Sad songs
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 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? |
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 :o :o Miss You Nights - Cliff Richard Against All Odds - Phil Collins This one 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 |
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. |
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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... |
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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... |
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 |
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. |
When it was sung at Jim Henson's funeral I was so torn up.
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Gorecki Symphony #3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo
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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 Ray Peterson: Tell Laura I Love Her Take That: Babe |
^^^ definite oldy goldies
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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. |
Sad song? Probably not, unless you know or knew someone who went there.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LH4-tOqLH94 |
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? |
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