saddest song I have ever heard in my life. I cried for over an hour listening to it.

    It is about a horrible car crash and a man's struggle to forgive himself for killing a car full of teenagers. It actually was not his fault because the girls were drunk driving but ever since the incident he has brutally blamed himself. He is finally finding the first bit of hope toward recovery from the horrible wreck that he was involved in.

    Listen to the words.... ( lyrics below )

    There was a beautiful teenage girl who was at a party, under the influence of drugs or alcohol. She became bored of the party so she decided she could drive; she thought that she was able to "see herself". She takes her friends and they drive out on I-91. The man is driving also and it's late; he is distracted by many things. When on the overpass, he is hit. His car is mereley dented but the other car bursts into flames and the girls are killed. He watched the police take the bodies out. He saw how beautiful the children were and was scarred by this completely.

    During the song he refers to the family of the beautiful girl and the horror that they must have felt when the police knocked on the door to tell them they had lost their child. He also breaks into the nursery type lyric about watching the police pull the bodies from the car.

    He has blamed himself for the wreck from the beginning, but he has been ruining himself with it and finally decides to turn to God who helps him out. He finally finds a peace within himself saying that at the end of his life, if anyone will forgive him, he will meet the girl in heaven and apologize. Until then he must endure his own life, but one day he will be in heaven to ask for forgiveness.

    He is beginning to realize that it is not his fault and he must go on and God has "let them go" for a reason. He will always be haunted by the experience and will never be the same. And he's never going to tour again.
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    There's a girl with a crown and a scepter
    Who's on WLSD
    And she says that the scene isn't what it's been
    And she's thinking of going home
    That it's old and it's totally over now
    And it's old and it's over, it's over now
    And it's over, it's over, it's over now
    I can see myself

    At the end of the tour
    When the road disappears
    If there's any more people around
    When the tour runs aground
    And if you're still around
    Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
    The engagements are booked through the end of the world
    So we'll meet at the end of the tour

    Never to part since the day we met
    Out on Interstate 91
    I was bent metal you were a flaming wreck
    When we kissed at the overpass
    I was sailing along with the people
    Driving themselves to distraction inside me
    Then came a knock on the door which was odd
    And the picture abruptly changed

    At the end of the tour
    When the road disappears
    If there's any more people around
    When the tour runs aground
    And if you're still around
    Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
    The engagements are booked through the end of the world
    So we'll meet at the end of the tour

    This was the vehicle these were the people
    You opened the door and expelled all the people
    This was the vehicle these were the people
    You opened the door and expelled all the people
    This was the vehicle these were the people
    You let them go

    At the end of the tour
    When the road disappears
    If there's any more people around
    When the tour runs aground
    And if you're still around
    Then we'll meet at the end of the tour
    The engagements are booked through the end of the world
    So we'll meet at the end of the tour
    And we're never gonna tour again
    No, we're never gonna tour again
     
  6. Bernie

    Bernie Member

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    "mad world" -gary jules
    "brick" -ben folds five
    and cliche "my immortal" - evanescence

    mad world is just beautiful, and brick and my immortal are the only songs that have ever made me cry... my immortal was played at a funeral of this kid at school though
     
  7. samson

    samson Hepcat

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    My Man - Billie Holiday "...he beats me too..."
    Yer Blues - John Lennon "...feel so suicidal, just like Dylans Mr Jones..."
    Crazy Man Michael - Fairport Convention ".....your true love will die, by your own right hand...."
    Ball and Chain - Janis
     
  8. innocentpoison333

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    The most depressing song I ever heard is "The End of The Innoscence"- By Don Henley....I love that song
     
  9. walkoflife

    walkoflife Some Assembly Required

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    There are a few that I have, and because of the way I am, my personal depression is the reason for these choices:


    1) Kix- Don't Close Your Eyes
    2) Styx-Babe
    3) Journey-Faithfully
     
  10. Lizard King

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    1)Since I´ve Been Loving you (How the west was won version) Led Zeppelin
    2)Te doy una cancion - Silvio Rodriguez
     
  11. forest_pixie84

    forest_pixie84 Senior Member

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    anything by eminem, accept lose yourself, that's inspiring
     
  12. Baby Fire-fly

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    Mad World and Brick.... Mad world is just the most beautiful song in the world though and brick, well yeh that song means something....
     
  13. Spiderweb Sitar

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    I'd have to say the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah (originally by Leonard Cohen).
     
  14. wonderboy841

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    stained-ephiphany by far is the most depressing song ever made
     
  15. empathy

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    codine - donovan
    a lack of color - death cab
    sea and the rhythm - iron & wine
     
  16. jo_k_er_man

    jo_k_er_man TBD

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    The whole Dysfunction album by Staind... highly depressing CD... i usually listen to it when im really depressed too....
     
  17. Lemongait

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    I doubt anyone's heard it, but "Caution" by the Chameleons UK. Oh, and by the way, Mad World is by Tears for Fears. Gary Jules did a cover of it specifically for the Donnie Darko ST
     
  18. sweet smoke

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    godspeedyou!blackemperor - east hastings
     
  19. Syntax

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    Most new songs depress me, because they suck so much.
     
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