Lacessit Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 For me, it is in Billy Joel's " Goodnight Saigon" when he sings "and we were so gung-ho to lay down our lives". That single line encapsulates all the waste of young lives in war. An honorable mention to Johnny Cash's " Man in Black". "Each week we lose a hundred fine young men". What is yours? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Swan Song. Never a sadder song. The saddest song for me was when Old Yeller yelped his last yelp, 1957. I'll never forget that day. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Bert got kinky Posted December 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2022 Quite a few by J.C. bring a tear to my eye but I think the saddest 'for me' has to be the first verse of Gilbert O'Sullivan's 'Alone again'. For me it screams of a man needing help which may never come, a man who has been driven to his very limits and has accepted defeat and it's fate with open arms. In a little while from now If I'm not feeling any less sour I promise myself to treat myself And visit a nearby tower And climbing to the top Will throw myself off In an effort to Make it clear to whoever Wants to know what it's like when you're shattered 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post JonnyF Posted December 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2022 "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets". Half Man Half Biscuit. National Shi1te day. 2008. 2 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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sqwakvfr Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 This lyric is very honest. To some it is sad. To others it is painful but true: ’What’s love go to do with it. Nothing but a second hand emotion” Performed by the great Tina Turner and written by Terry Britten and Graham Lyle. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hummin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 https://youtu.be/i__3vKniYQo Still Waters i had to get here before i realized that it was wrong to leave land i should have let him sail alone, trapped on a windless sea for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters it is not you who tames the waves, but they who own you but you must turn around if you are sinking, find another way for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters take your stories and tell them to someone who believes what you are saying and take your shoes that you let others dance in and walk the long way home if there is still time for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters for i can cover things up and i can patch things up and i can pick up the pieces of everything that is broken but nobody can save a grown man who wants to disappear in still waters https://lyricstranslate.com/en/stille-vann-still-waters.html 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Most songs I like are sad, but some are sadder than others, but a sad song also depends on the singer. I couldn't possibly say what THE saddest is but couple of the saddest have to be Down by the Salley Gardens Maura O'Connell Down by the Salley gardens, my love and I did meet She passed the Salley gardens with little snow-white feet She bid me take life easy, as the leaves grow on the trees But I, being young and foolish, with her I did not agree In a field by the river, my love and I did stand And on my leaning shoulder she placed her snow-white hand She bid me take love easy, as the grass grows on the weirs But I was young and foolish and now I am full of tears Down by the Salley gardens, my love and I did meet And she passed the Salley gardens with little snow-white feet She bid me take life easy, as the grass grows on the weirs But I was young and foolish and now I am full of tears. The next one may seem to be about a happy year, but I know how sad it is to live a wonderful life for a year knowing that in .... days it will be arbitrarily end. We'll Sing in the Sunshine Gale Garnett ( last verse and chorus ) And when our year has ended And I have gone away You'll often speak about me And this is what you'll say We sang in the sunshine You know we laughed every day We sang in the sunshine Then you went on your way 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 28 minutes ago, Hummin said: https://youtu.be/i__3vKniYQo Still Waters i had to get here before i realized that it was wrong to leave land i should have let him sail alone, trapped on a windless sea for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters it is not you who tames the waves, but they who own you but you must turn around if you are sinking, find another way for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters take your stories and tell them to someone who believes what you are saying and take your shoes that you let others dance in and walk the long way home if there is still time for what makes a grown man lose his reason is not storm, but still waters for i can cover things up and i can patch things up and i can pick up the pieces of everything that is broken but nobody can save a grown man who wants to disappear in still waters https://lyricstranslate.com/en/stille-vann-still-waters.html Beautiful lyrics and so true. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moogradod Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 There are some sad songs, but what immediately comes to my mind is one of the saddest love songs. A masterpiece. Billy Joel's "And So It Goes". Here are the lyrics: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 In the end, I suppose we bring our own life experience to colour the songs we hear. This one speaks to me in a very personal way. Fine on the Outside Priscilla Ahn I never had that many friends growing up So I learned to be Ok with just me, just me, just me, just me And I'll be fine on the outside I like to eat in school by myself, anyway So I'll just stay right here Right here, right here, right here And I'll be fine on the outside So I just sit in my room after hours with the moon And think of who knows my name Would you cry if I died Would you remember my face? So I left home, I packed up and l moved far away From my past one day And I laughed, I laughed, I laughed, I laughed I sound fine on the outside Sometimes I feel lost, sometimes I'm confused Sometimes I find that I am not alright And I cry, and I cry, and I cry So I just sit in my room after hours with the moon And think of who knows my name Would you cry if I died Would you remember my face? