Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

[bnorthro]

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt.

[XXXNoahXXX]

not sure if this counts, but i accidentally downloaded a version of Blessed Union of Souls "I believe" that is interwoven with things from 9/11, like accounts etc.

despite always feeling like its some weird govt. propoganda, it is the only song on my ipod that can keep getting me teared up.

ill repost when i think of a good real song.

[gusmahler]

A couple more sad, break up songs

Jay Z, "Song Cry"

They say you can't turn a bad girl good
But once a good girl's goin bad, she's gone forever..
I'll mourn forever
[censored] I gotta live with the fact I did you wrong forever


Bob Dylan, "If You See Her, Say Hello"
If you see her, say hello, she might be in Tangier
She left here last early spring, is livin' there, I hear
Say for me that I'm all right though things get kind of slow
She might think that I've forgotten her, don't tell her it isn't so.

We had a falling-out, like lovers often will
And to think of how she left that night, it still brings me a chill
And though our separation, it pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me, we've never been apart.

If you get close to her, kiss her once for me
I always have respected her for busting out and gettin' free
Oh, whatever makes her happy, I won't stand in the way
Though the bitter taste still lingers on from the night I tried to make her stay.

I see a lot of people as I make the rounds
And I hear her name here and there as I go from town to town
And I've never gotten used to it, I've just learned to turn it off
Either I'm too sensitive or else I'm gettin' soft.

Sundown, yellow moon, I replay the past
I know every scene by heart, they all went by so fast
If she's passin' back this way, I'm not that hard to find
Tell her she can look me up if she's got the time.

[Montalvo]

7 O'Clock News / Silent Night by Simon and Garfunkel

I first heard this when I was 14, and the Lenny Bruce part was sad, but... when the part about the student nurses came out of the blue (and they make the newscaster's voice louder for that part), it just [censored] killed me. Still does.

For those that aren't familiar, S&G are singing Silent Night (the Christmas carol) as background music to excerpts from TV news broadcasts:

This is the early evening edition of the news.

The recent fight in the House of Representatives was over the open housing
section of the Civil Rights Bill.
It brought traditional enemies together but it left the defenders of the
measure without the votes of their strongest supporters.
President Johnson originally proposed an outright ban covering discrimination
by everyone for every type of housing but it had no chance from the start
and everyone in Congress knew it.
A compromise was painfully worked out in the House Judiciary Committee.

In Los Angeles today comedian Lenny Bruce died of what was believed to be an
overdoes of narcotics.
Bruce was 42 years old.

Dr. Martin Luther King says he does not intend to cancel plans for an open
housing march Sunday into the Chicago suburb of Cicero.
Cook County Sheriff Richard Ogleby asked King to call off the march and the
police in Cicero said they would ask the National Guard to be called out
if it is held.
King, now in Atlanta, Georgia, plans to return to Chicago Tuesday.

In Chicago Richard Speck, accused murderer of nine student nurses, was brought
before a grand jury today for indictment.
The nurses were found stabbed an strangled in their Chicago apartment.

In Washington the atmosphere was tense today as a special subcommittee of the
House Committee on Un-American activities continued its probe into anti-
Viet nam war protests.
Demonstrators were forcibly evicted from the hearings when they began chanting
anti-war slogans.
Former Vice-President Richard Nixon says that unless there is a substantial
increase in the present war effort in Viet nam, the U.S. should look forward
to five more years of war.
In a speech before the Convention of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in New York,
Nixon also said opposition to the war in this country is the greatest single
weapon working against the U.S.

That's the 7 o'clock edition of the news,
Goodnight.

[GMan42]

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Ben Folds Five - Brick

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Agreed. And it's not even close.

6 a.m.,
day after Christmas
I throw some clothes on in the dark
the smell of cold
car seat is freezing
the world is sleeping
I am
numb

up the stairs
to her apartment
she is balled up on the couch
her mom and dad
went down to Charlotte
they're not home to find us out

and we drive
now that I
have found someone
I'm feeling more alone
than I ever have before

she's a brick and I'm
drowning slowly
off the coast and I'm
headed nowhere
she's a brick and I'm
drowning slowly

they call her name
at 7:30
I pace around the parking lot
then I walk down
to buy her flowers
and sell some gifts that I got

can't you see,
it's not me you're dying for?
now she's feeling more alone
than she ever has before

she's a brick and I'm
drowning slowly
off the coast and I'm
headed nowhere
she's a brick and I'm
drowning slowly

as weeks went by
it showed that she was not fine
they told me, "Son, it's time
to tell the truth" and
she broke down
and I broke down
'cause I was tired...
of lying

driving back
to her apartment
for the moment we're alone
yeah, she's alone
and I'm alone
and now I know it

[ripdog]

Tears in Heaven has got to be the winner here. A song written after Clapton's son fell to his death from an apartment window. All of these songs about women pale in comparison:

Tears In Heaven
by Eric Clapton and Will Jennings

Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?


I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.


Would you hold my hand
If I saw you in heaven?
Would you help me stand
If I saw you in heaven?


I'll find my way
Through night and day,
'Cause I know I just can't stay
Here in heaven.


Time can bring you down,
Time can bend your knees.
Time can break your heart,
Have you begging please, begging please.


Beyond the door,
There's peace I'm sure,
And I know there'll be no more
Tears in heaven.


Would you know my name
If I saw you in heaven?
Would it be the same
If I saw you in heaven?


I must be strong
And carry on,
'Cause I know I don't belong
Here in heaven.

[B.C.]

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The Pogues - The Band Played Waltzing Matilda.

Holy crap is that a depressing song.

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Gotta agree 100%. Particularly depressing if you know the history behind the whole bloody saga that was Gallipoli.

[cakewalk]

the streets-
"Dry your eyes"

[nath]

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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.

[Bill Murphy]

Has this been mentioned:

All Out Of Love - Air Supply