Author Topic: Whats the saddest song (Read 28412 times)

zonatedace · « **on:** August 27, 2009, 04:26:06 PM »

what is the saddest song you have ever heard

mine is :

- The Drugs Dont Work : The Verve -

hot dog · « **Reply #1 on:** August 27, 2009, 05:14:17 PM »

good question.... well, I'm Italian so, there are a lot of sad songs out there, in my opinion

I'll post back later with a sad song after giving it some thought

BatchFileBasics · « **Reply #2 on:** August 28, 2009, 10:21:57 AM »

Mad world - Gary jules

zonatedace · « **Reply #3 on:** August 28, 2009, 01:11:42 PM »

Quote from: BatchFileBasics on August 28, 2009, 10:21:57 AM

Mad world - Gary jules

wow ive never heard that song i like it alot!!!

Quote from: block_head on August 27, 2009, 05:14:17 PM

good question.... well, I'm Italian so, there are a lot of sad songs out there, in my opinion

I'll post back later with a sad song after giving it some thought

lol we should get a list from you then

Helpmeh · « **Reply #4 on:** August 28, 2009, 07:53:56 PM »

I can't remember the artist (on the tip of my tongue) and but it goes something like:
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know..."

BatchFileBasics · « **Reply #5 on:** August 28, 2009, 08:01:07 PM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVo_Y2wZ0Tw

Helpmeh · « **Reply #6 on:** August 28, 2009, 08:12:28 PM »

Quote from: BatchFileBasics on August 28, 2009, 08:01:07 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVo_Y2wZ0Tw

Cannot connect to YouTube.

patio · « **Reply #7 on:** August 29, 2009, 06:40:31 AM »

Quote from: Helpmeh on August 28, 2009, 07:53:56 PM

I can't remember the artist (on the tip of my tongue) and but it goes something like:
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know..."

Three Dog Night...

Helpmeh · « **Reply #8 on:** August 29, 2009, 11:10:56 AM »

Quote from: Helpmeh on August 28, 2009, 08:12:28 PM

Cannot connect to YouTube.

New error: This video does not yet support iPod.

computeruler · « **Reply #9 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:09:33 PM »

maybe you should use your computer

squall_01 · « **Reply #10 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:11:17 PM »

I dont know the title or anything but I heard that before. You cant google the lyric's?

I all ways though my immortallity, I mean if you are having issue it really does suit.

squall_01 · « **Reply #11 on:** August 29, 2009, 08:26:13 PM »

Quote from: Helpmeh on August 28, 2009, 07:53:56 PM

I can't remember the artist (on the tip of my tongue) and but it goes something like:
"One is the loneliest number that you'll ever know..."

here http://www.threedognight.com/l_one.html

T.C. · « **Reply #12 on:** August 29, 2009, 09:00:17 PM »

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones.

Ivy · « **Reply #13 on:** September 01, 2009, 09:22:59 PM »

Zonatedace, 'The Drugs Don't Work' was a song with very beautiful words, Thank you for sharing it with us.

Ivy · « **Reply #14 on:** September 01, 2009, 09:25:30 PM »

Oh My! T.C. I just heard the song "He Stopped Loving Her Today", one of the most beautiful songs I've heard! Thanks

Aegis · « **Reply #15 on:** September 01, 2009, 10:19:49 PM »

OLD SCHOOL ALERT!!!

"Sweet Dreams" by the incomparable Patsy Cline.

"Abraham, Martin and John" by Dion.

Ivy · « **Reply #16 on:** September 01, 2009, 10:28:09 PM »

Sweet Dreams is a very Sweet song, Thanks Aegis. I wish it was different though, I mean someone should say once 'You don't love me then I don't love you either' heh...to start a revolution I guess

T.C. · « **Reply #17 on:** September 02, 2009, 02:46:25 AM »

Quote from: Ivy on September 01, 2009, 10:28:09 PM

I mean someone should say once 'You don't love me then I don't love you either'

Sometimes that's not how it works out.

Still - Bill Anderson

hot dog · « **Reply #18 on:** September 02, 2009, 03:20:31 AM »

"Stand By Me" Ben E. King

Although, I can't figure out if this song make me happy or sad

A little bit of both I guess...

Aegis · « **Reply #19 on:** September 02, 2009, 05:13:04 AM »

That's understandable!

squall_01 · « **Reply #20 on:** September 02, 2009, 03:02:55 PM »

Never ment to belong - its off of bleach not sure whom done it. Also another good one off of Full Metal but i dont know what it is.

patio · « **Reply #21 on:** September 02, 2009, 04:05:32 PM »

" A Picture of me without you...

