Most depressing song ever?

[ncabot22]

I'm sitting in my apartment,alone, watching a "Mantracker" marathon and eating chilli out of a pan (said chilli is heated). What better way to top of this night than ask you what you think the most depressing song ever is. Mine is "Me and Little Andy" by Dolly Parton. Little Andy is a dog. Sample lyrics:

If you don't love us no one will, I promise we won't cry
London bridge is falling down, my daddy's drunk again in town.
We was all alone and didn't know what we could do
We wondered if you'll let us stay with you"
She was just a little girl not more than six or seven
but that night as they slept the angels took them both to heaven
God knew little Andy would be lonesome with her gone

Now Sandy and her puppy dog won't even be alone.

[Lionel Mandrake]

1. Hail to the Chief

[ThingsGottaChange]

2. Patches by Lee Dickie

Who remembers this one?


Down by the river that flows by the coal yards.
Stands wooden houses with shutters torn down
There lives a girl everybody calls Patches
Patches my darling of Old Shanty town

We plan to marry when June brought the summer
I couldn't wait to make Patches my bride
Now I don't see how that ever can happen
My folks say No, and my heart breaks inside

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
But a girl from that place would just bring me disgrace
So my folks won't let me love you

Each night I cry as I think of that shanty
And pretty Patches there watching the door
She dosn't know that I can't come to see her
Patches must think that I love her no more

I hear a neighbor tellin my father
He said a girl name of Patches was found
Floating face down in that dirty old river
That flows by the coal yards in Old Shanty Town

Patches oh what can I do
I swear I'll always love you
It may not be right But I'll join you tonight
Patches I'm coming to you

:cry:

[regnaD kciN]

39. Dickey Lee, actually...

...a master of the dead-teenage-love genre.

[rhiannon55]

89. When I was 13, that song used to make me cry

Sheesh, I was a dork at 13! I loved ALL the dead teenager songs! And who can forget Teen Angel? Oh, and Leader of the Pack? And Tell Laura I Love Her...:rofl:

[Coyote_Bandit]

3. "Jesus I don't wanna die alone

Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone
My love wasn't true Now all I have is you
Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone
Jesus If you hear my last breath
Don't leave me here Left to die a lonely death
I know I have sinned but Lord I'm suffering
Jesus Oh Jesus If you hear my last breath
Jesus I don't wanna die alone
Jesus oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone
My love wasn't true Now all I have is you
Jesus Oh Jesus I don't wanna die alone....."


"Spiritual" by Johnny Cash

[carly denise pt deux]

4. Honey- by Bobby Goldsboro

coming in a close second is "That's my job" Conway Twitty (?)

Carly

[Breeze54]

5. Sting - AKA- 'The Police' ~ "I'll Be Watching You"

"I'll Be Watching You"

(Feat. The Police)

http://www.lyricsdownload.com/sting-i-ll-be-watching-you-feat-the-police-lyrics.html

Every breath you take
And every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
Ill be watching you

Every single day
And every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
Ill be watching you

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
Now my poor heart aches
With every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Since youve gone, Ive been lost without a trace
I dream at night, I can only see your face
I look around but its you I cant replace
I feel so cold and I long for your embrace
I keep crying baby, baby please

Oh, cant you see
You belong to me
Now my poor heart aches
Every step you take

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
Ill be watching you

Every move you make
Every step you take
Ill be watching you
Ill be watching you

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
(Ill be watching you)

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
(Ill be watching you)

Every move you make
Every vow you break
Every smile you fake
Every claim you stake
(Ill be watching you)

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night you stay
(Ill be watching you)

Every breath you take
Every move you make
Every bond you break
Every step you take
(Ill be watching you)

Every single day
Every word you say
Every game you play
Every night

YouTube - The police - Every breath you take
www.youtube.com/watch?v=BnejNGprm3I

Views: 93,836
Favorited: 1101 times

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Really creepy, when you're being stalked. :scared:

[Esra Star]

35. Every stalker's anthem? nt

[greenbriar]

6. shannon by Henry Gross

about a dog dying

[fudge stripe cookays]

52. I cry...

every time I hear it. Love my doggies. All of them.

