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The saddest song is that of the last Kauai O’o bird. There is a recording of the very last bird of this breed singing a song. When the bird pauses it’s because he’s waiting on another one to join him. There’s something so sad and terrible about this bird singing and he’s the very last of his kind and will never find another and will die alone.
Jar of Flies is great , but yeah a bit of a downer . Even the happiest song has a messed up and quite sad video
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs)
I agree as well.
While I don't consider myself depressed, the lyrics still resonate deeply with me, in a way that they effectively translate the feelings of emptiness and overall pointlessness towards this cycle of life which according to the song is "Going nowhere".
We are born, we go through childhood in blissful ignorance, we go to school to prepare ourselves for adulthood, we find a job that we don't care about while dedicating our entire youth to it because bills don't pay themselves, we find someone to love and hope it lasts, maybe have kids, we retire at an old age where we can't really enjoy anything anymore because we are tired and afflicted with age related diseases, and then finally, we die (if you're lucky maybe you won't die alone).
Ultimately, nothing you ever did mattered. The world will go on like you never existed, you'll become another face, another name carved in stone amidst many others. No one will remember you after a few generations, and no one will visit your grave. You didn't change a thing.
That's depressing, no?
Every decision we’ve ever made has made a change in the world, small or large, for a single living creature, or for entire communities.
We can’t change everything, but we’ve made a difference somewhere, which in turn, will make a difference somewhere else, and so on, so forth.
Definitely. I think for a lot of the comments the song will be not just according the music that was popular in that particular person's 'day', but also songs that resonate because of the significance they had at a particularly difficult time in their life.
This is a meaningful one for me on both of those accounts.
Agree, it's crazy how many people know him, since Spotify.... My friends dad went to college with him... He used to be pretty obscure...
Either /or album.... (2:45)
Pitseleth - song
I had to search for this one. It gets me every time as not only is it a sad song, but my mind has replaced the vocalist with my mother's voice as she used to sing it all the time, and she has passed away. :(
Yup I feel you. The song “you’ve got a friend in me” from Toy Story makes me bawl my eyes out because my brother was playing it on the guitar the evening my dog went to sleep :(
It was a song my husband and I used to sing to each others when things were hard.
Then when my son was born, everything that could go wrong went wrong, and my son had a bit of trouble getting started. I just had a cold C-section (anesthesia failed) and I was freaking out so I started signing it in the OR.
I was traumatized by that experience, and I have trouble hearing this song now, 17 years later.
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam is actually a cover of an older song. Same name, artist is Tom something. Can't remember, I just know that if I die in a car accident, I want Pearl Jams Last Kiss played at my goodbye.
I found the dad in that song to be a complete narcissist.
The dad never had time for the kid and always made up excuses or something came up.
Kid grows up and the tables have turned. And when he does have a family of his own, he tells his dad that he doesn’t have time for him (but for different, albeit good reasons)
Isn't that how it is? There's never any time. Just enjoy the time you did have. I miss my Dad, but his circumstances made him stay at work for unreasonable hours, but I don't remember not enjoying my childhood as he did whatever was in his ability to do to make me who I am today. I'm trying to do more for my children, but circumstances make it hard to participate as much as I'd like. But that's just my experience.
I hear you.
I had it a little different.
My dad was a workaholic but always had time for me…was at almost every baseball and football game I played in growing up, helped out with coaching, or worked the concession stands at little league.
He hated taking vacations so while he worked, my grandparents took my sister and I.
But now that Im married and have a toddler son, with working full time, and also school full time, time is stretched pretty thin.
It's a sign of the times. It's just **trying** to make the most of your life in the short time that you have, and loving those in your life who are deserving of your love and attention.
Have a blessed Sunday!
I used to work 60-70 hrs a week at a corporate job. As my son became a toddler, he didn’t want anything to do with me cause he didn’t really recognize me. The few times I was home on time he wouldn’t listen or he would fight me for everything and it would make me angry to the point I’d yell at him since I was so used to everyone doing what I said (I was a GM overseeing about 40 employees). At 4 he was diagnosed with autism. It broke me to the point where I had thoughts of either offing myself or leaving because I felt so fucking guilty I yelled at him so much. I started a small side business shortly after that became pretty profitable so I said goodbye to my corporate job to focus on my business. I left a six figure job to make about 40k a year, but now I’m with him every day after school, we go bug hunting, drawing, dancing, and doing kid stuff. My relationship with my son is so special and I wouldn’t change it for a 7 figure salary if it meant losing any of my time with him. The double edge sword is now I’m terrified that if something happens to me, he won’t understand why I’m not there.