Ivy · « **Reply #22 on:** September 02, 2009, 11:08:25 PM »

A Picture Of Me (Without You) - Lorrie Morgan , that was a beautiful song, thanks for sharing it Patio.

wow I didn't know there were so many beautiful songs out there!

These are some good ones too, Purest of Pain- by Son by Four (only heard it never seen it).

How am I supposed to live without you- Micheal Bolton

Goodbyes (the saddest word)- Celine Dion

JJ 3000 · « **Reply #23 on:** September 03, 2009, 12:15:11 AM »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4v-_p5dU34

or

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bVKH28LhRk

mroilfield · « **Reply #24 on:** September 03, 2009, 12:40:49 AM »

Come Home Soon - SHeDAISY

My wife cries every time she hears this and I am at work.

I Told You So - Randy Travis and also redone by Carrie Underwood

squall_01 · « **Reply #25 on:** September 07, 2009, 07:04:05 AM »

listen to the rain - evanesce

Aegis · « **Reply #26 on:** September 12, 2009, 09:50:01 AM »

"Scarecrow's Dream" by Dan Fogelberg

876543219 · « **Reply #27 on:** September 13, 2009, 12:18:40 PM »

Puff the magic dragon

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Little jackie paper loved that rascal puff,
And brought him strings and sealing wax and other fancy stuff. oh

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

Together they would travel on a boat with billowed sail
Jackie kept a lookout perched on puffs gigantic tail,
Noble kings and princes would bow wheneer they came,
Pirate ships would lower their flag when puff roared out his name. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

A dragon lives forever but not so little boys
Painted wings and giant rings make way for other toys.
One grey night it happened, jackie paper came no more
And puff that mighty dragon, he ceased his fearless roar.

His head was bent in sorrow, green scales fell like rain,
Puff no longer went to play along the cherry lane.
Without his life-long friend, puff could not be brave,
So puff that mighty dragon sadly slipped into his cave. oh!

Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee,
Puff, the magic dragon lived by the sea
And frolicked in the autumn mist in a land called honah lee.

Ivy · « **Reply #28 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:10:18 PM »

876543219, That's a nice song.

Aegis · « **Reply #29 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:31:59 PM »

Puff, The Magic Dragon was a folk song from my childhood.

Ivy · « **Reply #30 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:36:26 PM »

Isn't it beautiful?

876543219 · « **Reply #31 on:** September 13, 2009, 08:36:50 PM »

sammic · « **Reply #32 on:** September 14, 2009, 06:09:50 PM »

Helpmeh....I belive the song is one....by orleans

sammic · « **Reply #33 on:** September 14, 2009, 06:16:24 PM »

I would say Alone Again (naturally) Gilbert(one hit wonder)O'sullivan

patio · « **Reply #34 on:** September 15, 2009, 09:10:12 AM »

Quote from: sammic on September 14, 2009, 06:09:50 PM

Helpmeh....I belive the song is one....by orleans

Wrong...

Quote

Three Dog Night...

sammic · « **Reply #35 on:** September 15, 2009, 10:48:31 AM »

i stand corrected...i was thinking still the one

hiloed · « **Reply #36 on:** September 17, 2009, 12:19:27 AM »

When I was young, a loooong time ago, the song was Black Sunday sang by
Billie Holiday, in fact it cost her her career. Today it seems tame.

hiloed · « **Reply #37 on:** September 17, 2009, 12:36:07 AM »

Sorry it was Billie Holiday and the song was Gloomy Sunday. See what age does to one.

Ed

lectrocrew · « **Reply #38 on:** September 21, 2011, 01:06:00 AM »

Quote from: 876543219 on September 13, 2009, 08:36:50 PM

so hard to pick only one
the first two are my favorites

brad paisley
whiskey lulliby
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gV3g9LCvPc&feature=related

The 1st one is my favorite partially because I like anything Allison sings - Whiskey Lullaby . Good call 876543219.

