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Old 07-27-2006, 09:13 PM
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Default Re: Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

I still get choked up reading the lyrics to "Old Folks". Anyone with older parents/grandparents should able to relate.



The old folks don't talk much
They talk so slowly when they do
They are rich they are poor
Their illusions are gone
They share one heart for two

Their homes all smell of time
Of old photographs
and an old fashioned song
Though you may live in town
You live so far away
when you've lived too long

Have they laughed too much
Do their dry voices crack
talking of things gone by
have they cried too much
A tear or two still always seems
To cloud the eye

They tremble as they watch the old silver clock
When day is through
tick tock oh so slow
It says yes it says no
It says I wait for you

The old folks dream no more
Their books have gone to sleep
the piano's out of tune
the little cat is dead
and no more do they sing on a sunday afternoon
The old folks move no more
Their world become to small
their bodies feel like lead
they might look out a window
or else sit it a chair
or else they stay in bed

and if they still go out
arm in arm, arm in arm
in the morning chill
its to have a good cry
to say their last goodbye
to one who's older still
and then they go home
to the old silver clock
when day is through
tick tock so so slow
it says yes it says no
it says I wait for you

the old folks never die
they just put down their heads
and go to sleep one day
they will hold each others hands
like children in the dark
but one will get lost anyway
and the other will remain
just sitting in a room
which makes no sound
it doesn't matter now
the song has died away
and echo's all around

you'll see them as they walk
through the sun filled parks
where children run and play
it hurst to much to smile
it hurts so much
but life goes on for still another day
as they try to escape the old silver clock
when day is through
tick tock oh so slow
it says yes it says no
it says I wait for you

the old old silver clock
thats hanging on the wall
that waits for us all
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Old 07-27-2006, 10:08 PM
Tennenbaum Tennenbaum is offline
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Wow. I agree w/ a TON of these songs. Danny Boy especially as they played it at my grandfather's funeral, then did the 21 gun salute what a powerful thing.

Sia - Breath Me (I have felt this way SO many times)
Help, I have done it again
I have been here many times before
I Hurt myself again today
And, the worst part is there's no-one else to blame

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Ouch I have lost myself again
Lost myself and I am nowhere to be found,
Yeah I think that I might break
Lost myself again and I feel unsafe

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Be my friend
Hold me, wrap me up
Unfold me
I am small
I'm needy
Warm me up
And breathe me

Fiona Apple - Love Ridden (listened to it non stop after last break up)

Tori Amos - Winter

Portishead - Undenied

Man, I'm an angsty chick.
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Old 07-27-2006, 10:43 PM
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Default Re: Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

lenny kravtiz - again
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Old 07-27-2006, 11:57 PM
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I'm sure there's a few Joy Division songs that qualify.
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Old 07-28-2006, 12:32 AM
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Default Re: Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

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Portishead - Undenied


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wandering stars
"Please could you stay awhile to share my grief
For its such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever"
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Old 07-28-2006, 02:43 AM
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"Ruby" by Kenny Rogers and First Edition. What's so great is that if you listened to just the music, you'd never guess it was probably the most depressing song I've ever heard.

You've painted up your lips an rolled and curled your tinted
hair
Ruby are you contemplating going out somewhere?
The Shadow on the wall tells me the sun is going down
-Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
Its hard to love a man whose legs are bent and paralysed
And the wants and the needs of a woman your age,
Ruby I realize,
But it won't be long i've heard them say until I'm not
around
Oh Ruby
Don't take your love to town
It wasn't me that started that old crazy asian war
But I was proud to go and do my patriotic chore
And yes, it's true that I'm not the man I used to
be...
Oh Ruby
I still need some company.
She's leavin' now 'cause I heard the slammin' of the door
The way I know I've heard it slam one hundred times before
And if I could move I'd get my gun and put her in the ground
Oh Ruby
For god's sake turn around
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Old 07-28-2006, 07:32 AM
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Portishead - Undenied


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wandering stars
"Please could you stay awhile to share my grief
For its such a lovely day
To have to always feel this way
And the time that I will suffer less
Is when I never have to wake

Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever
Wandering stars, for whom it is reserved
The blackness of darkness forever"

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Ah yes...another really good one.
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Old 07-28-2006, 07:35 AM
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Paris Hilton's new song. Makes me want to kill myself.
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Old 07-28-2006, 07:56 AM
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Default Re: Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

"Dress Rehearsal Rag" by Leonard Cohen
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Old 07-28-2006, 09:39 AM
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Van Morrison - Into the Mystic

played at my friends funeral [img]/images/graemlins/frown.gif[/img]

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I don't think this is sad at all, your associations with it notwithstanding. I think it's fantastic and uplifting. I usually put it on mixes for girls.

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Do guys actually do this? Make mixes for chicks? I find this silly and yet at the same time jealous that no one has ever made me a mix cd. [img]/images/graemlins/crazy.gif[/img]
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