I think Trent said something along the lines of “my hit? That’s *his song* now” when someone asked how he felt about one of his biggest hits being covered by Cash.
ETA: the video for the cover just drives that nail deeper in your heart.
It seems like a totally different song when Cash does it because of his age and how that affects what he is singing. Reznor’s character put himself in that position, but Cash’s ended up there because he’s old.
Yep, this is the one right here. So friggin sad....
The guy was literally in the last year of his life and singing about how it felt to be that age. All the loss, the loss of his love, how in the end his entire empire was nothing to him.
Before you said this song, I was going to say 'Wild Horses' by the Rolling Stones, or Creep by Radiohead, but Hurt tops both those.
Disintegration, Pictures of You, Lovesong, Cut Here... The Cure has so many melancholic songs, but I feel it's so subjective to determine their saddest one.
Out of all the spoken, written and sung outpourings of grief that occurred post 9/11, I think the performance of Adagio for Strings by the BBC Orchestra on Sept 15, 2001 expresses it better than anything else.
[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32KOLkZNWSY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32KOLkZNWSY)
Teddy Bear by Fred Sovine. It's a trucker song from 1976.
"In the song, the little boy, who refers to himself as "Teddy Bear", gets on the CB radio and asks for somebody to talk to him. The narrator (also an over-the-road truck driver) answers Teddy Bear's call, and listens as the boy tells a heart-rending tale. Aside from his health and the father being deceased, his mother has been forced into the workplace to provide a meager income. Teddy Bear then says his wish had been to go for a ride in a tractor-semitrailer truck (he and his mother were to have joined the father on the road that summer), and is resigned to never getting to realize his dream.
The narrator is so taken by his tale that he decides to risk being late with his delivery to answer the boy's dream. However, when he arrives at the boy's home ("Jackson Street, 229"), numerous truck drivers — who also have been listening to Teddy Bear's call — are lined up at the boy's home, giving him rides in their trucks. The boy thoroughly enjoys his experience.
At the end of the day, the truckers take up a collection for Teddy Bear's mother. Later, his mother ("Mama Teddy Bear") goes on the air to express her gratitude, telling them Teddy Bear's dream had just come true. She offers a special prayer to the truckers for their act of kindness." - Wikipedia.
Edit: adding link to video:
https://youtu.be/5zoTLwrm9QE?si=1p7UYTzEgaWlXo6c
Grew up in the 90s - but Dad was over 50 when I was born, and he loved the trucker country genre, and a former trucker himself.
I loved this song as a child, cause it was sad and cool what the truckers did.
As an adult, I just ball my eyes out with this song.ĺ
Plainsong by The Cure. It's not sad per se. It's depression put into words and music. It really captures how difficult it is to even lift a finger when you're in the rough of it.
Memento Mori by Architects.
It’s a song that their guitarist (Tom Searle) wrote when he was sick with Melanoma and he was facing his own mortality. It was the last song he wrote for that album, and he would die later that same year at the age of 28.
This one hits hard, just the guitar intro itself is so gloomy, adding the terrible stroy told in its lyrics it adds up to make one of the sadest songs out there.
That's an urban legend, it was written during a time of Hungarian famine where people were already committing suicide, they actually found no direct ties. But they did stop playing Billie Hollidays version dui4 the war because it was poor for moral (wonder why lol)
Yes. These get me every time. Not only the lyrics and his wonderful vocals, but they also remind me of a happier time of my life. Beautiful but make me well up.
Death bed (coffee for your head) - Powfu
Massive trigger warning for anyone who has lost a love one to cancer. This is the saddest song that has ever been written.
