Most depressing songs

davidpw97

Well-Known Member
The Saddest song I think I've ever heard in my life would have to be
Softly As I Leave You. I do agree that the Christmas Shoes song is very sad though...

Here's some others...

I'm So Lonsome I Could Cry
Solitare
Hurt
For The Heart
Fool
It's Midnight
Always On My Mind
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
I've Lost You
I'm Leavin'
The Sound Of Your Cry
Seperate Ways
Take Good Care Of Her
Loving Arms
Thinking About You
Faded Love
Make The World Go Away
Snowbird
For The Good Times
Love Coming Down

--Elvis Presley

My Goodness. I didn't relize Elvis was such a deppressing person 'till after writing some of the songs he sang on this thread. It seems like almost every song the man sang is sad. These are just a few from the 70's!

Good list, I'd like to add "Blue Christmas"
Also a really depressing song is "He's my son" by Mark Schultz, its especially depressing when you go to Youtube and do a search for people who have used the song as a memorial to their children. :cry:
Someone else mentioned the Dixie Chicks, their song "Travelin Soldier" is pretty depressing.

Also, I hate hate hate The Christmas Shoes. If the kid's mum is home nearly dead, wouldn't she rather have her son home with her than a new pair of shoes? What if he's out buying shoes when his mum dies, I bet he'll feel like crap then and it will probably ruin the poor kid's life.
 

maggiegrace1

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Good list, I'd like to add "Blue Christmas"
Also a really depressing song is "He's my son" by Mark Schultz, its especially depressing when you go to Youtube and do a search for people who have used the song as a memorial to their children. :cry:
Someone else mentioned the Dixie Chicks, their song "Travelin Soldier" is pretty depressing.

Also, I hate hate hate The Christmas Shoes. If the kid's mum is home nearly dead, wouldn't she rather have her son home with her than a new pair of shoes? What if he's out buying shoes when his mum dies, I bet he'll feel like crap then and it will probably ruin the poor kid's life.
:eek:

So very very true....

:lol: :cry: :lookaroun
 

nighttimewisher

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Oh the depressing songs! My friends always say I'm strange for listening but I seem to have a different view on them, more that they are sweet...

But just a couple of the bad ones off the top of my head:
I Can't Make You Love Me - Bonnie Raitt
Fields of Gold - Eva Cassidy
 

Uponastar

Well-Known Member
Eric Clapton's Tears in Heaven.
James Blunt's You're Beautiful. I know it's been played to death, but the lyrics are sad and the music is haunting.
 

SpongeScott

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Alone Again, Naturally by Gilbert O'Sullivan

In a little while from now,
If I'm not feeling any less sour.
I promised myself, to treat myself,
And visit a nearby tower ..........
And climbing to the top,
Would throw myself off,
In an effort to, make clear to whoever,
What it's like when your shattered .......
Left standing in a lurch,
In a church with people saying .....
My God, that's tough, she stood him up,
No point in us remaining .......
I may as well go home,
As I did on my own,
Alone again, naturally.

To think that only yesterday,
I was cheerful, bright and gay.
Looking forward to, and who wouldn’t do,
The role I was about to play.
But as if to knock me down,
Reality came around,
And without so much as a mere touch,
Cut me into little pieces.
Leaving me to doubt, all about God and His mercy,
Oh, if He really does exist,
Why did He desert me?
And in my hour of need,
I truely am, indeed,
Alone again, naturally.

It seems to me that there are more hearts,
Broken in the world that can’t be mended,
Left unattended, what do we do?
What do we do?

Now looking back over the years,
And whatever else that appears.
I remember I cried when my father died,
Never wishing to hide the tears.
At sixty-five years old,
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man,
She had ever loved had been taken.
Leaving her to start, with a heart so badly broken,
Despite encouragement from me,
No words were ever spoken.
And when she passed away,
I cried and cried all day,
Alone again, naturally .....
Alone again ................................. naturally.
 

KingStefan

Well-Known Member
Not totally meaning for this to be Disney related, but I thought of "When she loved me" from Toy Story 2. Whenever I hear it on Live365 I tear up. It makes me so sad!

So funny - I was waiting to make ADRs for a fairly long time one day a few years ago, and "When she loved me" came on. Just near the end, finally a CM came on, and I was all choked up. She asked me "are you OK?", and I explained that I was just listening to "When she loved me" on the hold music, and we both cracked up!
 

Fantasmic!329

Active Member
"Candle on the Water" from Pete's Dragon always makes me sad for some reason :o
:cry:
And Feed the Birds.
Also:
Wind Beanth My Wings by Bette Midler
My Immortal by Evanesance
Here's to the Night by Eve 6
Smile by Charlie Chaplan
Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Who Knew by Pink
Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C

I do love depressing songs. :lookaroun
 

Nicole220

Well-Known Member
^Feed the Birds is a sad one. I'm going to be a mess when I hear Graduation at the end of this year...

