Saddest Song Ever. cross some genres....

[cnfuzzd]

Ugh. Double Ugh. After getting a bit crazy with the mdma on new years eve, ive been experiencing that deep dark place of non-seratonin. I remember why i stopped doing x. Course, it didnt help that i also was hallucinating, and doing some yay. Oh, and drinking. Lots and lots of drinking. To tie it all up together in a big beautiful package, apparently i also "intimidate" my ex-girlfriends current boyfriend. This after i had tried really hard to be extra-nice to him. I have issues. Thats not the point. After my computer decides to push me into suicide by playing about eight of the most depressing songs on my mp3 playlist, and i decided to resist, i started thinking. What are everyones thoughts on some of the most emotionally downing songs ever made? Songs that are depressing simply because they got made will also be accepted, but thats not really the point. Fire away.

peace

john nickle

the best moment of the "night" was when the dealer guy asked me at 5:32am if i wanted to split some shrooms. I inquired as to the time. "well, it is like 5:30 in the morning." "sweet, we will be hitting our stride with sunrise. gimme that bag...."

[IggyWH]

I don't remember the name of the song but I'm sure most people will know what I'm talking about. Staind did a song a couple years ago and listening to it I thought "If anyone was considering suicide and put this song on, they don't have a chance."

EDIT :

I remember the name now, "It's Been Awhile"

[eric5148]

Not sure about depressing songs, but this was definitely the most depressing post I ever read.

[cnfuzzd]

apparently ive been somewhat comedic lately, and i just wanted to mix it up a bit. That way, when i go back to being funny, its appreciated even more.

peace

john nickle

[[censored]]

Don't know any songss. But, are you alright dude?

[nothumb]

[ QUOTE ]
To tie it all up together in a big beautiful package, apparently i also "intimidate" my ex-girlfriends current boyfriend.

[/ QUOTE ]

I see nothing wrong with this. Especially if you are doing it without being mean. But I'm a huge alpha male dickhead, so what do I know.

Anyway, some of the saddest songs I can think of, off the top:

"Tecumseh Valley" - Townes Van Zandt
"Georgia Lee" - Tom Waits
"The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" - the Pogues
"The Body of an American" - the Pogues
"The Night they Drove Old Dixie Down" - the Band
"Marie" - Guy Clark (pretty sure it's a Guy Clark song anyway)
"House Where Nobody Lives" - Tom Waits
"Hung My Head" - Sting or Johnny Cash, take your pick


As you can see, I'm more into the songwriter types for the sad stuff than the whole post-punk-indie-emo thing. Although I think some of the songs that would tend to drive you to kill yourself more than those above are the melancholy ones rather than the flat-out tear jerkers. Like, say, "Accident Prone" or "Basilica" by Jawbreaker. They were an awesome band.

NT

[BusterStacks]

The song is not sad, but I find "Breakdown" by Tantrick to be oddly depressing if you listen to the words.

[PhatTBoll]

"Nutshell" by AiC.

The second side of The Wall can be a downer when sober.

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt".

[eric5148]

I don't know if I can laugh at your humor now that I know you do all that $hit. Seriously, don't do that to yourself.

[VBM]

"Hallelujah" -- Jeff Buckley
"She" -- Gram Parsons

I'm not deep enough to really understand Leonard Cohen, but that song just cries out "figure it out at the bottom of the bottle"; and "She" is pretty sad too.

dude, u ok? seriously...seems like, ur kinda channeling some weird rock-star tragedy thing...hope ur OK...

[cnfuzzd]

oh yeah, im fine. When ever you take mdma(X) you deplete your seratonin, the stuff that helps you to feel happy. The more of the drug, the less seratonin you have left in your neuroreceptors the next day. At one point in my Extacy career, i was rolling at least 4 times a week, with multiple pills. There are some studies that suggest that lowers the overall capacity for seratonin to develop. It doesnt help that i also use to have a nice little cocaine habit, which also permanently impairs ones ability to "feel" happy. So, whenever i do any sort of chemicals affecting those particular receptors, like X or coke, the comedown is particularly intense. So, ive spent the last couple of days feeling like utter worthless crap. The setting of the new years eve party didnt help much either, since i was around people that evoke intense emotional responses in me. Knowing that this is because of my choice helps though, and its nowehere near as bad as the period when i was rolling constantly. Besides, i perversely enjoy this depressing state, the feeling of being cutoff from the world, and not having social connections. Its a good reminder of how good my life really is, cause over the enxt couple of days, i will come back, and be at least as happy as i was before.

At one point, when i was rolling out of control, the depression went to far, and i have the marks to prove it. Now, i just accept it, and try not to do such things very often.

im fine, just fine. /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/grin.gif /images/graemlins/grin.gif

peace

john nickle

[cnfuzzd]

i only do drugs on special occasions, which usually consist of two or three times throughout the year. Outside of those days, i dont even smoke pot anymore. Im relatively clean and sober, at least from a "john nickle" perspective....

thanks for your concern though.

peace

john nickle

[Phat Mack]

I haven't listened to it in years, so I don't know if it stands the test of time, but Roger Daltry's "Giving It All Away" might fit the bill.

Are you looking for cathartic songs, or songs that bring you down? I always thought the Violent Femmes' "Country Death Song" would be depressing if I could stop laughing at it.

If you are looking for a whole slew of them, I'd check out C&W from the 50's--I'm thinking along the lines of George Jones' "Honky Tonk Downstairs;" there's thousands of those suckers.

Well, it won't be long now
'til that old sun goes down,
and darkness helps to hide
my shameful tears.

My wife works all night long
for a man who can't be strong,
she's a barmaid in
the honky tonk downstairs....

[billyjex]

I sort of like depressing songs sometimes.

Staind has a few good ones. I like "epiphany" and "so far away."

Also that Sublime song.. where he talks about hit battle with heroin and he's going to lose the war. I forget the name.

[Duke]

Saddest songs?

