Saddest Songs I know

[mephistopheles]

There are only two songs i ever get choked up with, and a few times i even shed a few tears:

The GreenFields of France - Dropkick Murphys (about world war 1 and the irishmen who died, similiar to the cranberries zombie... only better)
Serious, sad song from a silly punk band. Great musicianship, but i get choked up everytime i hear it.

Where Oh where Can my bay be - Can't Remember(not pearljam!)
Everyone knows what this song is about!
-- This song only really effected me after i met my current fiance. We too like to go for joy rides in my car, and the idea of this happening makes me cry, or atleast gives me chills.

What do you think?

What are some songs that get to you?

 

[Flashy]

Old Man - by Neil Young
A Hard Rain's Gonna Fall - Bob Dylan
Nirvana - Something In The Way
Nirvana - All Apologies
Nirvana - Jesus Doesn't Want Me For A Sunbeam
Bob Marley - Time Will Tell
Blind Faith - Can't Find My Way Home
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
The Black Crowes - She Talks To Angels
Van MOrrison - Into The Mystic
James Taylor - Something In The Way She Moves
James Taylor - Fire and Rain
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Grateful Dead - Box Of Rain
Jackson Browne - Late For The Sky
John Lennon - Imagine
Pink Floyd - Whish You Were Here
Scarborough Fair - Simon and Garfunkel
The Beatles - Something In The Way She moves
The Beatles - Blackbird
The Beatles - In My Life
Nico - Afraid
Nico - The Fairest Of The Seasons
Nico - These Days
Pink Floyd - Mother



to name a few

:smile:

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

You know, I was going to say Purple Rain or even Another Lonely Christmas...

But the winner, hands down is:

Sometimes It Snows In April

The title and the imagery and the metaphor is just amazing. Here are the lyrics:

Tracy died soon after a long fought civil war
Just after I wiped away his last tear
Guess he's better off than he was before
A whole lot better off than the fools he left here

I used to cry for Tracy
Cos he was my only friend
Those kind of cars don't pass you every day

I used to cry for Tracy
Cos I wanted to see him again
But sometimes, sometimes...
Life ain't always the way

Sometimes it snows in April
Sometimes I feel so bad, so bad
Sometimes I wish
That life was neverending
All good things, they say
Never last
All good things, they say
Never last
And love, it isn't love
Until it's past

Also, Abraham, Martin and John by Marvin Gaye is quite sad.

 

[MASSIVEPKGO_CHUCK]

Against All Odds- Phil Collins

 

[SlimGuySB]

Fly to the Angels - Slaughter
The Letting Go - Melissa Etheridge
Talking to my Angel - Melissa Etheridge
Janie's Got A Gun - Aerosmith

 

[SpoiledPrincess]

Leaving on a jet plane - Peter Paul and Mary - I don't know where they got the information from but a magazine stated this to be the music most often listened to during suicide attempts

Nothing compares 2 u - By Sinead not Prince
Everything I own - but I prefer this by Ken Boothe, not Bread
Angel of the Morning - PP Arnold
I will follow you into the dark - death cab
You Were Mine - Dixie Chicks
Vincent - Don McLean
Winter Melody - Donna Summer
Love Me Tender - Elvis
Big Big World - Emilia
My Immortal - Evanescence
Do What You Gotta Do - Four Tops
Fool To Cry - Stones
Suicide Song - Happy Rhodes - absolutely fabulous, everyone should have this
The Weakness in Me - Joan Armatrading
Too Much Too Little Too Late - Johnny Matthis & Deniece Williams
Amoreuese - Kiki Dee
Falling in Love - Lisa Loeb, part of the chorus says 'the time between meeting and finally leaving is sometimes called falling in love,' sad but often true.
The Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithful
On My Own - Michael McDonald & Patti Labelle
Goodbye to You - Michelle Branch
The End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Don't Speak - No Doubt
Smoke Gets in Your Eyes - The Platters - wow that voice has seldom been surpassed
I Don't Wanna Talk About It - Rod Stewart
Do What You Have To Do - Sarah McLachlan
Full of Grace - Sarah McLachlan
Hedonism - Skunk Anansie
Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer - Stevie Wonder
Wild Horses - by the Sundays not the Stones
Love Me - Obie Trice, Eminem & 50 cents
With or Without You - U2


Practically all the music I have on my pc would be counted as 'sad music'

 

[blacklibran1]

warning sign by coldplay
til it happens to you by corinne bailey rae
goodbye to you by michelle branch
vanishing by mariah carey
my immortal by evanesence

so sad. those song bring me to tears and im not even emotional

 

[tim36]

Songs that get me choked up (or sometimes shed a tear)

It's so hard to say goodbye to yesterday- Boys to Men
Nothing compares to U- Sinead O'Connor
True Colors - Cyndi Lauper
Angel - Sarah MacLachlan

and this is in the movie Imitation of Life, but the song that Mahalia Jackson sings at the funeral always make tears run down (I think the name of the song is "Thy Will be Done", or something in that order). That is the only song that will make me shed tears every time.

