[DavidMahler]

Mahler's 9th Symphony is the saddest work ever written. I've read that people have committed suicide after hearing it.....maybe that's just a myth, but I know that it moves me more than any other piece. Theres a book written by the name of something like "Thoughts while Listening to Mahler's 9th Symphony" and its about the way human psyche is affected by that particular work. Its extreme!

 

[joe_cool]

I have to vote for "You're A Big Girl Now" by Bob Dylan (Blood On The Tracks) an album recorded after the breakup of his marriage in 1974.

 

[corrosive_nf]

Depeche Mode - Blasphemous Rumours

Girl of 16
Whole life ahead of her
Slashed her wrists
Bored with life
Didn't succeed
Thank the lord
For small mercies

Fighting back the tears
Mother reads the note again
16 candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame
It's always the same
She goes down on her knees
And prays

I don't want to start
Any blasphemous rumours
But I think that God's
Got a sick sense of humour
And when I die
I expect to find Him laughing

Girl of 18
Fell in love with everything
Found new life
In Jesus Christ
Hit by a car
Ended up
On a life support machine

Summer's day
As she passed away
Birds were singing
In the summer sky
Then came the rain
And once again
A tear fell
From her mother's eye

 

[Zarathustra19]

Funeral - Architecture of Loss

A few days have passed since I heard the word
There is not much time left for me in this world
I try to be strong so I put on this mask
Yet the burden of death is a heavy task
About to lose my everything
Cancellation of my future dreams
So I have written my testament
My desire to live it screams
I received my death sentence
From a friendly man in white
The being that is my essence
Soon to fade into the night
When you go out of town do you ever think of me
The poison you put in your veins might make you share my fate
I am so scared that I am shaking all day long
Answer to the great mystery, most likely I'll be gone
The doctors are kind but unable to help
As the panic grows I reflect on the self
Will I remain beyond or will I be reborn
For what is not longer should never be mourned
As darkness and light collide I finally understand
Atheism and faith unite as nature lets go of my mind
As I let go to never ever again be here
Passing into the heavenly void, never again to be scared

 

[FaLLeNAn9eL]

Mariah Carey (Feat. Boys II Men) - One Sweet Day

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away, so far away

Never had I imagined
living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive, alive

And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together (Together)
One sweet day (And all that I know and I'll wait patiently to see you in Heaven)

Darlin', I never showed you (No, no, no, no, no, no) {I never showed you}
Assumed you'd always be there (mariah: always be there,) no,no, {I thought you'd always be there}
and I took your presence for granted
But I always cared (But I always cared) and I miss the love we shared

And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way (Lost along the way)
And I know eventually we'll be together (I know, I know)
One sweet day (And all thatI know is I'll wait patiently to see you in Heaven)

Although the sun will never shine the same
I'll always look to a brighter day
Yeah, yeah
Lord, I know when I lay me down to sleep
You will always listen as I pray

And I know you're shining down on me from heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way (Like so many)
And I know eventually we'll be together (Yes, I know, I know we'll be together)
One sweet day

And I know you're shining down on me from heaven (I'll see you eventually)
Like so many friends we've lost along the way (I know you're lookin' for a heaven)
And I know eventually we'll be together (Yes, we will)
One sweet day (One sweet day, whoa...)

patiently to see you in Heaven

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say

 

[snowcrashed]

Neva Dinova - At least the pain is real
Modest Mouse - She ionizes & Atomizes
Death Cab for Cutie - A Lack of Color
Songs: Ohia - Long Desert Train

 

[RobR]

easy question
Tom Waits - Kentucky Avenue
listen and weep

 

[tstarn06]

Varying degrees of sadness

In the Wee Small Hours of the Morning-Sinatra
Kick in the Head - Loudon Wainwright III
Speed of the Sound of Lonliness - Nancy Griffith
Unhappy Anniversary - Loudon Wainwright III
Much at All - Susan Werner
All You Ever Do is Bring Me Down - The Mavericks
Good Morning, Heartache - Billie Holliday

 

[MrD3i2]

Peter Gabriel has tons :

Red Rain
Mercy Street
Biko
Dont Give Up
I Grieve

 

[Audio Jester]

Everybody Hurts - REM
Brick - Ben Folds Five
World Citizen - Ryuichi Sakamoto
Blue - Yoko Kanno
Beauty is Within Us - Yoko Kanno
Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
Fire and Rain - James Taylor

 

[bigjim82]

Country Death Song - Violent Femmes

 

[unkle11]

this may sound strange but one of the saddest images in my head is from some movie i saw long ago where this guy with tears in his eyes after something pretty bad has happened to him races off a cliff in his car to Bay City Rollers' Bye Bye Baby, i mean you really have to see it, so now i feel pretty sad when i hear that song anyone know the movie i'm talking about? wish i could remember

 

[pickwick]

Heroin - Velvet Underground

 

[DavidMahler]

Here Today - Paul McCartney

 

[Faust2D]

Hammill Peter - This Side Of The Looking Glass

The stars in the heavens still shine
up above me: how lovely they'd seem
if you were with me
but you're gone through the looking-glass
and I am left to pass these nights alone.

I'm lost, I'm dumb, I'm blind,
I am drunk with sadness,
sunk by madness -
the wave overwhelms me,
the mirror repels me,
the echo of your laugh
drifts through the looking-glass
and I am alone.

No friendship no comfort no future no home,
the past lingers with me:
you're all the love I've ever known
without you I'm nothing
but empty and silent,
reflecting on all that I've lost.
I let you slip away so soon.

Can you hear me? This is my song
I am dying; you are gone.

These words are not enough to save my soul,
they just mock me from the mirror..
I'm cold and I'm yearning,
I've told you I'm burning,
my eyes can't stand the light...
like a stray dog in the night
I'll shuffle off alone.

We all make our futures
but I have lost mine;
I'm hoping for a miracle
but finding no sign...

The stars in their constellations,
each one sadly flickers and falls...
without you they mean nothing at all