I remembered this thread from a couple of years ago after what I witnessed today.
A friend of mine had found his brother dead in his brothers house last month. He asked me to go to the house today to get some items that the family wanted. He could not bare the pain to go there again himself. He offered to pay me a large sum of $ to do this, which I declined out of respect. I was given a HASMAT suit, gloves, rubber boots and a full gas mask and told I would need this equipment because of the condition of the house. I certainly thought this was a little drastic but what I found when I got to the house explained it.
This man had found his wife dead on the toilet a year ago and had gone into a state of sorrow and depression. Since then he had secluded himself in his house and would not allow family (or anyone else) to visit. In that year he never left the house. He survived by ordering food delivery. At the time of his wifes death he was a 300 pound man. When they found him dead he wieghed lass than 80 lbs.
The ouside of this $300,000.00 house looked fairly normal other than some peeling paint and 2 acres of knee high grass. But the inside revealed the result of many years of hoarding by himself and his wife, and a complete disregard for sanitation. Countless bags of garbage (food ect.) were piled against the walls. Leaking sewage was left unfixed for quite some time. I was told the firemen and EMT's that went inside the house when he was found dead had to evacuate the house and vomit - then the firemen suited up in HASMAT gear to re-enter the house to recover his body. I certainly believe this is true.
I myself have lived a 50 year life full of witnessing horrible events. In 2001 I had to pull the top half of my bosses body out of a huge machine where I worked while the firemen pryed his bottom parts out of the bottom of the machine. I pulled a mans body out of his burning car after he went head-on with a truck when I was 16 years old. I wasn't able to go back in to get his head because of the flames. When my roommates brother blew his brains out with a 12 gauge shotgun I volunteered to clean up the mess since I was the only person there that was not immediate family (the coroner doesn't provide clean-up). And the list goes on and on. My point is: It takes a lot to make me sick at my stomach, but when I saw the way this man and his wife lived, and the result of it, it almost did, and it will leave a phycological mark in my mind for a long time.

My heart certainly hurts to think of what that man felt.
I wander what the words of that mans song would have been?
I would think it would have to rank very high in this thread.

Mike

Transfusion · « **Reply #39 on:** September 23, 2011, 05:34:18 AM »

I'm so sorry for what you've been through, lectrocrew-your description of your friends loss of his brother (may he Rest In Peace) made me cringe and think about the fortunate surroundings I have been blessed with.

It is really terrible that people slip into depression and sometimes just collapse under the weight of their burden-no human deserves to be subjected to such unspeakable conditions in life.

I sincerely wish that you will not have to continue witnessing dreadful events of this nature anymore-may God bless you. I know this is just a forum and that we may never cross paths for the rest of our lives, but I wish to empathize with you this moment.

lectrocrew · « **Reply #40 on:** September 23, 2011, 04:23:50 PM »

Thanks to you Transfusion for your post!!! I agree with you -
"It is really terrible that people slip into depression and sometimes just collapse under the weight of their burden-no human deserves to be subjected to such unspeakable conditions in life."
I partially understand. I've been 'almost' there.
And, although I've seen and experienced some bad things in life, I also have been blessed with plenty of "furtunate surroundings".
Throughout my life I've always said, (and especially in current times with internet), "If you think your having a bad day - 'pay attention' - because you can always find someone who is having a much worse day." If anyone needs an example you can visit St. Judes Childrens Research Hospital in Memphis TN which specializes in the treatment of childhood cancer treatment and research. I've been there and walked away with an enormous gratitude for all the blessings I've had throughout my life.
I liked the comment by Alex Debogorski that I heard when watching 'Ice Road Truckers' last week on the History Channel. It went something to the effect of:
'Everybody ought to buy a casket and set it beside their front door so every morning, on the way out, they can get a little more appreciation for the day'.

Life is life. Gratitude and fellowship is great - loneliness is horrible.
I feel for the ones who cannot muster the courage to pay attention and have a mustard size grain of hope for tommorrow!
And; Transfusion, (and everybody else), maybe someday we will cross paths, but if not, until then, I'll try to keep an eye out for a fellow human I may can help.

And zonatedace, great idea for and 'off topic' thread.
I'll add one I like to the list:
Keith Urban - til summer comes around

Edit = spelling ect.

lectrocrew · « **Reply #41 on:** September 23, 2011, 08:15:20 PM »

Here's another sad song that certainly fits this thread subject. Craig Morgan - This Ain't Nothin'.
I hope everyone will visit, or re-visit this thread because I clicked on every song link given so-far and I have discovered some excellent sources for dealing with the times when my soul 'needs' to hurt.
Thanks to all of you.
Mike

lectrocrew · « **Reply #42 on:** September 24, 2011, 04:27:57 AM »

And some more I've shead tears to: (and to hopefully keep this thread alive)