I remembered another today: Goodbye My Lover by James Blunt.
 

maggiegrace1

Well-Known Member
:cry:
And Feed the Birds.
Also:
Wind Beanth My Wings by Bette Midler
My Immortal by Evanesance
Here's to the Night by Eve 6
Smile by Charlie Chaplan
Puff the Magic Dragon by Peter, Paul, and Mary
Who Knew by Pink
Hallelujah by Rufus Wainwright
Graduation (Friends Forever) by Vitamin C

I do love depressing songs. :lookaroun

:lookaroun
 

comics101

Well-Known Member
dopey, Have you heard the new version of "In the Ghetto" With Lisa Marie? I swear I don't know why but it made me cry...

I forgot "You've Lost that Lovin' Feeling" by The Righteous Brothers

Elvis did a version of that song as well. He also sang Unchained Melody.

Here's some tunes Elvis recorded in the 60's...

Runaway
Yesterday/Hey Jude
Suspicious Minds (Thinking about it, I guess this one is sorta sad...)
This Is The Story
After Loving You
Do You Know Who I Am
Kentucky Rain
Only The Strong Survive
It Keeps Right On A-Hurtin'
Any Day Now
Sentimental Me
Something Blue
Girl Of My Best Friend
Starting Today
You Don't Know Me
Judy
Suspicion
Anything That's Part Of You
Just Tell Her Jim Said Hello
She's Not You
It Hurts Me
Indescribably Blue
Are You Lonesome Tonight
Wooden Heart
(Marie's The Name) Of His Latest Flame
Return To Sender
(You're The) Devil In Disguise

-- Elvis Presley
 

prberk

Well-Known Member
The Saddest song I think I've ever heard in my life would have to be
Softly As I Leave You. I do agree that the Christmas Shoes song is very sad though...

Here's some others...

I'm So Lonsome I Could Cry
--Elvis Presley

My Goodness. I didn't relize Elvis was such a deppressing person 'till after writing some of the songs he sang on this thread. It seems like almost every song the man sang is sad. These are just a few from the 70's!


I was going to say that one! Of course, The King didn't write it -- he just said it was the saddest song he'd ever heard! (On the Aloha From Hawaii concert album and special.) Luke the Drifter himself (Hank Williams, Sr.) wrote it.

But I think one that rivals that one for sadness is the George Jones 1982 classic, "He Stopped Loving Her Today."

That one will just plain wrench your heart out.

Paul
 

Fantasmic!329

Active Member
^Feed the Birds is a sad one. I'm going to be a mess when I hear Graduation at the end of this year...
I dunno, the Julie Andrews version of that song is MUCH sadder than the Broadway/West End version.
Maybe its because Bird Woman has a singing part in the ladder.

Graduation is a very sad song. :(
:lookaroun
Hey!
That song has a very sad melody to it!
Poor Jackie Paper... :lookaroun :lol: :ROFLOL:
 

prberk

Well-Known Member
And, of course, if we are mining the roots of country music, we cannot forget the Carter Family.

"Wildwood Flower," by A. P. Carter, was recorded by many members of the family, especially by Mother Mabelle; but June Carter (Cash) kept it alive in her generation... Many of you will remember Reese Witherspoon (as June) singing it in the movie, "I Walk the Line"...

WILDWOOD FLOWER
As recorded by The Carter Family
Written by A. P. Carter


Oh, I'll twine with my mingles and waving black hair
With the roses so red and the lilies so fair
And the myrtle so bright with the emerald hue
The pale and the leader and eyes look like blue.

Oh I'll dance, I will sing and my laugh shall be gay
I will charm every heart, in his crown I will sway
When I woke from my dreaming, my idol was clay
All portion of love had all flown away.

Oh he taught me to love him and promised to love
And to cherish me over all others above
How my heart is now wond'ring no mis'ry can tell
He's left me no warning, no words of farewell.

Oh, he taught me to love him and called me his flow'r
That was blooming to cheer him through life's dreary hour
Oh, I long to see him and regret the dark hour
He's gone and neglected this pale wildwood flow'r.
 

diddy_mouse

Well-Known Member
"Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M.
"Imagine" (I remember hearing Neil Young sing this just after 9/11..:cry: But I really do like this song)
"When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 (definitely!!)
"Angel" by Sarah Maclaughlin
"Hole in My Soul" by Aerosmith
"Gravedigger" by Dave Matthews

And I'm sure there's some by The Cure that I'm forgetting...
 

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