Sad songs

[scotzoidman]

I was perusing another adult, but non-sexual forum a few minutes ago, & found a thread I wanted to post to. When I found that a permanent membership to that forum would cost me $$$ (after a month free), I said fuckit, I'll just start my own here...all of which is just my long-winded roundabout way of saying I stole this from another forum (shhh, don't tell the net police).

The question is, what songs strike you as so sad as to make you weep or choke up by the final chorus? May I add, embarrassingly sad, no matter if the song be hokey or sappy to everybody else, but you're sitting there thinking, don't make me cry here in front of God & everybody...

My weepy sad song is Long Long Time (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0qm8nq8RcA&feature=related) by (a very young) Linda Ronstadt, her first solo release, I believe...man, before she gets thru the first verse I'm swallowing hard, & about midway thru I look like allergy eyes. Yeh, I know, pretty sappy, wanna step outside & talk it over on the pavement?

So what's your embarrassingly sad song?

[FlirtWithMe]

Are we limited to one song? I can think of a ton of songs that make me cry so I might need to reply more than once :nod: They're not all 'officially' sad songs, but some songs just move me to tears. I'm quite often a blubbering wreck, it doesn't take much to make me cry!

Three I can think of off the top of my head are:

Theme tune to The Littlest Hobo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PINxfouNQFw) :o :o

Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2SJ6ngRBWQ)

Against All Odds - Phil Collins (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sjt0av-GWak)

This one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ym4HGUDbKbY) is a beautiful song, sends shivers down my spine and I have been known to shed a tear or two over it in the past :o

[Eros]

I've heard a few covers of this song recently and fell in love with the lyrics.

Bob Marley~Redemption Song

Old pirates, yes, they rob i;
Sold I to the merchant ships,
Minutes after they took i
From the bottomless pit.
But my hand was made strong
By the and of the almighty.
We forward in this generation
Triumphantly.
Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.

Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our minds.
Have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them can stop the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look? ooh!
Some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.

Wont you help to sing
These songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever have:
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs;
Redemption songs.
---
/guitar break/
---
Emancipate yourselves from mental slavery;
None but ourselves can free our mind.
Wo! have no fear for atomic energy,
cause none of them-a can-a stop-a the time.
How long shall they kill our prophets,
While we stand aside and look?
Yes, some say its just a part of it:
Weve got to fulfil de book.
Wont you help to sing
Dese songs of freedom? -
cause all I ever had:
Redemption songs -
All I ever had:
Redemption songs:
These songs of freedom,
Songs of freedom.

[scotzoidman]

Are we limited to one song? I can think of a ton of songs that make me cry so I might need to reply more than once :nod: They're not all 'officially' sad songs, but some songs just move me to tears. I'm quite often a blubbering wreck, it doesn't take much to make me cry!

No limits on number of songs, no limits on how many posts it takes to get all your tearjerkers on. I wouldn't mind a bit if this goes on for a long long time :D

While reading the "other" forum, I couldn't think of any songs that choke me up...then someone linked to another Ronstadt song, & suddenly I remembered my song! So whatever it takes, however long it takes, don't matter to me...

[FlirtWithMe]

No limits on number of songs, no limits on how many posts it takes to get all your tearjerkers on. I wouldn't mind a bit if this goes on for a long long time :DWell I think I'll be a regular here, thanks for posting it, great idea for a thread, nicked from elsewhere or not :thumb:

[Lilith]

This song has a personal connotation for me because it reminds me sooooooooooooo much of someone I lost. I used to just blubber bawl when it first came out.
Dashboard Confessional -Vindicated

Hope dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption
Winding in and winding out
The shine of which has caught my eye

And roped me in
So mesmerizing, so hypnotizing
I am captivated

I am Vindicated
I am selfish
I am wrong
I am right
I swear I'm right
I swear I knew it all along

And I am flawed
But I am cleaning up so well
I am seeing in me now the things you swore you saw yourself

So clear
Like the diamond in your ring
Cut to mirror your intentions
Oversized and overwhelmed
The shine of which has caught my eye
And rendered me so isolated, so motivated
I am certain now that

So turn
Up the corners of your lips
Part them and feel my finger tips
Trace the moment, fall forever
Defense is paper thin
Just one touch and I'd be in
Too deep now to ever swim against the current
So let me slip away
So let me slip against the current
and let me slip away

Slight hope
It dangles on a string
Like slow spinning redemption...