"Goodbye" by Jang Hye Jin
"Last Kiss" by Frankie Wilson and the Cavaliers, or the Pearl Jam cover.
"Mr Jones" by Counting Crows
Half the songs on Vivian Chow's "When the Red Leaves Fall" CD.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
"Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul & Mary.
Somewhere over the Rainbow. Any cover.
"Think of Me" from the Phantom of the Opera.
"Sometimes when we Touch" by Dan Hill.

I could go on forever. I just picked the first 9 I thought of.

~D

[craig r]

I was trying to think of one Elliot Smith song, but I can't..so i will say a lof them are very sad. As well as, "Perfect Sonnet" and "Trees All Get Wheeled Away" by Bright Eyes.

craig

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Aarktica - Ocean (http://s5.yousendit.com/d.aspx?id=06O6Q3V54AOFU2JKO6387TYJCM)

Uh...not necessarily the saddest song in my library, but I had actually linked someone to it before, so figured I might as well give it up to you guys. The link works now, but it's a limited number of downloads, and hopefully nobody will hit the 2nd link to take it off the servers.

Sad in the "just broke up with a girl you love" way. The lyric, "Tonight, there's/no prayer/I can really think of/to keep you safe/safer than I kept you", is the standout.

If I find some sadder ones, I'll post again.

EDIT: Also, crosses some genres since Aarktica is this ambient-electro stuff. This song not so much. It's all really good though.

[Malone Brown]

I nominate

"Dry your eyes" - The Streets
"Rewrite" - Sage Francis

[thatpfunk]

[ QUOTE ]
"Goodbye" by Jang Hye Jin
"Last Kiss" by Frankie Wilson and the Cavaliers, or the Pearl Jam cover.
"Mr Jones" by Counting Crows
Half the songs on Vivian Chow's "When the Red Leaves Fall" CD.
"Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler.
"Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul & Mary.
Somewhere over the Rainbow. Any cover.
"Think of Me" from the Phantom of the Opera.
"Sometimes when we Touch" by Dan Hill.

[/ QUOTE ]

"Sometimes when we touch" is actually about my mom. Kinda weird I guess.

[Duke]

[ QUOTE ]
"Sometimes when we touch" is actually about my mom. Kinda weird I guess.

[/ QUOTE ]

Neat.

So it's her I can blame the depression on.

~D

[tolbiny]

Jon-
you might be my soul mate. except, i don't do any of those drugs that you do /images/graemlins/smile.gif.
I drove up to vermont from cleveland for new years, and at 4 am there was a string of really depresssing songs that i hit on the radio- and i was going to start a thread today asking what others thought were the most depressings songs they knew. The most depressing rivals Puff the magic dragon.

At seventeen- Janis Ian.

I LEARNED THE TRUTH AT SEVENTEEN
THAT LOVE WAS MEANT FOR BEAUTY QUEENS
AND HIGH SCHOOL GIRLS WITH CLEAR SKINNED SMILES
WHO MARRIED YOUNG AND THEN RETIRED
THE VALENTINES I NEVER KNEW
THE FRIDAY NIGHT CHARADES OF YOUTH
WERE SPENT ON ONE MORE BEAUTIFUL
AT SEVENTEEN I LEARNED THE TRUTH

AND THOSE OF US WITH RAVAGED FACES
LACKING IN THE SOCIAL GRACES
DESPERATELY REMAINED AT HOME
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
WHO CALLED TO SAY - COME DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMURED VAGUE OBSCENITIES
IT ISN'T ALL IT SEEMS AT SEVENTEEN

A BROWN EYED GIRL IN HAND ME DOWNS
WHOSE NAME I NEVER COULD PRONOUNCE
SAID - PITY PLEASE THE ONES WHO SERVE
THEY ONLY GET WHAT THEY DESERVE
THE RICH RELATIONED HOMETOWN QUEEN
MARRIES INTO WHAT SHE NEEDS
WITH A GUARANTEE OF COMPANY
AND HAVEN FOR THE ELDERLY

SO REMEMBER THOSE WHO WIN THE GAME
LOSE THE LOVE THEY SOUGHT TO GAIN
IN DEBENTURES OF QUALITY AND DUBIOUS INTEGRITY
THEIR SMALL-TOWN EYES WILL GAPE AT YOU
IN DULL SURPRISE WHEN PAYMENT DUE
EXCEEDS ACCOUNTS RECEIVED AT SEVENTEEN

(INSTRUMENTAL)

TO THOSE OF US WHO KNEW THE PAIN
OF VALENTINES THAT NEVER CAME
AND THOSE WHOSE NAMES WERE NEVER CALLED
WHEN CHOOSING SIDES FOR BASKETBALL
IT WAS LONG AGO AND FAR AWAY
THE WORLD WAS YOUNGER THAN TODAY
WHEN DREAMS WERE ALL THEY GAVE FOR FREE
TO UGLY DUCKLING GIRLS LIKE ME

WE ALL PLAY THE GAME, AND WHEN WE DARE
WE CHEAT OURSELVES AT SOLITAIRE
INVENTING LOVERS ON THE PHONE
REPENTING OTHER LIVES UNKNOWN
THAT CALL AND SAY - COME ON, DANCE WITH ME
AND MURMUR VAGUE OBSCENITIES
AT UGLY GIRLS LIKE ME, AT SEVENTEEN

[Reef]

adam's song by blink

[stripsqueez]

every song written by supertramp

stripsqueez - chickenhawk

[dr. klopek]

[ QUOTE ]
"Rewrite" - Sage Francis

[/ QUOTE ]

And just about anything on Personal Journals.

Most songs on Ben Harper's first album.

[daryn]

don't cry daddy by elvis

[Koller]

I'm running bad by Tommy Angelo /images/graemlins/grin.gif

[Rushmore]

Letdown by Radiohead
A Pair of Brown Eyes by The Pogues
Sanvean (I am Your Shadow) by Lisa Gerrard
Tom Traubert's Blues by Tom Waits
Country Feedback by R.E.M.
Comfortably Numb by Pink Floyd

Depends on the day of the week and the hour of the day.

