Saddest Song in all Genres of Music?

Anyone here the new song by the The Bravery called Time Won't Let Me GO. The last single this bad had annoyed the hell out of me, but I think this one is pretty decent and sad.

Fool on the Hill-Beatles

My mummy's dead

I can't get it through my head

Though it's been so many years

My mummy's dead

I can't explain

So much pain

I could never show it

My mummy's dead

Ruby Tuesday

My vote goes to Richard Manuel of "The Band" on 'Music from the big pink' singing LONESOME SUZIE.

your know your right

NIRVANA

I agree with the Death Cab songs. Listening to Plans for the first time was a painful experience.

I'll also agree with the already-posted "Tears in Heaven" by Eric Clapton, "Cat's in the Cradle" by Harry Chapin, "You Never Know" by Immortal Technique, and add a new one: the whole album I'm Alive by Jackson Browne, especially the song "Sky Blue and Black."

Iris Goo Goo Dolls

One Last Breath Creed

Here are 4 other Lennon songs to make you feel really down.

"God"

God is a concept,

By which we can measure,

Our pain,

I'll say it again,

God is a concept,

By which we can measure,

Our pain,

I don't believe in magic,

I don't believe in I-ching,

I don't believe in bible,

I don't believe in tarot,

I don't believe in Hitler,

I don't believe in Jesus,

I don't believe in Kennedy,

I don't believe in Buddha,

I don't believe in mantra,

I don't believe in Gita,

I don't believe in yoga,

I don't believe in kings,

I don't believe in Elvis,

I don't believe in Zimmerman,

I don't believe in Beatles,

I just believe in me,

Yoko and me,

And that's reality.

The dream is over,

What can I say?

The dream is over,

Yesterday,

I was dreamweaver,

But now I'm reborn,

I was the walrus,

But now I'm John,

And so dear friends,

You just have to carry on,

The dream is over.

"Mother"

Mother, you had me but I never had you,

I wanted you but you didn't want me,

So I got to tell you,

Goodbye, goodbye.

Farther, you left me but I never left you,

I needed you but you didn't need me,

So I got to tell you,

Goodbye, goodbye.

Children, don't do what I have done,

I couldn't walk and I tried to run,

So I got to tell you,

Goodbye, goodbye.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home.

Mama don't go,

Daddy come home...

"Isolation"

People say we got it made

Don't they know we're so afraid?

Isolation

We're afraid to be alone

Everybody got to have a home

Isolation

Just a boy and a little girl

Trying to change the whole wide world

Isolation

The world is just a little town

Everybody trying to put us down

Isolation

I don't expect you to understand

After you've caused so much pain

But then again, you're not to blame

You're just a human, a victim of the insane

We're afraid of everyone

Afraid of the sun

Isolation

The sun will never disappear

But the world may not have many years

Isolation

"Scared"

I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared,

I'm scared, so scared.

I'm scared, I'm scared, I'm scared,

As the years roll away,

And the price that I paid,

And the straws slips away.

You don't have to suffer,

It is what it is,

No bell book or candle,

Can get you out of this, oh no!

I'm scarred, I'm scarred, I'm scarred.

I'm scarred, uh huh,

I'm scarred, I'm scarred, I'm scarred.

Every day of my life,

I just manage to survive,

I just wanna stay alive.

You don't have to worry,

In heaven or hell,

Just dance to the music,

You do it so well, well, well!

Hatred and jealousy, gonna be the death of me,

I guess I knew it right from the start,

Sing out about love and peace,

Don't wanna see the red raw meat,

The green eyed goddamn straight from your heart.

I'm tired, I'm tired, I'm tired,

Of being so alone,

No place to call my own,

Like a rollin' stone.

"One for My Baby" performed by Frank Sinatra and written by Johnny Mercer and Harold Arlen.

"Operator (That's Not the Way it Feels)" performed and written by Jim Croce.

wake me up when September ends by green day is the saddest to me... but that is because my fiance broke up with me in september, not long after the song came out. so, the context has a lot to do with it.

How about Dropkick Murphy's cover of "Green Hills of France"?

So sad

"I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel

"Iris" by the Goo Goo Dolls

DON McLEAN

Vincent

Starry, starry night

Paint your palette blue and gray

Look out on a summer's day

With eyes that know the darkness in my soul

Shadows on the hills

Sketch the trees and daffodils

Catch the breeze and the winter chills

In colors on the snowy linen land

Now I understand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

How you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps, they'll listen now

Starry, starry night

Flaming flowers that brightly blaze

Swirling clouds in violet haze

Reflect in Vincent's eyes of china blue

Colors changing hue

Morning fields of amber grain

Weathered faces lined in pain

Are soothed beneath the artist's loving hand

Now I understand what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

And how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they did not know how

Perhaps, they'll listen now

For they could not love you

And still your love was true

And when no hope was left inside

on that starry, starry night

You took your life as lovers often do

But I could have told you, Vincent

This world was never meant

for one as beautiful as you

Starry, starry night

Portraits hung in empty hall

Frameless heads on nameless walls

With eyes that watch the world and can't forget

Like the strangers that you've met

The ragged man in ragged clothes

The silver thorn of bloody rose

Lie crushed and broken on the virgin snow

Now I think I know what you tried to say to me

How you suffered for your sanity

Then how you tried to set them free

They would not listen, they're not listening still

Perhaps, they never will

everybody hurts - REM

you're beautiful - james blunt

25mins to go - johnny Cash

Mary of the wild moor - johnny cash

My moher used to read me this poem when I was a child...sooo sad.

There's nothing sadder than losing your dog (firmly gripping my can of pepper spray).

SHANNON

WORDS AND MUSIC BY HENRY GROSS

@1976 BLENDINGWELL, ASCAP

ANOTHER DAY IS AT END

MAMA SAYS SHE'S TIRED AGAIN

NO ONE CAN EVEN BEGIN TO TELL HER

I HARDLY KNOW WHAT TO SAY

BUT MAYBE IT'S BETTER THAT WAY

IF PAPA WERE HERE I'M SURE HE'D TELL HER

SHANNON IS GONE I HOPE SHE'S DRIFTING OUT TO SEA

SHE ALWAYS LOVED TO SWIM AWAY

MAYBE SHE'LL FIND AN ISLAND WITH A SHADY TREE

JUST LIKE THE ONE IN OUR BACKYARD

MAMA TRIES HARD TO PRETEND THINGS WILL GET

BETTER AGAIN

SOMEHOW SHE'S KEEPING IT ALL INSIDE HER

BUT FINALLY THE TEARS FILL OUR EYES

AND I KNOW THAT SOMEWHERE TONIGHT

SHE KNOWS HOW MUCH WE REALLY MISS HER

SHANNON IS GONE I HOPE SHE'S DRIFTING OUT TO SEA

SHE ALWAYS LOVED TO SWIM AWAY

MAYBE SHE'LL FIND AN ISLAND WITH A SHADY TREE

JUST LIKE THE ONE IN OUR BACKYARD

JUST LIKE THE ONE IN OUR BACKYARD

Hurt by Nine Inch Nails has to be mentioned. Johnny Cash's version is pretty solid as well.

I can't believe it... 8 pages and nobody's mentioned Elinor Rigby?