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The saddest songs

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HuxleyPigsSuitcase · 20/10/2022 19:29

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!

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Imamumgetmeoutofhere · 20/10/2022 22:31

Canthinkofaname79 · 20/10/2022 20:59

Wires by Athlete, about premature babies, my daughter was born at 31 weeks. It's the line "first night of your life, curled up on your own, looking at you now, you would never know."
My daughter is 15 next week. Beautiful song.

I totally forgot this song. My eldest was also very prem and this song gives me a lump in my throat when I hear it

AluckyEllie · 20/10/2022 22:35

I will follow you into the dark by death cab for cutie. Don’t watch the animated rabbit video version! 😭😭

Moosey65 · 20/10/2022 22:38

James -Moving on. Though especially with the video, have never shed a tear over a ball of yarn before this.

Mangolist · 20/10/2022 22:40

Floralnomad · 20/10/2022 19:48

George by Lee Forsyth Griffiths , but you likely need to know the back story .

Oh!!!! Yes 😭

Notmenottodaynotever · 20/10/2022 22:41

PanettoneMoly · 20/10/2022 21:19

I know it won’t be anyones everyone’s taste but Goodbye My lover by James Blunt.

Blunt writes some really heart-felt stuff (Monsters - about his father, and No Bravery, about war).

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 20/10/2022 22:43

Radiohead - Exit m

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 20/10/2022 22:44

Boo! Hit send too early!

Radiohead - Exit music for a film

Georgeskitchen · 20/10/2022 22:45

Alone again naturally
Gilbert O'Sullivan

ShirleyHolmes · 20/10/2022 22:45

Goodbye to Love by the Carpenters. Actually most of their songs.

The Queen and the Soldier - Suzanne Vega

The girl I used to be. Barbara Dickson from Educating Rita

You don’t have to say you love me - Dusty Springfield

This Shirt - Mary Chaplin Carpenter

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/10/2022 22:46

Meat Loaf - Martha
Tracy Chapman - All That You Have Is Your Soul
Marc Cohn - The Things We've Handed Down, Rest For The Weary, True Companion.... most of his!
Lyle Lovett - Old Friend, Goodbye To Carolina and several others of his
Charles Aznavour - Yesterday When I Was Young
Johnny Cash - In My Life (much more poignant when sung slowly by a man in his 70s than a bright cheery version by some fresh-faced Beatles)

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 20/10/2022 22:48

This as well Travis - Blue Flashing Light. It was a hidden album track back in the days when you had to l

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 20/10/2022 22:49

OnTheRunWithMannyMontana · 20/10/2022 22:48

This as well Travis - Blue Flashing Light. It was a hidden album track back in the days when you had to l

Ffs fat fingers tonight!!

It was a hidden album track back in the days when you had to listen to silence for 10 minutes to get to the hidden song!!

TW: references parental abuse

Vaccine001 · 20/10/2022 22:50

You have been loved - George Michael
Somebody loves you - Joan Armatrading

DeannaFromHumanResources · 20/10/2022 22:50

Moosey65 · 20/10/2022 22:38

James -Moving on. Though especially with the video, have never shed a tear over a ball of yarn before this.

Love this song @Moosey65 last time I saw James it made me cry.

Vaccine001 · 20/10/2022 22:50

Crazy In Love - Anthony and The Johnsons

Notmenottodaynotever · 20/10/2022 22:52

Ed Sheeran's Supermarket Flowers and Kate Bush's This Woman's Work both makes me so sad.
Tracy Chapman's Fast Car is just so depressing too, though beautiful!

ManAboutTown · 20/10/2022 22:53

@Notmenottodaynotever - Tracy Chapman's songs are so poignant.

Clawdy · 20/10/2022 22:56

I love the Beatles' original version of In My Life. I don't hear it as "bright and cheery" at all.

BarnacleNora · 20/10/2022 22:56

Black by Pearl Jam. It came on a playlist about a week after my husband left me. I was 8 months pregnant with our second child and he'd woken up and announced he was leaving completely out of the blue. These lyrics in particular:

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life
I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky
But why, why, why can't it be
Oh, can't it be mine?

Absolutely killed me and I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed, taking advantage of not having my toddler in the car (who I'd been trying to hold it together in front of)

As it turned out (as if leaving me like that wasn't a big enough clue) he definitely wasn't worth my tears but that song can still bring back the feelings of fear and confusion and devastation I was feeling at that point. It was nearly Christmas as well he was such an arsehole!

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/10/2022 22:58

I agree with most of The Carpenters' songs. I don't know if the effect would have been quite the same had we not lost Karen far too young - the songs were often happy-sad anyway, but her tragically early death makes so many of them extra sad to listen to.

LittleChicken11 · 20/10/2022 23:00

Snow patrol - What If This Is All The Love You Ever Get?

WeBuiltThisBuffetOnSausageRoll · 20/10/2022 23:01

I love the Beatles' original version of In My Life. I don't hear it as "bright and cheery" at all.

Oh, it is lovely, but I personally just prefer the song slowed down somewhat and sung by somebody at the other end of their adult life. 'Bright and cheery' was probably a bad way of putting it - maybe I just meant 'more up-tempo'.

bombemma · 20/10/2022 23:02

@Elderflower14 aw my goodness I'm so so sorry, shedding a tear for you xx

DementedPanda · 20/10/2022 23:03

Sluping through my fingers.. ABBA. Close to you..marti pellow. Twinkle Twinkle little star.. bedtime song. They ask me to stop singing now

alloutofcareunits · 20/10/2022 23:04

Pink - Who Knew and Linkin Park - Numb both are relevant to my daughters partner who took his own life aged 24. My daughter was 19 when it happened and the effect on her will last forever