[johnnycakes]

[ QUOTE ]
Staind did a song a couple years ago and listening to it I thought "If anyone was considering suicide and put this song on, they don't have a chance."


[/ QUOTE ]

All Staind songs make me want to kill myself, but not because they are sad.

[johnnycakes]

"No Children" by the Mountain Goats. Everytime I listen to it I get chills. It is absolutely brutal and sung with amazing conviction, especially the last two stanzas. If I ever go through a divorce, this will be the song to push me over the edge.

I hope that our few remaining friends
give up on trying to save us.
I hope we come out with a fail-safe plot
to piss off the dumb few that forgave us.

I hope the fences we mended
fall down beneath their own weight.
And I hope we hang on past the last exit,
I hope it's already too late.

And I hope the junkyard a few blocks from here
someday burns down.
And I hope the rising black smoke carries me far away,
and I never come back to this town again.

In my life, I hope I lie,
and tell everyone you were a good wife.
And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.

I hope I cut myself shaving tomorrow;
I hope it bleeds all day long.
Our friends say it's darkest before the sun rises;
we're pretty sure they're all wrong.

I hope it stays dark forever,
I hope the worst isn't over.
And I hope you blink before I do,
and I hope I never get sober.

And I hope when you think of me years down the line,
you can't find one good thing to say.
And I'd hope that if I found the strength to walk out,
you'd stay the hell out of my way.

I am drowning.
There is no sign of land.
You are coming down with me,
hand in unlovable hand.

And I hope you die,
I hope we both die.

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Oh man. How did I not think of "Dry Your Eyes"...That song is the nuts of sadness.

[CCass]

"Wish You Were Here" by Pink Floyd
"Tell Lori I Love Her" by Keith Whitley

[Yeti]

Here's a few :

Guns N' Roses - Don't Cry
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven
Don Mclean - Vincent
Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

[IndieMatty]

Needle in the Hay - Elliott Smith

[turnipmonster]

"untouchable face" - ani difranco
"I'll be seeing you" - kahal/fain
"hurt" - sung by johnny cash (reznor)
"pavane pour une infante defunte" - ravel
"in the darkest place" - costello/bacharach
"some other time" - off the tony bennett/bill evans album

--turnipmonster

[SomethingClever]

[ QUOTE ]
"Puff the Magic Dragon" by Peter, Paul & Mary.

[/ QUOTE ]

That song IS sad.

A couple more nominees:

"Vincent O'Brien" by M. Ward (dig it up, you'll like it)
"Guess I'm Doin Fine" by Beck

[Bubbagump]

N/M

[johnnycakes]

[ QUOTE ]
"Vincent O'Brien" by M. Ward (dig it up, you'll like it)

[/ QUOTE ]

M. Ward is [censored] awesome.

[ThaSaltCracka]

does anyone else not like sad songs?

[SomethingClever]

They're not usually my favorite, but I don't mind the occasional "bittersweet" song.

Also, I like Elliot Smith.

[whiskeytown]

My boy, yer talking to a master - clips for these will probably be available on Artistdirect.com - maybe I can find the links...

Kate Rusby - Bold Riley and Sleepless Sailor (two songs) (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1786748,00.html)
Kathleen Edwards - Sweet Lil' Duck (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1663514,00.html)
Gillian Welch - April the 14th pt 1 (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1160097,00.html)
Rosie Thomas - Farewell, October, and Bicycle Tricycle - (3 songs on this one) (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,1613342,00.html)
Townes Van Zandt - Marie (there's a solo acoustic version out tehre I can't find that's incredible) (http://www.artistdirect.com/nad/store/artist/album/0,,204899,00.html)
Bill Mallonee - Locket full of moonlight (reprise) - sorry, internet only - can't find clips (http://www.parting-shot.com/music.asp?sfh=n&tljo=40watt&srch=lyrics&rid=308)

try to get some sun if ya can bro...it helps.

pax
RB

[sfer]

Paul, you had the right answer in your response to the best Christmas song thread. Christmastime Is Here from the Peanuts.

[jakethebake]

[ QUOTE ]
If you are looking for a whole slew of them, I'd check out C&W from the 50's--I'm thinking along the lines of George Jones' "Honky Tonk Downstairs;" there's thousands of those suckers.

[/ QUOTE ]
George Jones made a whole mess of nominees for this all by himself.

He Stopped Loving Her Today
She Still Thinks I Care
Yesterday’s Wine
A Picture of Me Without You

And those are just off the top of my head.

[jcx]

"He Stopped Loving Her Today" George Jones

[sfer]

Waltz #2 and Between the Bars are up there too.

[IndieMatty]

Oh..Various Ben Folds Five songs.

[jakethebake]

The Macarena?

[Sponger15SB]

[ QUOTE ]

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven


[/ QUOTE ]

This is easily the saddest song for me to hear, its like I can't even listen to it anymore because it is such a sad song.

[B Dids]

The Johnny Cash version of "Hurt" is sad, just based on circumstances.

"Mad World" by Gary Jules also tends to get me.

[Victor]

sunday morning coming down

by johnny cash

[IndieMatty]

Jimmy Eat World - Good Night Sky Harbor.

It's also their best song.

[VBM]

w/ ur login name + ur music choices here, i'm guessing ur login is a reference to the alt-country group formerly fronted by Ryan Adams? /images/graemlins/smile.gif

[jakethebake]

Hank williams - I'm So Lonesome I Could Cry

[Aces McGee]

Country Death Song rules.

-McGee

[ClassicBob]

[ QUOTE ]

Also that Sublime song.. where he talks about hit battle with heroin and he's going to lose the war. I forget the name.

[/ QUOTE ]

The song you are thinking of is called "Pool Shark (Acoustic)" There were two versions recorded, but the acoustic one is brutally sad.

Lots of Tom Waits on here, so I'll throw out:

"Alice"
"Flower's Grave"
"I Hope That I Don't Fall In Love With You"

[whiskeytown]

yep - it was the band I was listening to when I had to pick an online poker name for Pokerstars -

amazing how many people think it's about being an alcoholic - not that I've dissuaded that much with my lifestyle.