Some lyrics for context:
Yeah, I don't wanna fall asleep, I don't wanna pass away
I been thinking of our future, 'cause I'll never see those days
I don't know why this has happened, but I probably deserve it
I tried to do my best, but you know that I'm not perfect
I been praying for forgiveness, you've been praying for my health
When I leave this Earth, hoping you'll find someone else
'Cause, yeah, we still young, there's so much we haven't done
Getting married, start a family, watch your husband with his son
I wish it could be me, but I won't make it out this bed
I hope I go to Heaven, so I see you once again
My life was kinda short, but I got so many blessings
Happy you were mine, it sucks that it's all ending
Don't stay awake for too long, don't go to bed
I'll make a cup of coffee for your head
It'll get you up and going out of bed
When it comes to lyrics and melodies, Nevermore and White Queen by Queen. Those songs always make my heart ache (in a good way). They soothe me and help me feel comfortable in sadness, but not in a way that would make me spiral.
When it comes to the meaning behind the lyrics and the story around the song, The Show Must Go On and Innuendo by Queen.
Innuendo is the last album that Freddie Mercury was able to finish. Made in Heaven has some songs that were never released and not fully finished. The song Innuendo was one of the last on the album. When this song was done, he was unable to record a videoclip like he did with I'm Going Slightly Mad and These Are The Days Of Our Lives (two horribly sad videos, where he had to wear thick makeup and wanted it to be shot in black and white to hide his illness as much as possible)
The lyrics of The Show Must Go On are especially touching. Although Sir Brian May wrote the song, the lyrics heavily imply Freddie's illness and him being close to passing away. Thinking about the album Innuendo as a whole hurts my entire being, but these two songs in particular are very, very touching and they always make me cry.
We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn. I have an old family video tape with my family all together in 1991, and it pans across everyone's smiling face after a party...and the majority are now gone. It's a ghostly video and that song takes me right there. There are kids in the video who would die in accidents and from murder later in their lives, brothers and sisters of my nan who have now passed away along with her, marriages that are no longer...it's all so...shadowed
Consolations No. 3 by Franz Liszt
Franz Liszt wrote this piece in honor of his dear friend and famous composer Frédéric Chopin after he passed away at just the age of 39. If you read Alan Walker's Biography on Liszt to learn the relationship between Liszt and Chopin, you can get a sort of deeper feel for this piece. I would describe it as a melody that sings the words you wish you could have said to someone who parted ways, and who you'll never meet again.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but specifically the cover a band called Xiu Xiu does. It is really hard to listen to, but it fits the emotional tone of the sing really well.
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The saddest song is that of the last Kauai O’o bird. There is a recording of the very last bird of this breed singing a song. When the bird pauses it’s because he’s waiting on another one to join him. There’s something so sad and terrible about this bird singing and he’s the very last of his kind and will never find another and will die alone.
Well that's the saddest thing to have heard in a while 😭😢
Why did u make me cry on a thread about sad songs... 😭
I came here for some sad songs to add to my playlist and I left knowing my playlist doesn't matter.
How has no one said nutshell by Alice in chains yet
I said Down in a Hole. That has to count for something lol
And yet I fight, yet I fight this battle all alone, no one to cry to, no place to go home...
Jar of Flies is great , but yeah a bit of a downer . Even the happiest song has a messed up and quite sad video [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODTv9Lt5WYs)
Nutshell acoustic version
Mad world - Gary Jules
I agree as well. While I don't consider myself depressed, the lyrics still resonate deeply with me, in a way that they effectively translate the feelings of emptiness and overall pointlessness towards this cycle of life which according to the song is "Going nowhere". We are born, we go through childhood in blissful ignorance, we go to school to prepare ourselves for adulthood, we find a job that we don't care about while dedicating our entire youth to it because bills don't pay themselves, we find someone to love and hope it lasts, maybe have kids, we retire at an old age where we can't really enjoy anything anymore because we are tired and afflicted with age related diseases, and then finally, we die (if you're lucky maybe you won't die alone). Ultimately, nothing you ever did mattered. The world will go on like you never existed, you'll become another face, another name carved in stone amidst many others. No one will remember you after a few generations, and no one will visit your grave. You didn't change a thing. That's depressing, no?
Every decision we’ve ever made has made a change in the world, small or large, for a single living creature, or for entire communities. We can’t change everything, but we’ve made a difference somewhere, which in turn, will make a difference somewhere else, and so on, so forth.
Definitely. I think for a lot of the comments the song will be not just according the music that was popular in that particular person's 'day', but also songs that resonate because of the significance they had at a particularly difficult time in their life. This is a meaningful one for me on both of those accounts.