[Lilith]

This song was a song he had introduced me to. Later when Melissa Etheridge covered it and did that cool football video I'd bawl if I tried to sing along.

I
Played the fool today
And I
Can see us vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
And I can't ask for things to be still again
No I can't ask for you
To offer the world through your eyes
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
My window through which
Nothing hides
And everything sings
I'm counting the signs
And cursing the miles in between
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
That I buried in you
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe
When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe


Greenwheel- Breathe

[Oldfart]

The song which brings a tear no matter how hard you try not to, even though it's the schlockiest thing in the universe, is "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough.

The saddest song I know is "Rainbow Connection" when you actually listen to the words.

[Lilith]

When it was sung at Jim Henson's funeral I was so torn up.

[jseal]

Gorecki Symphony #3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ymuF7uG6wis&feature=related)

[FlirtWithMe]

A couple that I'd not heard for years before today but always had me in tears in my younger days:

Paper Lace: Billy Don't Be A Hero (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDq_xJlF0TE)

Ray Peterson: Tell Laura I Love Her (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7DwRRk6Fjc)

Take That: Babe (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vIFuo6S6oYo)

[Lilith]

^^^ definite oldy goldies

[Aqua]

Well, Swan Dive by Ani Difranco will always get me, just because of the way it is done.

100 years by Five for Fighting has a couple different meanings for me and brings the tears on.

Tiny Dancer by Elton... *sigh*

Dammit. I'm almost in tears just thinking about them.

[citrus]

Sad song? Probably not, unless you know or knew someone who went there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94

[scotzoidman]

LOL, that ^^^ song came up at the "other" forum, when one poster said it always made him cry...not because it was so sad, but it was just so bad...

But, hey, I asked for your sad songs, for whatever reasons or whatever seasons...& I certainly understand that you may have personal memories that evoke certain reactions...

Anybody else?

[scotzoidman]

I noticed, after I posted it, that the link I listed was a truncated version, with the whole of the 3rd verse excised (for time constraints, no doubt). Here is the full length version (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G8gpXKrqMU0) ...whenever I get to this part:

Caught in my fears
Blinking back the tears
I can't say you hurt me when you never let me near

Cause I've done everything I know to try and make you mine
And I think it's gonna hurt me for a long long time

I find it impossible not to blink back a few tears of my own...

[citrus]

The song which brings a tear no matter how hard you try not to, even though it's the schlockiest thing in the universe, is "Honey" by Bobby Goldsborough. . .True that be :boohoo: Saddest, sappiest, most heart-wrenching tear jerker of them all.

Well... 'cept for maybe Bill Monroe's .? nah . too country.

[wyndhy]

it's the happier songs that bring a tear. like wonderful world.

and yes, sometimes the us national anthem.

[Oldfart]

Yes, we Aussies cried every time it was played at the pool events in Beijing. LOL

[Lilith]

pmpl-lol

[scotzoidman]

Just thought of another song that does it for me - John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy"...of course, the event of his death so soon after recording it adds another layer of sadness in of itself, but even without that, it's a poignant, lovely song. I became a dad for the first time a couple of years after it came out, & watching my own "beautiful boy" grow & learn made me think of those words every day.

"Before you cross the street, hold my hand,
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Excuse me...no,no, it's alright, just...something in my eye, that's all... :tear:

[FlirtWithMe]

Battle of the Beanfield (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ToKrmo9H8XY)

I thought I heard something calling me
I've seen the pictures on TV
And I made up my mind that I'd go and see
With my own eyes

It didn't take too long to hitch a ride
With a guy going south to start a new life
Past the place where my friend died
Two years ago

Down the 303 at the end of the road
Flashing lights - exclusion zones
And it made me think it's not just the stones
That they're guarding

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

As the sun rose on the beanfield
They came like wolf on the fold
And no, they didn't give a warning
They took their bloody toll

I seen a pregnant woman
Lying in blood of her own
I seen her children crying
As the police tore apart their home

And no they didn't need a reason
It's what your votes condone
It seems they were committing treason
By trying to live on the road

And I say,
Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

Bastards

Remember what you heard

Hey, hey, now can't you see
There's nothing here that you can call free
They're getting their kicks
They're laughing at you and me

[Lilith]

Just thought of another song that does it for me - John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy"...of course, the event of his death so soon after recording it adds another layer of sadness in of itself, but even without that, it's a poignant, lovely song. I became a dad for the first time a couple of years after it came out, & watching my own "beautiful boy" grow & learn made me think of those words every day.

