What's the saddest song ever?

[mix]

I'll post two: The Jam's Bitterest Pill & Hank III's 5 Shots of Whiskey.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cXujEuShfls
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvP1N3scLSU
Yours?

[Aristus]

1. "Under The Bridge" by RHCP.

"I gave my life away..." is one of the saddest lyrics ever written.

[abq e streeter]

2. First of a few I thought of: Tom Traubert's Blues by Tom Waits

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9ZmqbcBsTAw



also, Bonnie Raitt: Love Has No Pride, The Beatles: Eleanor Rigby, and Jonathan Richman's That Summer Feeling

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

[soleft]

3. Tears from Heaven

Took years before I could even listen to it.

[Haole Girl]

47. That is one I immediately thought of, too. nt

[mtowngman]

4. MCR Cancer

oh my, still can't listen to it

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DegIq21qW5U

[HopeHoops]

5. Edmond Fitzgerald is certainly up there.

Tough question.

[Manifestor_of_Light]

100. I used to turn it off when that was a hit in the 70s. Quite depressing.

[Blue_In_AK]

6. I'm not usually a country music fan, but

Hank Williams' "I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry" ranks right up there with the saddest songs ever.

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

[Deep13]

7. "Goodbye to you my trusted friend...."

Seasons in the Sun. Plus it's kind of creepy.

[Skittles]

8. Mike and the Mechanics - Living Years

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k&feature=related

[Dr Fate]

15. The OP calls for the saddest song ever, not the worst song ever.

:hide:

[Skittles]

22. worst song ever

yes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A81fwLNklSM

[Dr Fate]

25. I stand not only corrected, but humbled. n/t

n/t

[Liberal Veteran]

28. Even worse than Run, Joey, Run?

Is that possible?

[HughBeaumont]

34. Sigh. David Geddes WISHES he could suck as bad as this band:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XR9d4ESlpHY&feature=related

[beac]

85. LOL.

A girl I went to school with babysat for one of the couples in the band around the time the song was number 1. As she was about eleven at the time, she was utterly skeeved out thinking about what her employers might have been up to shortly before she arrived. :rofl:

[donheld]

103. Indeed

:puke:

[Sanity Claws]

9. Danny Boy

I know that sounds like a trite answer but it really is a sad song. It could bring tears to a stone.

[GreenPartyVoter]

57. Molly Ban is the one that sends me to tears (video inside)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xOpY0wQdJ5w

[WCGreen]

10. Brick....

six am, da y after christmas, throw some clothes on in the dark.
D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G
smell of cold, car s eat is freezing. the wo rld is sleeping. i am
D Dsus2/G
numb.
D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G
up the stairs to her apartment, she is balled up on the couch.
D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G
her mom and dad drove down to charlo tte. they're not home to find us out.
Bridge
D/B Dsus2/G D/B Dsus2/G
and we driv e now that i have found someone i'm
D Dsus2/G D/B Dsus2/E E7
feeling more alo ne than i ever have before
Chorus (strum chords or pick similar miscellaneous patterns)
G A D
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly
G A Bm
off the coast and i'm headed nowhere
G A D G A G D(for piano fill)
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly
Verse II
D Dsus2/G Dsus2/G
they call her name at seven thirty. i pace around t he parking lot
D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G
i walk down to buy her flowers, and sell some gifts that i got.

Bridge II
D/B Dsus2/G D/B Dsus2/G
Can't you se e it's not me you 're dying for. now she's
D Dsus2/G D/B Dsus2/E E7
feeling more al one than she ever has before
Chorus (strum chords or pick similar miscellaneous patterns)
G A D
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly
G A Bm
off the coast and i'm headed nowhere G A G D
G A D G A G A F#m G(for piano fill)
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly
Interlude
D/B Dsus2/G D
as weeks went by it showed that she was not fine
D/B Dsus2/G D
they told me son it's time to tell the truth and
D/B Dsus2/G D D/B Dsus2/E E7
she broke down , and i broke down cause i wa s tired of lying
Verse III
D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G D Dsus2/G
driving back to her apartment, f or the moment we 're alone D Dsus2/G D/B Dsus2/E E7
she's alone. i'm alone. now i know it.
Chorus (strum chords or pick similar miscellaneous patterns)
G A D
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly
G A Bm
off the coast and i'm headed nowhere G A G D
G A D G A G A F#m G(for piano fill)
she's a brick and i'm drowning slowly

[MrScorpio]

11. Alone again, Naturally

[dysfunctional press]

39. +1

that's the one that always gets me.

