Which song(s) is the saddest to you?

[Neo-Logic]

I got a couple off the top of my head. These are in no particular order.

• Don't wanna close my eyes - Aerosmith
• Stop crying your heart out - Oasis
• Don't go away - Oasis
• The Masterplan - Oasis
• Trouble - Coldplay
• Beautiful world - Coldplay
• Life is for living - Coldplay
• Midnight train - Journey
• Open arms - Journey

I can't decide which one is the saddest from my list. List your couple of favorite sad songs and we'll try to see who can top the cake. I'm sure we'll be unable to pick just one, so maybe the top 3 - 5 saddest songs?

Ok enough talk, let's get started!

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

When I was a little girl, I used to cry everytime I heard Wildfire. Now there are a couple of Country songs that bring tears to my eyes.

 

[michel]

There are so many, but I suppose, being a romantic, I can never hear 'Candle in the wind' without my eyes watering......

 

[Fluffy]

Her Ghost In The Fog and Thank God For The Suffering are both incredibly well written songs but also manage to make me cry when I listen to them. They are also both by Cradle of Filth if anyone is interested. I think its the combining of an understandable human emotion (revenge in the first, despair in the second), portrayed in such an eloquent way, with the traditional ruined love story theme that manages to make these 2 so sad.

 

[LongGe123]

I have a few, some classical and modern:

"The Moonlight Sonata" - Beethoven
"The Balcony Scene" - Wonderful piano music from the movie "Romeo and Juliet" - it's a popular choice on these new "chill out" CDs
"Into the West" - Annie Lennox (From Lord of the Rings)
"Watermark" - Enya
"The First Time I Ever Saw Your Face" - Don't know who sings it
"Barber's Adagio for Strings" - very very moving song when you're in the right mindset
"The Blood Donor" - fromt the TV advert but I have the full version - very moving
"Panis Angelicus" - Possibly the most beautiful choral song in the world. very short and simple (in latin)

I have just one or two others, but these are all Chinese songs. When I listen to these songs now I always cry because I keep remembering how I have to leave my students behind. Do you have those songs that you listen to and you replay moments in your mind, you see people's faces, smiles, frowns, and it all just plays in slow motion in your mind. These songs do that to me, and I think of my classes and my precious moments with my students:

Tong Hua (Fairy Tale) - by Guang Liang
Tian Tang (Heaven) - Guang Liang
Ai Sheng Wei Lai De Ni (I will Love you in the Future) - Pan Wei Bo
Wo bu Pa (I am not afraid) - Pan Wei Bo
Kiss Night - Pan Wei Bo
Take Me To Your Heart - Michael Learns to Rock - not Chinese I know but it's still really popular over here.

 

[Jayhawker Soule]

Empty Chairs At Empty Tables

by Unknown

There's a grief that can't be spoken,
There's a pain goes on and on.
Empty chairs at empty tables,
now my friends are dead and gone.

Here they talked of revolution,
here it was they lit the flame,
here they sang about tomorrow
and tomorrow never came.

From the table in the corner,
They could see a world reborn,
And they rose with voices ringing,
And I can hear them now;
The very words that they had sung
Became their last communion
On the lonely barricade, at dawn.

Oh my friends, my friends forgive me
That I live and you are gone
There's a grief that can't be spoken,
There's a pain goes on and on...

Phantom faces at the window,
Phantom shadows on the floor,
Empty chairs at empty tables
where my friends will meet nomore.

Oh my friends, my friends don't ask me
what your sacrifice was for
Empty chairs at empty tables
Where my friend will sing no more.

Les Miserables​

Few songs capture so poignantly the pain of having fought for a just cause and lost, nor the agony of survivors guilt.

 

[Kowalski]

Well, ' Big City Life' by Mattafix chokes me...Released in the UK, 8th August 2005.

Cheers

K

 

[Yerda]

Joey Cape's acoustic version of 'Wind in Your Sails' is very touching. I've never heard anyone make dark and bitter resentment sound so beautiful. The melody is cheerless and the lyrics very sour, it sounds quite desperate. Cape's voice is extraordinary.

Lagwagon fans can hear the song on the 'Let's Talk About Leftovers' record, but you have to get the Joey Cape - Tony Sly split record to hear the acoustic mix.

A section of the lyrics:

I live to watch you fail, I live to watch you fail,
I am the wind in your sail.
I wish you the worst dear, to feel the greatest pain
'cause i'm right here, to retrieve all you stole,
every tear, and everything you own.

I wish you hours of madness,
years of dysfunction,
the deepest embitterment
no will to trust anyone
this is how I lived,
this is how you left me blue as I crawled back to you​

 

[Shadow Wolf]

The saddest song I've ever heard is Korn's Pretty. What makes it sad, is it really happened.

It's a story about this little girl that came into the coroner's office when I was working there and she was [raped] by her [drunk] dad. She was an 11 month old little baby girl. Her legs were broken back behind her and he just [raped] her like a toy doll and chucked her in the bathroom. It was the most heinous thing I've ever seen in my life and I still have nightmares about it.

That was from an interview with Jonathan Davis, Korn's lead singer. Had to clean that up a bit though. Thier song Daddy is also a sad song.

"People think Daddy was written because my dad [raped] me up the [butt], but that's not what the song is about. It wasn't about my dad or my mom. When I was a kid I was being abused by someone else and I went to my parents and told them about it. They thought I was lying and joking around, so they never did [anything] about it. They didn't believe it was happening to their son. I don't like to talk about that song, this is the most I've ever talked about it"

 

[Ceridwen018]

Travelin' Soldier by the Dixie Chicks

 

[QTpi]

There are a lot of sad songs, but one that comes to mind is "Dance With My Father Again" by Luther Vandross.

 

[EnhancedSpirit]

Love without End George Straight

I got sent home from school one day with a shiner on my eye.
Fightin' was against the rules and it didn't matter why.
When dad got home I told that story just like I'd rehearsed.
And then stood there on those tremblin' knees and waited for the worst.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

When I became a father in the spring of '81
There was no doubt that stubborn boy was just like my father's son.
And when I thought my patience had been tested to the end,
I took my daddy's secret and I passed it on to him.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates.
When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.
If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.
And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

Last night I dreamed I died and stood outside those pearly gates.
When suddenly I realized there must be some mistake.
If they know half the things I've done, they'll never let me in.
And then somewhere from the other side I heard these words again.

And he said, "Let me tell you a secret about a father's love,
A secret that my daddy said was just between us."
He said, "Daddies don't just love their children every now and then.
It's a love without end, amen, it's a love without end, amen."

 

[Katzpur]

"The Moonlight Sonata" - Beethoven
"Barber's Adagio for Strings"
"Panis Angelicus"

Those are some of my favorites, too. I'd also add Pachelbel's Canon in D.

 

[Crystallas]

Radiohead - Creep