"Before you cross the street, hold my hand,
Life is what happens to you while you're busy making other plans"

Excuse me...no,no, it's alright, just...something in my eye, that's all... :tear:

I get choked up every single time I sing it.

[Salacious]

Just thought of another song that does it for me - John Lennon's "Beautiful Boy"...

I have to agree with this one.... with wet eyes.

Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-haKkFnT8) Her singing is beautiful and she does this one with a haunting sadness that does it for me.

Another one is Israel Kamakawiwo'ole singing Over the Rainbow/What a Wonderful World...yup (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PL-uL2M3xvM)

[citrus]

. . . Eva Cassidy singing Autumn Leaves (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7-haKkFnT8) Her singing is beautiful and she does this one with a haunting sadness that does it for me. . . . . It got to me for real. Thank you Salacious.




Here is something for our contemplating and supplication.
Turn your volume way UP, as These strings (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lV3SHBFyDZM) pull the heart out, tie it in a knot and squeeze for every last teardrop.
_ Feel _ the _ climax _ to _ anti _ climax _ and _ into _ repose _ @ _ 07:04s.0. :teleport:
Then relax, after you dispose of the tissues and get some more dry ones, crank the volume much higher yet for this Choral (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KkObnNQCMtM) version of Agnus Dei (same composition, but it is) sung to the theme of Samuel Barbers Adagio for strings. Performed by The Choir of Trinity. :boohoo:

[Aqua]

Someday Never Comes ~ CCR

Except I'd count myself lucky if my Dad had been around long enough to tell me that someday I'd understand.

[WildIrish]

I've always found the haunting sadness of Janis Ian's At Seventeen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8&feature=related) touches me deeply.

[Lord Snow]

Cat's in the Cradle by Harry Chapin. I don't cry, but it does hit the heart.

[FlirtWithMe]

He Didn't Have To Be (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iVFmHHxXCVg) by Brad Paisley :boohoo: :bfly:

Beautiful, beautiful song and a real tearjerker :nod: I thought I'd nearly managed to watch it without crying, but it got me again just now :o

[IowaMan]

A Blossom Fell ~~ by Nat King Cole

A blossom fell from off a tree
It settled softly on the lips you turned to me
The gypsies say and I know why
"A falling blossom only touches lips that lie"

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

A blossom fell and very soon
I saw you kissing someone new beneath the moon
I thought you loved me, you said you loved me
We planned together to dream forever
The dream has ended, for true love died
The night a blossom fell and touched two lips that lied

[Oldfart]

I've always found the haunting sadness of Janis Ian's At Seventeen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHOIT1ROk8&feature=related) touches me deeply.

Yes, and the sentiment goes beyond just the girls.

[BamaKyttn]

a bit different from what everyone else has posted but this was my anthem my senior year of high school and still tends to bring me close to tears and on bad days I do cry.


Hurt
Nine Inch Nails

I hurt myself today
To see if i still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But i remember everything
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear my crown of s**t
On my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stain of time
The feeling disappears
You are someone else
I am still right here
What have i become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone i know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If i could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Lilith]

It's the Johnny Cash version that gets me^^^^^

[Oldfart]

Johnny Cash did "At Seventeen"? Amazing.

[scotzoidman]

Johnny Cash did "At Seventeen"? Amazing.
No, but it was probably on his "to do" list...

[citrus]

At Last (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GbPz4DX5XXM) by Celine Dion, LIVE in Sweden. As good as they come. Only the youthful impassioned voicing of Etta James in long gone past years ago could tear your heart out with such a glorious song of grand love and committed elation.
:tongue:

[citrus]

At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.
Rather than a SAD SONG, this is a very poignant Hope Song.
This tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCsJzFK7_as) is a powerful string puller and evokes a strong emotion for me (& others), mainly 'cause its a song of hope imminent in realization if only I listen to my heart. I watched the television show on our tiny round/oval black & white TV set on a night when he performed it. I loved it, not only 'cause the schnozzola was singing it, but I got to stay up an extra half hour past bedtime. He walked off, into the series of spotlights, stopping and waved good-bye, then vanished into the night. Presumably to go looking for Mrs Calabash. Hey, I think I was only seven or eight years old!

