Saddest Song Ever. cross some genres....

[Fabian]

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Beatles "For No One"

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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]

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

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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.

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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.