Saddest line in rock?

More Smiths:

If a ten ton truck kills the both of us

To die by your side

is such a heavenly way to die

(I always find their songs amusing, not sd)

Proclaimers:

But I would walk 500 miles

And I would walk 500 more

Just to be the man who walked 1000 miles

(So sad if someone is really willing to walk that far, Running that far is a different story though)

Rock is dead....rock is dead...

The Who

Some good tunes. A lot of these are sad, but not many are sad and angry at the same time. In that category, I will go with the Metal boys' "One." How bout these stanzas:

Dakness, imprisoning me-

all that i see.

Absolute horror.

I cannot live.

I cannot die.

Trapped in myself,

body my holding cell.

Landmine has taken my sight

taken my speech

taken my hearing

taken my arms

taken my legs

taken my soul

left me with life in hell.

Cocaine flame in my bloodstream

Sold my coat when I hit Spokane

Bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes

in the early morning rain

Lately my hands they don't feel like mine

My eyes been stung with dust and blind

Held you in my arms one time

Lost you just the same

Jolene

I like a lot of the songs and artists mentioned like Springsteen and the Smiths. But, I've also gotten rid of CDs that were good but too depressing to listen to (still have "Nebraska" but couldn't listen to "Born to Run", don't have any Smiths or Morrisey stuff anymore).

I really like a Nick Drake song that Lucinda Williams sings. It works because it makes you think of all the good things that you will miss out on in life if the one you love chooses someone else:

Which Will

Which will you go for

Which will you love

Which will you choose from

From the stars above

Which will answer

Which will you call

Which will you take for

For your one and all

Tell me now

Which will you love the best

Which do you dance for

Which makes you shine

Which will you choose now

If you won't choose mine

Which will you hope for

Which can it be

Which will you take now

If you won't take me

Tell me now

Which will you love the best

Actually, there are a ton of make-you-cry Lucinda Williams songs.

Sweet Old World

See what you lost when you left this world

This sweet old world

What you lost when you left this world

This sweet old world

The breath from your own lips

The touch of fingertips

A sweet and tender kiss

The sound of a midnight train

Wearing someone's ring

Someone calling your name

Somebody so warm

Cradled in your arm

Didn't you think you were worth anything?

Millions of us in love

Promises made good

Your own flesh and blood

Looking for some truth

Dancing with no shoes

The beat, the rhythm, the blues

The pounding of your heart's drum

Together with another one

Didn't you think anyone loved you?

A friend played the song "The Sun is Burning" by Simon and Garfunkel for me...

The sun is burning in the sky

Strands of clouds go slowly drifting by

In the park the lazy breeze

Are joining in the flowers, among the trees

And the sun burns in the sky

Now the sun is in the West

Little kids go home to take their rest

And the couples in the park

Are holdin' hands and waitin' for the dark

And the sun is in the West

Now the sun is sinking low

Children playin' know it's time to go

High above a spot appears

A little blossom blooms and then draws near

And the sun is sinking low

Now the sun has come to Earth

Shrouded in a mushroom cloud of death

Death comes in a blinding flash

Of hellish heat and leaves a smear of ash

And the sun has come to Earth

Now the sun has disappeared

All is darkness, anger, pain and fear

Twisted, sightless wrecks of men

Go groping on their knees and cry in pain

And the sun has disappeared

...

I sat there stunned.

I'll second nominations for songs and lines by John Prine, Jackson Browne, Bob Dylan, the Smiths, Lucinda Williams... has anyone mentioned Jimmy Dale Gilmore or Tom Waits?

I also like "Second Chance" by .38 Special. I don't like mainstream music and don't like to think I'm sentimental, but that song really gets to me.

Not a huge fan of Death Cab, but...

There's no blame for how our love did slowly fade

And now that it's gone it's like it wasn't there at all

And here I rest where disappointment and regret collide

Lying awake at night

NEIL YOUNG - Needle And The Damage Done Lyrics

I caught you knockin'

at my cellar door

I love you, baby,

can I have some more

Ooh, ooh, the damage done.