RB

[Boris]

It's nice to see another F'ed up drug story. I hate sad songs so no input here. Whatever you do, don't listen to Leonard Cohen or Tom Waits when high on mushrooms.

[razor]

[ QUOTE ]
"Sometimes when we Touch" by Dan Hill.

[/ QUOTE ]

I don't usually get too emotionally affected by songs but it does sadden me deeply that someone wrote this song, that someone recorded this song, that a record company released this song, that radio stations played this song and that people actually listened to and liked this song... what a horrendous piece of crap. How can there be any hope for a world in which people actually listen to and enjoy this song?

[jakethebake]

[ QUOTE ]
I don't usually get too emotionally affected by songs but it does sadden me deeply that someone wrote this song, that someone recorded this song, that a record company released this song, that radio stations played this song and that people actually listened to and liked this song... what a horrendous piece of crap. How can there be any hope for a world in which people actually listen to and enjoy this song?

[/ QUOTE ]

If this is the only song that makes you feel this way, then you obviously don't listen to much music. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

It's so friggin' obvious: Seasons in the Sun.

Cancer ... black sheep of the family ... good bye Michelle my little one ...

Jesus Christ, where are the razor blades

[edtost]

ben folds five - magic

[gcoutu]

Likely said, but I couldn't get halfway through the list.

Most of Pink Floyd's The Wall is pretty depressing. The movie is most amazing, but a downer to say the least.

[gcoutu]

[ QUOTE ]
does anyone else not like sad songs?

[/ QUOTE ]

I do cause "sad song say so much" Elton John

Really, while reading through the list I have found that I like most of the songs listed. I am a very happy and upbeat person too, guess I prefer the slower tone of them.

[wayabvpar]

For a Friend- The Communards
How Will I Laugh Tomorrow- Suicidal Tendencies
Gone Away- The Offspring

[cnfuzzd]

Wow,, this thread obviously blew up. Nice work.

Also, im feeling much better today. I might even be able to play some poker. That would be cool. Since i spent so much damn money on drugs. /images/graemlins/grin.gif

My list, in no particular order.

Wish you were here pink floyd
mad world gary jules
and so it goes billy joel
he stopped loving her today, george jones
always on my mind willie nelson
starry starry night, don mclean
hurt, the johnny cash cover is good, but so is the tori amos version
Black:pearl jam
fake plastic trees, radiohead
come pick me up, ryan adams
pictures of you the cure
losing my religion: tori amos ver
where have you been, Kathy mattea

but i think by far the saddest song ive got is Promises, by randy travis. and im usually a virulent anti-country person. However, im downloading some of the other songs, and will report back.

i think its kind of sad that this has been my biggest thread yet....

peace

john nickle

[cnfuzzd]

be carefull there, mut of my soul mates end up in some from of institution....but its a fun ride.

peace

john nickle

[Kurn, son of Mogh]

"Tears in Heaven" - Eric Clapton

And it isn't even remotely close.

[Tosh]

I like Under the Bridge by RHCP for this sort of state of being.

[TimM]

Some not mentioned:

Cats in the Cradle
Taxi

both by Harry Chapin

[TheJunkyardGod]

They'll never take her love from me - Hank Williams Sr.

About two dozen Elliott Smith songs

The River - Bruce Springsteen

And IMO, the most depressing song

Street Spirit - Radiohead

"Rows of houses all bearing down on me
I can feel their blue hands touching me
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out

This machine will not communicate
These thoughts and the strain I am under
Be a world child, form a circle
Before we all go under
And fade out again and fade out again

Cracked eggs, dead birds
Scream as they fight for life
I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes
All these things into position
All these things we'll one day swallow whole
And fade out again and fade out again

Immerse your soul in love"

[bdk3clash]

Whoever mentioned "Accident Prone" by Jawbreaker--good call.

"Here Comes a Regular" by the Replacements.
"Love Will Tear Us Apart" by Joy Division (probably because of what happened to Ian Curtis)
"Too Far Gone" by My Dad Is Dead (kind of an 80s indie rock one hit wonder, but an intensely depressing one at that)
"No Depression" by Uncle Tupelo (ironic, given the title)

[John Feeney]

Yep, Townes's "Marie" may be the king of them all. Not just sad but unique, and one of the most powerful songs I've ever heard.

Whiskey, I'm going to listen to some of those samples as soon as I can. Right now they're not coming in too well for me.

I'd agree with the poster who also included Townes's "Tecumseh Valley," and the poster who included McClean's "Vincent."

Surprised no one's mentioned "Alone Again (Naturally)" by Gilbert O'Sullivan.

Nothing better than a good, sad song.

[elwoodblues]

Fire and Rain - James Taylor
Somewhere Over the Rainbow - Israel Kamakawiwo`ole
What a wonderful world - Louis Armstrong

[Macdaddy Warsaw]

Just thought of "As the Footsteps Die Out Forever" by Catch 22 if you're into Ska/Punk.

Good in a cathartic sort of way.

[jdl22]

I'm biased here because I'm in Hawaii, my fiance just went back to Oregon and I won't see her at least until March but possibly until June. The saddest song for me is Aloha Oe.

[deacsoft]

Street Spirit - Radiohead

A song that is so tremendously hopeless and full of sorrow that even Thom York, the lead singer, has broke down on stage while performing it. Thom York has also said that he was forced to write the entire song in a metaphorical sense because the true lyrics were just too unbearable.

[Redmen62]

Didn't read the replies, and I'm not exactly a country fan, but "Smoke rings in the dark" by Gary Allan is pretty [censored] depressing.

[TimTimSalabim]

Great topic. Although I disagree that listening to a really sad song necessarily brings you down, it usually does the opposite for me, making me feel better. Catharsis I guess.

