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The younger ones should remember him from the "Sleepless in Seattle" soundtrack.
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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 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 |
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.
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Embarrassingly sad?
"Seasons in the Sun," 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." |
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Roger that. I'm impressed at your courage in even mentioning it. |
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. |
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" |
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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. |
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:
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We did lots of things when we were young and silly.
Let it go. |
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: |
Even without a frame of reference to relate to it, that ^^^ one still made me tear up a little.
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OF - me writing such things is me letting it go. It's how I do things.
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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.
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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).
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In the early days of the initial release of the album, I played this track 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 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. |
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. |
"All by Myself"
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When I was younger, "Don't Cry Out Loud" always got me but as time went on it became too karaoke.
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I just saw this article and thought it was appropriate to this thread:
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?
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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? |
Otis Redding and Bonnie Rait are both in my cry/sing repetoire.
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Dock of the Bay, Lil?
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this one got me last night...
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 |
I love that song. I'll have to find it on cd.
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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". |
First Cut is the Deepest- I love that one.
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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.
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"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.
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Another poppy-trippy song was "Why do you build me up, Buttercup".
So sad and we didn't know it, lost in the music. |
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.
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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. |
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. What a great song.
Another Sinead O'Connor song guaranteed to make the tears fall down my face is My Special Child :boohoo: This song, Act Naturally, had me sobbing at work yesterday  This Aussie tv show theme tune used to make me cry :o ...and this one :o :o :o |
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 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" |
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 |
I see the difference between sad and depressing.
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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 |
"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 |
^^^ makes me nearly weep just hearing it on the radio. His version is so touching.
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