I hit the city and

I lost my band

I watched the needle

take another man

Gone, gone, the damage done.

I sing the song

because I love the man

I know that some

of you don't understand

Milk-blood

to keep from running out.

I've seen the needle

and the damage done

A little part of it in everyone

But every junkie's

like a settin' sun.

Other songs in Harvest album :

»Neil Young - A Man Needs A Maid Lyrics

»Neil Young - Are You Ready for The Country Lyrics

»Neil Young - Harvest Lyrics

»

There's a shadow just behind me

Shrouding every step I take

Making every promise empty

Pointing every finger at me

Waiting like a stalking butler

Who upon the finger rests

Murder now the patterns must we

Just because the son has come

Jesus won't you f***ing whistle?

Something but the past is done

Jesus won't you f***ing whistle?

Something but the past is done

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start this over

Why can't we drink forever?

I just want to start this over

I am just a worthless liar

I am just an imbecile

I will only complicate you

Trust in me and fall as well

I will find a center in you

I will chew it up and leave

I will work to elevate you

Just enough to bring you down

Mother Mary won't you whisper?

Something but the past is done

Mother Mary won't whisper?

Something but the past is done

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start this over

Why can't we sleep forever?

I just want to start this over

I am just a worthless liar

I am just an imbecile

I will only complicate you

Trust in me and fall as well

I will find a center in you

I will chew it up and leave

Trust me [repeat 5x]

Why can't we not be sober?

I just want to start this over

Why can't we f*** forever?

I just want to start this over

I want what I want [repeat 4x]

Okay, now that I'm thoroughly depressed reading all 7 pages of this thread, I've come up with m top three:

3) The Man Who Couldn't Cry by Loudon Wainwright III

There once was a man who just couldn't cry

He hadn't cried for years and for years

Napalmed babies and the movie love story

For instance could not produce tears

As a child he had cried as all children will

Then at some point his tear ducts ran dry

He grew to be a man, the feces hit the fan

Things got bad, but he couldn't cry

His dog was run over, his wife up and left him

And after that he got sacked from his job

Lost his arm in the war, was laughed at by a whore

Ah, but sill not a sniffle or sob

His novel was refused, his movie was panned

And his big Broadway show was a flop

He got sent off to jail; you guessed it, no bail

Oh, but still not a dribble or drop

In jail he was beaten, bullied and buggered

And made to make license plates

Water and bread was all he was fed

But not once did a tear stain his face

Doctors were called in, scientists, too

Theologians were last and practically least

They all agreed sure enough; this was sure no cream puff

But in fact an insensitive beast

He was removed from jail and placed in a place

For the insensitive and the insane

He played lots of chess and made lots of friends

And he wept every time it would rain

Once it rained forty days and it rained forty nights

And he cried and he cried and he cried and he cried

On the forty-first day, he passed away

He just dehydrated and died

Well, he went up to heaven, located his dog

Not only that, but he rejoined his arm

Down below, all the critics, they loot it all back

Cancer robbed the whore of her charm

His ex-wife died of stretch marks, his ex-employer went broke

The theologians were finally found out

Right down to the ground, that old jail house burned down

The earth suffered perpetual drought

#2 Wreck on the Highway by Bruce Springsteen

Last night I was out driving

Coming home at the end of the working day

I was riding alone through the drizzling rain

On a deserted stretch of a county two-lane

When I came upon a wreck on the highway

There was blood and glass all over

And there was nobody there but me

As the rain tumbled down hard and cold

I seen a young man lying by the side of the road

He cried Mister, won't you help me please

An ambulance finally came and took him to Riverside

I watched as they drove him away

And I thought of a girlfriend or a young wife

And a state trooper knocking in the middle of the night

To say your baby died in a wreck on the highway

Sometimes I sit up in the darkness

And I watch my baby as she sleeps

Then I climb in bed and I hold her tight

I just lay there awake in the middle of the night

Thinking 'bout the wreck on the highway

# 1) But my all time saddest LINE has to be the line from Don McLean's Tapestry;

"As soft as farwells whispered over a coffin..."