My #1 of course, but a link to the video rather than the lyrics video which '876543219' posted, (thanks again!), and the live Grand Ole Opry stage performance I linked previously:
Brad Paisley;Alison Krauss - Whiskey Lullaby
http://www.youtube.com/user/mleneke?feature=mhee#p/f/5/IZbN_nmxAGk
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Vince Gill - When I Call Your Name
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uwmGWCJOxnw&ob=av2e
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Blaine Larsen - How Do You Get That Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdSaI080VXc&ob=av2e
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Kellie Pickler - I Wonder
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rb9mvkxE5Ww&ob=av2e
*To better understand the context of Kellie's song, 'I Wonder', please google her history - or just read the "Personal life" section of this Wikipedia page about her.
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keith urban til summer comes around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kh0ESB30eJA&ob=av2e
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Craig Morgan - This ain't Nothin'
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSdItuvBxc8&ob=av2e
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Tracy Lawrence - Paint Me a Birmingham
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pjr0cyhOucs
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patty loveless you don't even know who i am
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sLetXmmf27Q
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Mark Wills - Don't Laugh At Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVjbo8dW9c8&ob=av2e
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And even the seemingly happy / 'rich' humans are bound to face their inevidentable 'sad song', as Vince Gill sings:
Pocket Full of Gold.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UByxVxjkx-s

Thanks again and I hope these tunes help someone else out there!
Mike

truenorth · « **Reply #43 on:** September 30, 2011, 08:27:30 AM »

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

hurricane · « **Reply #44 on:** October 09, 2011, 03:33:29 PM »

I'm glad this topic was revived, because I wanted to post my two favorite saddest songs.
"Untitled" by Simple Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7oqmikZDQ
"Time to Say Goodbye" by Placebo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HnYhiE7xU

lectrocrew, I am dismayed by the number of horrific events you have had to witness in your life.

patio · « **Reply #45 on:** October 09, 2011, 03:35:14 PM »

Noone mentioned "Happy Birthday"...

truenorth · « **Reply #46 on:** October 09, 2011, 05:27:08 PM »

Well as one who has had more than a few it is FAR from a sad song. Each one is indeed a cause for celebration now. truenorth

lectrocrew · « **Reply #47 on:** October 09, 2011, 08:45:27 PM »

Quote from: truenorth on October 09, 2011, 05:27:08 PM

Well as one who has had more than a few it is FAR from a sad song. Each one is indeed a cause for celebration now. truenorth

I agree truenorth. But rather than celebrating (like with a birthday cake, party ect.), I try to quietly treat it like just another day so maybe I can slip by and 'Time' won't realize how old I'm getting.

lectrocrew · « **Reply #48 on:** October 10, 2011, 02:56:20 AM »

Quote from: hurricane on October 09, 2011, 03:33:29 PM

I'm glad this topic was revived, because I wanted to post my two favorite saddest songs.
"Untitled" by Simple Plan
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQ7oqmikZDQ
"Time to Say Goodbye" by Placebo
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=13HnYhiE7xU

Thanks hurricane!
Very sad! - simple plan-untitled with lyrics
I viewed several Simple Plan and Placebo videos on You Tube and I like their music very much! Thanks again!

Quote from: hurricane

lectrocrew, I am dismayed by the number of horrific events you have had to witness in your life.

I can list more, and worse, but my original point was comparing my experiences to the situation this man lived with for years. It made me try to imagine how he felt through it all. Day-in day-out, for a long time? And what 'sad' lyrics his song would have contained?
Yes, I've witnessed traumatic/fatal events of others, and been at the edge of death at times myself (1993- shot in the arm, leg and chest from ~3 feet in a robbery with a .380 cal pistol/ 1985- head-on collision into a bridge pillar @ 70 MPH on I-240/ 1976- I was the passenger in the back seat with my drunk friend driving, racing another car @ 90 mph when we went head-on into a 1973 buick electra 225 and killed all 3 occupants of that car and the passenger in the front seat of our car, the driver of our car died later).
A very good, long time friend of mine is in the hospital now with terminal cancer and I visited him yesterday. He barely knew who I was. He won't be here much longer.
Me? I have few regrets for my life so far, and I don't worry much about myself anymore. I figure I've got an angel watching out for me or something like that? But I have my issues... And there are reasons I tend to listen to sad songs:
e.g. In 1994, I was working for a logging company in remote areas with no phone contact available. We finally got to town (phone contact) Saturday and I called my mother (who was dying from terminal cancer). I had not been to see her in a while and I told her I would be at her house the next morning (Sunday) to visit. I didn't make it to her house that morning because I was too sick from all the alcohol I drank on Saturday night with all the boys on my logging crew. I called her house later and my sister answered her phone to tell me our mother had died that Sunday morning. I later found out that she had gotten out of her bed (with half of her insides already taken out by the doctors, and with her IV bag) and cooked me a meal... turkey and dressing and all the other thanksgiving side dishes (this was in May, not Thanksgiving day). Nobody ever ate that meal.