[ajax24550]

12. Babe I'm Gonna Leave You by LedZep

[SacredCow]

13. Sometimes You Can't Make It On Your Own- U2...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CuDqHtAR6L8

I admit their more recent pompousity grates on my nerves, but they nailed it with this one....

[Tommy_Carcetti]

14. Hurt....both the original NIN version and the excellent Johnny Cash cover version. nt.

[Dr Fate]

16. Walk Away Renee- Left Banke n/t

n/t

[mitchum]

17. Caroline Says II by Mr Reed...

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

[Mixopterus]

18. Red House Painters

Medicine Bottle: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BMZ7wfLyno

Katy Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NFQ4nuUuwNo

[JTG of the PRB]

19. "Madeline" by Tickle Me Pink

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U7DlrBEQYnc

I nearly broke down in the car the first time I heard it. It still gets me every now and then.

[AlienGirl]

20. "Vast Indifference of Heaven" by Warren Zevon

[mitchum]

54. That is indeed a sad one (as is his "Hasten Down the Wind")

[pokerfan]

21. Harry Nilsson

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

[AlecBGreen]

23. Motion Pictures by Neil Young

.

[Petrushka]

24. The Yard Went on Forever --- Richard Harris

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W33WmvW4OPA


Is everybody safe?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody warm inside?

Hear them singing
All the women of Pompeii
Standing with the Kansas City housewives in doorways
In volcanoes and tornadoes on doomsday

De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
Donae nobis pacem
(5 times)
Grant us peace.]

There were houses, there were hoses
There were sprinklers on the lawn
There was an ironing board
And she would stand amid her understanding
And ask the children what they'd done at school that day
And the yard went on forever

There were blouses with print roses, checkered shirts and white levis
There was a frying pan and she would cook their dreams while they were dreaming
And later she would send them out to play
And the yard went on forever

Is everybody safe?
Has everybody got a place to hide?
Is everybody warm inside?

Hear them singing
All the women of Pompeii
Standing with the Nagasaki housewives in doorways
In eruptions and destructions on doomsday


De profundis clamavi ad te Domine
Donae nobis pacem
(4 times)

[betharina]

26. when she loved me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrfoEAzwHdI&feature=related
Sarah McLachlan

[EOTE]

53. That's a great one.

Randy Newman was robbed for not getting a Song of the Year Oscar for that one. I hope he gets one someday, he certainly deserves it. And Sarah McLachlan sings it beautifully.

For me, Shakira's Inevitable is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard. The way her emotion comes through in her voice amazes me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XHrqR0qrdis

[EndersDame]

27. David Bowie- Ashes to Ashes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CMThz7eQ6K0

[EndersDame]

29. David Bowie-Be My Wife

Be My Wife
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kB7skYEv_EM

Always Crashing in The Same Car
(not that sad but certainly very emotionally evocative)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6N6FRX30Q88

[EndersDame]

30. Any Hank Sr. song

Weary Blues from Waiting
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4qXmHQ_Sjo
Im So Lonesome I Could Cry
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_hDPMJ5HJ3M

[JonLP24]

31. Most likely not saddest ever but I'll post a song for the sake of posting a song

"Whiskey Lullaby" by Brad Paisley and Allison Krause.

[ellaydubya]

58. 2 come to mind...........

"He Stopped Loving Her Today", George Jones, and "Vincent", Don McClean.

[EndersDame]

32. Johnny Cash and Bob Dylan You Are My Sunshine

I think Cash's baritone adds something to this song
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oqNPx1hbhfo

[EndersDame]

33. Some of Patsy Cline's Standards

Crazy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zzq5X-p2C0Y
I Fall to Pieces
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iuZTk1hdpMs
Sweet Dreams
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0VU07_KkD3Q

[Brickbat]

35. Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald. I cry every damn time I hear it.

