I want the saddest songs ever. Real sad. Like cry with snot bubbles as you bury your face in your own lap sad. Not emo crap either. Arwon, myself, and my friend reilly discussed this last night. We came up with:
Jeff Buckley- Hallelujah
Bruce Springsteen- the River
Billie Holliday- Gloomy Sunday (I feel this is the winner. Suicidal sad)
Clapton- Tears in Heaven
give me some more. real sad stuff.
You're the Inspiration.
A Silver Mt. Zion - For Wanda
Can't think of any else right now.
david sylvian, ryuichi sakamoto, amadeo pace, keigo oyamada & sketch show - world citizen/i won't be disappointed
ryuichi sakamoto, jaques morelenbaum & everton nelson/gustavo santaolalla - bibo no aozora/endless flight/babel
both are off of the ****ing phenomenal Babel soundtrack.
John Lennon-Imagine
The Last Kiss- by J. Frank Wilson. I was bawling.
Concrete Angel- By Martina McBride
***'s Will- Martina McBride
***Edit:
I will follow you into the dark- By Death Cab for Cutie. Never have I heard a song that got me thinking more of my own mortality. Sad.
Boris & Sunn - The Sinking Belle
Gary Jules - Mad World (obligatory. original version is too upbeat)
Green Carnation - Child's Play
Katatonia - Evidence
Pain of Salvation - Vocari Dei (if you disagree with this, you are INHUMAN.)
Ulver - Darling Didn't We Kill You?
how I forgot Elliot Smith's Fond Farewell is beyond me. I'm commencing downloading of previously mentioned songs now
hhaha hilarious!!!
I'd say Iter Impius by Pain of Salvation... where he wakes up and finds the world's pretty much screwed.
oh, and Tori Amos - Me And A Gun. Not entirely sad, but you just can't do anything else when you're listening to it.
The two aforementioned Pain of Salvation tracks are all I can really think of. Especially Vocari Dei.
Anything off of Maaaet by Tenhi.
"Faiblesse Des Sens" by Amesoeurs.
Johnny Cash's "Hurt" and Yo-Yo Ma's "Soledad" do it for me.
Amazing Grace.
Untitled 1 by Sigur Ros.
Terrapin by Syd Barrett.
It just sounds really sad.
"How Can I Go On?" by Freddie Mercury & Montserrat Caball
Desire - Locus Horrendus - The Night Cries of a Sullen Soul.
The whole album.
"Are We Lost" by In Gowan Ring. The lyrics themselves aren't too sad, but the music itself is depressive enough and B'Eirth has an incredibly sad tone to his voice by the end of the song, bordering on crying. Probably one of my favourite folk songs.
deep, depressing lyrics by one Bob Dylan:
Darkness at the break of noon
Shadows even the silver spoon
The handmade blade, the child's balloon
Eclipses both the sun and moon
To understand you know too soon
There is no sense in trying.
Pointed threats, they bluff with scorn
Suicide remarks are torn
From the fool's gold mouthpiece
The hollow horn plays wasted words
Proves to warn
That he not busy being born
Is busy dying.
Temptation's page flies out the door
You follow, find yourself at war
Watch waterfalls of pity roar
You feel to moan but unlike before
You discover
That you'd just be
One more person crying.
So don't fear if you hear
A foreign sound to your ear
It's alright, Ma, I'm only sighing.
As some warn victory, some downfall
Private reasons great or small
Can be seen in the eyes of those that call
To make all that should be killed to crawl
While others say don't hate nothing at all
Except hatred.
Disillusioned words like bullets bark
As human ***s aim for their mark
Made everything from toy guns that spark
To flesh-colored Christs that glow in the dark
It's easy to see without looking too far
That not much
Is really sacred.
While preachers preach of evil fates
Teachers teach that knowledge waits
Can lead to hundred-dollar plates
Goodness hides behind its gates
But even the president of the United States
Sometimes must have
To stand naked.
An' though the rules of the road have been lodged
It's only people's games that you got to dodge
And it's alright, Ma, I can make it.
Advertising signs that con you
Into thinking you're the one
That can do what's never been done
That can win what's never been won
Meantime life outside goes on
All around you.
You lose yourself, you reappear
You suddenly find you got nothing to fear
Alone you stand with nobody near
When a trembling distant voice, unclear
Startles your sleeping ears to hear
That somebody thinks
They really found you.
A question in your nerves is lit
Yet you know there is no answer fit to satisfy
Insure you not to quit
To keep it in your mind and not fergit
That it is not he or she or them or it
That you belong to.
Although the masters make the rules
For the wise men and the fools
I got nothing, Ma, to live up to.
For them that must obey authority
That they do not respect in any degree
Who despise their jobs, their destinies
Speak jealously of them that are free
Cultivate their flowers to be
Nothing more than something
They invest in.
While some on principles baptized
To strict party platform ties
Social clubs in drag disguise
Outsiders they can freely criticize
Tell nothing except who to idolize
And then say *** bless him.
While one who sings with his tongue on fire
Gargles in the rat race choir
Bent out of shape from society's pliers
Cares not to come up any higher
But rather get you down in the hole
That he's in.
But I mean no harm nor put fault
On anyone that lives in a vault
But it's alright, Ma, if I can't please him.
Old lady judges watch people in pairs
Limited in sex, they dare
To push fake morals, insult and stare
While money doesn't talk, it swears
Obscenity, who really cares
Propaganda, all is phony.
While them that defend what they cannot see
With a killer's pride, security
It blows the minds most bitterly
For them that think death's honesty
Won't fall upon them naturally
Life sometimes
Must get lonely.
My eyes collide head-on with stuffed graveyards
False ***s, I scuff
At pettiness which plays so rough
Walk upside-down inside handcuffs
Kick my legs to crash it off
Say okay, I have had enough
What else can you show me?
And if my thought-dreams could be seen
They'd probably put my head in a guillotine
But it's alright, Ma, it's life, and life only.
What Dylan song is that? I need more...
oh yeah, and add to the list John Wayne Gacy, Jr. by Sufjan Stevens. One of the few poignant songs written about serial killers.
My biggest one is "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" by Gordon Lightfoot, namely this part:
"Does any one know where the love of god goes
when the waves turn the minutes to hours?
The searchers all say they'd have made Whitefish Bay
if they'd put fifteen more miles behind 'er.
They might have split up or they might have capsized;
they may have broke deep and took water.
And all that remains is the faces and the names
of the wives and the sons and the daughters."
Also:
"To Bid You Farewell" - Opeth
Anathema's entire Judgement album (A Natural Disaster has its parts too)
"Alone" - Forgotten Tomb
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Haha, man. Lightfoot is awesome. Well played, sir.
http://youtube.com/watch?v=ArSBi7An3Jk
Thrice - "A Song For Milly Michaelson"
pretty ****ing heartfelt