:cry:

[Dr. Strange]

7. Lick my love pump

When I hear it, I weep instantly.

:cry:

[Aristus]

15. Well, of course. D-minor is the saddest of all the keys.

B-)

[alcibiades_mystery]

8. Morrissey - Bengali in Platforms

No no no
he does not want to depress you
oh no no no no no
he only wants to impress you
Bengali in platform
she only wants to embrace your culture
and to be your friend forever
Bengali, Bengali
oh shelve your Western plans
and understand that life is hard enough when you belong here
A silver-studded rim that glistens
and an ankle-star that...blinds me
a lemon sole so very high
which only reminds me, to tell you
so I break the news gently
I break the news to you gently
"Shelve your plans"
Bengali, Bengali
its the touching march of time
that blinds you
don't blame me
don't hate me
just because I'm the one to tell you
that life is hard enough when you belong here
life is hard enough when you belong here
shelve your western plans
life is hard enough when you belong here

[alcibiades_mystery]

9. Iris Dement - Our Town

And you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Up the street beside that red neon light,
That's where I met my baby on one hot summer night.
He was the tender and I ordered a beer,
It's been forty years and I'm still sitting here.

But you know the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

It's here I had my babies and I had my first kiss.
I've walked down Main Street in the cold morning mist.
Over there is where I bought my first car.
It turned over once but then it never went far.

And I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

I buried my Mama and I buried my Pa.
They sleep up the street beside that pretty brick wall.
I bring them flowers about every day,
but I just gotta cry when I think what they'd say.

If they could see how the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on now and kiss it goodbye,
But hold on to your lover,
'Cause your heart's bound to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to our town, to our town.
Can't you see the sun's settin' down on our town, on our town,
Goodnight.

Now I sit on the porch and watch the lightning-bugs fly.
But I can't see too good, I got tears in my eyes.
I'm leaving tomorrow but I don't wanna go.
I love you, my town, you'll always live in my soul.

But I can see the sun's settin' fast,
And just like they say, nothing good ever lasts.
Well, go on, I gotta kiss you goodbye,
But I'll hold to my lover,
'Cause my heart's 'bout to die.
Go on now and say goodbye to my town, to my town.
I can see the sun has gone down on my town, on my town,
Goodnight.
Goodnight.

[Bjornsdotter]

12. Always brings tears to my eyes

...every time I go back to Sweden this song runs through my head. Every time I go back, more has changed and more people have passed.

Cheers

[unsavedtrash]

13. Heard it the for the first time on the last episode of Northern Exposure

I cried and cried.

I love Iris Dement

[WCGreen]

23. That is a tear jerker....

[HuskerDU]

38. Iris has a knack for the tearjerkers, though I don't think she wrote

this one: 'Pretty Saro'

When I first come to this country in Eighteen and Forty-nine
I saw many fair lovers but I never saw mine
I viewed it all around me, saw I was quite alone
and me a poor stranger and a long way from home

Well, my true love she won't have me and it's this I understand
For she wants some free holder and I have no land
I couldn't maintain her on silver and gold
but all of the other fine things that my love's house could hold

Fair the well to ol' mother, fair the well to my father too
I'm going for to ramble this wide world all through
And when I get weary, I'll sit down and cry
and think of my Saro, pretty Saro, my bride

Well, I wished I was a turtle dove
Had wings and could fly
Far away to my lover's lodgings
Tonight I'd drawn the line
And there in her lilywhite arms I'd lay there all night
and watch through them little wind'ers
for the dawning of day

[Rambis]

74. Kate Rusby and Laura Cantrell Live

at a festival sitting around the drinks tent-

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HPtaQybck6c

[CreekDog]

10. Ignoreland by R.E.M. (a sad but true song about the Reagan Years)

With tons of applicability to Republican party of the 1990s to present:

Ignoreland by R.E.M.

