The saddest songs

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After going down a You Tube rabbithole this evening, I've just watched Judi Dench performing Send In The Clowns and I've never felt so desolate. Do you have a sad song that just gets you in the feels? I fear I may never be the same again!

Everybody Hurts by REM.

2 of my brothers died within a year of each other when I was a child and this song seemed to always be on the radio when the second one died so I associate it with them and the pain that was around us at that time.

Only our rivers run free - my dad used to sing it as his party trick. It feels melancholic.

Days by Kirsty MacColl

The Carnival is Over -The Seekers
Who Knew - Pink
Knowing Me Knowing You - Abba

The first Time ever I saw your face- Roberta Flack...the opening bars just stop me in my tracks and I start welling up. George Michael's version is superb too

Loads already mentioned. Also Spit of You by Sam Fender, total heartbreaker. Hallelujah by Haim - I was one of three sisters and we are now only two so this one is really sad for me.

Ed Sheeran Visiting Hours
The Proclaimers Shadows Fall

Absolutely love her, think she's going to be massive. What a voice. Her album Dawn is absolutely brilliant and a lot of the songs are about her mother's suicide. October Sky in particular is beautiful and so sad.

SFA Venus & Serena

A wave across a bay by Frank Turner. It's a tribute to Scott from Frightened Rabbit who took his own life.

Ever falling. Never landing.

Billy Joel, Lullabye (Goodnight, my Angel). Sob.

I sob every time.
The same with "Shine on you Crazy Diamond"
Two little boys used to make cry until Rolf was exposed as a paedophile.

The Verve- The Drugs Don't Work

Reportedly about Richard Ashcroft's dying father. The 'like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown' line gets me every time. I can't listen to it anymore. I've seen Richard Ashcroft live in concert several times and always disappear for a loo break when it starts!!

Broken - Jake Bugg
Love is a matter of distance - Will Young
After all these years - Foster Allen

Tracy Chapman - Baby Can I Hold You Tonight

Freya ridings, lost without you

Mike and the Mechanics - The Living Years

Wind beneath my wings and stand by me.

And for personal reasons Love is all around and Claire.

Days by the Kinks
Downbound train by Bruce Springsteen

I do love a sad song

Sorry seems to be the Hardest Word - Elton John.

No personal resonance, it's just a sad song.

Love on the rocks
Story of my life

(Both Neil Diamond I think)

A song called 'Lungs' by a beautiful guitarist and folk singer John smith, the chorus goes:

'I gave up nothing
You gave me everything
Until you gave me away'

Level 42 It’s Over. Moves me tears every single time.

This one

Separate lives. Phil Collins & Marilyn Martin. Always loved this song.