saddest song you ever heard?

[gobuckwildonme]

*"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom of the Opera

Good call! (p.s. I love Wicked!)

The song that makes me burst out into hysterics when I hear it (and fortunately, I only hear it during the holidays) is the "Christmas Shoes" song. The radio station Warm 106.9 in Seattle generally plays soft music but they play Christmas music after
Thanksgiving, and every so often, the Christmas Shoes song comes on. It always gets me. In fact, it's the only song that has ever made me cry. No movie has made my cry, by the way, haha.

 

[jaysizzles]

"Everybody Hurts" - REM

Yes! definitely "Everybody Hurts" is one of the saddest songs and also one of my favorites...

also...

Black ... Pearl jam

Sorry seems to be the hardest word ... Elton John

Tears in heaven ... Eric Clapton - my friends played this at their teenage son's funeral so whenever i hear it played it takes me back to that sad day.

 

[huntercub]

Saddest song I can think of is Tori Amos' "Gold Dust" from her "Scarlet's Walk" album. A beautiful song filled with THE MOST gorgeous piano, the lyrics are about holding something so beautiful but only ever realizing it's beauty after it's gone. (That's what it means to me anyway.)

 

[hella]

I'm adding...
"Sunflower" - Low.
"If I Could" - Mineral.
"Porr Dumb Bird" - Ida.
"Teenage Angst" - Placebo.
"That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore" - the Smiths.
"Seattle" - the Jim Yoshii Pile-up.
"Sodom, South Georgia" - Iron & Wine.
"Ceremony" and "Disorder" by Joy Division.

 

[omfg_its_mike]

Bright Eyes - Padraic My Prince

i had a brother once
he drowned in a bathtub before he had ever learned how to talk
and i don’t know what his name was but my mother does
i heard her say it once, padriac my prince i have all but died from the
sheer weight of my shame. you cried but no one came and the water filled your
tiny lungs. appear, my dear, and cry for me. it was six years ago today that
i laid you in your grave, your sweet young skin was shining then too.
and so tonight to celebrate i will poison myself.
another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning.
so i close the door and i rest my head on the tile floor,
sickness and sleep turning me cold.
and i am still not sure, is there some better place i could be heading towards?
where the selfishly sick and self absorbed are welcome.
i saw the future once.
i was drunk in a phone booth.
my eyes were wet and red but i could not tell what was said
and through the screams of the traffic voices carried saying
i am sorry
on a day so gray its black inside
watching churches on tv
<b>in a coma you don’t dream you just hope that someone sits with you</b>
babies turn blue when they are ignored like the sky on summer days
before you turn and walk away it has changed you
so tonight to compensate i will poison myself
another coughing, shaking fit in a bathroom that is spinning.

 

[Juan_S]

I'm not sure what the name of the song is but it's by Alanis Morissette. It's on her Jagged Little Pill album the bonus song at the end of Wake Up... I remember the first time I heard i listened to it, it stopped me in my tracks and by the end of it I was bawling. Granted I had just had the worst experience with a guy something i'm still dealing with. But from then on whenever i'm sad and missing him I play that song and cry. It sounds sad I know but it's a good form of release.

If anyone knows the name of the song let me know. I would love to finally put a name to it.

 

[jaysizzles]

I'm not sure what the name of the song is but it's by Alanis Morissette. It's on her Jagged Little Pill album the bonus song at the end of Wake Up...

...If anyone knows the name of the song let me know. I would love to finally put a name to it.

hey Juan...track 13 (last one after Wake up...is not listed on cd jacket) I think is an extended version of You Oughta Know...at the end she sings acappella ...I went to your house...i shouldn't be hear...would you forgive me love...if i cry in your shower....etc... still listed on my display as track 13. You Oughta Know is also track 2 on cd...but not extended.

i 'm not sure if i ever paid attention to that before...didn't sound familiar... good choice for this thread though.

 

[Juan_S]

Yeah that's the song! I got confused because on the acoustic cd of Jagged Little Pill it's the bonus song to Wake Up, but on the original release it comes after Your Oughta Know. Either way I love the song. I also get really sad when I hear the song from the soundtrack to Baz Luhrman Romeo and Juliet. Kissing You by Des'ree it also gets me choked up every time.

I love your signature that picture is so sweet and erotic.

 

[skibuddy]

anybody heard Here In My Heart by Tiffany, made me cry a lot of times after a bad break up......
but I like Bright Eyes by Jason Mraz

 

[Oden_grey]

"Parce mihi domine" from Officium - Sacred Motet with improvisational soprano saxophone.

Everytime I hear it, it brings me to tears and ever since I found the translation to the lyrics the song has become even more moving.

"For Queer as Folk" fans, I think this is the same song used during the last episode of season 1 when the character, Justin get's beaten half to death by a fellow student.