Some of my favs that immediately come to mind:

Kayleigh/Lavender -- Marillion
Send Her My Love -- Journey
Empty -- Cranberries
Only Love Can Break Your Heart -- Neil Young
Dont Speak -- No Doubt
Almost Blue -- Elvis Costello

[whiskeytown]

there's the version on No Deeper Blue, but I've got another one on MP3 totally acoustic that is knock down drop out heartbreaker - probably on one of the releases near the end of his life where he was re-recording a lot of old stuff.

It doesn't really count, but his saddest [censored] song of all time is Townes doing "Pancho and Lefty" at the Bluebird in the mid 90's - not cause of the song but because alcoholism has taken everything from him at that point...he can barely remember the words to the song and screws it up a couple times - all of Townes last performances have an incredible sadness to him cause he was just a shadow of what he was when he wasn't addicted.

saw a couple concert reviews in '96 where he couldn't remember the songs/couldn't play and just sorta broke down crying in the middle of the show....talk about sad /images/graemlins/frown.gif

His son JT said although he sang and lived hard, it wasn't till the 80's that alcoholism addiction really took over, and the 90's before quitting became life threatning - and he went from about a song a month in the 70's to about one a yr. after 1980 - just the way it goes, I guess. - we lost him Jan 1st, 1997 - 8th yr. anniversary just came by - hope he's doing better.

RB

[vegasone]

the true depression song is "no rain" by blind melon. i think the guy did eventually off himself.

"nothing compares 2 u" by sinead o'connor is the best 'sad, lost love' song.

[craig r]

Don't you like the Shins? there first album is pretty sad.

craig

[nothumb]

[ QUOTE ]
Townes Van Zandt - Marie (there's a solo acoustic version out tehre I can't find that's incredible)

[/ QUOTE ]

I have it if you want it. PM me. It's from the live at the Bluebird show, which is why I couldn't remember if it was TVZ or Guy Clark.

NT

NT

[dsm]

[ QUOTE ]
Cats in the Cradle

[/ QUOTE ]

Definitive.

-dsm

[zephed56]

Tea For One - Led Zeppelin.

[bholdr]

there's a violin concherto written by mendelsson that always gets me... don't know which one.

tears in heaven is sad, too, but there's a quality of redemption/salvation contained in it's melodies that makes it sublimely bittersweet, not depressing, to me anyway. it makes me want to cry, not kill myself.

Puff the magic dragon: i too find this depressing.
"happy birthdy" /images/graemlins/grin.gif
blowing in the wind
auld lang syne
and of course,
danny boy
taps
and other common funeral songs.

maybe you guys can help me out here: In the Ken Burns civil war documentary series, there is a kind of theme song that comes in and out throughout the series and is esp present in most of the introductions to each episode. it always depressed me to begin with, then, the last time i ever saw my ex, we were walking down a street in bellingham wa in the fall and a bluegrass quintet was performing that song. you can imagine what it does to me now...

what is the name?


oh, and i've bombed on MDMA too, and the day after even the sesame street theme song would depress me.

[Chairman Wood]

The entire Nebraska album by Bruce Springsteen

[goofball]

-You don't know me
-Hallelujah
-Moonlight Sonata
-Nocturne

[SuitedSixes]

This thread hit a nerve, my wife and daughter (2) just moved out, so I'm in the sad song mode. I've had sad song modes in the past, but never as a father so my list has changed dramatically. . . this sucks. My list:

Missing You - John Waite
"Every time I think of you, I always catch my breath . . ."
Tears in Heaven - Clapton
Fire and Rain - James Taylor
There Goes My Life - Kenny Chesney
Let Them Be Little - Billy Dean
Handprints on the Wall - Kenny Rogers
She Talks to Angels - Black Crows
I Wish it Would Rain Down - Phil Collins
What I Did Right - Sons of the Desert
Not a Day Goes By - Lonestar
I'm Already There - Lonestar

and . . . thrown in for good measure:
I Used to Lover Her (But I Had to Kill Her) - Guns N' Roses

[turnipmonster]

also "rainy days and mondays" by the carpenters.

[elwoodblues]

There is one church song that always gets me for some reason. It's called the Servant Song.

[mistrpug]

The Boxer - Simon & Garfunkel

[West]

Butterfly - Weezer

[sfer]

The Clash playing Straight to Hell on Live From Here to Eternity. Something about it just feels like a farewell.

[IsaacW]

More Weezer:

The World has Turned and Left Me Here
In the Garage
Pink Triangle

Incubus:
I Miss You

The Mars Volta (this one's an album):
De-Loused in the Comatorium

[SuitedSixes]

Yeah, that song "always gets me down."

[rusellmj]

After all the jacks are in their boxes,
and the clowns have all gone to bed.
You can hear happiness staggerin' on down the street.
Footprints dressed in red.

And the wind whispers Mary.

A broom is drearily sweeping
up the broken pieces of yesterdays life.
Somewhere a queen is weeping,
somewhere a king has no wife.

And the wind cries Mary.

The traffic lights they turn blue tomorrow,
and shine their emptiness down on my bed.
The tiny island sags downstream.
'Cause the life they lived is dead.

And the wind screams Mary.

Will the wind ever remember,
the names it has blown in the past?
With it's crutch, it's old age, and it's wisdom,
it whispers "No, this will be the last."

And the wind cries Mary.


Russ

[freehat]

Beatles "For No One"

[IndieMatty]

I heart the Mars Volta. New album is going to be all one track.

[TimTimSalabim]

Beatles -- Yesterday

[nothumb]

Great call dude. Good in that sweeping, cathartic, bigger-than-you kind of way.

I really don't even enjoy the studio version.

NT

[bdk3clash]

[ QUOTE ]
I really don't even enjoy the studio version.


[/ QUOTE ]
Blasphemy! (I might be biased.)

[goofball]

hallelujah
yesterday
nocturne (chopin)

[bismillahno]

Given the thread and the story behind it, I'm astounded that
"The drugs don't work" from the Verve hasn't been mentioned.