[HughBeaumont]

36. Here's my four:

I believe in Father Christmas - Greg Lake
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FqOfXumI18A

Father and Son - Cat Stevens (Yusuf Islam). It's even more sentimental to me hearing him sing it now.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4cpX1ZjuaiA

Sesame Street - Sad Flower Film (Guitar Concerto in D Major, 2nd Movement by Antonio Vivaldi)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kojxgL3nf0Y

Dead Can Dance - The Host of Seraphim. 7 minutes of abject poverty we couldn't imagine in our worst nightmares. The scene at 3:25 is especially heartbreaking.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QJhVM930YXY&feature=PlayList&p=0BE15D9FB0A9EEA3&index=0&playnext=1

[Amerigo Vespucci]

37. Jules Shear, "You're Not Around"

Shear is perhaps best known for the cover version of his song "If She Knew What She Wants" by The Bangles and his own solo hit "Steady (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xLzJw6XYLco)."

"You're Not Around" was on his 1985 album "The Eternal Return"



"I know I can last but I don't think it matters,
You're not around
You're not gonna be around again"

I'm sort of glad I don't own the CD anymore...one listen and it takes the rest of the night to pull yourself back up from the depths.

His music was in the "Suicidal Paul McCartney" vein...vaguely Beatle-esque ditties with a thick layer of self-pity, like former Raspberries frontman Eric Carmen.

[Tikki]

38. "Death of an Angel"....Donald Woods and the Vel-Aires" (1955)...

This is the song we weren't suppose to listen to when we were kids because it
might make us so sad we would do something rash. :shrug:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-2ERr_iG1Mc



The Tikkis

[AllenVanAllen]

40. Wish You Were Here

by Pink Floyd

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IXdNnw99-Ic


It's a sad song but it's tone is bittersweet.

[AlienGirl]

41. "House at Pooh Corner" as sung by the Indigo Girls. Fuck, it is everything I lost.

That song will be the last thing I hear as the lights go out.

Tucker

[Ineeda]

42. How Do I Live?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=90e8ryPDKWo
Played this constantly after my husband died. Still makes me cry.

[Highway61]

43. Streets of London

by Ralph McTell...gets me every time

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ctb-SrwL884


Oh..one more... Crow on the Cradle

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-Mqc8qHmDd8

[Coventina]

44. "Baby Mine" in its original context.

:cry:

[SteppingRazor]

45. "And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by The Pogues.

Well, originally by Eric Bogle, but The Pogues' version is definitive.

[mix]

56. extraordinary, beautiful

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lE-YjjZhwc

[Misskittycat]

60. Same, by John McDermott (Irish Tenor) on album "Battlefields of Green"

I just want to slit my wrists every time I hear it.

[Bertha Venation]

46. Someone To Lay Down Beside Me - Karla Bonoff

If not the saddest, it's surely among the saddest.

[mix]

52. +1

[Haole Girl]

48. It's a tie between these two:

The Promise, Tracy Chapman

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=crTc1V34m8g

Hurt, Johnny Cash

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o22eIJDtKho

[BurtWorm]

49. Knoxville Summer of 1915, by Samuel Barber

Sung by Leontyne Price, especially.




It has become that time of evening when people sit on their porches, rocking gently and talking gently and watching the street and the standing up into their sphere of possession of the trees, of birds’ hung havens, hangars. People go by; things go by. A horse, drawing a buggy, breaking his hollow iron music on the asphalt: a loud auto: a quiet auto: people in pairs, not in a hurry, scuffling, switching their weight of aestival body, talking casually, the taste hovering over them of vanilla, strawberry, pasteboard, and starched milk, the image upon them of lovers and horsemen, squared with clowns in hueless amber.

A streetcar raising its iron moan; stopping; belling and starting, stertorous; rousing and raising again its iron increasing moan and swimming its gold windows and straw seats on past and past and past, the bleak spark crackling and cursing above it like a small malignant spirit set to dog its tracks; the iron whine rises on rising speed; still risen, faints; halts; the faint stinging bell; rises again, still fainter; fainting, lifting, lifts, faints foregone: forgotten. Now is the night one blue dew.

Now is the night one blue dew, my father has drained, he has coiled the hose.

Low in the length of lawns, a frailing of fire who breathes…
Parents on porches: rock and rock. From damp strings morning glories hang their ancient faces.

The dry and exalted noise of the locusts from all the air at once enchants my eardrums.

On the rough wet grass of the back yard my father and mother have spread quilts. We all lie there, my mother, my father, my uncle, my aunt, and I too am lying there. They are not talking much, and the talk is quiet, of nothing in particular, of nothing at all in particular, of nothing at all. The stars are wide and alive, they seem each like a smile of great sweetness, and they seem very near. All my people are larger bodies than mine, with voices gentle and meaningless like the voices of sleeping birds.

