Saddest line in rock?

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun. In somebody else's sky, but why

Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

Pearl Jam - Black

In a little while from now

if I'm not feeling any less sour

I promise myself to treat myself

and visit a nearby tower

climbing to the top

will throw myself off

in an effort to make it clear to whomever

what it's like when you're shattered

standing in the lurch

at a church where people saying

"My God, that's tough she stood him up

No point in us remaining

we may as well go home"

as I did on my own

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?

looking back over the years

and whatever else sad appears

I remember I cried when my father died

never wishing to hide my tears

and at 65 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.

Remember when you were young?

You shone like the sun.

Shine on, you crazy diamond.

I know this thread is getting old, but has it really gone all these pages and no Nirvana/Cobain Lyrics??? The guy blew his head off and wanted his last album to be called " I hate myself and want to die." (he was overruled by record company, but did name a song that.) Yeah, he had some sad lyrics. Here are a few:

"

I'm not like them

But I can pretend

The sun is gone

But I have a light

The day is done

But I'm having fun

I think I'm dumb

or maybe just happy

My heart is broke

But I have some glue

help me inhale

And mend it with you

We'll float around

And hang out on clouds

Then we'll come down

And have a hangover... have a hangover

Skin the sun

Fall asleep

Wish away

The soul is cheap

Lesson learned

Wish me luck

Soothe the burn

Wake me up

I'm not like them

But I can pretend

The sun is gone

But I have a light

The day is done

But I'm having fun

I think I'm dumb>"

"Now I know a disease that these

Doctors can’t treat.

You contract it the day you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it

can be. A reflection of something we’re missing."

--Bright Eyes

"Men cut marble to mark our graves. Saying that we will need something to remind us of all the

sweetness that has passed through us (fresh sangria and lemon tea). The priests dressed

children for a choir (white-robed small voices praise Him) but found no joy in what was sung. The

funeral had begun"

the whole song "Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh" by Bright Eyes is pretty sad.

Also:

"Love is watching, someone die"

--Death Cab for Cutie

... All I know is something like a bird within her sang

... All I know she sang a little while and then flew off

Bird Song by Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia (written for Janis Joplin)

Haligh Haligh wrote:"Men cut marble to mark our graves. Saying that we will need something to remind us of all the

sweetness that has passed through us (fresh sangria and lemon tea). The priests dressed

children for a choir (white-robed small voices praise Him) but found no joy in what was sung. The

funeral had begun"

You can't quote that and then leave out the last couple lines:

...in the middle of the day

when you drive home to your place

from the job that makes you sleep

back to the thoughts that keep you awake

long after night has come to claim any light

that still remains in the corner of the frame

that you put around her face.

Two pills just weren't enough.

The alarm clock is going off but you're not waking up.

This isn't happening. It is.

'I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?'

Loser by ?

puzzled wrote:

You thought "Born to Run" was more depressing, to the point of getting rid of it even, than "Nebraska"???

I didn't have them at the same time, so maybe my tastes changed, but yeah. I don't really remember what was on "Born to Run" anymore, just that I never wanted to listen to it - probably because I couldn't identify with it as well. Sad music is good if I can identify with it. It doesn't have to be a situation that I've been in, one that I can imagine works too. But saddness (or anger) that I can't identify with is just blah. Or maybe it was something else?

Haligh Haligh wrote:

"Now I know a disease that these

Doctors can’t treat.

You contract it the day you accept all you see is a mirror and a mirror is all it

can be. A reflection of something we’re missing."

--Bright Eyes

"Men cut marble to mark our graves. Saying that we will need something to remind us of all the

sweetness that has passed through us (fresh sangria and lemon tea). The priests dressed

children for a choir (white-robed small voices praise Him) but found no joy in what was sung. The

funeral had begun"

the whole song "Haligh, Haligh, a Lie, Haligh" by Bright Eyes is pretty sad.