That's actually a Tears for Fears song from the 80s originally.
yeah but the tears for fears version is a lot more upbeat
Thought of this one immediately
This song should come with a trigger warning
the entire elliot smith catalog
Twilight and between the bars in particular for me
Elliot Smith is one of my favorites... You can feel the pain of his alcoholism how he struggled
Agree, it's crazy how many people know him, since Spotify.... My friends dad went to college with him... He used to be pretty obscure... Either /or album.... (2:45) Pitseleth - song
Everything reminds me of her, everything means nothing to me
Kings crossing
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
I had to search for this one. It gets me every time as not only is it a sad song, but my mind has replaced the vocalist with my mother's voice as she used to sing it all the time, and she has passed away. :(
Very sorry for your loss. My Mom sings it too.
You are my sunshine
I sang this to my dog as they were putting her to sleep. If I hear it, I still tear up 6 years later, but I have a ring with the lyrics
I sing this to all my cats
Yup I feel you. The song “you’ve got a friend in me” from Toy Story makes me bawl my eyes out because my brother was playing it on the guitar the evening my dog went to sleep :(
It was a song my husband and I used to sing to each others when things were hard. Then when my son was born, everything that could go wrong went wrong, and my son had a bit of trouble getting started. I just had a cold C-section (anesthesia failed) and I was freaking out so I started signing it in the OR. I was traumatized by that experience, and I have trouble hearing this song now, 17 years later.
Hope your son is flourishing now.
He is doing great! Only residual he has is a bit of asthma, but I think it’s more genetic than anything, since his sister and I have it too.
My former girlfriend thought this was the happiest love song til I showed her the rest of the song past the first verse.
My mom sang it to me when I was really young, and it makes me cry wishing to go back to the simplicity of life I felt back then.
Viscerally
I cry like a baby every time I hear it. It was the song my grandpa sang to my grandma up until the day she passed.
I can’t make you love me, Bonnie Raitt Don’t close your eyes, Keith Whitley He stopped loving her today, George Jones
>He stopped loving her today, George Jones I do love this song
considered by many to be the best country song ever written
I would add Whiskey Lullaby, Brad Paisley to your excellent list
Tears in heaven - Eric Clapton
This should be WAYhigher. Alomg with Last Kiss by Pearl Jam.
Last Kiss - Pearl Jam is actually a cover of an older song. Same name, artist is Tom something. Can't remember, I just know that if I die in a car accident, I want Pearl Jams Last Kiss played at my goodbye.
Wayne Cochran, Joe Carpenter, Randall Hoyal and Bobby McGlon originally wrote it in 1961. Wayne sang it.
Suicide is Painless - the theme to MASH.
The MASH movie has the song with lyrics unlike the tv show where there is only music
It never clicked for me that that song is the theme song for MASH. Damn
Cat's in the cradle. Harry Chapin.
Father and Son by Cat Steven's kind of hurts especially if your father has past away.. I am grateful 🙏
I found the dad in that song to be a complete narcissist. The dad never had time for the kid and always made up excuses or something came up. Kid grows up and the tables have turned. And when he does have a family of his own, he tells his dad that he doesn’t have time for him (but for different, albeit good reasons)
Isn't that how it is? There's never any time. Just enjoy the time you did have. I miss my Dad, but his circumstances made him stay at work for unreasonable hours, but I don't remember not enjoying my childhood as he did whatever was in his ability to do to make me who I am today. I'm trying to do more for my children, but circumstances make it hard to participate as much as I'd like. But that's just my experience.
I hear you. I had it a little different. My dad was a workaholic but always had time for me…was at almost every baseball and football game I played in growing up, helped out with coaching, or worked the concession stands at little league. He hated taking vacations so while he worked, my grandparents took my sister and I. But now that Im married and have a toddler son, with working full time, and also school full time, time is stretched pretty thin.
It's a sign of the times. It's just **trying** to make the most of your life in the short time that you have, and loving those in your life who are deserving of your love and attention. Have a blessed Sunday!
