saddest song you ever heard?

[aleks1980]

right now,my life is a complete mess.the only thing that keeps me sane is music, strangely sad songs.do you gain strength from sad songs?what's the saddest song you ever heard?

[Ruby]

Right now I must think of "Haven" from our beloved The_Pianist "Geri".....

Never forget...how I started to cry in front of my PC while hearing this wonderful piece of music...

[SomethingBlue]

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

Not only are the words sad, but the melody is very haunting.

[Dashriprock3172]

Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday

Seven trees
Bearin’ strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin’
From the poplar trees
Pastoral scene
Of the gallant south
Them big bulging eyes
And the twisted mouth
Scent of magnolia
Clean and fresh
Then the sudden smell
Of burnin’ flesh
Here is a fruit
For the crows to pluck
For the rain to gather
For the wind to suck
For the sun to rot
For the leaves to drop
Here is
Strange and bitter crop

As singed by billie holiday

Southern trees bear strange fruit,
Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,
Black bodies swinging in the southern breeze,
Strange fruit hanging from the poplar trees.

Pastoral scene of the gallant south,
The bulging eyes and the twisted mouth,
Scent of magnolias, sweet and fresh,
Then the sudden smell of burning flesh.

Here is fruit for the crows to pluck,
For the rain to gather, for the wind to suck,
For the sun to rot, for the trees to drop,
Here is a strange and bitter cry.

[boatboy]

I'm a bit older so I go with a song by Sade that I first heard in the movie Philadelphia:

Please Send Me Someone To Love

[Corny]

many songs from nick cave *sigh*

[DANNO]

I also deal with tough times with sad music. It almost inspires me. I dont think that makes sense, but it works!

One of my all time favorite sad songs is Breakdown by Mariah Carey

[Apollo]

Everything Will Be All Right - the Killers.

[MerelyDeath]

I cannot leave here, I cannot stay
Forever haunted, more than afraid
Asphyxiate on words I would say
I'm drawn to a blackened sky as I turn blue

There are no flowers, no, not this time
There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak
I'd share for you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me

I cannot stay here, I cannot leave
Just like all I loved, I'm make believe
Imagined heart, I disappear
Seems... no one will appear here and make me real

There are no flowers, no, not this time
There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak
I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me

I'd tell you how it haunts me
I'd tell you how it haunts me
Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams
I'd tell you how it haunts me
Cuts through my day and sinks into my dreams
You don't care that it haunts me

There are no flowers, no, not this time
There will be no angels gracing the lines, just these stark words I find
I'd show a smile but I'm too weak
I'd share with you, could I only speak, just how much this hurts me
Just how much this hurts me
Just how much you...

AFI - This Time Imperfect

[Dagger888]

Fade to black by Metallica

Life it seems will fade away,
Drifting farther everyday.
Getting lost within myself,
nothing matter noone else.

I have lost the will to live.
Simply nothing more to give.
There is nothing more for me,
I need the end to set me free.

Things aren't what they used to be.
I'm missing one inside of me.
Deathly loss, this can't be real.
I cannot stand this hell I feel.

Emptiness is filling me,
to the point of agony.
Growing darkness taking dawn.
Yeah I was me but now he's gone.

No one but me can save myself,
but it's too late.
Now I can't think,
Think why I should even try, who knows?

Yesterday seems as though it never existed,
but death greets me warm.
Now I will just say goodbye...Goodbye.

This song drove multiple people through the world to suicide.

[ihahp33]

Blink 182-Adam's Song. For a while I used to listen to the song and never pay attention to the lyrics until one day I did and I realized what a sad song it was.

[bob_dallon]

I think "My My Hey Hey" by Neil Young is very sad cos I always think of the tragic suicide of Cobain. Almost makes you feel suicidal

[bob_dallon]

I think "Heroes" is really sad as it's about a couple expressing their love in a repressive communist regime. They get shot later on in the song. Bowie's vocals have never sounded better or more desperate than before. Brian Eno's influence in this song is perfect with the synthesisers.

[abercrombieguy94]

"I CAN'T MAKE YOU LOVE ME" -- Bonnie Raitt

[jimspiral]

There are so many sad songs. I seem to gravitate toward them. Right now, it's a song on the Annie Lennox CD "Bare". It's called "Oh God (Prayer).

Oh God
Where are you now
And what are you gonna do
About the mess I've made
If there was ever a soul to save
It must be me
It must be me

Dear God
Oh how can I survive
Will I make this drop, this dive
When it all comes to this
I'm looking down at a big abyss
Where you don't exist
You don't exist.

But if you hear me
If you can see me

I know I can't be that strong
Cause everything I ever did went wrong
Everything I ever did
Went wrong

Oh God
Now where do I come in?
Gone and broken everything
So I hope you understand
Someone needed a helping hand
It must be now
It must be now


This song wrenches me everytime I hear it. It's almost tangible sadness makes my heart sink.

