Sad songs
 

I was perusing another adult, but non-sexual forum a few minutes ago, & found a thread I wanted to post to. When I found that a permanent membership to that forum would cost me $$$ (after a month free), I said fuckit, I'll just start my own here...all of which is just my long-winded roundabout way of saying I stole this from another forum (shhh, don't tell the net police).

The question is, what songs strike you as so sad as to make you weep or choke up by the final chorus? May I add, embarrassingly sad, no matter if the song be hokey or sappy to everybody else, but you're sitting there thinking, don't make me cry here in front of God & everybody...

My weepy sad song is Long Long Time by (a very young) Linda Ronstadt, her first solo release, I believe...man, before she gets thru the first verse I'm swallowing hard, & about midway thru I look like allergy eyes. Yeh, I know, pretty sappy, wanna step outside & talk it over on the pavement?

So what's your embarrassingly sad song?

Are we limited to one song? I can think of a ton of songs that make me cry so I might need to reply more than once :nod: They're not all 'officially' sad songs, but some songs just move me to tears. I'm quite often a blubbering wreck, it doesn't take much to make me cry!

Three I can think of off the top of my head are:

Theme tune to The Littlest Hobo :o :o

Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard

Against All Odds - Phil Collins

This one is a beautiful song, sends shivers down my spine and I have been known to shed a tear or two over it in the past :o

I've heard a few covers of this song recently and fell in love with the lyrics.

Bob Marley~Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

No limits on number of songs, no limits on how many posts it takes to get all your tearjerkers on. I wouldn't mind a bit if this goes on for a long long time :D

While reading the "other" forum, I couldn't think of any songs that choke me up...then someone linked to another Ronstadt song, & suddenly I remembered my song! So whatever it takes, however long it takes, don't matter to me...

Well I think I'll be a regular here, thanks for posting it, great idea for a thread, nicked from elsewhere or not :thumb:

This song has a personal connotation for me because it reminds me sooooooooooooo much of someone I lost. I used to just blubber bawl when it first came out.
Dashboard Confessional -Vindicated

Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of which has caught my eye

And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
I am captivated

I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along

And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of which has caught my eye
And rendered me so isolated, so motivated
I am certain now that

So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away
So let me slip against the current
and let me slip away

Slight hope
It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption...

This song was a song he had introduced me to. Later when Melissa Etheridge covered it and did that cool football video I'd bawl if I tried to sing along.

I
Played the fool today
And I
Can see us vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
And I can't ask for things to be still again
No I can't ask for you
To offer the world through your eyes
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
My window through which
Nothing hides
And everything sings
I'm counting the signs
And cursing the miles in between
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
That I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe
When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe


Greenwheel- Breathe

The song which brings a tear no matter how hard you try not to, even though it's the schlockiest thing in the universe, is "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough.

The saddest song I know is "Rainbow Connection" when you actually listen to the words.

When it was sung at Jim Henson's funeral I was so torn up.

Gorecki Symphony #3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo

A couple that I'd not heard for years before today but always had me in tears in my younger days:

Paper Lace: Billy Don't Be A Hero

Ray Peterson: Tell Laura I Love Her

Take That: Babe

^^^ definite oldy goldies

Well, Swan Dive by Ani Difranco will always get me, just because of the way it is done.

100 years by Five for Fighting has a couple different meanings for me and brings the tears on.

Tiny Dancer by Elton... *sigh*

Dammit. I'm almost in tears just thinking about them.

Sad song? Probably not, unless you know or knew someone who went there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94

LOL, that ^^^ song came up at the "other" forum, when one poster said it always made him cry...not because it was so sad, but it was just so bad...

But, hey, I asked for your sad songs, for whatever reasons or whatever seasons...& I certainly understand that you may have personal memories that evoke certain reactions...

Anybody else?

I noticed, after I posted it, that the link I listed was a truncated version, with the whole of the 3rd verse excised (for time constraints, no doubt). Here is the full length version ...whenever I get to this part:

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

I find it impossible not to blink back a few tears of my own...

True that be :boohoo: Saddest, sappiest, most heart-wrenching tear jerker of them all.

Well... 'cept for maybe Bill Monroe's .? nah . too country.

it's the happier songs that bring a tear. like wonderful world.

and yes, sometimes the us national anthem.