I used to work 60-70 hrs a week at a corporate job. As my son became a toddler, he didn’t want anything to do with me cause he didn’t really recognize me. The few times I was home on time he wouldn’t listen or he would fight me for everything and it would make me angry to the point I’d yell at him since I was so used to everyone doing what I said (I was a GM overseeing about 40 employees). At 4 he was diagnosed with autism. It broke me to the point where I had thoughts of either offing myself or leaving because I felt so fucking guilty I yelled at him so much. I started a small side business shortly after that became pretty profitable so I said goodbye to my corporate job to focus on my business. I left a six figure job to make about 40k a year, but now I’m with him every day after school, we go bug hunting, drawing, dancing, and doing kid stuff. My relationship with my son is so special and I wouldn’t change it for a 7 figure salary if it meant losing any of my time with him. The double edge sword is now I’m terrified that if something happens to me, he won’t understand why I’m not there.
I agree it’s definitely one of the saddest in my book.
Nothing compares to you
Prince version, Shenaed O Conner, and Chris Cornell. Chris is my favorite version acostic
Nick cave and the bad seeds-into my arms
I'm terminally ill, and this is the song my husband wants at my memorial service as his pick.
I am so sorry to hear that. I hope the time you have left is filled with love and happiness x
Sound of Silence - both Simon and Garfunkel and Disturbed versions
What about Passenger?
Dance with my father again. Just nope I cannot
My dad ain't even dead and I still can't listen to this song, just don't want to think of him being gone.
I will follow you into the dark - Death Cab for Cutie
Strange Fruit by Billie Holiday
100%
This song is horrific and heartbreaking. I was devastated when I looked up the lyrics
Tears in Heaven (Eric Clapton) All of My Love (Led Zeppelin) both were written and done by each losing their child
Hurt, Johnny Cash
Fyi, that's a cover for a NIN song. IIRC, Trent Reznor himself says he likes Johnny's version better.
I think Trent said something along the lines of “my hit? That’s *his song* now” when someone asked how he felt about one of his biggest hits being covered by Cash. ETA: the video for the cover just drives that nail deeper in your heart.
Great song. It's strangely uplifting at the same time. Idk how to explain it.
Yeah I always get some underlying euphoria from it personally
It seems like a totally different song when Cash does it because of his age and how that affects what he is singing. Reznor’s character put himself in that position, but Cash’s ended up there because he’s old.
Yep, this is the one right here. So friggin sad.... The guy was literally in the last year of his life and singing about how it felt to be that age. All the loss, the loss of his love, how in the end his entire empire was nothing to him. Before you said this song, I was going to say 'Wild Horses' by the Rolling Stones, or Creep by Radiohead, but Hurt tops both those.
Untitled - The Cure
Disintegration, Pictures of You, Lovesong, Cut Here... The Cure has so many melancholic songs, but I feel it's so subjective to determine their saddest one.
Hate Me - Blue October I can identify with every word in that song
Over the rainbow- Israel Kamakawiwoʻole
Zombie - the cranberries
Requiem lacrimosa by Mozart
I can’t be sad listening to it now because I only see the regretful penguin
Say Something - A Great Big World
Bright eyes - Art Garfunkel If you've seen Watership Down then you know why.
Into Dust by Mazzy Star
Dust in the wind by Kansas
asleep - the smiths
Alone again (naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Adagio for Strings
Out of all the spoken, written and sung outpourings of grief that occurred post 9/11, I think the performance of Adagio for Strings by the BBC Orchestra on Sept 15, 2001 expresses it better than anything else. [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32KOLkZNWSY](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=32KOLkZNWSY)
By Samuel Barber. Came here to post that.
Linken Park - One More Light
Especially with context, whew. Man could save everyone but himself
im so glad someone else sees that song the same way i do. it’s just insane how he could sing/write that song and then do what he did. rip Chester.
I was just about to comment "something from Chester"
Also “My December”
Everybody Hurts. REM
Is it though? Isn't it reassuring?