One is an artist, he is living at home. One is a musician, she is living at home. One is my mother who is good to me. One is my father who is good to me.

By some chance, here they are, all on this earth; and who shall ever tell the sorrow of being on this earth, lying, on quilts, on the grass, in a summer evening, among the sounds of the night.

May God bless my people, my uncle, my aunt, my mother, my good father, oh, remember them kindly in their time of trouble; and in the hour of their taking away.

After a little I am taken in and put to bed. Sleep, soft smiling, draws me unto her: and those receive me, who quietly treat me, as one familiar and well-beloved in that home: but will not, oh, will not, not now, not ever; but will not ever tell me who I am.

[asdjrocky]

50. Ball & Chain - Social Distortion.

The acoustic is better, but this still gets me.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cf6k4yJyv0

[Tikki]

97. You know...it is a sad song..

Sometimes people get too caught up with who's the messenger and they don't hear the message.


Tikki

[mix]

98. very sad song from someone who knows addiction, struggle, violence nt

[Kali]

51. Kathy Mattea "Where Have You Been?"

Also John McCutcheon "Christmas in the Trenches". Gets me every time.

[Misskittycat]

75. Like both of them

[Ghost of Tom Joad]

55. I'm so lonesome I could cry

Hank Williams and the mournful way he sings

Hear that lonesome whippoorwill
He sounds too blue to fly
The midnight train is whining low
I'm so lonesome I could cry

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind a cloud
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves began to die?
That means he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry

The silence of a falling star
Lights up a purple sky
And as I wonder where you are
I'm so lonesome I could cry

[mitchum]

63. One of the many things that blows me away about Williams...

is the fact that his reading matter consisted of almost nothing but romance comic books written for teenage girls.
Genius can be found in the strangest places. And he was undoubtedly a genius.

[Duer 157099]

59. Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin

chokes me up every single time

My child arrived just the other day
He came to the world in the usual way
But there were planes to catch and bills to pay
He learned to walk while I was away
And he was talkin' 'fore I knew it, and as he grew
He'd say "I'm gonna be like you dad
You know I'm gonna be like you"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home dad?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

My son turned ten just the other day
He said, "Thanks for the ball, Dad, come on let's play
Can you teach me to throw", I said "Not today
I got a lot to do", he said, "That's ok"
And he walked away but his smile never dimmed
And said, "I'm gonna be like him, yeah
You know I'm gonna be like him"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

Well, he came home from college just the other day
So much like a man I just had to say
"Son, I'm proud of you, can you sit for a while?"
He shook his head and said with a smile
"What I'd really like, Dad, is to borrow the car keys
See you later, can I have them please?"

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

I've long since retired, my son's moved away
I called him up just the other day
I said, "I'd like to see you if you don't mind"
He said, "I'd love to, Dad, if I can find the time
You see my new job's a hassle and kids have the flu
But it's sure nice talking to you, Dad
It's been sure nice talking to you"

And as I hung up the phone it occurred to me
He'd grown up just like me
My boy was just like me

And the cat's in the cradle and the silver spoon
Little boy blue and the man on the moon
When you comin' home son?
I don't know when, but we'll get together then son
You know we'll have a good time then

[S n o w b a l l]

61. Strange Fruit

Could there be a sadder song than this?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4ZyuULy9zs


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 crop.

[mitchum]

62. I play in an act that does a version of "Strange Fruit"...

and people are always telling me how devastatingly haunting our version is (I think in large part due to the fact that my singer has better vocal chops than Holiday), I always thank them, but inside I just smirk to myself. As far as I am concerned, it's just notes and chords. Art is wonderful; even a cynic can move people.
It is a wonderful song, though.

[unsavedtrash]

64. Sam Stone or Hello in There by John Prine

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7mo7p7ictF8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FJ85Hep0kD0

[pink-o]

65. I LOVE "Bitterest Pill" Who wudda thought Paul Weller could sing so poignantly?

And someone mentioned "Cat's in the Cradle". Oh, yeah. Costco size kleenex supply for that.

But I posted this before: nothing is as sad as Queen's "These are the Days of Our Lives". Freddie knew he was dying and Brian's ripping guitar solo just flays your heart.