All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

And I hope you're thinking of me
As you lay down on your side
Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

But I know I'm on a losing streak
'Cause I passed down my old street
And if you wanna show, then just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

All this talk of getting old
It's getting me down my love
Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown
This time I'm comin' down

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too
Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

But if you wanna show, just let me know
And I'll sing in your ear again

Now the drugs don't work
They just make you worse
But I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again
Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

I'm never going down, I'm never coming down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more
I'm never coming down, I'm never going down
No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

[2planka]

"Mommy" by the Slackers (retro ska band from NYC) - it's a lament for a band member's deceased mother. Upbeat tempo, but gut-wrenching lyrics.

I listen to the Requiem on the anniversary of my dad's death each year. Waterworks galore. W.A. sure knows about exorcising grief.

Morrissey's Viva Hate record is enough to make any sane person want to jump. Can't stand the guy myself, but I had a clinically depressed rommate in grad school who listened to the freakin' record on his headphones WHILE HE SLEPT. He's weaving baskets at the funny farm now.

[TimTimSalabim]

Smashing Pumpkins -- Today

[2planka]

Yeah, Billy C's voice causes the neighborhood dogs to howl and fuels suicidal tendencies.

Oooh... THREAD HIJACK WARNING....just thought of an inane poll question! Which singer's voice is most irritating?
A) Billy C from Smashing Bumpkins
B) Gordon Gano of the V-Femmes
C) Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys
D) Gwen Steffugly
E) That whiney Avril Levigne wench
F) Elvis
G) OTHERS????

I'll do it up if I have time.

[dr. klopek]

[ QUOTE ]
Yeah, Billy C's voice causes the neighborhood dogs to howl and fuels suicidal tendencies.

Oooh... THREAD HIJACK WARNING....just thought of an inane poll question! Which singer's voice is most irritating?
A) Billy C from Smashing Bumpkins
B) Gordon Gano of the V-Femmes
C) Jello Biafra of the Dead Kennedys
D) Gwen Steffugly
E) That whiney Avril Levigne wench
F) Elvis
G) OTHERS????

I'll do it up if I have time.

[/ QUOTE ]

Gano rules. You take that back. The answer is the dude from string cheese. Or maybe it's just that he's the worst lyricist ever.

[Duke]

You forgot the no-talent ass-clown Michael Bolton.

Why should I change my name? He's the one who sucks.

~D

[TimTimSalabim]

Samir and I were the best programmers those cock gobblers ever had.

[2planka]

Federal pound-me-in-the-a$$ prison

[jakethebake]

I'm thinking about taking that new chick from Logistics. If things go right I might be showing her my O-face. You know: Oh. Oh.

[SossMan]

so long as were on the subject:

Come pick me up - Ryan Adams

Long December - Counting Crows

[TimTimSalabim]

I am allowed to listen to my radio at a reasonable volume between the hours of 9 and 11. My stapler, where's my stapler...

(This probably deserves a separate thread /images/graemlins/grin.gif)

[Rob Blackburn]

[ QUOTE ]

The Mars Volta (this one's an album):
De-Loused in the Comatorium

[/ QUOTE ]

This was the first thing I thought of, this album is for DARK SICKOS. Of course I loved it, I thought of some older stuff, but since we had so many well versed music people most of them got mentioned.

I was a Drum n' Bass dj for 8 years and both of these seemed like the darkest tracks I ever heard before, when I bought them.

DJ Crystl-The Dark Crystl-Force Ten
Dom-Quadrant 6-Moving Shadow

One more I thought of as I typed that often made me cry.

LTJ Bukem-Atlantis(I Need You)-Good Looking Recordings

[Joe Tall]

Joseph Arthur's

Making Mistakes

I can't feel now anybody
Buried under who I am
Just another one of many
Wishing we could start again
Making mistakes
To kill some time
Waking up with the shakes
And a poisoned mind
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around
I don't need an explanation
Walking through your junkyard
I've reached the bottom of addiction
Just to make it to where we are
Lying on a killing floor
With a frozen spine
Back to where I was before
Only worse this time
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around
I've been locked up with my shadow
Bouncing off these crazy walls
Surrounded by all kinds of darkness
Praying for a light to fall
So if forgiveness avoids you
And all your love is soft like clay
I hope you will think to call me
You know I would be on my way
Making mistakes
Across state lines
Sweeping up the dirt
In my broken mind
I know that you might not feel the way I do
Still I hope you're going to come around
What I hope you're going to come around
And I hope you're going to come around

[emonrad87]

The "mad world" cover by Gary Jules on the Donnie Darko soundtrack.

Or the "Last kiss" cover by Pearl Jam.

[John Feeney]

Do you ever decide to add to something you posted six weeks earlier? You should!

Anyway, I forgot to mention Gil Scott-Heron's "Pieces of a Man," a truly great, profoundly sad song.

Carry on.

[jason_t]

pick a random Elliott Smith track.

if you want specifics, Miss Misery. or King's Crossing.

[Grisgra]

Angel from Montgomery -- Bonnie Raitt and John Prine

------------------

I am an old woman
Named after my mother,
My old man is another
Child that's grown old
If dreams were lightning
And thunder were desire
This old house would have burnt down
A long time ago

Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to,
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go


When I was a young girl
I had me a cowboy
He weren't much to look at,
Just a free ramblin' man.
But that was a long time
And no matter how I try,
The years just flow by
Like a broken down dam.


Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to,
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go


There's flies in the kitchen
I can hear 'em in there buzzin'
And I ain't done nothin'
Since I woke up today.
How the hell can a person
Go to work in the mornin'
Come home in the evenin'
And have nothin' to say?


Make me an angel that flies from Montgomery,
Make me a poster of an old rodeo
Just give me one thing that I can hold on to,
To believe in this livin' is just a hard way to go



---------------

And, of course, a shitload by Leonard Cohen.