Latin:

Parce mihi Domine

Parce mihi, Domine, nihil enim sunt dies mei.
Quid est homo, quia magnificas eum?
Aut quid apponis erga eum cor tuum?
Visitas eum diluculo et subito probas ilium.
Usquequo non parcis mihi, nec dimittis me, ut glutiam salivam meom?
Peccavi, quid faciem tibi, о custos hominum?
Quare posuisti me contrarium tibi, et factus sum mihimetipsi gravis?
Cur non tollis peccatum meum, et quare non aufers iniquitatem meam?
Ecce, nunc in pulvere dormian, et si mane me quaesieris, non subsistam.

English Translation:

Spare me, Lord, for my days are as nothing.
What is Man, that you should make so much of us?
Or why should you set your heart upon us?
You visit us at dawn,
and put us to the test at any moment.
Will you not spare me and let me be,
while I swallow my saliva?
If I have sinned, how have I hurt you,
O guardian of mankind?
Why have you set me up as your target,
so that I am now a burden to myself?
Why do you not forgive my sin
and why do you not take away my guilt?
Behold, I shall now lie down in the dust:
if you come looking for me I shall have ceased to exist.

 

[unclaimedblessing]

Every time you go away.
Mem'ries from Cats

 

[Tromkick]

I think that it's the saddest song ever written, and to ever be written...especially since it was voted number three of the songs that changed the world (the other two were kinda peppy)

Strange Fruit -Billie Holiday.

 

[justjoshoh]

Pink Floyd ~ Comfortably Numb

 

[justjoshoh]

On that same tone, integralgonzo, I tear up everytime when I hear Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying".

I hate going fishing. My Dad loves to fish. But I tear up, think about my own Dad, and nearly want to ask him to go everytime I hear:

And all the sudden going fishin
Wasn't such an imposition
And I went three times that year I lost my dad

 

[gargth2u]

Ae Fond Kiss
Written in 1791 by Robert Burns as sung by Scottish pop/folk singer Edie Reader.

Ae(one) fond kiss, and then we sever;
Ae Fareweel, alas, for ever!
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.

Who shall say that Fortune grieves him,
While the star of hope she leaves him?
Me nae(no) cheerful twinkle lights me;
Dark despair around benights me.

I'll never blame my partial fancy,
Nothing can resist my Nancy:
For to see her was to love her;
Love but her and Love for ever.

Had we never loved sae(so) kindly,
Had we never loved sae blindly,
Nor never met - nor never parted,
We would never have been sae broken-hearted.

Fare-thee-weel, my first and fairest
Fare-thee-weel, my best and dearest
Thine be ilka(every) joy and treasure,
Peace, Enjoyment, Love and Pleasure!

Ae fond kiss, and then we sever
Ae fareweel alas, for ever
Deep in heart-wrung tears I'll pledge thee,
Warring sighs and groans I'll wage thee.


A couple of other people already mentioned Kate Bush's "A Womans work" and "Under the Ivy".

Years ago while waiting for the Vet to come to the house to put my old dog to sleep I was listening to Linda Ronstadt's "Goodbye old friend"... ...still can't hear that song without tears welling up......

 

[pureimagination]

Forgive me if I missed these as already listed.....
but, I think the following deserve mention:
ColdPlay Trouble
Blink 182 I'm Lost Without You
Beck Lonesome Tears
Everything But The Girl Good Cop Bad Cop
Prince The Beautiful Ones
k.d.lang Outside Myself
Norah Jones Shoot the Moon
Carly Simon I Get Along Without You Very Well
Donovan Catch the Wind
Tammy Wynette 'Til I Get it Right
Joan Armatrading The Weakness in Me
Sinead O'Connor Black Boys on Mopeds
Petula Clark Beautiful in the Rain
Bill Atherton What'll I Do
MorrisseyEveryday is Like Sunday
The Smiths Please, Please, Please & Never Had No One Ever &
Death of A Disco Dancer &.....on and on and on....
I guess Morrissey & The Smiths had the market cornered on
sad songs!

If you don't know any of these CHECK THEM OUT!

http://www.justusboys.com/members/pureimagination/

 

[Dobson73]

For me it has to be "Unbreak My Heart" from Toni Branxton.

Closely followed by:

"Sepearate Lives" by Phil Collins
"Tenterfield Sadler" by Peter Allen
"If You Go Away" (Various covers but Dusty Springfield is the Queen!!)

 

[sb]

goodbye my lover - james blunt...


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[Junior99]

I am not sure if it was said, but "Dont Take the Girl" by Tim McGraw

 

[jjc_7]

The Dance - Garth Brooks...played at my mom's funeral...still haven't been able to listen to it after 12 years.
Overcome - Live...this one always seems to get me