[Lord Snow]

Is it me, or is he the guy that did the songs for the old claymation Christmas movies?

[scotzoidman]

Yeh, I lose track of which one, but I think Durante did provide the voice, & inspired the face of one of the Christmas Claymation classics. I'll forgive you (for now anyway) for being too young to remember Jimmy Durante, Burl Ives, Bing Crosby, and any other once internationally popular stars who wisely elected to ensure that future generations of kids would have some idea that they even existed ;)

[scotzoidman]

At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.

No such thing as "too many posts" to a thread...please, feel free to contribute here anytime a song tugs at your heartstrings...

[Aqua]

Is it me, or is he the guy that did the songs for the old claymation Christmas movies?
I believe Mr. Durante did the narration/singing in Frosty the Snowman.

[Oldfart]

The younger ones should remember him from the "Sleepless in Seattle" soundtrack.

[FlirtWithMe]

At the risk of "too many" contribs to this thread, I'll give this as my final one then stay out of it for some time so's that all yous other peeps can put yers in here.Got to agree with scotzoidman, citrus, don't stop posting to this thread...

I was 'caught' by a song that I must have heard hundreds of times over the years, but I've not played it very often in recent times. It hit me like a smack in the face as I was driving along in the car today and I was unable to fight back the tears. It's probably the first time I've really listened to it since my father died some years ago :boohoo: i've linked to youtube.

Tank Park Salute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmiGrbMBPk)
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die?

At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness

I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

You were so tall
How could you fall?

Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son

I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute

[Lord Snow]

HEY! I know who Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Burl Ives and a few others are. I grew up on those old claymation Christmas classics. I hate the fact that they took most of them off the air. I just didn't know that one off the top of my head. I may be young, but I'm not that young. Now that it was mentioned, I believe it was Frosty the Snowman.

[AZRedHot]

Embarrassingly sad?

"Seasons in the Sun," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ) by Terry Jacks

I also found myself bawling in the TV lounge of my dorm the first time I heard George Michael's "Praying for Time." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=61NUDDXT9nU&feature=related)

[scotzoidman]

Embarrassingly sad?

"Seasons in the Sun," (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfm-17pu6SQ) by Terry Jacks

Roger that.

I'm impressed at your courage in even mentioning it.

[Oldfart]

A couple which we hear and don't listen to.

"Send in the clowns" is when the woman hits rock bottom and sees herself as just another point of laughter by the gods.

"Old Man River" is truly, devastatingly sad, "I'm tired of living, but scared of dying" would be the saddest place of all.

[scotzoidman]

Two good ones, OF. Reminds me of how a former girl singer we had in the band finally really paid attention to the words of "The Ballad of Curtis Lowe" by Lynyrd Skynyrd...she was stunned by how sad the words were...

I remember thinking, "Well, DUH, it's a blues song, right?"
















Then I remember thinking, "Oh shit, I said that out loud, didn't I"

[AZRedHot]

Roger that.

I'm impressed at your courage in even mentioning it.

I post nude pictures of myself on the internet, Scotz; I'm not exactly lacking in courage. :D But that little 4-note riff between verses? KILLS me.

[FlirtWithMe]

Seasons in the Sun gets to me, too. It takes me back to a summer when I was quite young (12/13) when some people I was hanging out with were playing a battered tape of it on an equally battered cassette player. It used to make me cry back then too. A lot of things happened during that summer and I'm only realising now that a lot of those things shouldn't have :banghead:

[Oldfart]

We did lots of things when we were young and silly.

Let it go.

[ShadowDancer]

After losing my Father when I was pregnant in the summer of 2007, this song is one I can NOT listen to all the way through without just bawling like a baby!

You Can Let Go by: Crystal Shawanda

Wind blowing on my face
Sidewalk flying beneath my bike
A five year old's first taste
Of what freedoms really like
He was running right beside me
His hand holding on the seat
I took a deep breath and hollerd
As I headed for the street

You can let go now, Daddy
You can let go
Oh, I think I'm ready
To do this on my own
it's still a little bit scary
I want you to know
I'll be okay now, Daddy
You can let go

I was standing at the altar
between the two loves of my life
To one I'd been a daughter
To one I soon would be a wife
When the preacher asked
who gives this woman
Daddy's eyes filled up with tears
He kept holding tightly to my arm
til I whispered in his ear

You can let go now, Daddy
You can let go
Oh, I think I'm ready
To do this on my own
It's still a little bit scary
I want you to know
I'll be okay now, Daddy
You can let go

It was killing me to see
The strongest man I ever knew
Wasting away to nothing
in that hospital room
You know he's only hanging on for you
that's what the night nurse said
my voice and heart were breaking
as i crawled up in his bed and said

You can let go now, Daddy
You can let go
Your little girl is ready
To do this on my own
It's gonna be a little bit scary
I want you to know
I'll be okay now, Daddy
You can let go
You can let go...