[Schneids]

Shinedown - "45"

Send away for a priceless gift
One not subtle, one not on the list
Send away for a perfect world
One not simply, so absurd
In these times of doing what you're told
You keep these feelings, no one knows
What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart

And I'm staring down the barrel of a 45,
Swimming through the ashes of another life
No real reason to accept the way things have changed
Staring down the barrel of a 45

Send a message to the unborn child
Keep your eyes open for a while
In a box high up on the shelf, left for you, no one else
There's a piece of a puzzle known as life
Wrapped in guilt, sealed up tight

What ever happened to the young man's heart
Swallowed by pain, as he slowly fell apart

[CHORUS]

Everyone's pointing their fingers
Always condemning me
And nobody knows what I believe
I believe

[CHORUS]

[Ice Man]

The Righteous Brothers---You've Lost That Loving Feeling



You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips.
And there's no tenderness like before in your fingertips.
You're trying hard not to show it, (baby).
But baby, baby I know it...

You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone...gone...gone...wooooooh.

Now there's no welcome look in your eyes when I reach for you.
And now your're starting to critisize little things I do.
It makes me just feel like crying, (baby).
'Cause baby, something in you is dying.

You lost that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling,
You've lost that lovin' feeling,
Now it's gone...gone...gone...woooooah

Baby, baby, I get down on my knees for you.

If you would only love me like you used to do, yeah.

We had a love...a love...a love you don't find everyday.

So don't...don't...don't...don't let it slip away.

Baby (baby), baby (baby),
I beg of you please...please,
I need your love (I need your love), I need your love (I need your love),
So bring it on back (So bring it on back), Bring it on back (so bring it on back).

Bring back that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling
Bring back that lovin' feeling,
'Cause it's gone...gone...gone,
and I can't go on,
noooo...

Bring back that lovin' feeling,
Whoa, that lovin' feeling
Bring back that lovin' feeling,
'Cause it's gone...gone...


Don't forget Seasons In The Sun by Terry Jacks:

... We had joy we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the wine and the song like the seasons
Have all gone

All our lives we had fun
We had seasons in the sun
But the hills that we climbed were just seasons
Out of time......

[Ionphore]

Surprised no one mentioned Morrissey. elliot smith, some radiohead, some bjork, the shins, the smiths. And some very specific aphex twin tracks.

Saddest ever? Aphex Twin - Selected Ambient Works Volume II - "Rhubarb"

[Klepton]

"its cool, we can still be friends" by bright eyes... this guy is awesome, but he literally starts crying in the song. To me, that's the saddest song ever

[droolie]

The fact that these five songs haven't been mentioned repeatedly in theis thread stuns me....
"Wild Horses" The Rolling Stones
"I Shall Be Released" I prefer the The Band's version
"Sister Morphine" The Rolling Stones
"Love Hurts" I prefer the Gram Parsons' version
"Sing Me Back Home" I prefer the Gram Parsons's version

I also think "Wish You Were Here" Pink Floyd is a good one

Tom Petty's Hard Promises album is great stuff after a breakup

Here are some more...

"Long Black Veil" The Band
"Tonights The Night" Neil Young
Just about anything ever written by Merle Haggard

[droolie]

"Angie" The Rolling Stones

[obithrawn]

My Dying Bride, From Darkest Skies

Take your own
Sick with fever
And cry out loud
to God
Your sorry own
Will be piled upon me
That I can't see
My God
I've cried for earth
More than once
But rivers still run
With reddest tears
Be lost in me
And I'll never need to ask
Who wants me? Who wants Me?
Be mine tonight. The sight of your light
I'll breathe in you. I'm a fool, just for you
I'm in pain
And I don't know why
Under heavy rain
From darkest skies
We're in pain
The two of us
And I no longer know
Which way to go
Open wide. Let me see
Your bleeding heart cries for me
Look straight up. Look at the sun
This song's for her. Her requiem
Open wide. Let me see
A poisoned soul in agony
Self pity strangles me
I'm lashed by grief
And I'm killing me
Don't fear. My fire is enough
For both of us

Very heavy, brooding sound, and they have a violin to top it off.

[Benjamin]

I'll second a couple already mentioned:

Johnny Cash: "Hurt"
Eric Clapton: "Tears in Heaven"

And I'll add one that hasn't come up:

Matthew Sweet: "Worse to Live"

If you're big enough to take it
When the truth gets overwhelming
Then along with many others
You fight
If you're small enough to fit yourself
Among so many millions
With your own set of problems to face

If it's worse to live than to let go
You've got to let me know
If it's worse to live than to let go
You've got to let me know

In my nightmare
When I try so hard to find you
I can't see your way or want you to be free

If it's worse to live than to let go
You've got to let me know
...

[swede123]

To me this is a very subjective question. Sure, certain rock songs have a definite sadness/depression factor to them, but the truly sad ones have some kind of special meaning to you.

That's why I pick Dixie Chicks: When You Were Mine.

I know, it's country and it's the Dixie Chicks. Still, that song reminds me of how I broke someone's heart once and even to this day listening to that song gets me all sad and stuff.

Cheers,

Swede

[Phat Mack]

Interesting. I caught myself singing "Mr. Blue" by the Fleetwoods in the shower a week ago, and thought to myself, I should've posted it.

[jesusarenque]

"My Old Friend the Blues" by Steve Earle.

It's one of those songs you hear and wish you had written.

[Soul Daddy]

[ QUOTE ]
Don't you like the Shins? there first album is pretty sad.

craig

[/ QUOTE ]

New Slang gets me every time.

As others have mentioned, Elliot Smith is pretty freaking depressing. But when I'm depressed, "I know it's over" by The Smiths captures my mood pretty well. And I usually feel better because I know I'm nowhere near as depressed as Morrissey.

[Fabian]

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Beatles "For No One"

[/ QUOTE ]

Excellent. Probably my favourite song of all times.

Another good one for this thread is Within Temptation - Our Farewell.

[Brain]

Cats in the Cradle and American Pie

[plaster8]

"Keep Me In Your Heart" -- Warren Zevon

it's really a beautiful song, written and recorded while he was dying of cancer.
"These wheels keep turnin' but they're runnin' out of steam."