These bastards stole their power from the victims of the Us v. Them years,
Wrecking all things virtuous and true.
The undermining social democratic downhill slide into abysmal
Lost lamb off the precipice into the trickle down runoff pool.
They hypnotised the summer, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Marched into the capital brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
Heartless, and labelled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
Mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.

The information nation took their clues from all the sound-bite gluttons.
Nineteen eighty, eighty-four, eighty-eight, ninety-two too, too.
How to be what you can be, jump jam junking your energies.
How to walk in dignity with throw-up on your shoes
They amplified the autumn, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Calculate the capital, up the republic my skinny ass.
T.V. tells a million lies. The paper’s terrified to report
Anything that isn’t handed on a presidential spoon,
I’m just profoundly frustrated by all this. So, fuck you, man. (Fuck ‘m)
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.

If they weren’t there we would have created them. Maybe, it’s true,
But I’m resentful all the same. Someone’s got to take the blame.
I know that this is vitriol. No solution, spleen-venting,
But I feel better having screamed. Don’t you?
They desecrated winter, Nineteen seventy-nine.
Capital collateral. Brooding duplicitous, wicked and able, media-ready,
Heartless, and labelled. Super U.S. citizen, super achiever,
Mega ultra power dosing. Relax.
Defense, defense, defense, defense. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Ignoreland. Yeah, yeah, yeah.

[Poll_Blind]

11. "Seems so long ago, Nancy" by Leonard Cohen/"Lilac Wine" Nina Simone cover

YouTube - seems so long ago, nancy

Like most of what Mr. Cohen writes, if I try to describe it I'm doing it a disservice.

Survived that?

YouTube - Lilac Wine

PB

[alcibiades_mystery]

19. Famous Blue Raincoat ain't exactly a laugh riot either, Leonard Cohen-wise

:-)

[unsavedtrash]

14. Sam Stone by John Prine

Sam Stone came home,
To his wife and family
After serving in the conflict overseas.
And the time that he served,
Had shattered all his nerves,
And left a little shrapnel in his knee.
But the morphine eased the pain,
And the grass grew round his brain,
And gave him all the confidence he lacked,
With a Purple Heart and a monkey on his back.

There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes,
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose.
Little pitchers have big ears,
Don't stop to count the years,
Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Mmm....

Sam Stone's welcome home
Didn't last too long.
He went to work when he'd spent his last dime
And Sammy took to stealing
When he got that empty feeling
For a hundred dollar habit without overtime.
And the gold rolled through his veins
Like a thousand railroad trains,
And eased his mind in the hours that he chose,
While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...

Sam Stone was alone
When he popped his last balloon
Climbing walls while sitting in a chair
Well, he played his last request
While the room smelled just like death
With an overdose hovering in the air
But life had lost its fun
And there was nothing to be done
But trade his house that he bought on the G, I. Bill
For a flag draped casket on a local heroes' hill

[Breeze54]

16. This song has wiped me out ... emotionally and psychologically...

... omfg... just so familiar, my older brothers that were drafted to Vietnam....

The whole damn fucking swoop!! :cry: The whole fucking WASTED bullshit of it all!! :grr:

[Inchworm]

27. One of my favoritest

I dont like the video here much.. but it IS the song.

:hi:

[Burma Jones]

67. Yep, as well as Souvenirs - nobody beats Prine for sadness......

All the snow has turned to water
Christmas days have come and gone
Broken toys and faded colors
Are all that's left to linger on
I hate graveyards and old pawn shops
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my childhood souvenirs

Chorus:
Memories they can't be boughten
They can't be won at carnivals for free
Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me

Broken hearts and dirty windows
Make life difficult to see
That's why last night and this mornin'
Always look the same to me

I hate reading old love letters
For they always bring me tears
I can't forgive the way they rob me
Of my sweetheart's souvenirs

[Tuesday Afternoon]