[kev]

the intermezzo from Callaveria Rusticana, by Mascagni

[unclaimedblessing]

"The Rose" by Bette Midler. It's a beautiful song, but when bartending I saw it really bring down the mood in the bar everytime it was played on the juke box.

[ross_1986]

Fast Car by Tracy Chapman

Not only are the words sad, but the melody is very haunting.

I second that. I love that song, but it's very depressing. It's so powerful, and the way she sings it, OMG. It's definetely a quality song.

[jimspiral]

olk old song called "Blowin' in the Wind".

"The answer my friend, is blowin in the wind, the answer is blowin in the wind".

[Ares]

"Picture" by Kid Rock and Sheryl Crow always makes me sad.

[Lazaro]

this woman's work by kate bush

[bigoz]

Its a toss up between Gladys Knights" Sorry Doesn"t Always Make it Right" It starts off kinda like somewhere over the rainbow, but changes into a masterpiece after the eighth bar. "Baby there's no easy way to here the words I'm sorry , I don't love you..... Or the other one is Larry Gatlins "The Heart". This was from his first album, when he was a hungry young artist. ...I know I had it happen to me time and time again, and it feels like being turned down by your one and only friend. So don't fool yourself by saying that it won"t hurt the pain ain't real. So easy to hurt, but oh so hard to heal...

[meson23]

Blink 182-Adam's Song. For a while I used to listen to the song and never pay attention to the lyrics until one day I did and I realized what a sad song it was.

Wow

You know I have listened to that song hundreds of time and never notices it till I read your post. Then I read the lyrics, and you are right. It is sad.

[meson23]

I think one of the saddest I have ever heard was not really a song as such.
Its a work by Barber called Adaggio for Strings. Whenever I hear that it just makes me totally sad. Its a great piece tho, just very sad.

As a second, I would have to pick Go rest high on that mountain, by Vince Gill.
I heard that one night while I was talking to the bf of one of my friends. I had just been informed that he had been attacked and nearly killed, just for being gay. His bf was telling me about this, that song started to paly, and I was a bawling wreck.

[dwengster]

Can't Cry Hard Enough by Williams Brothers (revived by Bellefire)

as well as Bridge Over Troubled Waters by Simon and Garfunkel

- they both remind me of my cousin who died of leukemia... her favorite songs

[Stryfe]

Tracy Chapman's fast car is an obvious pick Another one I like is
Roy Orbison - Crying,

http://www.ladyjayes.com/crying.html

or the spanish version on Mulholland Drive:

http://www.rebekahdelrio.com/audio/1...ah_Del_Rio.m3u

[OrionNorthFL]

I have a whole folder of depressing MP3s on my computer for those moments when ya just feel like feeling sorry for yourself. Among the contents:

Tori Amos - 1000 Oceans
Tori Amos - Winter
Sarah McLaughlin - Angel
Dido - White Flag
Mariah Carey - My All


Also, for some reason, a lot of love songs depress me, such as Monica's "Angel of Mine" and things like that. I'm not sure why, really....

[acenchad2]

Travelin' Soldier-Dixie Chicks

[TwinksRule]

"Everybody Hurts" - REM

[bratwkb]

I have many... two I'll share right now are "Hey Jupiter" by Tori Amos & "Never thought I'd see the day" by Sade

[SouthBeach30]

I never dreamed you'd leave in summer - Stevie Wonder. Only because, he did leave in summer :-(

[Ares]

Travelin' Soldier-Dixie Chicks

Oh yeah, I forgot about that one. Good call. It's very sad.

Also "You Were Mine" by the Dixie Chicks.

[donnykabob]

Top of the World by Dixie Chicks is very sad too.

[wgtnstud]

The Day B4 U came, by ABBA.

[aleks1980]

thanx for the post of the spanish version of crying.the first time i heard that version in the movie,i cried.i am such a sucker for sad songs.

[Padz]

"These are the Days of Our Lives" by Queen - resleased just after Fred died.....

[mikal]

two songs by barbra streisand: "some good things never last" and "with one more look at you". the latter one is makes me cry though.

[sexy012]

too many to mention. right now I am listening to My Chemical Romance's "Ghost of you" and that one's "sad" too. one of the best songs on their album.

[icarus725]

I would say for me it has to be Memories from Andrew Lloyd Weber.


"Midnight, not a sound from the pavement
Has the moon lost her memory?
She is smiling alone
In the lamplight the withered leaves collect at my feet
And the wind begins to moan

Memory, all alone in the moonlight
I can smile at the old days
I was beautiful then
I remember the time I knew what happiness was
Let the memory live again

Every street lamp seems to beat
A fatalistic warning
Someone mutters and a street lamp gutters
And soon it will be morning

Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning

Touch me, it's so easy to leave me
All alone with the memory
Of my days in the sun
If you touch me, you'll understand what happiness is
Look, a new day has begun"

Especially this part...