Yes, we Aussies cried every time it was played at the pool events in Beijing. LOL

pmpl-lol

Just thought of another song that does it for me - John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy"...of course, the event of his death so soon after recording it adds another layer of sadness in of itself, but even without that, it's a poignant, lovely song. I became a dad for the first time a couple of years after it came out, & watching my own "beautiful boy" grow & learn made me think of those words every day.

"Before you cross the street, hold my hand,
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Excuse me...no,no, it's alright, just...something in my eye, that's all... :tear:

This is heartbreaking...
 

Battle of the Beanfield

I thought I heard something calling me
I've seen the pictures on TV
And I made up my mind that I'd go and see
With my own eyes

It didn't take too long to hitch a ride
With a guy going south to start a new life
Past the place where my friend died
Two years ago

Down the 303 at the end of the road
Flashing lights - exclusion zones
And it made me think it's not just the stones
That they're guarding

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

As the sun rose on the beanfield
They came like wolf on the fold
And no, they didn't give a warning
They took their bloody toll

I seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their home

And no they didn't need a reason
It's what your votes condone
It seems they were committing treason
By trying to live on the road

And I say,
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Bastards

Remember what you heard

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

I get choked up every single time I sing it.

I have to agree with this one.... with wet eyes.

Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves Her singing is beautiful and she does this one with a haunting sadness that does it for me.

Another one is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole singing Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World...yup

It got to me for real. Thank you Salacious.




Here is something for our contemplating and supplication.
Turn your volume way UP, as These strings pull the heart out, tie it in a knot and squeeze for every last teardrop.
_ Feel _ the _ climax _ to _ anti _ climax _ and _ into _ repose _ @ _ 07:04s.0. :teleport:
Then relax, after you dispose of the tissues and get some more dry ones, crank the volume much higher yet for this Choral version of Agnus Dei (same composition, but it is) sung to the theme of Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings. Performed by The Choir of Trinity. :boohoo:

Someday Never Comes ~ CCR

Except I'd count myself lucky if my Dad had been around long enough to tell me that someday I'd understand.

I've always found the haunting sadness of Janis Ian's At Seventeen touches me deeply.

Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. I don't cry, but it does hit the heart.

He Didn't Have To Be by Brad Paisley :boohoo: :bfly:

Beautiful, beautiful song and a real tearjerker :nod: I thought I'd nearly managed to watch it without crying, but it got me again just now :o

A Blossom Fell ~~ by Nat King Cole

A blossom fell from off a tree
It settled softly on the lips you turned to me
The gypsies say and I know why
"A falling blossom only touches lips that lie"

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

Yes, and the sentiment goes beyond just the girls.

My sad song
 

a bit different from what everyone else has posted but this was my anthem my senior year of high school and still tends to bring me close to tears and on bad days I do cry.


Hurt
Nine Inch Nails

I hurt myself today
To see if i still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But i remember everything
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of s**t
On my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If i could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

It's the Johnny Cash version that gets me^^^^^

Johnny Cash did "At Seventeen"? Amazing.

No, but it was probably on his "to do" list...

Etta James song covered
 

At Last by Celine Dion, LIVE in Sweden. As good as they come. Only the youthful impassioned voicing of Etta James in long gone past years ago could tear your heart out with such a glorious song of grand love and committed elation.
:tongue:

At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.
Rather than a SAD SONG, this is a very poignant Hope Song.
This tune is a powerful string puller and evokes a strong emotion for me (& others), mainly 'cause its a song of hope imminent in realization if only I listen to my heart. I watched the television show on our tiny round/oval black & white TV set on a night when he performed it. I loved it, not only 'cause the schnozzola was singing it, but I got to stay up an extra half hour past bedtime. He walked off, into the series of spotlights, stopping and waved good-bye, then vanished into the night. Presumably to go looking for Mrs Calabash. Hey, I think I was only seven or eight years old!

Is it me, or is he the guy that did the songs for the old claymation Christmas movies?

Yeh, I lose track of which one, but I think Durante did provide the voice, & inspired the face of one of the Christmas Claymation classics. I'll forgive you (for now anyway) for being too young to remember Jimmy Durante, Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, and any other once internationally popular stars who wisely elected to ensure that future generations of kids would have some idea that they even existed ;)

No such thing as "too many posts" to a thread...please, feel free to contribute here anytime a song tugs at your heartstrings...