[akaLogic]

Two songs

1. Sukiyaki
(Ue o muite arukoo)
Kyu Sakamoto

Released in Japan as "Ue O Muite Aruko" (I Look Up When I Walk) #1 hit in 1963 forSakamoto Kyu. Kyu (pronounced "cue") was one of the 520 people who died in the crash of a Japan Airlines 747 near Tokyo on August 12, 1985. He was 43.
Lyrics by Rokusuke Ei, music by Hachidai Nakamura It is said that the song was written by Rokusuke Ei when his heart was
literally broken with a Japanese actress, Meiko Nakamura.


and this one.
Warning: listening to this one (as opposed to just reading it) can be a devastating experience.

2. Ode To Billie Joe


( Bobbie Gentry )

It was the third of June, another sleepy, dusty Delta day
I was out choppin' cotton and my brother was balin' hay
And at dinner time we stopped and walked back to the house to eat
And Mama hollered out the back door "y'all remember to wipe your feet"
And then she said "I got some news this mornin' from Choctaw Ridge"
"Today Billy Joe MacAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Papa said to Mama as he passed around the blackeyed peas
"Well, Billy Joe never had a lick of sense, pass the biscuits, please"
"There's five more acres in the lower forty I've got to plow"
And Mama said it was shame about Billy Joe, anyhow
Seems like nothin' ever comes to no good up on Choctaw Ridge
And now Billy Joe MacAllister's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge

And Brother said he recollected when he and Tom and Billie Joe
Put a frog down my back at the Carroll County picture show
And wasn't I talkin' to him after church last Sunday night?
"I'll have another piece of apple pie, you know it don't seem right"
"I saw him at the sawmill yesterday on Choctaw Ridge"
"And now you tell me Billie Joe's jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

And Mama said to me "Child, what's happened to your appetite?"
"I've been cookin' all morning and you haven't touched a single bite"
"That nice young preacher, Brother Taylor, dropped by today"
"Said he'd be pleased to have dinner on Sunday, oh, by the way"
"He said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge"
"And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge"

A year has come 'n' gone since we heard the news 'bout Billy Joe
And Brother married Becky Thompson, they bought a store in Tupelo
There was a virus going 'round, Papa caught it and he died last Spring
And now Mama doesn't seem to wanna do much of anything
And me, I spend a lot of time pickin' flowers up on Choctaw Ridge

And drop them into the muddy water off the Tallahatchie Bridge

[The Stranger]

before reading any other replies, "He Stopped Loving her Today" by George Jones.

[The Stranger]

[ QUOTE ]
before reading any other replies, "He Stopped Loving her Today" by George Jones.

[/ QUOTE ]

After reading all the replies, the only ones I really have left to add are "Always on My Mind" by Willie Nelson, and "Tonight the Bottle Let Me Down" by Merle Haggard

If you've ever fallen in love with booze, but booze fell out of love with you, its a real tear jerker.

__________________

Each night I leave the bar room when it's over
Not feelin' any pain at closing time
But tonight your memory found me much to sober
Couldn't drink enough to keep you off my mind.

Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your memory come around.
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down.

I've always had a bottle I could turn to
And lately I've been turnin' every day.
And the wine don't take effect the way it used to
And I'm hurtin' in an old familiar way.

Tonight the bottle let me down
And let your memory come around.
The one true friend I thought I'd found
Tonight the bottle let me down.

[Kenrick]

I don't know if it compares to some of the heavy-hitters mentioned, but Danzig's "Going Down To Die" fits the bill. The entire album "4" is moody-blues-metal.

And I know
That it's true
All the fire
Has burned thru
Well you know I've played
So hard
And the light
Grows so dim
And my time's getting slim
All the words
Just don't mean much

And I know I'm saying
Goodbye
And I know that I'm going
Down
To die

In my heart
There's a wind
And it swirls up a din
It's so loud
It drowns my mind
Till the coin that I pass
To the ferryman's grasp
Let's me leave
My pain
Behind

So I part
And I'm oh so cold
And I hope to release
My heart
Better leave
While my song still calls
It's the truth
That I'm going
Down
To die

[Kenrick]

I've listened to many of the songs listed in this thread, and I have decided. "100 years" is the most depressing song I have ever heard. Bonus depression points if you watch the Smallville episode that includes it.

[Mars357]

Fade to Black - Metalica
Girl of Mine - Blue Rodeo (www.bluerodeo.com)
I Dreamed a Dream - Les Mis

Girl of Mine

Girl of mine
Where did we go wrong
You never once said you loved me
And you never once called my name
Now I can see the way

My memories like cigarettes
Blow smoke upon the screen
I stare up to the empty face
That hangs inside my dreams
In the words of love I hesitate
They all come rushing in to me
Too late too late

Days and nights
Wondering what could it be
Did you need somebody stronger
Someone to see you through
Girl I never knew

Now your lipstick and your powder
They're all put away in drawers
But the traces of our love affair
Still hide behind the doors
I lie awake afraid to sleep
And see the face I knew I'd never keep
I'd never keep

Too much to bear
Too much I fall down drunk
Too much I care

Tell me now
Do the words of love still seem the same to you
Now we learned the angry lesson
And we still came back for more
Forget somehow what came before

My senses have been shocked
And I'm alive to every pain
Your quiet laughter comes to me
It echoes in the rain
In the darkness of my lonely room
I pray that you won't fade
Away too soon
Too soon

Too much to bear
Too much I fall down drunk
Too much I care

[Mars357]

I dreamed a dream lyrics.... damn this is a SAD song

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed.

[Mike Haven]

"Bring Him Home." (http://www.stinalisa.com/POWMIA.html)

God on high
Hear my prayer
In my need
You have always been there

He is young
He's afraid
Let him rest
Heaven blessed.
Bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.

He's like the son I might have known
If God had granted me a son.
The summers die
One by one
How soon they fly
On and on
And I am old
And will be gone.

Bring him peace
Bring him joy
He is young
He is only a boy.

You can take
You can give
Let him be
Let him live.
If I die, let me die
Let him live, bring him home
Bring him home
Bring him home.

From "Les Miserables".

(Midi.) (http://www.niehs.nih.gov/kids/lyrics/bringhom.htm)