 

[viking1]

Lyin' Eyes- Eagles
Dreamboat Annie- Heart
Angel- Sarah MacLachlan
Hands to Heaven- Breathe
Must have been love- Roxette
I Like Dreamin'- Kenny Nolan
Nothing Compares to U- Sinead O'Connor
The Way I Am- Merle Haggard
If Wishes Came True- Sweet Sensation

There's dozens more. I like sad music. Sad music for a sad guy, I guess.

 

[Not_Punny]

oops double post by accident

 

[Not_Punny]

OK, I'm the winner -- "A Minor Incident" by Badly Drawn Boy.

It's about a mom's goodbye letter to her son before committing suicide. I cry every time I hear or see it.

- - - -


There's nothing i could say to make you try to feel ok
And nothing you could do to stop me feeling the way i do
And if the chance should happen that i never see you again
Just remember that i'll always love you



I'd be a better person on the other side i'm sure
You'd find a way to help yourself
And find another door
To shrug off minor incidents
And Make us both feel proud

I just wish I could be there to see you through


You always were the one to make us stand out in a crowd
Though every once apon a while your head was in a cloud
There's nothing you could never do to ever let me down
And remember that I'll always love you


Badly Drawn Boy A Minor Incident lyrics

 

[B_ScaredLittleBoy]

I read it just fine the first time :tongue:

I went to the same [high] school as Badly Drawn Boy

 

[Mem]

Love is Stronger Than Death -by The The

Birthday - by The Sugarcubes.

 

[braumeister]

Faraway Boys - Flogging Molly
The Band Played Waltzing Matilda - I thing The Pogues version is the best

 

[BigDuder]

YouTube - Spiritualized-Ladies and Gentlemen We are Floating in Space

 

[mephistopheles]

I thought of another, one I acutally covered(recordered) a few days ago.

It sums up the way i feel about my current situation:

Time in a bottle - Jim Croce.


And Jim Croce in himself is a very sad person.

He signed a bad record deal and died sad and poor. One of the saddest things that could happen to a musician is for their heartfelt music to be exploited, like his was.

Sad song, and I cry thinking about the circumstances of his life.


BTW* My sig is a part of Time in a bottle, by Mr. Croce.

 

[Dave NoCal]

What great selections. In no particular order:

It seems so lang ago, Nancy - Leonard Cohen
YouTube - seems so long ago, nancy

Late for the sky - Jackson Browne
My opening farewell - Jackson Browne
Sleep's dark and silent gate - Jackson Browne
Hallelujah - Leonard Cohen (original writer)
Joan of Arc - Leonard Cohen
Killing the blues - as recorded by Chris Smither
Angel - Sarah McLaughlin
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
Gulf coast highway - as recorded by Emmy Lou Harris and Willie Nelson
Boulder to Birmingham - Emmy Lou Harris
Sleepless nights - as recorded by Gram Parsons
Whispering Pines - the Band
Ballad of Lucy Jordan - Marianne Faithful
Boulevard of broken dreams - Marianne Faithful
Sisters of Mercy - Leonard Cohen (most of his work is sad)

 

[nudeyorker]

At Seventeen-Janis Ian
Is that all there is? - Peggy Lee

 

[basketbulge]

So many sad songs, but this one hits me hard.

YouTube: Hanging by a Thread by Jann Arden

When I cry, I close my eyes
And every tear falls down inside
And I pray with all my might
That I will find my heart in someone's arms

When I cry, cry
When I cry, when I am sad
I think of every awful thing I ever did

When I cry, there is no love
No, there is nothing that can comfort me enough
When I cry
Cry, cry

(chorus)

The salt inside my body ruins
Everyone I come close to
My hands are barely holding up my head

Oh, I'm so tired of looking at my feet
And all the secrets that I keep
My heart is barely hangin' by a thread
Hangin' by a thread

Oh, look at me
At all I've done
I've lost so many things that I so dearly love
I lost my soul
I lost my pride
Oh, I lost any hope of having a good life
So I cry
Cry, cry

(chorus)

I miss you all
I wish I was
With you now
I wish I was

 

[50%more]

Rolling Stones - "Angie"
Grateful Dead - "Stella Blue" or "Terrapin Station"
Pink Floyd - "Breathe", "The Great Gig In The Sky"
Alan Parson's - "Time", "In The Mist Of Time"
Bob Dylan - "Stuck Inside Of Mobile With The Memphis Blues Again", "A Simple Twist of Fate"
Van Morrisson - "Bulbs", "Haunts Of Ancient Peace", "No Method, No Guru, No Teacher", "Blue Streak", "It's All In The Game" (Gen. Charles Dawe), "What Would I do" (Ray Charles), "Take Me Back", "Tupelo Honey"....

"I Can't Stop Loving You" - Either the original by Ray Charles or the Van Morrisson cover from "Hymns To The Silence".