What's the saddest song you know?

aalanclose

Won't be everyone's cup of tea but an Irish folk song called Killkelly ireland has me in tears every time I hear it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bek36IMNQog&feature=youtube_gdata_player

Also The grave by Don Maclean

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xe6j0JBwEO4&feature=youtube_gdata_player

stresco

"Cats In The Cradle" and "Dance With My Father Again" always move me.

kanonxbou47

I seriously can't listen to "All Good Things Come to An End" by Nelly Furtado. It makes me too sad and gets in my head and then I'm sad forever.

Also, "Real Gangsta" by SPM is really sad. (It's not what it sounds like, it's about a kid who gets into gangs and such. It's very sad.)

PBJunky

Any Amy Winehouse song...Makes me feel like I want to chew my wrists off

cptnjck0209

Concrete Angel by Martina McBride...

RonneyKay

OK, there is this one song called "Rocky" its from the 70s I think. I don't know who sings it, but man, I haven't heard this song in a while, but it does make me cry... seriously tear up and cry. So if I have to pick ONE... that would be it.

LOL on Milli Vanilli

poppie1223

Cat's in the cradle

MîîśÊmÿłõü

The Fray "To Save a Life.....real tear jerker! im such a sook!

HollieDoodles

"Beans, Beans, the Musical Fruit"

andlovesaidn0

killing loneliness - H.I.M
and love said no - H.I.M

LighterEachDay

Time in a Bottle. Especially knowing that he died shortly after writing it.

craig1970

Local Boy in the Photograph -Stereophonics.
Based on a true story af a guy they knew who commited suicide on a railway line.
There's a line, "He'll always be, 23, but the train runs on and on, past the place they found his clothing" sang by Kelly Jones in a gravel-voiced crescendo. Simply awesome.

Maryjaneshoes

Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah. And more recently Adele, Someone Like You.

jobster68

John Denver - Annie's Song - because it was played at my mum's funeral - sometimes it makes me smile and think of my lovely mum in a happy way and other times it makes me sob my heart out cos I miss her so much!

Lozzy_82

The first one that came to mind was Zero by Lamb:

There's no one here today
'Cause someone took the light away
There's nothing in my heart
Don't think I could even start to explain
I can't stand the pain of losing something so much a part of me
Though in reality you were hardly there in my heart, in my heart
You were everything, everything

In these few hours a breath of summertime has turned to winter rain
In such little time all my hope has gone
Will it ever be the same
All I ever wanted was to see your face
To see a little smile from my little one and let
You know, and let you know
You were everything, everything

Babe I did all I could just
To give you life
I'd have done anything
Just to give you life

Out there in the dark your little spirit is lost without a home
Oh don't be afraid I'm thinking of you, no you'll never be alone
Someday, somehow, when the time is right
May an angel smile upon me and give you life
To give you life
I'd give everything
I'd give everything, everything
I'd give everything to give you life
To give you life

FairyMiss

"Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton - but it's really the back story that makes that song tough to listen to.

so very true

Sweet13_Princess

Adding two more!!!

Photographs & Memories - Jim Croce

Photographs and memories
Christmas cards you sent to me
All that I have are these
To remember you...

Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks

Goodbye to you, my trusted friend.
We've known each other since we're nine orten.
Together we climbed hills or trees.
Learned of love andABC's,
skinned our hearts and skinned our knees.
Goodbye my friend, it'shard to die,
when all the birds are singing in the sky,
Now that thespring is in the air.
Pretty girls are everywhere.
When you see them I'llbe there.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the hillsthat we climbed
were just seasons out of time.
Goodbye, Papa, please prayfor me,
I was the black sheep of the family.
You tried to teach me rightfrom wrong.
Too much wine and too much song,
wonder how I getalong.
Goodbye, Papa, it's hard to die
when all the birds are singing inthe sky,
Now that the spring is in the air.
Little childreneverywhere.
When you see them I'll be there.
We had joy, we had fun, wehad seasons in the sun.
But the wine and the song,
like the seasons, allhave gone.
Goodbye, Michelle, my little one.
You gave me love and helpedme find the sun.
And every time that I was down
you would always comearound
and get my feet back on the ground.
Goodbye, Michelle, it's hard todie
when all the bird are singing in the sky,
Now that the spring is inthe air.
With the flowers ev'rywhere.
I whish that we could both bethere.
We had joy, we had fun, we had seasons in the sun.
But the stars wecould reach
were just starfishs on the beach

They make me feel like a good cry!!!
Shannon

maserati185

"Flowers" by Chris Young is a song in which a man is telling his wife how he should have romanced her but instead he was in the bar... how he's changed now... steady hands, got a job... He says he drove by the junk yard and saw their car. He reflects on how he forced her to get in it that night even though she pleaded not to... and how she died, at his hands. His guilt is incredible, as he ends by saying, "Lord, I’d take your place in this field of stone, if I only had the power... Look what it took for me to finally bring you flowers."

