Songs that are almost too sad to listen to

[PorkPieHat]

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"The River" by Springsteen.

Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
or is it something worse...

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nh

[ClassicBob]

Tom Waits - Alice
The song that plays at the end of "Jurassic Bark" as Fry's dog waits.

[Magisastar]

Pearl Jam- Black. This came to mind right away. Not just the lyric, but the guitars and stuff building to the climax is really really good.

[Black Aces 518]

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Pearl Jam- Black. This came to mind right away. Not just the lyric, but the guitars and stuff building to the climax is really really good.

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Black is great, especially the guy who talked about being in HS and getting dumped. Play "Black" and "What it Takes" by Aerosmith over and over.

But, seriously, you should all be executed for the fact that this thread is over 100 posts long and no one has mentioned "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Goddamn Jones.

He said I'll love you 'til I die
She told him you'll forget in time
As the years went slowly by
She still preyed upon his mind

He kept her picture on his wall
Went half crazy now and then
He still loved her through it all
Hoping she'd come back again

Kept some letters by his bed
Dated 1962
He had underlined in red
Every single I love you

I went to see him just today
Oh but I didn't see no tears
All dressed up to go away
First time I'd seen him smile in years

He stopped loving her today
They placed a wreath upon his door
And soon they'll carry him away
He stopped loving her today

You know she came to see him one last time
Oh and we all wondered if she would
And it kept running through my mind
This time he's over her for good

[DukeSucks]

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Pearl Jam- Black. This came to mind right away. Not just the lyric, but the guitars and stuff building to the climax is really really good.

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And in the unplugged version where he says "We belong together"

[TripleH68]

Try these two by Sinatra...they have no peers.

<font color="blue">How Insensitive </font>

How Insensitive
I must have seemed
When she told me that she loved me
How unmoved and cold
I must have seemed
When she told me so sincerely
Why she must have asked
Did I just turn and stare in icy silence
What was I to say
What can you say when a love affair is over

Now she's gone away
And I'm alone with the memory of her last look
Vague and drawn and sad
I see it still
All her heartbreak in that last look
Why she must have asked
Did I just stare in icy silence
What was I to do
What can one do when a love affair is over

<font color="blue">If You Go Away </font>

If you go away on this summer day,
Then you might as well take the sun away;
All the birds that flew in the summer sky,
When our love was new and our hearts were high;
When the day was young and the night was long,
And the moon stood still for the night bird's song.
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
But if you stay, I'll make you a day
Like no day has been, or will be again;
We'll sail the sun, we'll ride on the rain,
We'll talk to the trees and worship the wind.
Then if you go, I'll understand,
Leave me just enough love to fill up my hand,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
If you go, as I know you will, you must tell the world to stop
turning
Till you return again, if you ever do, for what good is love
without loving you,
Can I tell you now, as you turn to go, I'll be dying slowly till
the next hello,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
But if you stay, I'll make you a night
Like no night has been, or will be again.
I'll sail on your smile, I'll ride on your touch,
I'll talk to your eyes that I love so much.
But if you go, go, I won't cry,
Though the good is gone from the word goodbye,
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.
If you go away, as I know you must,
There'll be nothing left in the world to trust,
Just an empty room, full of empty space,
Like the empty look I see on your face.
I'd have been the shadow of your shadow
If I thought it might have kept me by your side.
If you go away, if you go away, if you go away.

[MikeNaked]

Iron and Wine + Calexico: "Dead Man's Will"

Give this stone to my brother
Cause we found it playing in the barnyard
Many years ago

Give this bone to my father
He'll remember hunting in the hills
When I was 10 years old

May my love reach you all
I locked it in myself and buried it too long
Now that I come to fall
Please say it's not too late
Now that I'm dead and gone

Give this string to my mother
It pulled the baby teeth she keeps inside the drawer
Give this ring to my lover
I was scared and stupid not to ask
For her hand long before

May my love reach you all
I locked in it myself and buried it too long
Now that I come to fall
Please say it's not too late
Now that I'm dead and gone

(BTW TripleH - "How Insensitive" is originally an Antonio Carlos Jobim tune)

[TripleH68]

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(BTW TripleH - "How Insensitive" is originally an Antonio Carlos Jobim tune)

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Yeah. I should have stated "as sung by Sinatra."

[Card08]

Wilco- How to Fight Loneliness

[THAY3R]

DCFC - What Sarah Said

And it came to me then that every plan,
Is a tiny prayer to father time,
As I stared at my shoes in the ICU,
That reeked of piss and 409.
And I rationed my breaths as I said to myself,
That I’d already taken too much today.
As each descending peak on the LCD,
Took you a little farther away from me.
Away from me.

Amongst the vending machines,
And year old magazines,
In a place where we only say goodbye.
It stung like a violent wind,
That our memories depend,
On a faulty camera in our minds.
And I knew that you were a truth,
I would rather lose,
Than to have never lain beside at all.

Then I looked around at all the eyes on the ground,
As the TV entertained itself.
'Cause there’s no comfort in the waiting room,
Just nervous paces bracing for bad news.
Then the nurse comes round,
And everyone lifts their heads.
And I’m thinking of what Sarah said,
That love is watching someone die.

So who’s going to watch you die?
So who's going to watch you die?
So who's going to watch you die?