Saddest line in rock?

"she's loving him with that body...I just know it."

Rick Springfield, "Jessie's Girl"

Also from the Smiths:

"When you say it's gonna happen now,

what exactly do you mean?

See I've already waited too long,

and all my hope is gone."

Then there's always NIN songs like "The Wretched"

"Just a reflection

Just a glimpse

Just a little reminder

Of all the what abouts

And all the might have beens

Could have beens

Another day

Some other way

But not another reason to continue

And now you’re one of us

The wretched

The hopes and prays

The better days

The far aways

Forget it

It didn’t turn out the way you wanted it to, did it

Now you know

This is what it feels like"

"Everybody have fun tonight. Everybody Wang Chung tonight."

BOb Dylan "It's all over now Baby Blue

You must leave now, take what you need, you think will last.

But whatever you wish to keep, you better grab it fast.

Yonder stands your orphan with his gun,

Crying like a fire in the sun.

Look out the saints are comin' through

And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

The highway is for gamblers, better use your sense.

Take what you have gathered from coincidence.

The empty-handed painter from your streets

Is drawing crazy patterns on your sheets.

This sky, too, is folding under you

And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

All your seasick sailors, they are rowing home.

All your reindeer armies, are all going home.

The lover who just walked out your door

Has taken all his blankets from the floor.

The carpet, too, is moving under you

And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

Leave your stepping stones behind, something calls for you.

Forget the dead you've left, they will not follow you.

The vagabond who's rapping at your door

Is standing in the clothes that you once wore.

Strike another match, go start anew

And it's all over now, Baby Blue.

"I love you"

I agree with the two others who dropped Final Cut references. That's got to be one of the heaviest, most depressing albums out there. Explores the very real effects of war on a man. Good call.

Dylan again, Buckets of Rain:

Life is sad, life is a bust

All you can do, is do what you must

You do what you must do and you do it well

I do it for you, O, honeybaby can't you tell

I guess I'm now a fragment of your life to wander free, cause loosing everything is like the sun going down on me.

Saddest for me is Tom Petty "Don't Fade on Me"

I remember you so clearly

The first one through the door.

But I woke up do find you drifting

Too far from the shore.

Was it love that took you under?

Or did you know too much?

Was it something you could picture

But never could quite touch.

...then one night in desperation

a young man breaks away

He buys a gun, steals a car,

tries to run, but he don't get far

And his mama cries

As a crowd gathers 'round an angry young man

face down on the street with a gun in his hand

In the ghetto

As her young man dies,

on a cold and gray Chicago mornin',

another little baby child is born

In the ghetto

Well it's been ten years and a thousand tears

And look at the mess I'm in

A broken nose and a broken heart,

An empty bottle of gin

Well I sit and I pray

In my broken down Chevrolet

While I'm singin' to myself

There's got to be another way

[Chorus:]

Take away, take away

Take away this ball and chain

Well I'm lonely and I'm tired

And I can't take any more pain

Take away, take away

Never to return again

Take away, take away

Take away

Take away this ball and chain

Meat Loaf: "Two outta Three Ain't Bad"

"I want you, I need you, but there ain't no way I'm ever going to love you."

"My girl wants to party all the time,

Party all the time,

Part all the ti-me."

-Eddie Murphy

prinetime wrote:

john prine - sam stone

Another Prine, this one's sad, yet very funny. From "In Spite Of Ourselves," a duet with Iris DeMent.

He ain't got laid in a month of Mondays

Caught him once and he was sniffin' my undies

Here's another one of my favorites:

Poison oak, some boyhood bravery.

When a telephone was a tin can on a string.

And I fell asleep with you still talking to me....

you said you weren't afraid to die.

In polaroids you were dressed in women's clothes.

were you made ashamed? why'd you lock them in a drawer?

Well, I don't think I ever loved you more

than when you turned away and you slammed the door.

And you stole the car and drove to Mexico.

And you wrote bad checks just to fill your arm.

I was young I enough, I still believed in more......

.....Now I'm drunk as hell on a piano bench,

and when I press the keys it all gets reversed.

The sound of loneliness makes me happier.

--Bright Eyes - this kid can write some depressing stuff.

The entire song "Seasons In The Sun" (Terry Jacks) is a major drag.

"Ain't no sunshine anymore...."

I remember how she left me on a stormy night

She kissed me and got out of our bed

And though I pleaded and I begged her not to walk out that door

She packed her bags and turned right away

And she kept on telling me

She kept on telling me

She kept on telling me

I want you

I need you

But there ain't no way I'm ever gonna love you

Something Corporate, Walking By

Your granddad left home for the circus

He was young just like me, with hope to explore

He married a girl in Virginia

She could swing the trapeze, they could sleep on the floor

Your mother was born in December

On the one sunny day

That winter gave up

With warm summer eyes

That flickered like fireflies

And she stared at the world

So why do you leave these stories unfinished?

My cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes

And why do you look when you've already found it?

And what did you find that would leave you walking by?

She was raised in a New England village

Then she moved to L.A. with a firefly stare

And you loved sunset strip when it sparkled

You grew up and you sparkled, but why don't you care?

And why do you leave these stories unfinished?

My cheshire cat doorstop with tears in your eyes?

And why do you look when you've already found me?

And what did you find that could leave you walking by?

And these nights I get high just from breathing

When I lie here with you, I'm sure that I'm real

Like that firework over the freeway

I could stay here all day but that's not how you feel

So why do you leave these questions unanswered?

The circus awaits and you're already gone

My cheshire cat doorstop with fear in your smile

What makes it so easy for you to be walking by?

And what did I do that you can't seem to want me?

And why do we lie here and whisper goodbyes?

And where can I go that your pictures won't haunt me?

What makes it so easy for you to be walking by?

Walking by

Walking by