Second to that, "Kill Myself" by Tim McGraw.

magichatter06

Sarah McLachlan ...Angel, from City of Angels Movie

They have this song as the background music in the animal abuse commericals and both of those combined makes me tear up everytime

kjgarcia

I'm listening to one right now....How Do I Live by LeeAnn Rimes.

It doesn't have any special meaning to me or anything, it's just sad.

MusicKeepsMeSane

- what hurts the most - rascal flatts (this song used to be word for word true for me and even though it no longer is, it's still a dad song in general)
- how to save a life - the fray (i still relate to this song. "where did i go wrong, i lost a friend, somewhere along in the bitterness")
- black dahlia - hollywood undead (most people wouldn't think this is a very sad song but when you take the time to listen to the lyrics and can relate by being a cutter, it's definitely sad)
- the reason - hoobastank (not really a sad song but it makes me sad because me and one of my old friends used to sing it out loud on the bus every morning until he had to move away)

jrhstarlight

Lykke Li "Possibility" YES to the person who said this one

Also the only song I love by Dave Mathews Fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d4PzZ5bXYM
Breathe Me by Sia
Ryan Star Losing your Memory
Sum 41 Pieces
Britney Spears Everytime

My happy sad song is Building a Family by Mark Isham to perk the mood up in here http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ni-bUMCKo4c

Thomasm198

The Fureys - The Old Man

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JCSaBYY-wQk

It always makes me choke up. It reminds me of my Dad

Lyrics:

The tears have all been shed now
We've said our last goodbyes
His souls been blessed
He's laid to rest
And it's now I feel alone
He was more than just a father
A teacher my best friend
He can still be heard
In the tunes we shared
When we played them on our own

(chorus)
Now I never will forget him
For he made me "what I am"
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
And I miss him, the old man

As a boy he'd take me walking
By mountain field and stream
And he showed me things
Not known to kings
And secret between him and me
Like the colours of the pheasant
As he rises in the dawn
And how to fish and make a wish
Beside the holly tree

(chorus)
Now I never will forget him
For he made me "what I am"
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
And I miss him, the old man

I thought he'd live forever
He seemed so big and strong
But the minutes fly
And the years roll by
For a father and a son
And suddenly when it happened
There was so much left unsaid
No second chance
To tell him thanks
For everything he's done

(chorus)
Now I never will forget him
For he made me "what I am"
Though he may be gone
Memories linger on
And I miss him, the old man

pinkgigi

Oh I cry also during:
Wildfire; coat of Many Colours; and my son (who is an opera singer) singing anything, obviously it doesn't take much ;-)

BUT
no-one has mentioned John Mayer and "goodbye my lover", it was on the radio when my husband was dying, and I used to have to stop the car when I was driving to cry. We played it at his funeral.

GG

jrhstarlight

Blower's Daughter Damien Rice http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YXVMCHG-Nk&ob=av2e
Hana Pestle Need http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Op5BRZpXvHs

jetscreaminagain

Timshel by Mumford and sons and Baby Blue by Dave Matthews Band lately.

Totally Landslide any version. Totally Pink's Perfect which I sing to my daughter. Both sides now by Joni Mitchell. And even Me and Bobby McGee.back during break up world. And The Boxer by Simon and Garfunkel.

Adagio for strings by Barber is right. And there's a YoYo Ma cello concerto by Mozart I think some movement and I never remember numbers. But it moves me so much. Totally embarrassed I can't name it but they used it in the PTSD episode of the West Wing.

And. Embarrassingly, Danny Boy always makes me cry.

Iamfit4life

Simon and Garfunkel- American Tune


But I so adore the song anyway

vaderandbill

Cat's in the cradle

^^This

ch178

Sissy's Song - Alan Jackson

very sad

MFPAddict

Currently playing: Just A Dream by Carrie Underwood