Saddest song you've ever heard

[Sierra 22]

Lestat suggested sad movies. What about sad songs? I was listening to an old Pearl Jam CD, and I thought "Last Kiss" was so sad.

 

What's the saddest song you've ever heard?

 

Sierra

[Snook 10]

Most of the Time - Bob Dylan

 

A very sad song in my opinion.

 

Also, Anna Begins - Counting Crows.

[miniminch 10]

Originally posted by Sierra

Lestat suggested sad movies. What about sad songs? I was listening to an old Pearl Jam CD, and I thought "Last Kiss" was so sad.

 

What's the saddest song you've ever heard?

 

Sierra

 

True Love Waits- Radiohead - entirely for personal reasons. I can't listen to it now. 'I'm not living, I'm just killing time' is the lyric.

 

UNKLE = what are you to me? is one i'm feeling right now - again for my own reasons.

 

I think there is generally sad stuff like Baber's adagio for strings (don't be kicking off the party with that one)

But a sad song can be anything if it ties you to a moment.

 

Funniest sad song Shaun Of the Dead, can't remember the track but he's trying to cheer shaun up after being dumped and it comes on the juke box.

 

'Who the ****s put this on?'

Shaun weeping, 'Its on random!'

 

[carcrash 11]

Band of gold by Freda Payne has got to be one of the saddest songs every written.

 

Now that you're gone

All that's left is a band of gold

All that's left of the dream I hold

Is a band of gold

And the memories of what love could be

If you are still here with me

 

You took me from the shelter of a mother I had never known

Who loved many others

We kissed after taking vows

But that night on our honeymoon

We stayed in separate rooms

 

I wait in the darkness of my lonely room

Filled with sadness, filled with gloom

Hoping soon that you'll walk

Back through that door

And love me like you tried before

 

Since you've been gone

All that's left is a band of gold

All that's left of the dream I hold

Is a band of gold

And the dream of what love could be

If you are still here with me

 

Ooh, don't you know that I wait in the darkness of my lonely room

Filled with sadness, filled with gloom

Hoping soon that you'll walk

Back through that door

And love me like you tried before

 

Since you've been gone

All that's left is a band of gold

All that's left of the dream I hold

Is a band of gold

And the dream of what love could be

If you are still here with me

 

So from what I can gather this motherless lass has got herself hitched to a bloke who cannot get on up like a sex machine and he may even bat for the other team whilst questioning wether her mother might have plyed her trade as a woman of the night, sat waiting and hoping that it may turn out ok in the end.

A fantastic pop song and one that I love dearly.

 

 

I wonder who's kissing her now,

I wonder who's teaching her how,

I wonder who's looking into her eyes,

breathing sighs, telling lies.

I wonder who's buying the wine

for lips that I used to call mine.

I wonder if she

ever tells him of me,

I wonder who's kissing her now.

The godlike genius of Ray Charles

 

 

When we two parted

In silence and tears,

Half broken-hearted

To sever for years,

Pale grew thy cheek and cold,

Colder thy kiss;

Truly that hour foretold

Sorrow to this.

 

The dew of the morning

Sunk chill on my brow--

It felt like the warning

Of what I feel now.

Thy vows are all broken,

And light is thy fame:

I hear thy name spoken,

And share in its shame.

 

They name thee before me,

A knell to mine ear;

A shudder comes o'er me--

Why wert thou so dear?

They know not I knew thee,

Who knew thee too well:

Lond, long shall I rue thee,

Too deeply to tell.

 

I secret we met--

I silence I grieve,

That thy heart could forget,

Thy spirit deceive.

If I should meet thee

After long years,

How should I greet thee?

With silence and tears.

Lord Byron

[Tracie 10]

Unintended, on Muse's Showbiz album is incredibly morose, just thinking about it is slightly depressing...

[Sierra 22]

carcrash,

 

I love that song. Freda Payne is still going strong, and she looks fabulous!

 

http://www.delafont.com/music_acts/freda-payne.htm

 

For some reason "Coat of many Colors" by Dolly Parton made me cry when I was a kid. It's a true story. She grew up very poor in Tennessee, and her mother literally sewed her a coat out of rags because they had no money to buy one. She was thrilled to get so much of her mother's attention, as she had many siblings.

 

But when she wore proudly wore the coat to school, the other kids laughed at her. Yeah, kids are horrid to each other.

 

http://www.lyricsfreak.com/d/dolly-parton/41950.html

 

Ahhh, lovely poem by Byron!

 

Sierra

[Kristian 11]

Con Te Patiro - Andrea Bocelli

Porcelain - Moby

Light in Your Eyes - Sheryl Crow

Nan's Song - Robbie Williams

Dear Jessie - Madonna

I Want Love - Elton John

Tell Me on a Sunday - Sarah Brightman

Leave Right Now - Will Young

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine - Savage Garden

and

The track from the end of Madame Butterfly (can't remember what it's called!)

 

Plus, anythng else if I'm in the mood to get the kleenex out (in the clean way!)

 

I think I need to get out more...

 

K x

[Siân 10]

I know it's supposed to be uplifting & positive but "Days" by the Kinks (although I prefer Kirsty MacColl's version) gets me every time.

 

"She Goes On" by Crowded House & Forever Autumn can have the same effect too - although none of these songs made a lump appear in my throat in my teens so I guess I must have gotten soppier in my old age.

 

I have to confess that sometimes the oddest of songs brings a lump to my throat. I wonder how many other people have experienced that lump in the throat feeling after hearing that song "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep" (I have this under control now - honestly!)

[Ousetunes 10]

Last night, after a few Shandys, I played my wife the songs I want playing at my funeral. You're not likely to know them but as I'm carried in, courtesy of John Fairest, I want George Harrison's All Things Must Pass. When everyone is looking forward to getting the drinks in at the wake, I want Ase's Death from Peer Gynt Suite by Edvard Greig. This latter choice is frankly, a musical equivalent of *death*.

 

But, it is also staggeringly beautiful. My wife told me to turn it off, so I had to put the Three Degrees CD on instead.

[Kristian 11]

OMG I thought I was the only sad one when it came to pre-selecting fueral songs!

 

I am having

 

It's hard to make a stand by Sheryl Crow

Dream a little Dream of me by Mammas and Poppas

 

and as the coffin goes through the curtains..

 

Wish me Luck as you Wave me Goodbye by Gracie Fields!

 

That should make some of them raise a smile!

 

K x

[Lickable 10]

Sad Eye - Pretty Things

 

Well if you ever baby,

Feel like changing your mind,

Don't think twice just take it easy,

Anything you do will please me.

Just as long as you see me.

 

And if you ever baby,

Feel like starting again,

All you gotta do is phone me,

There is nothing you need show me.

Just as long as you know me.

 

Well I knocked on every door,

Looked on every sea and shore.

Just to find that you had left me.

 

You were a special one,

Like the setting of the sun,

Now it's too late to help me.

 

It has such a Sad tune too, but its a brilliant song.

[Edd 10]

Asleep - The Smiths :cry:

 

For my funeral I think the Nirvana cover of "Lake of Fire"