Your saddest songs?

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  • lizzie82088
    lizzie82088 Posts: 12
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    Hallelujah - Rufus Wainwright
    Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
    Let it Be - Beatles
    Because - Beatles
    Asleep - The Smiths
    Please Let Me Wonder - The Beach Boys
    Hide and Seek - Imogen Heap
  • futuremalestripper
    futuremalestripper Posts: 467 Member
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    Marilyn Manson - The Last Day On Earth
    Black Lab - This Night
  • digitalbill
    digitalbill Posts: 1,410 Member
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    I had mentioned "Don't take the girl" earlier. Even thinking of this song makes me well up.
    I almost lost my wife to blood loss when my Son was born and I can remember begging and praying to not let her die.
    It was the most helpless feeling I ever had.

    A close second is "Who you'd be today."
    It is a song about "someone" who apperantly passed away at a young age and Kenny wondering who that person woul dhave been had she grown up.

    It makes me think of my cousin who died at the age of 19 way back in 1983.
  • miranda_mom
    miranda_mom Posts: 873 Member
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    IMHO - the Jeff Buckley version of Hallelujah is the best - closely followed by K.D. Lang. Nobody else should be allowed to sing it.
    What about Leonard Cohen himself?

    P.S. Buckley's version is definitive but I've never really thought of that song as sad...more revelatory.

    That's what I was about to post! But I agree, Buckley's version is better. And sad in some ways because his voice is so beautiful and it's so sad that he died so young...

    I would add "The River" by Bruce Springsteen. Sometimes my husband has to tell me to lay off the Springsteen because I get too depressed listening to that song and a few others. "Walk Like a Man" comes to mind...
  • mariamarchita
    mariamarchita Posts: 131
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    There is a Light That Never Goes Out - The Smiths
    Everybody Hurts - R.E.M.
    Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd


    And particularly, Fire & Rain by James Taylor:

    "Just yesterday morning they let me know you were gone
    Suzanne the plans they made put an end to you
    I walked out this morning and I wrote down this song
    I just can't remember who to send it to

    I've seen fire and I've seen rain
    I've seen sunny days that I thought would never end
    I've seen lonely times when I could not find a friend
    But I always thought that I'd see you again"

    My mom died suddenly 5 years ago at the age of 52. Shocked our family to the core and it almost killed my brother and I. Her name was Suzanne, like in the song
  • mariamarchita
    mariamarchita Posts: 131
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    Asleep - The Smiths

    AWESOME choice - such a sad and beautiful, haunting song
  • _cauburn
    _cauburn Posts: 60
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    Stay Together For The Kids - Blink-182
    Untitled - Simple Plan
  • willy0524
    willy0524 Posts: 1,897
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    Cats in the Cradle.....Harry Chapin :sad: :sad: :sad:
  • the_journeyman
    the_journeyman Posts: 1,877 Member
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    After the Fall - Chloe Lowrey/TSO
    Who You'd Be Today - Kenny Chesney
  • Nekhet
    Nekhet Posts: 380
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    Since I've Been Loving You - Led Zeppelin
  • TheRoadDog
    TheRoadDog Posts: 11,788 Member
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    To a Sleeping Beauty by Jimmy Dean

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F-IZ6yUXgIo
  • jkaupanger
    jkaupanger Posts: 72
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    "I'd never thought I'd break" Bernadette Peters
  • mandie0378
    mandie0378 Posts: 73 Member
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    Go Rest High on That Mountain - Vince Gill (I have never made it through this song without tearing up)
    Love Me - Collin Raye

    Probably why I don't listen to country music anymore. Makes me cry.
  • jsaunde77
    jsaunde77 Posts: 13 Member
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    My Life in the Knife Trade - Boy Sets Fire
  • Nekhet
    Nekhet Posts: 380
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    Scorpions - Still Loving You
  • thebigcb
    thebigcb Posts: 2,210 Member
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    Adagio for Strings

    The Platoon Soundtrack song as you may know it.
  • raiderrodney
    raiderrodney Posts: 617 Member
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    Alyssa Lies by Jaon Michael Carroll

    Probably my choice for the saddest ever...and I'm not much of a country fan but what a great song!
  • ToniGurl1989
    ToniGurl1989 Posts: 5
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    How to save a Life-The Fray
    Alyssa lies-James Micheal Carroll
    Breathe no More-Evanesence
    Sleep well my Angel-We are the Fallen
    Immortal-Evanesence
    What hurts the Most-Rascal Flatts
    Concrete Angel-Martina McBride
    Untitled- Simple plan
    Its so Hard to say Goodbye to Yesterday-Boyz to Men
    Everything-Lifehouse
    Why-Rascall Flatts

    I have a Ton of them but those are the ones off the top of my head
  • nathan72
    nathan72 Posts: 91 Member
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    Roads - Portishead
    Jolene - Ray Lamontagne
    That's how I knew the story would break my heart - Aimee Mann
    Tear in your hand - Tori Amos
    Snuff - Slipknot
    Poison and Wine - The Civil Wars
    Hold on to yourself - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds
  • DONNALEES
    DONNALEES Posts: 50 Member
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    Long long time- Linda Rondstadt

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