Don't believe me? Watch.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YOJPvxgkvn8

[mix]

66. I love the song, Bitterest Pill, but that video is awful, I think purposefully so.

Weller has a great generational voice, listen to this...enjoy
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv55WsedLYI

[tmyers09]

90. Damn.

The part at around 3:45 where Freddie looks up at the sky and there's a flash of light. Looks like he's about to ascend to heaven.

[Brigid]

67. Here's one by Gordon Lightfoot:

I couldn't find a performance of it on youtube (not by Lightfoot himself, anyway), but here are the lyrics:

Home From The Forest (The Way I Feel) 3:04


Oh the neon lights were flashin'
And the icy wind did blow
The water seeped into his shoes
And the drizzle turned to snow
His eyes were red, his hopes were dead
And the wine was runnin' low
And the old man came home
From the forest

His tears fell on the sidewalk
As he stumbled in the street
A dozen faces stopped to stare
But no one stopped to speak
For his castle was a hallway
And the bottle was his friend
And the old man stumbled in
From the forest

Up a dark and dingy staircase
The old man made his way
His ragged coat around him
As upon his cot he lay
And he wondered how it happened
That he ended up this way
Getting lost like a fool
In the forest

And as he lay there sleeping
A vision did appear
Upon his mantle shining
A face of one so dear
Who had loved him in the springtime
Of a long-forgotten year
When the wildflowers did bloom
In the forest

She touched his grizzled fingers
And she called him by his name
And then he heard the joyful sound
Of children at their games
In an old house on a hillside
In some forgotten town
Where the river runs down
From the forest

With a mighty roar the big jets soar
Above the canyon streets
And the con men con but life goes on
For the city never sleeps
And to an old forgotten soldier
The dawn will come no more
For the old man has come home
From the forest

[Tuesday Afternoon]

68. George Jones: Come Sundown

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CCB7ybd5pcI

[madeline_con]

77. He Stopped Loving Her Today

:cry:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz2aNifcy20

[bridgit]

69. Ballad In Plain D

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGG9gFRhryg

I once loved a girl, her skin it was bronze.
With the innocence of a lamb, she was gentle like a fawn.
I courted her proudly but now she is gone,
Gone as the season she's taken.

Through young summer's breeze, I stole her away
From her mother and sister, though close did they stay.
Each one of them suffering from the failures of their day,
With strings of guilt they tried hard to guide us.

Of the two sisters, I loved the young.
With sensitive instincts, she was the creative one.
The constant scapegoat, she was easily undone
By the jealousy of others around her.

For her parasite sister, I had no respect,
Bound by her boredom, her pride to protect.
Countless visions of the other she'd reflect
As a crutch for her scenes and her society.

Myself, for what I did, I cannot be excused,
The changes I was going through can't even be used,
For the lies that I told her in hopes not to lose
The could-be dream-lover of my lifetime.

With unknown consciousness, I possessed in my grip
A magnificent mantelpiece, though its heart being chipped,
Noticing not that I'd already slipped
To a sin of love's false security.

From silhouetted anger to manufactured peace,
Answers of emptiness, voice vacancies,
Till the tombstones of damage read me no questions but, "Please,
What's wrong and what's exactly the matter?"

And so it did happen like it could have been foreseen,
The timeless explosion of fantasy's dream.
At the peak of the night, the king and the queen
Tumbled all down into pieces.

"The tragic figure!" her sister did shout,
"Leave her alone, God damn you, get out!"
And I in my armor, turning about
And nailing her to the ruins of her pettiness.

Beneath a bare light bulb the plaster did pound
Her sister and I in a screaming battleground.
And she in between, the victim of sound,
Soon shattered as a child 'neath her shadows.

All is gone, all is gone, admit it, take flight.
I gagged twice, doubled, tears blinding my sight.
My mind it was mangled, I ran into the night
Leaving all of love's ashes behind me.

The wind knocks my window, the room it is wet.
The words to say I'm sorry, I haven't found yet.
I think of her often and hope whoever she's met
Will be fully aware of how precious she is.

Ah, my friends from the prison, they ask unto me,
"How good, how good does it feel to be free?"
And I answer them most mysteriously,
"Are birds free from the chains of the skyway?"

[LeftyMom]

70. Who Wants to Live Forever- Queen

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5L8-FTvSVxs

[PassingFair]

79. Sung by children:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-S6_q_VPHw

This is somehow even SADDER!