I'm sitting here with tear streaming as I type these lyrics out...
It's been 18 mos now since he passed and it's no better than the weekend it happend. :boohoo:

[scotzoidman]

Even without a frame of reference to relate to it, that ^^^ one still made me tear up a little.

[FlirtWithMe]

OF - me writing such things is me letting it go. It's how I do things.

After losing my Father when I was pregnant in the summer of 2007, this song is one I can NOT listen to all the way through without just bawling like a baby!

You Can Let Go by: Crystal Shawanda

[...]

I'm sitting here with tear streaming as I type these lyrics out...
It's been 18 mos now since he passed and it's no better than the weekend it happend. :boohoo:Oh how awful, that must have been tough for you :console: Thank you so much for posting this, I just listened to it on youtube and it got me straight in the heart. A beautiful song :tear:

[dicksbro]

Unchained Melody by the Rightous Brothers is one that has always tugged on my heart. While the song is older than the movie, movie Ghost really made it a tear jerker.

It's also one of my favorite songs of all times.

[Oldfart]

It's always been up there, but it's a tear-jerker of overwhelming love, not sadness. Ghost tried to make it a sad song, but failed (at least for me).

[citrus]

In the early days of the initial release of the album, I played this track (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZAydj4OJnwQ&feature=related) over and again as often as I had time to listen. Smoked a lot of good hash as the notes carried us up.

Regardless of which voice covers it, the Clare Torry Studio cut can never be matched. Nonetheless, whomsoever does cover this melody has one of the finest vocal challenges to meet in all of trembling lips of songs! This particular live track of "The Great Gig in the Sky," with Bianca Antoinette (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipvi_wJtmZs&feature=related) is the only one I can find that gets anywhere near the polish in presentation of a fabulous, fantastic vocal performance.

For an instant replay, Backup. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DhungII_abQ&feature=related)

[scotzoidman]

Never thought of "Gig" as a sad song, as such..."moody" & "fuckin' awesome" might have popped into my head. Certainly the only female vocal performance that ever came close to knocking me out as much as Mary Clayton's "rape - murder" squeal/scream on the Stones' "Gimme Shelter" (give it a close listen sometime).

One DSOTM track that does have its sad, or maybe just depressing moments is "Time"...lines like "Ten years have got behind you" & "Hanging on in quiet desperation" seem to capture my darkest fears, even more so as I get older myself.

[Oldfart]

"All by Myself"

[Lilith]

When I was younger, "Don't Cry Out Loud" always got me but as time went on it became too karaoke.

[FlirtWithMe]

Cry Me A River: The 20 Most Heartbreaking Songs Of All Time! (http://new.music.yahoo.com/blogs/rocksbackpages/520/cry-me-a-river-the-20-most-heartbreaking-songs-of-all-time/) I don't have time to read it properly yet so I'll get back to it later. Any of you well up to the songs listed?

[Oldfart]

It may be a distance thing, but I didn't know more than half of them.

BTW, Soft Cell did something apart from "Tainted Love", a personal fave?

[Lilith]

Otis Redding and Bonnie Rait are both in my cry/sing repetoire.

[Oldfart]

Dock of the Bay, Lil?

[ShadowDancer]

Trace Adkins was doing a tour of 11 shows in 10 days for the USO

Arlington by: Trace Adkins

I never thought that this is where I'd settle down,
I thought I'd die an old man back in my hometown,
They gave me this plot of land, me and some other men, for a job well done,
There's a big white house sits on a hill just up the road,
The man inside he cried the day they brought me home,
They folded up a flag and told my mom and dad, we're proud of your son

[Chorus:]
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones, I made it to Arlington

I remember daddy brought me here when I was eight,
We searched all day to find out where my granddad lay,
And when we finally found that cross,
He said, "son this is what it cost to keep us free" Now here I am,
A thousand stones away from him,
He recognized me on the first day I came in,
And it gave me a chill when he clicked his heels, and saluted me.

