Saddest Song ever heard

It was me.

*grins inanely*

hmmmm i thought of some more, Goodbye Yellow Brick Road by Elton John.
and, Design For Life by the Manic Street Preachers, does anyone else find that sad? cos i find it kinda heart-wrenching in a way....
Jaz

 

I don't think the Wall was supposed to be depressing, it was supposed to be emotionless.

 

maybe it wasn't supposed to be, but it definately is... there's an overwhelming sense of despair and loneliness all the way through, and someone trying to be something they're not, and wanting something they can't get...ie, the psychological wall. and in the end it destroys them.
jaz

 

Probably "Invitation to the Blues" by Tom Waits

here are the lyrics but its more about how he sings them and how the song sounds (I love it)



Well she's up against the register
with an apron and a spatula
with yesterday's deliveries,
and the tickets for the bachelors
she's a moving violation
from her conk down to her shoes
but it's just an invitation to the blues

and you feel just like Cagney
looks like Rita Hayworth
at the counter of the Schwab's drug store
you wonder if she might be single
she's a loner likes to mingle
got to be patient and pick up a clue

she says howyougonnalikem
over medium or scrambled
anyway's the only way
be careful not to gamble
on a guy with a suitcase
and a ticket gettin out of here
it's a tired bus station
and an old pair of shoes
but it ain't nothing but an
invitation to the blues

but you can't take your eyes off her
get another cup of java
and it's just the way she pours it for you
joking with the customers
and it's mercy mercy Mr. Percy
there ain't nothin back in Jersey
but a broken-down jalopy of a
man I left behind
and a dream that I was chasin
and a battle with booze
and an open invitation to the blues

but she's had a sugar daddy
and a candy apple Caddy
and a bank account and everything
accustom to the finer things
he probably left her for a socialite
and he didn't love her 'cept at night
and then he's drunk and never
even told her that he cared
so they took the registration
and the car-keys and her shoes
And left her with an invitation
to the blues

'Cause there's a Continental Trailways leaving
local bus tonight, good evening
you can have my seat
I'm stickin round here for a while
get me a room at the Squire
the filling station's hiring
I can eat here every night
what the hell have I got to lose
got a crazy sensation,
go or stay and I've got to choose
and I'll accept your invitation to the blues

 

when i saw the video for the cover Jonny Cash did of Nine Inch Nails hurt that almost choked me up, especially now he's died. there's something about that song and Cash's voice... dude.

 

I don't know why, but Alanis Morissette's song "That I would be good" makes me sad...

 

Oh okay, I got it. "Blowin' In The Wind" by Bob Dylan.

 

Hurt by Johnny Cash because you can hear all of his pain...

 

The Saddest song i have ever heard has to be Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, that song always makes me tear up

 

'Eleanor Rigby" by The Beatles.

 

a sad one not mentioned yet...

metallica - fade to black

 

i agree. Also "All You Need Is Love" by the Beatles makes me cry... I know... it really shouldn't.

agree again.

agree again.

once more (surprise, surprise) I agree.

so there i went blank so I just got behind other people who I agreed with.

 

I have jeff buckley-hallelujahstuck in my head right now, it's kind of sad yet uplifting, maybe its cliche but it's really spiritual for me

 

'Famous Blue Raincoat' Leonard Cohen.
'The Butcher' Leonard Cohen.
'Chelsea Hotel No. 2' Leonard Cohen
'Hey thats no way to say Goodbye' Leonard Cohen
'Bob Dylans Dream' Bob Dylan
'A Hard Rains A-Gonna Fall' Bob Dylan
'Ball and Chain' Janis Joplin
'I'm a Loser' the Beatles
'Hide your Love Away' the Beatles
'Yesterday' the Beatles
'A day in the Life' the Beatles
'Blackbird' the Beatles.
Moonlight Mile' the Rolling Stones.
'Wish you were here' Pink Floyd.
'Nights in White Satin' the Moody Blues.
'Easy Rider' Leadybelly
'Love in Vain' Robert Johnson
'Fake Plastic Trees' Radiohead.
'Disarm' the Smashing Pumpkins.
'The other side' David Grey.
'The Scientest' Coldplay.
'Blurry' Puddle of Mudd.
'Changes' Black Sabbath.
'Solitude' Black Sabbath.

 

how do a few of the lyrics go?? I have a song in mind I just want to be sure if we are thinking of the same one, as I am unsure who sings it. If we do indeed have the same song in mind, I totally agree with you, beautifully sad song.

thanks.

~~Peace~~

 

i wind up crying every time i hear "forever young" by bob dylan. i don't know why. also whenever i hear "donald and lydia" by john prine

 

A good amount are quite sad....but lately... (mostly Beatle related...because I've been listening to them a lot lately...)

George Harrison- "If Just For Today", "Stuck Inside A Cloud", "Beware of Darkness"
John Lennon- "God", "Mother", and esp. "How?"
Paul McCartney- "Here Today"
Ringo Starr- "Never Without You"- he wrote this for George...and I lost it...esp at the end when he goes, "I think love is about you..."
The Beatles- "In My Life", "Golden Slumbers" (not really sad...beautiful to make me cry), "While My Guitar Gently Weeps", "The Long and Winding Road"

Savage Garden- "Two Beds and a Coffee Machine", "I Don't Know You Anymore", "The Lover After Me" (esp. the line--"Here I go again I promised myself I wouldn't think of you today/But I'm standing at your doorway/I'm calling out your name because I can't move on...")

Bob Dylan- "Blowin' In The Wind"

Pat Methany Group- "Letters From Home"

 

I only read the first and last pages, but I didn't see any mention of Ben Harper. His "Welcome to the Cruel World" cd has several of the saddest songs I can think of. I think "Sometimes" is the saddest.

 

LOL that song use to make me cry when I was little too

Famous blue raincoat - Leonard Cohen (most of his other songs as well)
The Bed - Lou Reed
It don't matter - Rehab
Roses in the snow - Nico
Concrete angels - Martina Mcbride
He stopped loving her today - George Jones
The other side - David Grey
Until the end of time - Tupac (holds certain memories of my ex fiance)
Music from Black hawk down and Dead man walking
Many gospel songs

 

Yesterday- Beatles
End of the Innocence- Bruce Springsteen (not sure if he originally did this one
Black- Pearl Jam