The Rape Of The World Lyrics

Mother of us all

Place of our birth

How can we stand aside

And watch the rape of the world

This the beginning of the end

This the most heinous of crimes

This the deadliest of sins

The greatest violation of all time

Mother of us all

Place of our birth

We all are witness

To the rape of the world

You've seen her stripped mined

You've heard of bombs exploded underground

You know the sun shines

Hotter than ever before

Mother of us all

Place of our birth

We all are witness

To the rape of the world

Some claim to have crowned her

A queen

With cities of concrete and steel

But there is no glory no honor

In what results

From the rape of the world

Mother of us all

Place of our birth

We all are witness

To the rape of the world

She has been clear-cut

She has been dumped on

She has been poisoned and beaten up

And we have been witness

To the rape of the world

Mother of us all

Place of our birth

How can we stand aside

And watch the rape of the world

If you look you'll see it with your own eyes

If you listen you will hear her cries

If you care you will stand and testify

And stop the rape of the world

Stop the rape of the world

Mother of us all

Mother of us all

Mother of us all

Mother of us all...

dean moriarty wrote:

How about the Smiths?

I love you only slightly,

only slightly less,

than I used to, my love

As for all of you tools posting entire song lyrics, do you seriously think anybody is reading them?

Makes no difference if your early. Makes no diffence if your late. When you're out of time. The flowers have been laid. Now you don't have to read all the lyrics Dancing Fool. Cold Feet Lyrics

Tracy Chapman

There was a little boy once upon a time

Who in spite of his young age and small size knew his mind

For every copper penny and clover he would find

Make a wish for better days, the end of hard times

For no more cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

His clothes were always clean

His face was always scrubbed

There was food on the table, enough to fill him up

His house was full of life, his house was full of love

But when winter days arrived there was never

Money enough to shod his cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

He grew up to be a worker determined to succeed

He made a life for himself

Free from worldly wants or needs

But with nobody to share the life he'd made

No body to keep him warm at night

When he'd go to sleep - he'd sleep alone

With his cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

One night he walked the streets

Looking to the heavens above

Searching for a shooting star, a benevolent God

When a woman passing by brushed his arm

He turned and found love

He then wished for the courage to ask this stranger who she was

To not have cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

One year later he stood beside her

He vowed "I'll give you everything you want"

She said "I'll take some love from my heart to keep your body warm"

"You won't have cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet"

He thought she'd like the party life

And want the finer things

So he promised more than he could buy

And he'd promise her the sun and moon

To not have cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

He worked day and night his fingers to the bone

His worried mind guilty conscience drive him on

He can give her what she needs

He wants to give her what he thinks she wants

Her sad-eyed face

His empty pockets drive him on

And his cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

He'd struggled all his life to be an honest man

Proud that the dirt on his palms was the soil of the land

But some guys he knew from high school

Said they had a plan to get rich quick

And they could count him in

If he don't have cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

He thought about their offer

Accepted it without qualms

Dreamt about the life he'd buy

The comfort that would come

Without cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet

He decided to drive the car

He decided to carry the gun

To take the biggest risk of all

To prove his loyalty to his friends

He decided to tell his wife

Things would soon turn around

He said "the little boy is dead, a man stands with you now

Without cold feet - cold, cold, cold, cold feet"

He thought he'd set his clock right

He thought he'd read his watch

He left in such a hurry

He didn't think to wish for luck

Makes no difference if you're early

No difference if you're late

When you're out of time

The flowers have been laid

You're six feet underground

With cold feet - cold,cold cold, cold feet

'Girlfriend in a Coma' - The Smiths

Here's another one:

The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down

Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumee

Superior, they say, never gives up her dead

When the gales of November come early.

Neil Young

Came dancin' across the water,

Cortez, Cortez,

what a killer...