[mateo05]

Dave Matthews- Grace is Gone
John Williams- Anything Schindler's List and Darth Vader's Death, I think the cue is, from ROTJ

 

[Anders K.]

The Swedish song "I en sal på lasarettet" is about a young girl sick in cancer. Se asks the doctor when she can come home and he looks at her, hiding his sorrow, an says maybe to christmas or if it was summer I don't remember, been a while since I heard it at the radio. The girl never get to come home, she dies in the hospitalbed.
Very sad song

 

[Zanth]

REM's Everybody Hurt's is the saddest song for me by far, though Our Lady Peace's Thief is another that gets to me. It is about a girl who was killed by cancer. Based on a true story...just brutally sad. I love the entire The Bends album by Radiohead. I find it is quite perfect when I am depressed and want to wallow.

 

[bralack42]

John Coltrane & Johnny Hartman doing "Lush Life" to me takes the cake.

Garth Books's "The Dance" is also quite sad.

 

[feverish]

Hmm...
Beatles - A Day In the Life
Radiohead - Ending Music
Bob Dylan - Meet Me in the Morning
Coldplay - The Scientist
Pink Floyd - Wish You Were Here
Phish - Demand
Joy Division - Passover

 

[LargeSock]

Leo Kottke - "Learning the Game"

 

[reeseboisse]

For me, it's almost anything by Elliot Smith.

Quote:

Originally posted by Zanth I love the entire The Bends album by Radiohead. I find it is quite perfect when I am depressed and want to wallow.

Perhaps it's just me, but I find Kid A to be easily the most crushing Radiohead album.

 

[aerius]

R.E.M.'s "Talk About the Passion", especially when viewed with the video. "Sweetness Follows" is also up there, I actually find those songs hard to listen to these days.

"M" and "Eve" by Chantal Kreviazuk, both songs about children who died far too young from terminal diseases. Hearing them performed live just breaks my heart.

 

[sno1man]

It is a more personal answer. The saddest for me because of memories associated with it. Last Goodbye by Jeff Buckley. I bought that CD about the time just before my most painful breakup. I still tear up everytime I hear it. It is a great song though.

In the general just truly sad song category, Downbound Train by Bruce Springsteen. One of the most eloquent verses ever about hitting bottom "now I work down at the carwash, where all it ever does is rain"

 

[Masonjar]

Quote:

Originally posted by ilikemonkeys Goodbye Cruel World - Pink Floyd

nice, but as for Floyd, I'd vote for "The Gunner's Dream"

floating down through the clouds
memories come rushing up to meet me now
in the space between the heavens
and the corner of some foreign field
i had a dream
i had a dream
goodbye max
goodbye ma
after the service when your walking slowly to the car
and the silver in her hair shines in the cold november air
you hear the tolling bell
and touch the silk in your lapel
and as the tear drops rise the meet the comfort of the band
you take her frail hand
and hold on to the dream

a place to stay
enough to eat
somewhere old heroes shuffle safely down the street
where you can speak out loud
about your hopes and fears
and what's more no-one ever disappears
you never hear their standard issue kicking in your door
you can relax on both sides of the tracks
and maniacs don't blow holes in bandsmen by remote control
and everyone has recourse to the law
and no-one kills the children anymore
and no-one kills the children anymore

night after night
going round and round my brain
his dream is driving me insane
in the corner of some foreign field
the gunner sleeps tonight
whats done is done
we cannot just write off his final scene
take heed of his dream
take heed



As long as there is war in the world, these lyrics will remain timeless..

 

[elrod-tom]

The song is "All I Know", sung by Art Garfunkel.

It's about a man who is stuggling to keep what he knows is a failing relationship alive. It is, without a doubt, the saddest song that I have heard. I can't imagine anyone who has ever fought to keep a failing relationship alive because, at the bottom of it all, you're still in love, who would not be moved by it.

I bruise you
You bruise me
We both bruise too easily
Too easily to let it show
I love you and thats all I know

All my plans
Have fallen through
All my plans depend on you
Depend on you to help them grow
I love you and thats all I know

When the singers gone
Let the song go on...

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast
But they pass to slow
I love you and thats all I know

When the singers gone
Let the song go on
Its a fine line between the darkness and the dawn
They say in the darkest night, theres a light beyond

But the ending always comes at last
Endings always come too fast
They come too fast
But they pass to slow
I love you and thats all I know

Thats all I kn--ow
Thats all I kn-------ow...

Mix these lyrics with Art Garfunkel's voice, and you can just imagine...

 

[Masonjar]

"Looking for Space" by John Denver. damn sad song, at least to me.

 

[hottyson]

Quote:

Originally posted by elrod-tom The song is "All I Know", sung by Art Garfunkel. Mix these lyrics with Art Garfunkel's voice, and you can just imagine...

Thanks for the lyrics. You introduced me to a nice song. I just listened to a sample of it.
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/cl...026QS001005/0/

 

[grinch]

Quote:

Originally posted by reeseboisse For me, it's almost anything by Elliot Smith.

w0rd. "2:45am" gets my vote, as far as specifics go.

a few other picks
sunny day real estate - song about an angel
tori amos - winter
nine inch nails - something i can never have (the solo piano version of this is chillingly manic)
sarah mclachlan - possession (solo piano version especially)
radiohead - how i made my millions / true love waits
smashing pumpkins - soma
elton john - candle in the wind (before he re-recorded it for that damn princess)
songs: ohia - the lioness


looking over this list i just typed, i think there must be something wrong with me, as almost all of these are my favorite track by each corresponding artist..

 

[elrod-tom]

Quote:

Originally posted by Masonjar "Looking for Space" by John Denver. damn sad song, at least to me.

You know, I had not heard that song in probably 15 years...it's a good one, and yes, there is something very sad about it.