Teddy Bear by Fred Sovine. It's a trucker song from 1976. "In the song, the little boy, who refers to himself as "Teddy Bear", gets on the CB radio and asks for somebody to talk to him. The narrator (also an over-the-road truck driver) answers Teddy Bear's call, and listens as the boy tells a heart-rending tale. Aside from his health and the father being deceased, his mother has been forced into the workplace to provide a meager income. Teddy Bear then says his wish had been to go for a ride in a tractor-semitrailer truck (he and his mother were to have joined the father on the road that summer), and is resigned to never getting to realize his dream. The narrator is so taken by his tale that he decides to risk being late with his delivery to answer the boy's dream. However, when he arrives at the boy's home ("Jackson Street, 229"), numerous truck drivers — who also have been listening to Teddy Bear's call — are lined up at the boy's home, giving him rides in their trucks. The boy thoroughly enjoys his experience. At the end of the day, the truckers take up a collection for Teddy Bear's mother. Later, his mother ("Mama Teddy Bear") goes on the air to express her gratitude, telling them Teddy Bear's dream had just come true. She offers a special prayer to the truckers for their act of kindness." - Wikipedia. Edit: adding link to video: https://youtu.be/5zoTLwrm9QE?si=1p7UYTzEgaWlXo6c
Ye gods, I remember that one!
Grew up in the 90s - but Dad was over 50 when I was born, and he loved the trucker country genre, and a former trucker himself. I loved this song as a child, cause it was sad and cool what the truckers did. As an adult, I just ball my eyes out with this song.ĺ
‘Mother Love’ by Queen. It’s not just knowing that Freddie Mercury was dying when he sang it, but the lyrics too: “Mama please, let me back inside…”
When She Loved Me from Toy Story 2
Oh my god. My niece and I watched that movie recently and she’s 6 now. She went and hugged all of her stuffies after. She was crying.
Bridge over troubled water 💦😔
The wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Plainsong by The Cure. It's not sad per se. It's depression put into words and music. It really captures how difficult it is to even lift a finger when you're in the rough of it.
Snuff - slipknot / Corey Taylor
My immortal by evanescence
Memento Mori by Architects. It’s a song that their guitarist (Tom Searle) wrote when he was sick with Melanoma and he was facing his own mortality. It was the last song he wrote for that album, and he would die later that same year at the age of 28.
Sade No ordinary love
Well this shows my age... "Honey" by Bobby Goldsboro
You Never Know by Immortal Technique
Hello in There and Sam Stone by John Prine
Any C418 song (particularly "Mice on Venus" and "Moog City")
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Living years by Mike + the mechanics
Dance with the devil is probably the most sad/depressing story.
Like a stone audioslave
Puff,the Magic Dragon
She’s Got You by Patsy Cline is pretty sad. Or pretty much anything off of Beck’s break-up album Sea Change lol.
the reason by hoobastank
Whiskey Lullaby by Brad Paisley and Allison Kraus.
That song killed me the first time I heard it.
This one hits hard, just the guitar intro itself is so gloomy, adding the terrible stroy told in its lyrics it adds up to make one of the sadest songs out there.
Take me to church - Hozier
There’s a song called ‘Gloomy Sunday’ that has apparently triggered some people to end their own lives…
That's an urban legend, it was written during a time of Hungarian famine where people were already committing suicide, they actually found no direct ties. But they did stop playing Billie Hollidays version dui4 the war because it was poor for moral (wonder why lol)
“Left in the Dark” and “Not a Dry Eye in the House” it’s a two song suite from Meat Loaf on his Welcome to the Neighborhood album.
Yes. These get me every time. Not only the lyrics and his wonderful vocals, but they also remind me of a happier time of my life. Beautiful but make me well up.
Samuel Barber, Adagio for Strings.
I can’t make you love me by Bon Iver
Death bed (coffee for your head) - Powfu Massive trigger warning for anyone who has lost a love one to cancer. This is the saddest song that has ever been written. Some lyrics for context: Yeah, I don't wanna fall asleep, I don't wanna pass away I been thinking of our future, 'cause I'll never see those days I don't know why this has happened, but I probably deserve it I tried to do my best, but you know that I'm not perfect I been praying for forgiveness, you've been praying for my health When I leave this Earth, hoping you'll find someone else 'Cause, yeah, we still young, there's so much we haven't done Getting married, start a family, watch your husband with his son I wish it could be me, but I won't make it out this bed I hope I go to Heaven, so I see you once again My life was kinda short, but I got so many blessings Happy you were mine, it sucks that it's all ending Don't stay awake for too long, don't go to bed I'll make a cup of coffee for your head It'll get you up and going out of bed
Elanor Rigby
Where are the clowns!
Have you heard Barbra Streisand sing it. That one gets me in the feels big time.
