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SAD SONGS
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pumpkins said on January 23, 2005 23:32:
which song breaks your heart and why?
frisso said on January 24, 2005 10:43:
rem: drive
guano apes: anne claire
sting: fragile
roxette: watercolours in the rain
alanis m.: uninvited
i just love sad songs. i can’t even listen to watercolours in the rain without getting emotional
eBay said on January 24, 2005 11:16:
@frissco
Watercolours is my all time fav Roxette song!!!! Very different & timeless.
pumpkins said on January 24, 2005 12:22:
the scientist by coldplay. I split up with the one person I truly loved and ever will love. I thought i wanted to go in a diferent direction. it was a mistake and i still regret it.
eBay said on January 24, 2005 13:40:
@pumkins
I feel ya with this one! Years after I had broken up with probably the Love of my life (we had been together for 5 years) I listened to that song for the first time. I was sitting in the car with a friend, both uf us fell silent and just really listened to the lyrics when that song came on and afterwards I felt like shit!!!!
RoxHard said on January 26, 2005 04:48:
Cat Power “Names”.
It’s just a very beautiful, heartfelt, depressing song. Just Cat Power with a piano, and the following lyrics... I strongly suggest to EVERYONE here to go and find it!
Verse #1:
His name was Perry.
He had a learning difficulty.
His father was a very mean man,
his father burned his skin.
His father sent him to his death.
He was 10 years old.
Verse #2:
Her name was Naomi.
Beautiful round face, so ashamed.
Told me how to please a man
after school in the back of the bus.
She was doing it every day.
She was 11 years old.
Verse #3:
Her name was Cheryl.
Black hair like electric space.
She would pretty paint my face.
She was a very good friend.
Her father would come to her in the night.
She was 12 years old.
Verse #4:
His name was Donovan.
He was a very good friend.
The cards were stacked agaisnt him.
He was selling cocaine.
The last time i saw him
he was 13 years old.
Verse #5:
His name was Charles.
He said he was in love with me.
We were both 14.
Then I had to move away.
Than he began to smoke crack.
Then he had to sell ass.
I dont know where he is.
I dont know where they are.
I’m not usually the crying type. I think there are only 2 songs that I’ve ever cried to. Song #1 was R.E.M.’s Daysleeper - and that was just because I could relate to the lyrics at a really crappy time. This song by Cat Power... it’s just heart-wrenching to have to listen to. And I wasn’t even that depressed when I first listened to it. I was just lying in bed, listening to this Cat Power album I had just bought that day. And track #11 came up (Names). I broke down...
coyboyusa said on January 26, 2005 18:02:
love song for a vampire/sadest song i got/ oh god: annie lennox
end of the summer: dar williams
river: by the indigo girls covereof joni mitchell
underwater/ best I ever had : by vertical horizon
I don’t want ot get hurt: roxette
the day before you came: abba
my immortal : evanesence
lol i’ll stop there
RoxHard said on January 27, 2005 00:37:
@ Superbullie: “who is Cat Power?”
Well... Cat Power is the alias for an american female singer/songwritter, whose real name is Chan Marshall. She’s in her mid 20’s, and has been releasing brillaint albums since she was a teenager.
More information at:
http://www.catpowermusic.com
carbon_boy said on January 27, 2005 06:49:
Ooooh.... there are so many.... but all of my sad songs have a reason and meaning to me:
Jewel - Foolish Games
Heather Nova - Paper Cup
Keane - Bedshaped
Nelly Furtado - Try
Gary Jules - Mad World
Jet - Look what you’ve done
Avril Lavigne - Why?
Seether - Broken
Hoobastank - The Reason
The Thrills - Not for all the love in the world
Sarah Mchlachlan - I love you
Shawn Colvin - Never saw blue like that
Counting Crows - A long December
U2 - Kite
REM - Leaving New York
REM - Everybody Hurts
Seal - Love’s devine
Ewan McGreggor & Nicole Kidman - Come what may
Pretenders - I’ll stand by you
Sister Hazel - Your Winter
Roxette - You don’t understand me (Abbey Road Version)
Roxette - Salvation
Roxette - Bla bla bla bla
MF - Always the last to know
Cheers
ps: Soz for all the edits... lol!
coyboyusa said on January 27, 2005 15:26:
omg sarah mclachlans I love you,
i cried so many times during that whole album, but I love you is just heartwrenching, that adia and angle are some of the most heartbroken songs ever written
LaMan said on January 27, 2005 19:40:
I´m Sorry - Roxette
Summer Kisses, Winter Tears - Elvis
The Winner Takes It All - Abba
RoxHard said on January 29, 2005 03:49:
More from me:
Alanis Morissette - No Pressure Over Cappucchino
Björk - All Is Full Of Love
Björk - Vökuró
The Cranberries - Them
Goldfrapp - Lovely Head
Goldfrapp - Black Cherry
Moby - God Moving Over The Face Of The Waters
Marilyn Manson - Coma White
Marilyn Manson - Count To 6 & Die (the infinate vacuum of space encompasing)
Nelly Furtado - Try (acoustic version)
R.E.M. - Wrong Child
R.E.M. - Everybody Hurts
R.E.M. - Losing My Religion
R.E.M. - Daysleeper
R.E.M. - Why Not Smile
R.E.M. - Falls To Climb
R.E.M. - The Outsiders
Roxette - I Don’t Want To Get Hurt
Roxette - Never Is A Long Time
Sheryl Crow - Riverwide
Sheryl Crow - Weather Channel
Siobhan Donaghy - Iodine
William Orbit - Piece In An Old Style (#’s 1 & 3)
rox-kuryliw said on January 29, 2005 13:43:
roxette - Anyone , lyrics and video rings so many bells its scary !
nancy_girl said on January 29, 2005 14:06:
Oasis - Sad song
the Cure - Just like heaven
David Bowie - Rock’n’Roll Suicide
Placebo - Leni, Peeping Tom
Goo Goo Dolls - Iris
..to name just a few
MiracleMan said on February 2, 2005 20:24:
There’s a Cole Porter tune called “Ev’ry Time We Say Goodbye”, most notably performed by Annie Lennox on the Porter tribute Red, Hot & Blue:
Ev’ry time we say goodbye I die a little
Ev’ry time we say goodbye I wonder why a little
Why the gods above me
Who must be in the know
Think so little of me
They allow you to go
When you’re near there’s such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There’s no love song finer
But how strange the change
From major to minor
Ev’ry time we say goodbye
I recently lost someone very dear to me and this song absolutely breaks my heart. So beautifully stated, the feeling of loss and pain and rememberance. I’m not the least bit ashamed to say it’s made me cry.
eBay said on January 24, 2005 10:21:
Avril Lavigne - How does it feel.
This song goes under my skin. First time I listened to it, I was standing in a shop and was able to relate every single word to my ex, which I still loved dearly. I stood there, with the headphones on and the tears just came rolling down.
I then got back together with my ex but soon we or should I say, I made the final brake and listened to that soung ALL night, crying into my pillow. Went over to my ex in the morning, we spent the day together and both said, we can’t be together. So now, almost a year later, I am still not able to listen to this song, even though I think it is such a beautiful song!