:cry:

[Rising Phoenix]

71. Hank 111 is a friend of mine......he likes my tats

he is nuts but very talented

[hippywife]

72. I Can't Make You Love Me by Bonnie Raitt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KTLR3zHxnr8

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize - don't patronize me

Chorus: cause I cant make you love me if you don't
You cant make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power
But you wont, no you won't
cause I cant make you love me, if you don't

Ill close my eyes, then I wont see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and Ill do whats right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
Chorus: cause I cant make you love me if you don't
You cant make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and Ill feel the power
But you wont, no you won't
cause I cant make you love me, if you don't

[hippywife]

74. Lives in the Balance by Jackson Browne

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


I've been waiting for something to happen
For a week or a month or a year
With the blood in the ink of the headlines
And the sound of the crowd in my ear
You might ask what it takes to remember
When you know that you've seen it before
Where a government lies to a people
And a country is drifting to war

And there's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who send the guns
To the wars that are fought in places
Where their business interest runs

On the radio talk shows and the t.v.
You hear one thing again and again
How the u.s.a. stands for freedom
And we come to the aid of a friend
But who are the ones that we call our friends--
These governments killing their own?
Or the people who finally cant take any more
And they pick up a gun or a brick or a stone
There are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

There's a shadow on the faces
Of the men who fan the flames
Of the wars that are fought in places
Where we cant even say the names

They sell us the president the same way
They sell us our clothes and our cars
They sell us every thing from youth to religion
The same time they sell us our wars
I want to know who the men in the shadows are
I want to hear somebody asking them why
They can be counted on to tell us who our enemies are
But they're never the ones to fight or to die
And there are lives in the balance
There are people under fire
There are children at the cannons
And there is blood on the wire

[applegrove]

73. Season's In The Sun. I used to listen to it as a kid and it would make me cry. I just heard

it tonight on vinyl tap.

[AwakeAtLast]

76. The Wrong Child - REM

There is a really bad YouTube link that I won't post. Here are the lyrics:

Ive watched the children come and go
A late long march into spring
I sit and watch those children
Jump in the tall grass
Leap the sprinkler
Walk in the ground
Bicycle clothespin spokes
The sound the smell of swingset hands

I will try to sing a happy song
Ill try and make a happy game to play

Come play with me I whispered to my new found friend
Tell me what its like to go outside
Ive never been
Tell me what its like to just go outside
Ive never been
And I never will

Im not supposed to be like this
Im not supposed to be like this
But its okay

Hey those kids are looking at me
I told my friend myself
Those kids are looking at me
Theyre laughing and theyre running over here
Theyre laughing and theyre running over here
What do I do?
What can I do?
What should I do?
What do I say?
What can I say?

I said Im not supposed to be like this
Lets try to find a happy game to play
Lets try to find a happy game to play
Im not supposed to be like this
But its okay...okay

[MrScorpio]

78. Gloomy Sunday, the Saddest Music In the World

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TcJ6CUgwe4Q

[PassingFair]

80. Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold"

WWWWaAAAAAAHHHH!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3YVil3Ajjs

See also: Queen's "Who Wants To Live Forever", sung by children:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q-S6_q_VPHw

[Iggo]

81. Vincent -- Don McLean

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

"For they could not love you

But still your love was true.

And when no hope was left in sight

On that starry starry night

You took your life as lovers often do.

But I could have told you, Vincent,

This world was never meant for one as beautiful as you.

Starry starry night..."

(Gets me every time...)

[radiclib]

82. Sweet Old World

Lucinda Williams.
Followed by Patty Griffin's "Top of the World".

[Catshrink]

83. What? Nobody said Honey?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=59BZxgohr9g

Bobby Goldsboro

:puke:

[naaman fletcher]

84. 5 shots of whiskey!!

Just came to post that.. but you were way ahead of me. Saddest song ever.

[mix]

91. a classic...feeling you've got to leave your hometown

because of a love gone wrong, his voice is perfect too.

[beac]

86. "Eleanor Rigby" was the first song that ever made me cry.

And for some reason-- even though it's not really a sad song-- any version of "Blackbird," be it the Beatles original or a cover, always chokes me up at bit.

[Iggo]

94. Re: Blackbird

I can see that. The music has a real melancholy feel to it. Not sad really, but wistful, with perhaps a touch of mild regret.

