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.

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...

Well I think I'll be a regular here, thanks for posting it, great idea for a thread, nicked from elsewhere or not :thumb:

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.

Gorecki Symphony #3 "Sorrowful Songs" - Lento e Largo

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

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?