[Chorus:]
And I'm proud to be on this peaceful piece of property,
I'm on sacred ground and I'm in the best of company,
I'm thankful for those thankful for the things I've done,
I can rest in peace, I'm one of the chosen ones, I made it to Arlington
And everytime I hear twenty-one guns,
I know they brought another hero home to us

We're thankful for those thankful for the things we've done,
We can rest in peace, 'cause we are the chosen ones,
We made it to arlington, yea dust to dust,
Don't cry for us, we made it to arlington

[Lord Snow]

I love that song. I'll have to find it on cd.

[scotzoidman]

It may be a distance thing, but I didn't know more than half of them.

BTW, Soft Cell did something apart from "Tainted Love", a personal fave?
More like a "deep cut" thing, I reckon. I know (or know of) nearly every act on the list, but the bottom half (with the exception of Smoky) seems to be all cuts from albums that never got any airplay to speak of. I'd have to agree with lil, Otis & Bonnie have the most heart-rending sad songs on the list that I know.

Soft Cell, only other track I recall was "Tainted Love" morphed into a synth-pop version of "Where did Our Love Go".

[Lilith]

First Cut is the Deepest- I love that one.

[Lord Snow]

I finally had a second to click the link posted earlier. I recognize only a few names and none of the song titles. Now I feel really young and inexperienced. Ironically, I find that feeling somewhat depressing. Oh well, another good song if you listen to the lyrics is the Edmond Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot.

[scotzoidman]

"Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is a wonderfully sad & somber song. When it first came out, back in the 70s, I had no idea that it was about a contemporary shipwreck that had just occurred in the Great Lakes a few months earlier. Gordon Lightfoot created that instant classic that sounded so much like an old sea shanty, I thought it must be about some ancient historical incident.

[Oldfart]

Another poppy-trippy song was "Why do you build me up, Buttercup".

So sad and we didn't know it, lost in the music.

[Mae]

I'll 2nd "First Cut is The Deepest" and "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Duran Duran's "Ordinary World", "Your Song" Elton John, "Weekend in New England" Barry Manilow, "Nowhere Man" Beatles & "Rainy Day People" Gordon Lightfoot..."Another Day in Paradise" Phil Collins.

[citrus]

I'll 2nd "First Cut is The Deepest" (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBccr-aLu4I) and "Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald". Duran Duran's "Ordinary World", "Your Song" Elton John, "Weekend in New England" Barry Manilow, "Nowhere Man" Beatles & "Rainy Day People" Gordon Lightfoot..."Another Day in Paradise" Phil Collins.I added a link to "The First Cut is the Deepest." (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aBccr-aLu4I)
Just a few years ago, after hearing the cover done by Cheryl Crow, I felt it was empty, and lacking depth. I had heard my guy Cat Stevens on the records I owned many, many years ago (a coupla decades) and am refilled with the emotion originally felt in the lament.

[FlirtWithMe]

From the list I posted the link to, I think the only one I've actually shed tears to is Sinead O'Connor's Nothing Compares 2 U (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rO8JWbG6bVw). What a great song.

Another Sinead O'Connor song guaranteed to make the tears fall down my face is My Special Child (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HYaPkSKJcvA) :boohoo:

This song, Act Naturally (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9w6L9CTk3Ac), had me sobbing at work yesterday http://www.clipartof.com/images/emoticons/xsmall2/2079_sad.gif

This Aussie tv show theme tune (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RK1iAwlhsnQ) used to make me cry :o

...and this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4DQ7lWOw9I) :o :o :o

[scotzoidman]

In the midst of my ongoing project of ripping my entire CD collection to my 'puter (just got an MP3 player w/extra memory), I found my Four Tops greatest hits, & while I could pick almost anything Levi Stubbs ever sang as a great one, this one (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fo64pe8isTg&feature=related) has the power of a great tear-jerker coupled with the Voice that I'm certain is leading the heavenly choir now...

P.S. ; It's been brought to my attention that the above link may not be available to non-US users...it is a link to YouTube, Four Tops, "Ask The Lonely"

[shadowsfate]

Here is one of the songs that always hits me hard when I hear it, both because of the lyrics (which are a bit misleading in places) and the story behind the song.

This song was written by Jon Olivia in memory of his bandmate/brother, Criss Olivia. Criss and Jon were founders of Savatage, which grew out of an earlier band of theirs.