17. Traveling Soldier

http://youtube.com/watch?v=qBFCek_g8Bk

Two days past eighteen
He was waiting for the bus in his army green
Sat down in a booth in a cafe there
Gave his order to a girl with a bow in her hair
He's a little shy so she gives him a smile
And he said would you mind sittin' down for a while
And talking to me,
I'm feeling a little low
She said I'm off in an hour and I know where we can go

So they went down and they sat on the pier
He said I bet you got a boyfriend but I don't care
I got no one to send a letter to
Would you mind if I sent one back here to you

I cried
Never gonna hold the hand of another guy
Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier's coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile

One Friday night at a football game
The Lord's Prayer said and the Anthem sang
A man said folks would you bow your heads
For a list of local Vietnam dead
Crying all alone under the stands
Was a piccolo player in the marching band
And one name read and nobody really cared
But a pretty little girl with a bow in her hair

[Breeze54]

21. Too young for him they told her

Traveling Soldier

Too young for him they told her
Waitin' for the love of a travelin' soldier
Our love will never end
Waitin' for the soldier to come back again
Never more to be alone when the letter said
A soldier's coming home

So the letters came from an army camp
In California then Vietnam
And he told her of his heart
It might be love and all of the things he was so scared of
He said when it's getting kinda rough over here
I think of that day sittin' down at the pier
And I close my eyes and see your pretty smile
Don't worry but I won't be able to write for awhile..


,,,,,,,,

[WCGreen]

24. That one brngs a tear, for sure...

[liberaltrucker]

18. For What it's Worth-Buffalo Springfield

There's something happening here
What it is ain't exactly clear
There's a man with a gun over there
Telling me I got to beware

I think it's time we stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

There's battle lines being drawn
Nobody's right if everybody's wrong
Young people speaking their minds
Getting so much resistance from behind

I think it's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

What a field-day for the heat
A thousand people in the street
Singing songs and carrying signs
Mostly say, hooray for our side

It's time we stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Paranoia strikes deep
Into your life it will creep
It starts when you're always afraid
You step out of line, the man come and take you away

We better stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, hey, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, now, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down
Stop, children, what's that sound
Everybody look what's going down

Depressing in '67-depressing now.

[Adsos Letter]

20. A whole lot of stuff by Enya....

...and I can't remember any title at the moment...mostly off her first 3 cd's...

[JVS]

22. Morning Train

:shootsselfinhead:

[Inchworm]

25. I love every version- Long Black Veil

Dave Matthews and Emmy Lou

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xIORbj5vijg

:hi:

I would love a hug...

[Breeze54]

26. You got it!

:hug: . Just in case! A group :grouphug:

:loveya:

[Inchworm]

28. thanks

:blush:

I aint no beggar :)

:hug:

[WilliamPitt]

29. "The Band Played Waltzing Matilda" by the Pogues

From the album "Rum, Sodomy and the Lash."

On par with the greatest anti-war statements ever made.

Bruuuuutal.

I'm not posting lyrics. You have to hear it.

[Inchworm]

30. Waltsing mathilda like this?

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

wonderin...

:hi:

[WilliamPitt]

31. Bingo.

Crushing.

[Inchworm]

32. i still aint right from finding it

I was possibly a rover.. and a warless hero..

beautiful.

:yourock:

[Inchworm]

37. This version is neat

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrkThaBWa5c

:dance:

[regnaD kciN]

40. While we're at it with the Pogues...

...here's The Old Main Drag, a very different type of utterly depressing song:

When I first came to London I was only sixteen
With a fiver in my pocket and my ole dancing bag
I went down to the dilly to check out the scene
And I soon ended up on the old main drag

There the he-males and the she-males paraded in style
And the old man with the money would flash you a smile
In the dark of an alley you'd work for a fiver
For a swift one off the wrist down on the old main drag

In the cold winter nights the old town it was chill
But there were boys in the cafes who'd give you cheap pills
If you didn't have the money you'd cajole or you'd beg
There was always lots of tuinol on the old main drag

One evening as I was lying down by Leicester Square
I was picked up by the coppers and kicked in the balls
Between the metal doors at Vine Street I was beaten and mauled
And they ruined my good looks for the old main drag

In the tube station the old ones who were on the way out
Would dribble and vomit and grovel and shout
And the coppers would come along and push them about
And I wished I could escape from the old main drag

And now I'm lying here, I've had too much booze
I've been shat on and spat on and raped and abused
I know that I am dying and I wish I could beg
For some money to take me from the old main drag

[Inchworm]

41. I don't understand

is "Pogues" a person or an area?