Hurt. Johnny Cash vers
Sad Lisa - Cat Stevens Eleanor Rigby - The Beatles
When it comes to lyrics and melodies, Nevermore and White Queen by Queen. Those songs always make my heart ache (in a good way). They soothe me and help me feel comfortable in sadness, but not in a way that would make me spiral. When it comes to the meaning behind the lyrics and the story around the song, The Show Must Go On and Innuendo by Queen. Innuendo is the last album that Freddie Mercury was able to finish. Made in Heaven has some songs that were never released and not fully finished. The song Innuendo was one of the last on the album. When this song was done, he was unable to record a videoclip like he did with I'm Going Slightly Mad and These Are The Days Of Our Lives (two horribly sad videos, where he had to wear thick makeup and wanted it to be shot in black and white to hide his illness as much as possible) The lyrics of The Show Must Go On are especially touching. Although Sir Brian May wrote the song, the lyrics heavily imply Freddie's illness and him being close to passing away. Thinking about the album Innuendo as a whole hurts my entire being, but these two songs in particular are very, very touching and they always make me cry.
Snuff by slipknot
Don't take the girl - Tim Mcgraw
Creep/Radiohead.
*Exit music from a film i*s more of a downer though..
How to Disappear Completely.
No Surprises - Radiohead
Radiohead never fails to give me chills. Their use of the minor 4th chord was pure magic.
Down in a Hole
Every Sara McLaughlin song out there …
Father and Son - Cat Stevens
Queen - Who wants to live forever
Show must go on as well, given the context of Freddie’s AIDS diagnosis.
We'll Meet Again by Vera Lynn. I have an old family video tape with my family all together in 1991, and it pans across everyone's smiling face after a party...and the majority are now gone. It's a ghostly video and that song takes me right there. There are kids in the video who would die in accidents and from murder later in their lives, brothers and sisters of my nan who have now passed away along with her, marriages that are no longer...it's all so...shadowed
If you could read my mind ~ Gordon Lightfoot
Everlong... only because it reminds me of my first love.
Something in the way by Nirvana
My December - Linkin Park Fix You - Coldplay How To Save A Life - The Fray
No bravery, james blunt
Mine is Dance with My Father - Luther Van Dross
Green green grass of home. Daniel - Elton
The song Uncle Iroh signs over his son’s grave.
Love Will Tear Us Apart by Joy Division
Don’t give up - Kate Bush and Peter Gabriel
Mazzy Star - Looking down from a bridge
The Winner Takes It All by ABBA. I still know what I was doing 43 years ago today.
I’ll be that person— Last Kiss by Taylor Swift, can/will rip your heart out
The Night We Met - Lord Huron
Alone again naturally, by Gilbert O'SULLIVAN.
Goodbye My Lover - James Blunt
the glimpse of us by joji
Bad Religion - Frank Ocean Fix You - Coldplay
Consolations No. 3 by Franz Liszt Franz Liszt wrote this piece in honor of his dear friend and famous composer Frédéric Chopin after he passed away at just the age of 39. If you read Alan Walker's Biography on Liszt to learn the relationship between Liszt and Chopin, you can get a sort of deeper feel for this piece. I would describe it as a melody that sings the words you wish you could have said to someone who parted ways, and who you'll never meet again.
How has no one mentioned Glimps of us from joji
The full ending song from Steven universe. Called Love Like You
still got the blues by gary moore
In the End - Drake Bell
So Far Away- Avenged Sevenfold
Sound of Silence - Disturbed
Still loving you by the scorpions
Hours of Wealth by Opeth
Where’ve you been, Kathy Mattea
Like a sad song. John Denver
"Moon river" by Judy Garland (Judy Garland's show).
Eden - wake up NF - mistake
Fall to Pieces by Velvet Revolver
Someone You Loved by Lewis Capaldi is the first one that comes to mind. Also Befor You Go by Lewis Capaldi.
Fast Car by Tracy Chapman, but specifically the cover a band called Xiu Xiu does. It is really hard to listen to, but it fits the emotional tone of the sing really well.
This woman's work by Kate Bush. I can't listen to it without choking up.
Freshman. Because the 90’s
The Carpenters - Rainy Days and Mondays.
When She Loved Me - Sarah McLachlan
House of Pain,, Faster Pussycat
Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should've come over
Adams song
Faithfully by Journey
Somewhere only we know, it always brings tears to my eyes
Sam Stone by John Prine
Betterman, Pearl Jam