Maybe I'll write a sad song one of these days...
Anyone else care to post your favorive sad song?

lau · « **Reply #49 on:** November 05, 2011, 04:57:09 AM »

I think that the song Making love Out Of Nothing At All by Air Supply is one of my top sad songs.
Its an oldie but a goodie, I always listen to it when I'm feeling broken hearted

lectrocrew · « **Reply #50 on:** April 06, 2013, 03:38:56 AM »

Quote

Blaine Larsen - How Do You Get That Lonely
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZdSaI080VXc&ob=av2e

This is old news now but my heart still hurts for the recent loss of our dear country singer, Mindy McCready, who chose to end her own life.

Blaine Larson is not any superstar, and I've kinda lost track of his career lately, but I remember this song well and I really think of it when I cry about the loss of Mindy.

here's some of her beautiful music

and more Mindy

With a sad heart,
Mike

glathem40 · « **Reply #51 on:** April 10, 2013, 10:04:27 PM »

Neil Peart (Rush). The poet laureate of our time (in my humble opinion)

The dancer slows her frantic pace
In pain and desperation
Her aching limbs and downcast face
Aglow with perspiration.

Stiff as wire her lungs on fire
With just the briefest pause,
Then flooding through her memory
The echo of old applause,

And she limps across the floor
And closes the bedroom door.

The writer stares with glassy eyes
Defies the empty page
His beard is white, His face is lined
and streaked with tears of rage

Thirty years ago how the words would flow
With passion and precision,
But now his mind is dark and dulled
By sickness and indecision

And he stares out the kitchen door
Where the sun will rise no more.

Some are born to move the world
To live their fantasies,
Most of us just dream about
The things we'd like to be

Sadder still to watch it die
Than never to have known it

For you the blind who once could see
Bell tolls for thee
Bell tolls for thee.

I have admiration for the intellect that is set forth by the regulars of this forum. and I invite all who are unfamiliar to explore the musings of Neil Peart.

lectrocrew · « **Reply #52 on:** April 11, 2013, 02:57:35 AM »

Quote from: lectrocrew

Blaine Larson is not any superstar, and I've kinda lost track of his career lately, but I remember this song well and I really think of it when I cry about the loss of Mindy.

Sorry, I forgot to link Blaine Larson's sad song in my last post.
It's here.

Good call glathem40 with Neil Peart's song. I didn't start listening to Rush until mid 70's when Neil replaced John Rutsey on drums. Since then I bought plenty of rush on vinyl in those days such as 'Rush', 'Fly By Night', 'Caress of Steel', '2112', 'A farewell to Kings', 'Hemispheres', and of course 'Moving Pictures'.
I started doing the country music deal after that when my life stuff took me there so I haven't kept up with 'Rush' lately, but I love to listen to 'The Temples of Syrinx' on 2112 anytime.

I gotta love Neil Peart's character on drums. In my opinion he is the best drummer I've ever heard in my 53 years, with his great character in his beat. JMO.
Thanks, and have fun!
Mike

Edit= add hyperlink

DaveLembke · « **Reply #53 on:** April 11, 2013, 07:31:07 PM »

There are a bunch that come to mind...

BTW: RUSH - 2112 is a great album, still have the LP. When I get out of work I am going to have wipe the dust off the cover and fire up the turn table listen to that front to back. My wife will probably tell me to put my headphones on since she cant stand Geddy Lee's vocals

Before the dawn - Judas Priest ... is probably the saddest in the list.
Titanic Movie Song - My heart will go on - Celine Dion ... always gets my wife into tears when leonardo dicaprio dies and sinks into the sea, the movie ends and then they show the cast as ghosts on the ship and then her flood of tears start that I believe is amplified by the song.

Judas Priest - Before the Dawn, Lyrics

Before the dawn, I hear you whisper
In your sleep "don't let the morning take him"
Outside the birds begin to call
As if to summon up my leaving

It's been a lifetime since I found someone
Since I found someone who would stay
I've waited too long, and now you're leaving
Oh please don't take it all away

It's been a lifetime since I found someone
Since I found someone who would stay
I've waited too long, and now you're leaving
Oh please don't take it all away

Before the dawn, I hear you whisper
In your sleep "don't let the morning take him"

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