"Daylight, I must wait for the sunrise
I must think of a new life
And I mustn't give in
When the dawn comes tonight will be a memory too
And a new day will begin

Burnt out ends of smoky days
The stale cold smell of morning
The street lamp dies, another night is over
Another day is dawning"

The reason is that my mother died on A Sunday morning just as the sun was rising.

[Guest]

The Morning After (Maureen McGovern)
Forever Young (Alphaville)
Help Me Make It Through The Night (Gladys Knight)

[hella]

Tracy Chapman's fast car is an obvious pick Another one I like is
Roy Orbison - Crying,

http://www.ladyjayes.com/crying.html

or the spanish version on Mulholland Drive:

http://www.rebekahdelrio.com/audio/1...ah_Del_Rio.m3u

i love you, stryfe.

"Crying" was in Gummo.
And I love the original version of "Fast Car" and Xiu Xiu's cover on 'A Promise'.
other sad songs:
"We Both Go Down Together" by the Decemberists
"Between the Bars," "the Biggest Lie," and "Needle in the Hay" by Elliott Smith (RIP)
"Into Dust" by Mazzy Star
"It's Cool, We Can Be Friends" by Bright Eyes
"Pictures of Success" by Rilo Kiley
"Inching Toward Juarez" by Seam
"I Know It's Over" by the Smiths
"Tunic (Song for Karen)" by Sonic Youth
"John Wayne Gacy, Jr." by Sufjan Stevens
"Parting Sea" by This Song is a Mess but so am I
"How Long is the Night?" by Thursday
"Hotcha Girls" by Ugly Casanova
"Wild Pack of Family Dogs" by Modest Mouse
"Suha," "Ale," and "Apistat Commander" by Xiu Xiu
"Wise Up" by Aimee Mann
"Invalid Litter Dept" by At the Drive-In
"20th Century Towers" by Death Cab for Cutie


yeah. I listen to a lot of depressing music.

[hubbabubba]

I cried wathing Patty Labelle doing her own version of the song "If you Love Me" on her PBS concert special called "One Night Only"

it was the most amazing vocal concert that I have ever seen in my life..I cried multiple times, this woman in my opinion is the greatest living singer...

[aleks1980]

great picks hella,we have a similiar taste in music -does anyone know where i find the bright eyes' song "it's ok-we can be friends?"-the title of the song is already great.in germany,older records from the saddle-creek-gang are hard to find.

[Stryfe]

"Crying" was in Gummo.

Yes I remember that. They mentioned it while they were sniffing glue and talking about the guy's gay brother.

As usual your music picks are always amazing.

Bjork - Scatterheart
Ani difranco - Sorry I am
Fiona Apple - Never is a Promise
PJ Harvey - Is that all there is

[SinCity101]

The saddest songs i have heard are the following:
''My Immortal'', Evanescence
''Listen to your Heart'', D.H.T.
I'm so tired of being here
suppresed by all my childish fears
and if you have to leave
i wish you would just leave
cause your presence still lingers here
and it wont seem to leave me alone
these wounds wont seem to heel
this pain is just to real
there's just to much that time cannot erase

When you cried i'd wipe a way all of your tears
When you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
And i held your hand through all of these years
But you still have all of me

You used to captivate me
By your responating light
But now i'm bound by the life you left behind
Your face it haunts my once pleasant dreams
Your voice it chased away all the sanity in me

these wounds wont seem to heal
this pain is just to real
there's just to much that time cannot erase

when you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
when you'd scream i'd fight away all of your fears
and i've held your hand through all of these years
but you still have all of me

I've tried so hard to tell myself that your gone
And though you still with me
I've been alone all along

When you cried i'd wipe away all of your tears
When you'd scream I'd fight away all of your fears
And I've held your hand through all of these years but you still have
all of me

Buy the evanesence album and experience for yourself
Evanescence:Fallen

all done on piano

[Zenith]

May it be with Enya.. Cant count all the times i cried to that song.

Carnival Town with Norah Jones always gets me in a sad mood;

Round 'n round
Carousel
Has got you under it's spell
Moving so fast...but
Going nowhere

Up 'n down
Ferris wheel
Tell me how does it feel
To be so high...
Looking down here

Is it lonely?
Lonely
Lonely

Did the clown
Make you smile
He was only your fool for a while
Now he's gone back home
And left you wandering there

Is it lonely?
Lonely
Lonely

Norah Jones gives me the chills everytime I hear her.

[imbigtoo]

if by Bread

and there is this country song, im not a big country song fan but at the time of my life that this song came out, it really got to me. I think it might be Alen Jackson. it was so sad and about him loosing the person he loved and at the same time was happy for them having someone new, because the person he loved happyness was more improtant than his, it really got to me, because someone that loves you that much, wow, I have loved that much and just dream that someday someone will love me that way.

[Gambit]

Family Portrait - Pink
My immortal - Evanescence
and enya's songs

[shout102]

The Carnival is Over - The Seekers
Lullaby in Blue - Bette Midler!!!!

[shout102]

[QUOTE=Stryfe]
Roy Orbison - Crying,

YES!