Early on the morning of October 17, 1993, while on his way to a music festival in Florida, a drunk driver struck Criss' car head on, killing him instantly and seriously injuring his wife.

I was at work when I heard the news, off of a radio station that had never and probably will never play a Savatage song. I had been and still am a huge fan of Savatage (and, in fact,my signature is from a Savatage song), so the news announcement is basically something that I'll never forget.

If my memory serves me right, by the time he died, Criss was the only original member left (Jon had left the band earlier in the year). Criss' death was almost the death of the band, but Jon came back and basically recorded as much of the album "Handful of Rain" himself as he possibly could, crediting the recordings to the band (such as it was after Criss' death). It is a great album in my opinion (if you are into their style of music), but it is also one of the ones I rarely listen to, because of this song.

"Alone You Breath" - Savatage

You were never one for waiting
Still I always thought you'd wait for me
Have you from your dream awakened
And from where you are what do you see

Which of us is now in exile
Which in need of amnesty
Are you now but an illusion
In my mind alone you breathe

You believed in things that I will never know
You were out there drowning but it never showed
Till inside a rain swept night you just let go

You're thrown it all away
And now we'll never see
The ending of the play
The grand design
The final line
And what was meant to be

In the dark a distant runner
Now has disappeared into the night
Leaving us to stand and wonder
Staring from this end into your life

You believed in things that I will never know
You were out there drowning but it never showed
Till inside a rain swept night you just let go

You've thrown it all away
And now we'll never see
The ending of the play
The grand design
The final line
And what was meant to be

And if this is all illusion
Nothing more than pure delusion
Clinging to a fading fantasy

Like Icarus who heeds the calling
Of a sun but now is falling
As the feathers of his life fall free
Can you see
See

Tomorrow
And after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here
Believing
That in the dark
There is a clue

Perhaps inside
This midnight sky
Perhaps tomorrow's new born eyes
Or then again
We'll never know
And after all
This was the show

What am I to do

Gotta get back
Gotta get back
Gotta get back

What am I to do

Gotta get back
Gotta get back
Gotta get back

What am I to do

Standing on a dream
Isn't what it seems
Could we then reclaim a dream refused
Knowing what we know
Could we let it go
Realizing that all the years are used

Tomorrow and after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here believing
That in the dark there is a clue
I am the way
I am the light
I am the dark inside the night
I hear your hopes
I feel your dreams
And in the dark I hear your screams

Tomorrow and after
You tell me what am I to do
I stand here believing
That in the dark there is a clue

[Oldfart]

I see the difference between sad and depressing.

[Lilith]

There is a song that STO introduced me to, Breathe by Greenwheel. I played it a lot while I was mourning his passing. To this day, I get a big lump in my throat when I hear it. I can not really sing it because I get too choked up.

"Breathe"

I
Played the fool today
And I
Can see us vanishing into the crowd
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you

I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe

And I can't ask for things to be still again
No I can't ask for you
To offer the world through your eyes
Longing for home again
But home
Is a feeling I buried in you

I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe

My window through which
Nothing hides
And everything sings
I'm counting the signs
And cursing the miles in between

But home
Is a feeling I buried in you
That I buried in you

I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe
I'm alright
I'm alright
It only hurts when I breathe

When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe
When I breathe
It only hurts when I breathe

[shadowsfate]

"Hurt" - Johnny Cash

(The original version is done by Nine Inch Nails, and as much as I like the original, this version is a much sadder song in my opinion, being one of Johnny's last recordings)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go

I hurt myself today
To see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
The only thing that's real
The needle tears a hole
The old familiar sting
Try to kill it all away
But I remember everything

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt

I wear this crown of thorns
Upon my liar's chair
Full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
Beneath the stains of time
The feelings disappear
You are someone else
I am still right here

What have I become?
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know
Goes away in the end

You could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
If I could start again
A million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way

[Lilith]

^^^ makes me nearly weep just hearing it on the radio. His version is so touching.

[citrus]

The link is intentionally nonfunctional.
<http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mJOR0UU9Kmk>

This Seals and Croft song destroys me in about 1/1000 sec. From that point on I can't shut down the flow from my eyes.

