What is the saddest song you have ever heard?

intothewild1

For me it is Coldplay 'The Scientist'

What is the saddest song you have ever heard?

robindch

Bach:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BBeXF_lnj_M

DEFTLEFTHAND

Friend of a Friend by Dave Grohl is poignant to an extent to look back on, he wrote and recorded it in 1990 (only released officially and re recorded in 05) after he moved in with Kurt Cobain. It's based on his first impressions of Cobain

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-64bW_DdLN0

teddansonswig

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KKsVhyiISY8

jca

I know its corny but Terry Jacks seasons in the sun still gives me goosepimples... Sad eh?

danbag1989

The Arms of an Angel - Sarah Mcloughlin
My Lagin Love - Various Artists
Back on My Feet Again - Michael Bolton
My Immortal - Evanesence
Dont Cry - Guns N Roses

Hmm, I could name more but Im going to listen to happy tunes cos its 6.20am !!


Oh, Scorn Not His Simplicity by Luke Kelly is pretty poigniant if you listen to the lyrics!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rGT7h29Lkc0

sparrowcar

Sad as in waaaa waaaa

Little Mursgrave - Planxty


Sad as in Linda Martin type of sad

Get Lucky - Linda Martin

Nino Brown

grainnewhale

any country and western song. your wife leaves you for another man, you get drunk and your dog dies. can it get any worse

grainnewhale

any country and western song. your wife leaves you for another man, you get drunk and your dog dies. can it get any worse

RebelButtMunch

Pearl jam. Last kiss

Aglomerado

Bobby Goldsboro's "Honey". (cheesy one)

saintsaltynuts

Alone Again Naturally Gilbert O'Sullivan.

bazza1

Anything by Daniel O Donnell!

john the one

That is all.

ElleEm

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton and Dance with my Father Again by Luther Vandross. They both make me cry ANY time I hear them.

eisenberg1

grainnewhale wrote: »

any country and western song. your wife leaves you for another man, you get drunk and your dog dies. can it get any worse

Just do that Satanist thing where you play the record in reverse, You wife comes back, you sober up and the dog comes back to life.......:D

MrStuffins

brevity

Henryk Górecki - Symphony Nº3 (Symphony of Sorrowful Songs). Second Movement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dMfMAZk24l0

wandatowell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4zLfCnGVeL4

beautiful and sad.

jca

eisenberg1 wrote: »

Just do that Satanist thing where you play the record in reverse, You wife comes back, you sober up and the dog comes back to life.......:D

Like the Connemara man's nightmare, he dreamt he was back home, when he woke up it was true:pac:

LeBash

You are my sister by the johnstones.

Heard it at a funeral of a young woman and there wasnt a dry eye in the church.

jca

LeBash wrote: »

You are my sister by the johnstones.

Heard it at a funeral of a young woman and there wasnt a dry eye in the church.

This one? Brilliant song.. Stupid video thingy won't work.

Green Giant

Time To Say Goodbye

was sung at my cousin's funeral and gets me every time

LasTime

I'm not sure. I like sad songs though... they make me happy!!

David Bowie: Where are we now
The Who: Behind blue eyes
Annie Lennox: I saved the world today

Seans_Username

Luke Kelly - Come My Little Son

Heard it first on Love Hate when

Stumpy was killed

. Brilliant scene and Luke Kelly's version of the song is just perfect.

The simplicity of it all makes it one of the saddest songs I've ever heard

Welsh Megaman

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A7kw5zXVFVQ

Kettleson

I didn't really get Abba's Chiquitita until Sinead O'Connor covered it.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=

tipptom

The night they drove ole Dixie down by The Band

Kettleson

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NIL6kBqPR2Y

Wasted and wounded
And it ain't what the moon did
I got what I paid for now
See you tomorrow
Hey Frank can I borrow
A couple of bucks from you
To go waltzing Matilda waltzing Matilda
You'll go waltzing Matilda with me....

And it's a battered old suitcase
in a hotel someplace
And a wound that would never heal
No prima donnas the perfume is on
and old shirt that is stained with blood and whiskey
And goodnight to the street-sweepers,
The night watchmen flame-keepers
And goodnight Matilda too
Goodnight Matilda too.

tipptom

Squeeze;Up the Junction

grenache

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBC7ckTWpo

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Duck Soup

Beautiful Child by Fleetwood Mac.

La_Gordy

I heard this song before one of the worst moments in my life and I hear it in my head when things feel pish.

That said it was in Family Guy...

ViveLaVie

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt kills me every time.

jimboblep

The version of" the parting glass " at the end of assassins creed

lukesmom

Mike & the mechanics - The living years always brings a tear to my eye

By FAR the SADDEST song ever written.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

foxy farmer

The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Based on real events.

zenno

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosFiY1SifA

jandm

The Contender by Jimmy MacCarthy about the rise and fall of the boxer Jack Doyle


When I was young and I was in my day
I could steal what woman’s heart there was away
I’d sing and dance till morning blaze away until the dawning
Long before I was the man you see today

I was born beneath the star that promised all
I could have lived my life between Cork Cobh and Youghal
But the Wheel of Fortune took me from the highest point it shook me
By the bottle live by the bottle I will fall

But there in the mirror on the wall
I see the dream is fading
From the contender to the brawl
The Ring, The Rose, The Matador is raving

When I die I’ll die a drunk down on the street
You can count me out to 10 in clear defeat
Wrap the starry plough around me and let the piper’s air resound me
There I’ll rest until the Lord of Love I meet

ConcertKing

This song always gets me.

Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses

ConcertKing

And this song by Gary Barlow -Don't Say Goodbye.

Such a beautiful tearjerker.

lukesmom

Mike & the mechanics - the living years

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Dr conrad murray

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylMqxLzNGo

saddest song ive ever heard.. as featured in the movie "Platoon"

whirlpool

Not the saddest song I've ever heard, but new Beyonce song "Heaven" is pretty sad.

http://www.downvids.net/beyonce-heaven-official-video--521403.html

rockatansky

LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great.

Sometime I have to turn it off mid song.

The_Mask

The Lonesome Boatman by the Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur

Mr Pseudonym

Taking ages to load, so I can't tell whether I like this interpretation. Anyway - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Spring, Second Movement (E major)

hattoncracker

"angel of sadness" by A Camp.

blade1

Liam Clancy-The Parting Glass.
Played at my Father's Funeral.
My Father had always said he wanted it played.

shar01

Kilkelly, Ireland - has been covered by many but I like the Mick Maloney, Jimmy Keane and Robbie O'Connell version.

Sonny - Mary Black, Dolores Keane and Emmylou Harris