what are the most saddest songs you have ever heard?

I LOVE HALF TIGHTS wrote:

"Hurt" - Trent Reznor

Agree totally with the song but I think Johhny Cash has Trent beat on the sadness factor.

"Ugly" by Cold

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bdOEx0r8kFo

"Symphony for a Mad" World by The Killer and The Star

Ugly is definitely my favorite song

"Ugly"

All the world loves things of beauty and intrigue

These 2 things I've never had one

Born in this old skin. I'm too sick I can't win

I've lived with this damage 2 long

My eyes can't behold it I cannot control

This this feeling that's left in my heart

I've never done no wrong. I don't deserve these bones

Please burn up this sin when I'm gone

And I said that this is ugly to me

The world is ugly to me

You are ugly to me

And I am ugly to me

I haven't become all I want to be

I haven't become anything I need to be

I haven't become all I want to be Suffocate with me

I haven't become anything

Suffer

Why can't you look, why can't you look at me

See what I see

Why can't you feel, why can't you feel like

Me feel what I feel

Why can't you hurt, why can't you hurt like me

Taste the pain I feel

Why must I die, why must I die for you

It's the ugly truth Well it's ugly

It's making me painless

A vote for Elinor Rigby, by the Beatles. I probably already nominated it on that other thread, but I forget.

Without a doubt this is the saddest.

I always think that one about the angels sounds really sad. I'm never sure what she is saying, something about, "In the arms of the angels..." but it just sounds sad as hell.

Seasons in the Sun

HappyCamper wrote:

Not lyrically,exactly, but just the way it sounds.

And what are some of the saddest song by lyrics?

He Stopped Loving Her Today by George Jones

REM - Everybody Hurts

That songs just make me go blah.....

Toni Fisher's 50 year old Techno-pop/electronica masterpiece

The Big Hurt still makes my heartache.

Marvin can sing a sad song too----

One more heartache I can't take it

My heart is carrying such a heavy load

One more ache would break it

Just like a camel with a heavy pack

One last straw I tell ya

I said it broke the camel's back

Assh, aaah

I can't take it

I can't stand it

One more heartache

It would turn me right around

First you build my hopes up high

And then let me down

Like a house you built with toothpicks

Stacked upon the kitchen table

One last toothpick falling down

The foundation was not able

Aaah, aaaah

I can't take it

I can't take it

Mmm, now, now baby

One more heartache

Would just seem too much load

I'm fed up with the heartache

One more and I'll explode

Like a toy balloon that's filled

With as much air as it can take

One more cup of air and

That balloon has got to break

Aaah, aaah,

I can't take it

I can't stand it

it's so hard

Without a love, without a love

Oh baby, can't take another one

Roy Orbison pick one- there is a very good chance it's sad-

wife dies in motorcycle crash then kids die in fire 2 year later- he can sing sad-- big time.

Thom says he usually has to close shows with this song because he becomes so overwhelmed with sadness and depression when he sings it that he usually cannot continue. Look up the acoustic performance he did of this song with Johnny, incredible.

Bobby Golsboro's "Honey"

See the tree, how big it's grown

But friend it hasn't been too long

It wasn't big

I laughed at her and she got mad

The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

Then the first snow came

And she ran out to brush the snow away

So it wouldn't die

Came runnin' in all excited

Slipped and almost hurt herself

And I laughed till I cried

She was always young at heart

Kinda dumb and kinda smart and I loved her so

And I surprised her with a puppy

Kept me up all Christmas Eve two years ago

And it would sure embarrass her

When I came in from workin' late

'Cause I would know

That she'd been sittin' there and cryin'

Over some sad and silly late, late show

And honey, I miss you

And I'm bein' good

And I'd love to be with you

If only I could

She wrecked the car and she was sad

And so afraid that I'd be mad

But what the heck

Though I pretended hard to be

Guess you could say she saw through me

And hugged my neck

I came home unexpectedly

And caught her cryin' needlessly

In the middle of the day

And it was in the early Spring

When flowers bloom and robins sing

She went away

And honey, I miss you

And I'm bein' good

And I'd love to be with you

If only I could

One day while I was not at home

While she was there and all alone

The angels came

Now all I have is memories of Honey

And I wake up nights and call her name

Now my life's an empty stage

Where Honey lived and Honey played

And love grew up

And a small cloud passes overhead

And cries down on the flower bed

That Honey loved

And see the tree how big it's grown

But friend it hasn't been too long

It wasn't big

And I laughed at her and she got mad

The first day that she planted it, was just a twig

Come, Sweet Death by Bach

You Never Even Call Me By My Name by David Allen Coe

I was drunk the day mamma got out of prison

And I went to pick her up in the rain

But by the time I could get to the prison in the pick up truck

She got run over by a dang ole train.

Sad, sad, sad.

Soul Asylum-Runaway Train

Led Zep-The Rain Song

RHCP-Scar Tissue

The Boss-Streets of Fire and Darkness on the Edge of Town

Danny Boy

SOCIETY from INTO THE WILD

The saddest melody in the world is "Taps."

"Amazing Grace" comes close, especially when played by bagpipes.

Both of these will ALWAYS make me choke up; probably because they seem to be played at sad events and I can't listen to those songs at any other time either.

Hypocrisy - Slippin' Away

From a crazy death metal band, this sits high up on the 'sad songs' list - both musically and lyrically.

Forest of Shadows - Eternal Autumn

Guns N Roses - Coma

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

Alan Parsons Project - Old And Wise

Steely Dan - Charlie Freak

You are an emotionless robot if "Old And Wise" does not get to you.

Townes Van Zandt - Tecumseh Valley