Saddest line in rock?

Commander Anderson: Have you ever been in a combat situation?

Stanley Goodspeed: Define combat, sir.

Commander Anderson: Shep...

Lt. Shephard: An incursion underwater to retake an impregnable fortress held by an elite team of US Marines in possession of 81 hostages and fifteen guided rockets armed with VX poison gas.

Stanley Goodspeed: Oh. In that case, no, sir.

And every time I've held a rose

It seems I only felt the thorns

And so it goes, and so it goes

And so will you soon I suppose

But if my silence made you leave

Then that would be my worst mistake

So I will share this room with you

And you can have this heart to break

And this is why my eyes are closed

It's just as well for all I've seen

And so it goes, and so it goes

And you're the only one who knows

So I would choose to be with you

That's if the choice were mine to make

But you can make decisions too

And you can have this heart to break

the Cure "Disintegration"... take your pick.

Across Five Aprils- A year from now

Complete and total adoration,

My gift to you, my heart was yours.

In ten weeks you shaped it,

In one night you murdered it.

Torn from my chest and laid at your feet,

That first step that you took was the worst.

Since then you've walked a thousand miles in silence and short remark,

And I still have these memories,

But we'll never see what we could have been.

Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?

Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?

Remember. cause that's all you can do.

We'll never make another memory,

We'll never make another memory.

I wish I'd have died in your arms the last time we were together,

So I wouldn't have to wake without you today.

This time I thought things were real.

You said they were.

What happened?

You were a priority,

Was I an option?

I let you see a side of me that I don't share with anyone.

Promises are just words unless they are fulfilled.

you knew from the beginning all I had to offer you was my heart,

I'm sorry that wasn't enough.

So, we'll go our own ways,

And hopefully you'll remember the things I've told you,

Hopefully you'll understand that everything I said was in sincerity.

A broken heart is not what I wanted from this,

But I guess I've learned from it.

But aren't you supposed to learn from your mistakes?

I don't consider this a mistake,

I just wish the story didn't end this way,

Cause I'm still in love with the person who helped me write it.

Remember when you held my hand like you'd never let it go?

Remember when we talked about where we'd be a year from now?

Casimir Pulaski Day by Sufjan Stevens

Golden rod and the 4-H stone

The things I brought you

When I found out you had cancer of the bone

Your father cried on the telephone

And he drove his car to the Navy yard

Just to prove that he was sorry

In the morning through the window shade

When the light pressed up against your shoulder blade

I could see what you were reading

Oh the glory that the lord has made

And the complications you could do without

When I kissed you on the mouth

Tuesday night at the bible study

We lift our hands and pray over your body

But nothing ever happens

I remember at Michael's house

In the living room when you kissed my neck

And I almost touched your blouse

In the morning at the top of the stairs

When your father found out what we did that night

And you told me you were scared

Oh the glory when you ran outside

With your shirt tucked in and your shoes untied

And you told me not to follow you

Sunday night when I cleaned the house

I find the card where you wrote it out

With the pictures of your mother

On the floor at the great divide

With my shirt tucked in and my shoes untied

I am crying in the bathroom

In the morning when you finally go

And the nurse runs in with her head hung low

And the cardinal hits the window

In the morning in the winter shade

On the first of March on the holiday

I thought I saw you breathing

Oh the glory that the lord has made

And the complications when I see his face

In the morning in the window

Oh the glory when he took our place

But he took my shoulders and he shook my face

And he takes and he takes and he takes

The last one Marvin Gaye snorted.

From the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.

Cat Stevens - Father and Son

Sing Me Back Home is a Merle Haggard tune. Nice choice though. GD on 8/27/72 is among the best of many good ones.

I'd like to nominate a Hunter/Garcia composition, here's an excerpt from Days Between:

There were days

and there were days

and there were days between

polished like a golden bowl

the finest ever seen

Hearts of Summer held in trust

still tender, young and green

left on shelves collecting dust

not knowing what they mean

valentines of flesh and blood

as soft as velveteen

hoping love would not forsake

the days that lie between

lie between

It's cold gin time again.

You know it's the only thing

that keeps us together.

Kiss "Cold Gin"

"the dreams in which I'm dying are the best I ever had"

- "Mad World"

Maybe it's just the context of the movie (Donnie Darko) that pimped this for the soundtrack but this is frigging grim de la grim if'n you ask me!

The end of paralysis, I was a statuette

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

'You're mother's got a penis'

Goldie Lookin' Chain

hands down this next line.....

"so is that what you call a getaway? tell me what you got away with

cuz i've seen more spine in jellyfish, i've seen more guts in 11 yr. old kids

so have another drink and drive yourself home, i hope there's ice on all the roads

i hope you think of me when you forget your seatbelt and again when your head goes through the windshield"

--Brand New

I carved your name into my eyelids

You pray for rain, I pray for blindness

-Arcade Fire "Crown of Love"

My vote is for MAD WORLD (the gary jules version, not the tears for fears version) and LONG BLACK VEIL by Cash....which doubles as saddest love song as well

L.O.A. wrote:

The river runs red and I think I'm dyin'

The river runs red and I think I'm dyin'...

Hells yeah on the Life of Agony. How about:

In the stillness of the night

My eyes are closed

My mouth is wide

I could see her face

Her beautiful hair

I could recognize

She looks at me cold

She probably don't know how I am

Mommy it's me

It's Keith

You had me back when

But sometimes I like to pretend

That she knows me

That she holds me

But sometimes I like to pretend

That she knows me

That she holds me

I guess I can't

Because she doesn't know who I am

Pick a line from this song. I think this one is the saddest.

"And all your money, won't another minute buy."

Dust In the Wind.

-Kansas

I'm never gonna dance again, guilty feet have got no rhythm.

Wham! - Careless Whisper

"Big bottoms. Big Bottoms. Talk about mud flaps, my girl's got 'em. Big Bottoms drive me out of my mind. How can I leave this behind?"

- Spinal Tap

Brings a tear to the eye every time.