[Inchworm]

87. You are my sweetest downfall

...I loved you first.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hVhxj8ymkcE

:cry:

[enigmatic]

88. "The Bed"- Lou Reed

http://recluseshow.blogspot.com/2009/03/bed-lou-reed.html

This is the place where she lay her head
when she went to bed at night
And this is the place our children were conceived
candles lit the room brightly at night

And this is the place where she cut her wrists
that odd and fateful night
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

This is the place where we used to live
I paid for it with love and blood
And these are the boxes that she kept on the shelf
Filled with her poetry and stuff

And this is the room where she took the razor
and cut her wrists that strange and fateful night
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling

I never would have started if I'd known
that it's end this way
But funny thing, I'm not at all sad
that it stopped this way

This is the place where she lay her head
when she went to bed at night
And this is the place our children were conceived
candles lit the room brightly at night

And this is the place where she cut her wrists
That odd and fateful night
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling
And I said, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, oh, what a feeling..

[jannyk]

89. Green Fields of France (this version by the Fury's is a good one)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wN-NIHbfJ1k&feature=related

[Doc_Technical]

92. Phil Ochs "No More Songs"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p5XBOthE6CQ

[Forkboy]

93. I have a ton of songs that people here would consider sad.

Not for the right reasons, mind you... :evilgrin:

[debbierlus]

102. When September Comes: Roseanne & Johnny Cash

:cry:

[lightningandsnow]

95. "Hanging by a Thread" by Jann Arden.

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

[mix]

96. Thanks for posting this...

...homelessness in southern California in the early 1980s was one of the first issues that politicized me in a leftward direction.
:hi:

[ornotna]

99. Our Town - Iris DeMent

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ghVAH_WX-9I

[Pryderi]

101. Kilkelly - Clancy Brothers and Robbie O'Connell video link in the message

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yN2s0J3Y8mc
A story of emigration - an Irish folk song based on letters from a father to his son, discovered in a loft some 120 years after they were written during Ireland's Great Famine.

[mwooldri]

104. Grandma got run over by a reindeer.

In my Nans case it happened to be a tractor.

RIP my nan, December 24th, 1984.

[mikeSchmuckabee]

105. Sam Stone by John Prine

"There's a hole in Daddy's arm, where all the money goes."

[PRETZEL]

106. At 17

Janis Ian's song of teenage angst.

[bif]

107. "I'll be Seeing You" Johnny Cash

When he knew he was dying of cancer and that it would probably be the last recording he'd ever make.

[akbacchus_BC]

108. Am late but Loreena McKennit comes to mind and Enya, they sing

really sad songs, tear at your heart strings and Tears in Heaven!

[GoCubsGo]

109. A Dying Cub's Fan's Last Request

By Steve Goodman. It's a humorous song, but I find it sad because it reminds me that he died four days before the Cubs made it to the post-season for the first time since 1945, and he missed getting to see it. He was born in 1948, so it never happened during his lifetime.

[shawmut]

110. The Smiths - I Know It's Over

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k2e4V3Xh17w

[VMI Dem]

111. Crazy Car by the Naked Brothers Band.

[BOSSHOG]

112. I will always Love You - Dolly Parton

[unpossibles]

113. I've been told my songs are pretty sad, but...

...maybe it's just my singing.
http://www.last.fm/music/Don+Paris+Schlotman/Year+of+the+Worm

That album is about my mom dying when I was a kid, some other influences in my life, and in general 12 sequential songs about life, death, love, pain, and everything in between.

I'm no Hank or Hank III, or Johnny Cash though. Speaking of which, Cash's cover of NIN's "Hurt" is pretty sad, as is the Kermit the Frog parody/cover of it. Youtube it if you don't believe me.

[lukasahero]

114. Some obvious choices come to mind:

Eva Cassidy's version of "Fields of Gold" is up there.
Sting's "Fragile".
Indigo Girls "Kid Fears" always gets to me.
"Wild is the Wind" by Bowie.
"Everybody Hurts" REM.
"Mad World" by Gary Jules.

I discovered "Slipped Away" by Avril Lavigne just after losing my 14 yr old Lab. Can't listen to it without crying even a yr and a half later.

Oh, and I'll never be able to listen to "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" by the Pretenders again without thinking of my friend who died in the Lockerbie plane crash - 3 days before Christmas.

[tk2kewl]

115. Annie Lennox: No More 'I love Yous'

:cry: