what are the most saddest songs you have ever heard?

Anything in Dm. It's the saddest of all keys. I don't know why, but it makes people weep instantly if you play it.

eagles - sad cafe

Telemann's Concerto in D for Trumpet is another good one.

love always remains - mgmt

second nomination for "Runaway Train" by Soul Asylum

didnt read the whole thread...but the Ataris wrote a song called "the saddest song".

the pipes are calling wrote:

Danny Boy

Definitely!

Gary Jules-- "Mad World"

Dido-- "Here with me"

TLC-- "Waterfalls"

Sad: Girlfriend in a Coma, Smiths

Depressing: Epitaph, King Crimson

for you boomers...."Alone again, naturally" Gilbert O'Sullivan....everything bad happens to this guy in the song.

Wombat in my Pants wrote:

Telemann's Concerto in D for Trumpet is another good one.

There is a Telemann piece Concerto for Flute and Oboe I believe, I heard years ago. I've lost the exact title..not sad exactly but the oboe voice positivly weeps at points.

The poster that mentioned TAPS might be the thread ender.

Day is done,gone the sun

From the hills,from the lake

From the sky.

All is well, safely rest,

God is nigh.

Fades the light; And afar

Goeth day, And the stars

Shineth bright,

Fare thee well; Day has gone,

Night is on.

Thanks and praise, For our days,

'Neath the sun, Neath the stars,

'Neath the sky,

As we go, This we know,

God is nigh.

Saddest is superlative. What's with the most? C'mon, know your English language.

"Everybody Hurts" by R.E.M. I don't even know if that's the name of the song or just the main verse.

Actually it's the sappiest song I've ever heard, and R.E.M. sucks soggy asses.

70s guy wrote:

for you boomers...."Alone again, naturally" Gilbert O'Sullivan....everything bad happens to this guy in the song.

In a little while from now,

If I'm not feeling any less sour

I promised myself to treat myself

And visit a nearby tower,

And climbing to the top,

Will throw myself off

In an effort to make it clear to who

Ever what it's like when your shattered

Left 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

To think that only yesterday,

I was cheerful, bright and gay,

Looking forward to, but who wouldn't do,

The role I was about to play

But as if to knock me down,

Reality came around

And without so much as a mere touch,

Cut me into little pieces

Leaving me to doubt,

Talk about God and His mercy

For if He really does exist

Why did He desert me

In my hour of need?

I truly am indeed,

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?

(instrumental break)

Alone again, naturally

Now looking back over the years,

And what ever else that appears

I remember I cried when my father died

Never wishing to hide the tears

And at sixty-five 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

Alone again, naturally

He Went To Paris - Jimmy Buffett

http://www.last.fm/music/Jimmy+Buffett/_/He+Went+to+Paris

By: jimmy buffett

1973

He went to paris lookin’ for answers

To questions that bothered him so

He was impressive, young and aggressive

Savin’ the world on his own

But the warm summer breezes

The french wines and cheeses

Put his ambition at bay

The summers and winters

Scattered like splinters

And four or five years slipped away

Then he went to england, played the piano

And married an actress named kim

They had a fine life, she was a good wife

And bore him a young son named jim

And all of the answers and all of the questions

Locked in his attic one day

’cause he liked the quiet clean country livin’

And twenty more years slipped away

Well the war took his baby, the bombs killed his lady

And left him with only one eye

His body was battered, his whole world was shattered

And all he could do was just cry

While the tears were a-fallin’ he was recallin’

Answers he never found

So he hopped on a freighter, skidded the ocean

And left england without a sound

Now he lives in the islands, fishes the pilin’s

And drinks his green label each day

Writing his memoirs, losin’ his hearin’

But he don’t care what most people say

Through eighty-six years of perpetual motion

If he likes you he’ll smile and he’ll say

Jimmy, some of it’s magic, some of it’s tragic

But I had a good life all the way

Coda:

And he went to paris lookin’ for answers

To questions that bothered him so

clindsey wrote:

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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ua3YzTLGDW4

Damn good call.

i love bison burgers wrote:

Harry Chapin- Cat in the Cradle

Yes. This is the first one that popped into my mind. Other songs may be sad, but there is something really depressing about the realistic factor, and the fact that they were never really close, that their relationship was a lifelong thing wasted in a way. Ugh. Amazing song though.

Dry Your Eyes by The Streets

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHOf3s70w-c

Nothing by me, that's for sure.

But here are a few:

'Best Ever Death Metal Band out of Denton' Mountain Goats

'West Palm Beach' Palace Music

'Horses' Sally Timms (Mekons) original, Palace Music version

'I See a Darkness' Bonnie 'Prince' Billy (Johnny Cash cover especially)

'Innocent When you Dream' Tom Waits

'Racing in the Street' Springsteen

'Dry Lightning' Springsteen

'Something in the Night' Springsteen

'Darkness on the Edge of Town' Springsteen

'Desperados Waiting for a Train (lots of versions)

'Here Comes a Regular' Replacements

'Dallas' Silver Jews

'Pancho and Lefty' Townes van Zandt (not the Willie Nelson version)

'Coalminer' Uncle Tupelo

'Whiskey Bottle' Uncle Tupelo

Many Velvet Underground songs

'Via Chicago' Wilco

'I am Trying to Break Your Heart' Wilco

Agree with Cats in the Cradle by Harry Chapin.

Something is so depressing about the realism of the song, and the fact that the son and dad were never close, and that their relationship was shallow and almost wasted in a way. Ugh. Amazing song though.