Also:

"Love is watching, someone die"

--Death Cab for Cutie

I would say the whole Feavers and Mirrors album by Bright Eyes is pretty much sucidal.

South Tacoma Way (Neko Case)

I put on that sweater you gave me

I woke up in the kitchen a few minutes later

I didn't know how I had gotten there

Did you guide me

I didn't make it to your funeral

I didn't want ritual nor resign

I just wanted to hold hands with

J.P and Mary-Jo

But I couldn't conjure tears

We're too good for stupid angels

Blackness held its breath beside me

And burned the air till it was gone

Till it was gone

Till it was gone

Couldn't pay my respects to a dead man

Your life was much more to me

And I chased away with sticks and stones

But that rage kept following me

Following Me

Following Me

So lost I was asleep in the palms of your hand

In dreams we were happy and safe

I can't comprehend the ways I miss you

They come to light in my mistakes

In my mistakes

In my mistakes

Now I'm travelling down Tacoma way

And the world turns in slow motion

It's the twilight of our old home

And I'm still in love with you

Oh here on South Tacoma way

We've memories for matinees

And the tears come warm and heavy

And the cross streets bare your name

And the cross streets bare your name

After 9/11 - pick just about ANYTHING from The Rising

YOU"RE MISSING

Pictures on the nightstand, TV's on in the den

Your house is waiting, your house is waiting

For you to walk in, for you to walk in

But you're missing, you're missing

You're missing when I shut out the lights

You're missing when I close my eyes

You're missing when I see the sun rise

You're missing

EMPTY SKY

I woke up this morning

I could barely breathe

Just an empty impression

In the bed where you used to be

I want a kiss from your lips

I want an eye for an eye

I woke up this morning to the empty sky

INTO THE FIRE

The sky was falling and streaked with blood

I heard you calling me then you disappeared into the dust

Up the stairs, into the fire

Up the stairs, into the fire

I need your kiss, but love and duty called you someplace higher

Somewhere up the stairs into the fire

CITY OF RUINS

Now's there's tears on the pillow

Darlin' where we slept

And you took my heart when you left

Without your sweet kiss

My soul is lost, my friend

Tell me how do I begin again?

My city's in ruins

My city's in ruins

LONESOME DAY

Once I thought I knew

Everything I needed to know about you

Your sweet whisper, Your tender touch

But I didn't really know that much

Joke's on me, It's gonna be okay

If I can just get through this lonesome day

Even now I think about her

As I'm climbing up the stairs,

And I try to hide the tears,

So she won't see.

Chuck Berry

I couldn't undo her safety belt

Since whole box sets are now apparently included, here are a few brief words from Dire Straits "Telegraph Road"

You know I'd sooner forget but I remember those nights

when life was just a bet on a race between the lights

you had your head on my shoulder you had your hand in my hair

now you act a little colder like you don't seem to care

but believe in me baby and I'll take you away

from out of this darkness and into the day

from these rivers of headlights these rivers of rain

from the anger that lives on the streets with these names

'cos I've run every red light on memory lane

I've seen desperation explode into flames

and I don't want to see it again. . .

From all of these signs saying sorry but we're closed

all the way down the telegraph road

Wolf Parade:

I got a number on me

I got a number

Won't make it through the high noon sun

I am my father's son

I am my father's son

His bed is made

I was a hero

Early in the morning

I ain't no hero

In the night

I am my father's son

And I'll build a house inside of you

I'll go in through the mouth

I'll draw three figures on your heart

One of them will be me as a boy

One of them will be me

One of them will be me watching you run

Watching you run

Into the high noon sun

Watching you run

Farther than guns will go

You are a runner

With a stolen voice

And you are a runner

And I am my father's son

I am my father's son

'I'm a loser baby, so why don't you kill me?'

Loser by ?

The very underrated Beck.

When all else fails We can whip the horses' eyes

Does she really love that man"? I think the song was done by Breathe.