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Your saddest songs?

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  • armoredcore
    armoredcore Posts: 48 Member
    Away from the sun - 3 doors down
    Concrete Angel - Martina Mcbride
  • jennylsapia
    jennylsapia Posts: 236 Member
    In my field of work the saddest but truest song is Colin Ray-11th commandment!!!

    I work with abused and neglected children who have been removed from their parents...rough job but truely rewarding to the soul!!!

    http://youtu.be/okeRuvG5inM

    You must watch and listen to the lyrics!!
  • Chipmaniac
    Chipmaniac Posts: 642 Member
    Several that came to mind that have already been mentioned:

    Everybody Hurts - REM
    Lightning Crashes - Live
    Tears in Heaven - Clapton (about his real son dying tragically, which makes it worse)

    Some that haven't been mentioned:

    Cat's in the Cradle - Harry Chapin (can't listen to this one since my dad died)
    All Apologies - Nirvana
    Pennyroyal Tea - Nirvana
    Jeremy - Pearl Jam
    Stan - Eminem
    The Future - Leonard Cohen
    Father of Mine - Everyclear
    Stay Together for the Kids - Blink 182
    Adam's Song - Blink 182
    Scorn Not His Simplicity - Sinead O'Connor
    Country Death Song - Violent Femmes
    Why Would I Cry For You? - Sting
    Sober - Tool
    Goodbye Blue Skies - Pink Floyd (OK....the whole entire The Wall album, but this one is the most directly sad)
    Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
    Mother - John Lennon
    My Mum is Dead - John Lennon
    The Needle and the Damage Done - Neil Young
    Sleeps with Angels - Neil Young

    I could keep going. You could say that I'm a bit of a fan of sad/depressing music.
  • Tuffjourney
    Tuffjourney Posts: 971
    Oh shoot, how could I forget "Dance with my father" :sad: :cry:
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    Oh, and

    Love is a losing game by Amy

    Especially when sung by this dude

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AfGImhrSi8Y&feature=watch_response_rev
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    Oh shoot, how could I forget "Dance with my father" :sad: :cry:

    OMIGOD, I WAS TOTALLY TRYING TO REMEMBER THE SONG I FORGOT!
  • Moriarty_697
    Moriarty_697 Posts: 226 Member
    I'm glad to see I wasn't the only one who thought of George Jones' He Stopped Loving Her Today. Saddest song ever.

    Both Sides Now as sung by Dave Van Ronk - Seriously. I never realized how sad this song was until I heard him croak out each verse like he was heartsick and alone.

    Sylvia's Mother by Dr. Hook & the Medicine Show and Operator by Jim Croce - what is it about phone booths and heartache?

    Virtue the Cat Explains Her Departure by The Weakerthans - it's from the perspective of a fictional cat (who also narrates another Weakerthans song Plea From a Cat Named Virtue). I'm not a cat person at all but when they get to the line "But I can't remember the sound that you found for me", I can't help but feel the loss.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uIeyfM-6QTg
  • wilmnoca
    wilmnoca Posts: 416 Member
    How To Fight Loneliness-Wilco
    Waiting For My Real Life to Begin-Colin Hay
    You're Gonna Miss This- Trace Adkins
    Ready, Set, Don't Go- Billy Ray Cyrus
    3am- Our Lady Peace
    Dreaming- Wainwright Louson
    Agony- The Eels
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSjIz8oQuko&feature=relmfu

    My childhood.
  • LiteBrite007
    LiteBrite007 Posts: 294 Member
    The saddest song in the world is Little Susie by Michael Jackson.

    You are a MONSTER if you don't think that song is sad.

    I'm going to go cry in the corner now.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    And this.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGR65RWwzg8&feature=relmfu

    Fills me with a sickly, sweet, sad feeling. I remember once sitting in the park in the pouring rain, sobbing my heart out with this playing on replay in my ears.
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XAi3VTSdTxU&ob=av2n

    :'(

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pAyKJAtDNCw&feature=relmfu

    :'(
  • InnerFatGirl
    InnerFatGirl Posts: 2,687 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YcjYoUUJ9sQ&feature=related

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eOFok6-Tpt8

    Okay, I'm done :laugh:
  • JeepBrah
    JeepBrah Posts: 150
    johnny cash-hurt best song eu
  • thegeordielass
    thegeordielass Posts: 208 Member
    I have a 'sad' play-list on my itunes. I won't list them all (honestly, I haven't! lol) but:

    Who Wants to Live Forever - Queen
    In the Sun - Joseph Arthur
    Leave Out All the Rest - Linkin' Park
    Nobody Knows - Tony Rich Project
    Folding Stars - Biffy Clyro (I believe it was written about the death of the singer's mother. I relate it to my Mum's death so it always has me in tears)
    Machines - Biffy Clyro
    Not As We - Alanis Morissette
    Into the West - Annie Lennox (I can't listen to this anymore now as we played it at Mum's funeral)
    The Drugs Don't Work - The Verve
    Everybody Hurts - REM
    Too Much Love Will Kill You - Queen
    Hear You Me - Jimmy Eat World
    The King - Hard-Fi
    Mad World - Gary Jules
    Ordinary World - Duran Duran (another one I associate with Mum's death!)
    Fix You - Coldplay
    The Scientist - Coldplay
    Because of You - Kelly Clarkson
    How To Save A Life - The Fray
    A Bad Dream - Keane (because I can't hear this without thinking of the scene in Scrubs)
    Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Connor
  • frodolives19
    frodolives19 Posts: 96
    Over you - Written by Blake Shelton and sung by his wife Miranda Lambert.
  • Femtec74
    Femtec74 Posts: 347 Member
    Don't take the girl - Tim McGraw

    This one makes me cry every time I hear it.
  • brittlynn07
    brittlynn07 Posts: 382 Member
    Terrible Things- Mayday Parade
    Everything's an Illusion- Mayday Parade

    Love both of these! Terrible things makes me cry every time though.
  • peacefulsong
    peacefulsong Posts: 223 Member
    Top of the World -- Patty Griffin Seriously just about the saddest song I've ever heard.
  • EmmEfff
    EmmEfff Posts: 14
    Nothing Compares 2 U - Sinead O'Conner
    Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley
    Hurt - Johnny Cash
    Don't Wanna Miss a Thing - Aerosmith

    Probably more but those are the first I could think of

    IMHO - the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah is the best - closely followed by K.D. Lang. Nobody else should be allowed to sing it.
  • peacefulsong
    peacefulsong Posts: 223 Member
    Oh, also, Dinner at Eight by Rufus Wainwright.
  • TromaRon
    TromaRon Posts: 228 Member
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJqq6C7nF2o

    Just Killing Time, by Black Label Society. Absolutely love it, but so depressing. Incredible song!
  • interceptor311
    interceptor311 Posts: 980 Member
    Lips of an Angel by Hinder
  • Gwenski
    Gwenski Posts: 348 Member
    The Man Who Can't Be Moved by The Script
  • craigers13
    craigers13 Posts: 241 Member
    johnny cash-hurt best song eu

    ^^^^^THIS, best song ever even though it was a cover. But Johnny made it his own
  • PrncessBre
    PrncessBre Posts: 444 Member
    "Jar of Hearts"
  • danabrash
    danabrash Posts: 67
    Landslide - Fleetwood Mac
  • cannonsky
    cannonsky Posts: 850 Member
    johnny cash-hurt best song eu

    I was actually going to mention Trent Reznor's Hurt.
  • dcsump2
    dcsump2 Posts: 73
    Say Hello to Heaven - Temple of the Dog
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