If you wish to give it a listen just copy/paste to the location bar without "< >".
CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION
DO NOT Listen if you've not found healing in the issue of abortion
__________________________________________

(lyrics by Lana Bogan; music by James Seals, 1974)
From the album UNBORN CHILD (1974).
:angel: :angel: :angel:
Oh little baby, you'll never cry, nor will you hear a sweet lullabye.

Oh unborn child, if you only knew just what your momma was plannin' to do.
You're still a-clingin' to the tree of life, but soon you'll be cut off before you get ripe.
Oh unborn child, beginning to grow inside your momma, but you'll never know.
Oh tiny bud, that grows in the womb, only to be crushed before you can bloom.

Mama stop! Turn around, go back, think it over.
Now stop, turn around, go back, think it over.
Stop, turn around, go back think it over.

Oh no momma, just let it be. You'll never regret it, just wait and see.
Think of all the great ones who gave everything
That we might have life here, so please bear the pain.

Mama stop! Turn around, go back, think it over.
Now stop, turn around, go back, think it over.
Stop, turn around, go back think it over.

[FlirtWithMe]

CAUTION CAUTION CAUTION
DO NOT Listen if you've not found healing in the issue of abortionI listened anyway (sorry) :blink: Didn't have the same effect on me that it has on you, it raised my hackles somewhat.

Below isn't a song, but a poem (is this allowed?), since we're (loosely) on the subject of babies. I cannot read this without melting, and it is a sensitive subject for me at the present time.

Wean Me Gently by Cathy Cardall

I know I look so big to you,
Maybe I seem too big for the needs I have.
But no matter how big we get,
We still have needs that are important to us.
I know that our relationship is growing and changing,
But I still need you. I need your warmth and closeness,
Especially at the end of the day
When we snuggle up in bed.
Please don't get too busy for us to nurse.
I know you think I can be patient,
Or find something to take the place of a nursing;
A book, a glass of something,
But nothing can take your place when I need you.
Sometimes just cuddling with you,
Having you near me is enough.
I guess I am growing and becoming independent,
But please be there.
This bond we have is so strong and so important to me,
Please don't break it abruptly.
Wean me gently,
Because I am your mother,
And my heart is tender.

[lakritze]

Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,Dance me through the panic til I'm gathered safely in,Lift me like an olive brance,be my homeward dove, Dance me to the end of love.....Thank you Leonard Cohn for this beautiful song,and thank you Madeleine Peyroux for such a gorgeous cover.....

[citrus]

This poor guy got drafted and was sent someplace that he could not talk about. His girlfriend wanted to cut off their love affair. Now, he is bereft of his love and Hurt (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAPGS8K6h_8). :boohoo: His breaking heart cannot let him concentrate on the work he has to do. He finds he is Mr. Lonely (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HlMCKUNtirk).

[Lord Snow]

You're going way back with those Citrus. I haven't heard those since I was a littler fella.

[citrus]

Cool! In that case LS you, & others (all) might find some real heartbreak & tragic emotional upheaval with this one. She cried (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=plLjS69rS6U), when I told her...

Here's the follow through..Jay & The Americans/The Shangri-Las (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4d49XFt0hL8); Del Shannon (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGweoCvcfq8); The Lettermen (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hlgdjz1vTxQ), I like this one from The Lettermen for its refinement in presentation. Exquisitely harmonic.

[Oldfart]

This is so sad, caught out on the edge of hopelessness.

Take the ribbon from your hair, shake it loose and let it fall,
Layin’ soft upon my skin. like the shadows on the wall.

Come and lay down by my side till the early morning light
All I’m takin’ is your time. help me make it through the night.
I don’t care what’s right or wrong, I don’t try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow. lord, tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight.
And it’s sad to be alone. help me make it through the night.

I don’t care what’s right or wrong, (yes, I do !)
I don’t try to understand.
Let the devil take tomorrow. lord, tonight I need a friend.

Yesterday is dead and gone and tomorrow’s out of sight.
Lord, it’s bad to be alone. help me make it through the night.

[Lord Snow]

I know that song. It's Ray Stevens. Quite lively for a sad song.

[FlirtWithMe]

Tank Park Salute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKmiGrbMBPk)
Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy is it true that we all have to die?

At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness

I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned
I accepted the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand

You were so tall
How could you fall?

Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son

I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park saluteAnother link broken due to copyright issues so here is a live version of Tank Park Salute (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5heTJ65bdhU).

Oh this song just kills me: Whiskey Lullaby (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KaqJB4Wm_dk) :boohoo: