What's the saddest song you know?

_beachgirl_

Tears for Fears but I like the version from Gary Jules

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tomorrow, no tomorrow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Love the Gary Jules version! Sometimes the person covering the song does a better job!

BrettPGH

Kim Richey - A Place Called Home

Someday I'll go
Where there ain't no rain or snow
'Till then
I travel alone
And I make my bed
With the stars above my head
And dream of a place called home

Used to sing this as a lullabye to my daughter. They played it on Angel after Fred died.

SinIsIn

Remember When by Alan Jackson

What Hurts the Most by Danny Gokey, he blows away whoever originally did that song

On what planet???

Danny Gokey blowing away Rascal Flatts? :sick: :noway:

i need to go check out this Gokey kids version now.. becaue I love the Rascal Flatts one!

http://youtu.be/o6Vokh2mkr8

I checked it out.. it sounds similar... but for me since I heard the Rascal Flatts version first.. it just sounds better to me. Still a great song tho!

unmitigatedbadassery

Miricles by Stone Sour.

While it is obviously about someone falling out of love the chorus reminds me of how I was feeling in the final days before my mom passed. My family would talk about having faith and praying as my mom was a devout Christian. As hard as I tried I just couldn't get behind that. Miracles don't happen here.

This acoustic version makes me tear up still a year later - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=syXJvzQ2reI

Scoobiesnax

Did anyone hear Justin Bieber on Dancing With The Stars last night ??? THAT was as sad as it gets, On so many levels...

Scoobiesnax

"All I Want Is You" - U2. What a great video.

And a couple of oldies...
"When I Stop Dreaming" - The Louvin Brothers
"He Stopped Loving Her Today - George Jones

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striderb

The Hamster Dance Song

Oops - wrong topic

AlwaysWanderer

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton
Candle in the wind by Elton John

nkswans

Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley
Don't Take the Girl by Tim McGraw

philsy1

I know it's corny, but "Patches" by Johnny Cash always gets to me. Also, "Operator", by Jim Croce.

MFPAddict

Another great country song

Probably wouldn't be this way by Leann Rimes. Excellent video too

sunkisses

I don't have any personal connection to this song, but it's THE saddest I've ever known.

Stevie Wonder's "I Never Dreamed You'd Leave in Summer"

The lyrics are sad, the piano is sad, but it's his voice that brings it home. He almost sounds like he's crying as he sings it. And the way he sings the last line is heart-breaking.

Carl01

Showing my age...

How can you mend a broken heart. Bee Gees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wRHwTZvo4VI&feature=fvst

You are everything The Stylistics.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qnp-nfXQ9I0

jenbit

Eric Clapton - Tears in heaven.

So this song. htey played it when my baby brother died and ever since this I start bawling when I hear it.

MikeM53082

Katy Perry "California Girls"

Gets me every time..

skittybang

Harry Nilsson - "Without you"

Gets me EVERY FRKN TIME!

Dangerkitty79

My heart will go on, I could never hear it when I was pregnant. Once I was at a store and it was being played on the overhead and I was with my sister, she was in another isle and she knew how it made me cry and when she realized that the song was playing she was running all over the place until she found me, crying of course...this always brings a smile to my face to remember her caring so much for her at the time pregnant sister :blushing:

staceyseeger

If You're Reading This by Tim McGraw

^^^This^^^
Vince Gill, Go Rest High On That Mountain

Joe Nichols, I'll Wait for You

Tim McGraw , Live Like You Were Dyin'

Jason Michael Carroll, Alyssa Lies

Blake Shelton, The Baby

Craig Morgan, Tough

John Michael Montgomery, The Little Girl

John Michael Montgomery, Letters from Home

nkswans

Where are you Christmas? by Faith Hill

mommared53

The first song that came to mind is Leader of The Pack by The Shangri-Las. It's an oldie. More recently is Even Angels Cry by Jars of Clay. I'm not sure what the song is about yet but it sure is sad.

EmpressOfJudgment

DeVotchKa - How It Ends. It has been overused by movies, commercials, and TV shows since I first fell in love with the song, but it still tugs.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pfi1UQ_PKQI

sunkisses

Katy Perry "California Girls"

Gets me every time..

Yeah, that *kitten* brings tears to my eyes as well. :laugh:

adjones5

ne me quitte pas, I cry my eyes out every time

Saruman_w

Samuel Barber - Adagio for Strings

Iamfit4life

Hallejuah

Doesn't matter which version I cry every time

maidentl

"Wildfire" by Michael Martin Murphey. Sad song. :sad:

Hellbent_Heidi

that "Have yourself a Merry Little Christmas" song. I love it, but it makes me really sad every year for some reason!

Oh, and "Last Kiss" by Pearl Jam

mamafrahm

God's Will- Martina McBride

Wish you were here- Mark Wills

Just a dream- Carrie Underwood

He stopped loving her, today- George Jones

mamafrahm

Don't close your eyes- Keith Whitley

Sweet13_Princess

American Pie - Don McClean

"I met a girl who sang the blues
And I asked her for some happy news,
But she just smiled and turned away.
I went down to the sacred store
Where I’d heard the music years before,
But the man there said the music wouldn’t play.

And in the streets: the children screamed,
The lovers cried, and the poets dreamed.
But not a word was spoken;
The church bells all were broken..." *FEELING THE SNIFFLES*

Also by good old Don: Vincent

"Now I understand
What you tried to say, to me
And how you suffered for your sanity
And how you tried to set them free:
They would not listen; they did not know how--
Perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
But still, your love was true
And when no hope was left inside
On that starry, starry night
You took your life as lovers often do--
But I could've told you, Vincent:
This world was never meant
For one as beautiful as you...." *SAD FOR VINCENT VAN GOGH*

The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald - Gordon Lightfoot

"Does any one know where the love of God goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters....

In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald..." *HOW SAD FOR THEIR FAMILIES, SNIFFLES AGAIN*

Shannon