Sad Songs

[may2]

For the Good Times by Ray Price written by Kris Kristofferson.

[Ella]

For no one by Emmylou Harris, written John and Paul. Plus Emmylou rocks the silver hair!!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=G7aIB7sFVdc

[dwanollah]

I had the TV on in the background while I was fixing dinner, and it was a special on the Boston Pops. Two seconds of a classical piece and I was goosebumpy, scared and in tears, before I even knew it was the music from "Schindler's List." Banal? Yeah. But... damn.

[FotoStoreSheila]

"Fragile"- Sting

This song makes me want to lay down and cry whenever I hear it, as does 'Stormy Weather' (Billie Holiday or Etta James version).

A lot of Dolly Parton's songs just bum me out and yet I keep listening to them.
'Carroll County Accident'
'Just Because I'm a Woman'
'Coat of Many Colors'
'In the Ghetto'
'Daddy'

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the music from "Schindler's List."

This always gets to me. Always. The most beautiful music I've heard.

[lolad]

I just heard the Band of Horses song "Evening Kitchen" for the 1st time, and sweet jeebus, that song is painful. Here's a sample:

Got lost in the places I've been
I should go out with my friends
I'd go tonight but I know you'll be there too, there too

For me, this bottle of wine
Is to slow down my mind
And forget the things that I knew, I knew

And if you're ever left with any doubt
What you live with and what you'll do without
I'm only sorry that it took so long to figure out

It reminds me of how I felt when I was going through my divorce.
Sorry....there's something in my eye.

[divasahm]

"I Dreamed A Dream" from Les Miserables. Gorgeous song, utterly depressing lyrics:

There was a time when men were kind
When their voices were soft
And their words inviting
There was a time when love was blind
And the world was a song
And the song was exciting
There was a time
Then it all went wrong

I dreamed a dream in time gone by
When hope was high
And life worth living
I dreamed that love would never die
I dreamed that God would be forgiving
Then I was young and unafraid
And dreams were made and used and wasted
There was no ransom to be paid
No song unsung, no wine untasted

But the tigers come at night
With their voices soft as thunder
As they tear your hope apart
And they turn your dream to shame

He slept a summer by my side
He filled my days with endless wonder
He took my childhood in his stride
But he was gone when autumn came

And still I dream he'll come to me
That we will live the years together
But there are dreams that cannot be
And there are storms we cannot weather

I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed

And if you REALLY want to cry, listen to the Glee rendition with Lea Michele and Idina Menzel as daughter and mother who gave her up for adoption at birth--I can't listen to it while I'm driving because I'm afraid I'll wreck the car.

[Sunbaby]

There are a few U2 songs that make me cry: Kite and Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, both written about Bono's father. Then there's One and With or Without You, about fragile/broken relationships.

It was mentioned in this thread previously, but Tears in Heaven leaves me so emotional that I can't even listen to the song straight through. Don't Give Up by Peter Gabriel also brings on the tears.

[NappingAthena]

Jan 23, 2012 14:43:26 GMT -4 Sunbaby said:

There are a few U2 songs that make me cry: Kite and Sometimes You Can't Make it on Your Own, both written about Bono's father. Then there's One and With or Without You, about fragile/broken relationships.

Kite gets me so emotional every time I listen to it I shake a little bit. When Bono sings "This is not goodbye" I just lose it. I love "Sometimes you can't make it on your own" too. I'm a daddy's girl, so and songs about dad's get me.

Mine? "Sand and Water" by Beth Neilson Chapman, "This Woman's work" by Kate Bush, and the saddest song ever "He Stopped Loving Her Today" by George Jones.

[Alexis Machine]

Has anyone mentioned Patches by Clarence Carter? It's a depressing song about a dad dying and leaving his oldest son with the heavy burden of providing for his family. Anytime the song comes on the radio, I have to change the station before it gets to the first chorus.


I was born and raised down in Alabama on a farm way back up in the woods. Oh
I was so ragged folks used to call me "Patches". Papa used to tease me about
it, but deep down inside dad was hurtin' 'cause he'd done the best he could.

My papa was a great old man
I can see him with a shovel in his hand
Education that he never had
But he did wonders when the times got bad
The little money from the crops we raised
Barely paid the bills we made

Oh life whipped him
Down to the ground
When he tried to get up
Life would kick him back down
On the day papa called me
To his dyin' bed
Placed his hand on my shoulders
And in tears he said

Patches
I'm depending on you, son
To pull the family through
My son, it's all left up to you