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post jvs Posted December 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2022 Not just a song,a real story and she is no longer alive. But it is ok. 2 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jvs Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 A classic tear jerker. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GammaGlobulin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 If one is speaking strictly "lyric", then one of the saddest might be: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from helping me, from the words of my groaning? O my God, I cry by day, but you do not answer; and by night, but find no rest. Yet you are holy, enthroned on the praises of Israel. In you our ancestors trusted; they trusted, and you delivered them. To you they cried, and were saved; in you they trusted, and were not put to shame. But I am a worm, and not human; scorned by others, and despised by the people. All who see me mock at me; they make mouths at me, they shake their heads; ‘Commit your cause to the Lord; let him deliver— let him rescue the one in whom he delights!’ Yet it was you who took me from the womb; you kept me safe on my mother’s breast. On you I was cast from my birth, and since my mother bore me you have been my God. Do not be far from me, for trouble is near and there is no one to help. Many bulls encircle me, strong bulls of Bashan surround me; they open wide their mouths at me, like a ravening and roaring lion. I am poured out like water, and all my bones are out of joint; my heart is like wax; it is melted within my breast; my mouth is dried up like a potsherd, and my tongue sticks to my jaws; you lay me in the dust of death. For dogs are all around me; a company of evildoers encircles me. My hands and feet have shrivelled; I can count all my bones. They stare and gloat over me; they divide my clothes among themselves, and for my clothing they cast lots. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Just listening to my collection of sad songs and heard this classic tear jerker. The Brothers Four Green Fields Once there were greenfields kissed by the sun once there were valleys, where rivers used to run. once there were blue skies, with white clouds high above. once they were part of an everlasting love. we were the lovers who strolled through green fields. green fields are gone now, parched by the sun. gone from the valleys, where rivers used to run. gone with the cold wind, that swept into my heart. gone with the lovers, who let their dreams depart. where are the green fields, that we used to roam? i'll never know what, made you run away. how can i keep searching when dark clouds hide the day. i only know there's, nothing here for me. nothing in this wide world, left for me to see. still i'll keep on waiting, until you return. i'll keep on waiting, until the day you learn. you can't be happy, while your heart's on the roam, you can't be happy until you bring it home. home to the green fields, and me once again. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Popular Post Hanaguma Posted December 7, 2022 Popular Post Share Posted December 7, 2022 For simplicity and raw pain, I recommend "Hurt" as sung by Johnny Cash. I hurt myself today, to see if I still feel I focus on the pain, the only thing thats real 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 1 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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KannikaP Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 (edited) This is a very sad song. Sorry JVS, you beat me to it. However, he did do a very sensual one about the first time he 4...ed a woman in Summer the First TIme. Edited December 7, 2022 by KannikaP Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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hackjam Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 In this present homeless climate, Ralph Mctell's Streets of London 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacessit Posted December 7, 2022 Author Share Posted December 7, 2022 12 hours ago, Old Croc said: Errol Wayne Noack was the first National Serviceman killed in Vietnam, age 21. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khmer Surin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 13 hours ago, JonnyF said: "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets". Half Man Half Biscuit. National Shi1te day. 2008. Or Dickie Davis Eyes? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Khmer Surin Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 “The love that you need will never be found at home” : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Polar Bear Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 14 hours ago, JonnyF said: "There's a man with a mullet going mad with a mallet in Millets". Half Man Half Biscuit. National Shi1te day. 2008. It's not often I find another HMHB fan in the wild! But for actual sad lyrics, Terminus is brutal, though they still manage to get a few laughs in there. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 Here's a classic from Father Ted. https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=depressing+song+father+ted#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:fc9b7e6f,vid:fnZDI1slxMI Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thaibeachlovers Posted December 7, 2022 Share Posted December 7, 2022 4 hours ago, Khmer Surin said: “The love that you need will never be found at home” : That's always been on my list of favourite songs since first time I heard it. Very sad. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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