:hi:

[derby378]

47. Pogues is adapted from the Irish Gaelic "pog mo thoin"

Which, in English, means "kiss my arse."

:hi:

[HERVEPA]

69. Listen to Eric Bogle's version. He wrote it.

It's marvelous, and he is also marvelous. Check him out!

[sakabatou]

33. Is it Real?

Figurines that fall like leaves and disappear
Keep calling,
"Is it real? Is it real?"
Dark machines that wheeze and breathe, and mock the air
Appalling
"What is real? What is real?"

This world can really be too much
I can't take another day
I guess that I've just had enough
My mind's slipping far away
I'm falling in and out of touch
Can someone please explain?

Set my mind for open sky, but couldn't fly
So sadly
What am I? What am I?
Sullen eyes shed teardrop lies then criticize
Now laughing
"What is real? What is real?"

It's really all become too much
I'm not sure what I should feel
I guess I've finally had enough
I don't know if this is real
I'm crashing in and out of touch
Can anyone explain?

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

[QueenOfCalifornia]

34. I swear to fuckin' god

I just spit a glass of wine through my nose as I read the lyrics-

I have never laughed so fucking hard in my life and I have been trapped in a car with Sam Kinison...

I have tears in my eyes because of your post...

I hate you for this.

[WinkyDink]

36. "Ave Maria". Personal reasons.

[leeroysphitz]

42. "Perfect Day" by Lou Reed

Just a perfect day
You let me forget myself
I thought I was someone else
someone good

[nytemare]

43. "Vincent"

Song gets me every time.


Starry
starry night
paint your palette blue and grey

look out on a summer's day
with eyes that know the
darkness in my soul.
Shadows on the hills
sketch the trees and the daffodils

catch the breeze and the winter chills

in colors on the snowy linen land.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they did not know how

perhaps they'll listen now.

Starry
starry night
flaming flo'rs that brightly blaze

swirling clouds in violet haze reflect in
Vincent's eyes of China blue.
Colors changing hue
morning fields of amber grain

weathered faces lined in pain
are soothed beneath the artist's
loving hand.
And now I understand what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity
how you tried to set them free.
perhaps they'll listen now.

For they could not love you
but still your love was true

and when no hope was left in sight on that starry
starry night.
You took your life
as lovers often do;
But I could have told you
Vincent
this world was never
meant for one
as beautiful as you.

Starry
starry night
portraits hung in empty halls

frameless heads on nameless walls
with eyes
that watch the world and can't forget.
Like the stranger that you've met

the ragged men in ragged clothes

the silver thorn of bloddy rose
lie crushed and broken
on the virgin snow.
And now I think I know what you tried to say to me

how you suffered for your sanity

how you tried to set them free.
They would not listen
they're not
list'ning still
perhaps they never will.

[derby378]

44. The Flaming Lips: ASSASSINATION OF THE SUN

As you walked away
A strand of hair
Came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange

As you disappeared
The shadow of death
Came undone
And was reflected in the sun
And everything was orange

They have begun to celebrate
The tidal wave they think is great
The ever-beating heart it wasn't

They have begun
They have begun to assassinate the sun

As you died in the night
A million stars
Formed into one
And became another sun
And everything was orange

They have begun
They have begun
They have begun to assassinate the sun

[derby378]

45. The Alan Parsons Project: TIME

Time
Flowing like a river
Time
Beckoning me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river
To the sea

Goodbye my love
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my love
The tide waits for me
Who knows when we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

Goodbye my friends
Maybe for forever
Goodbye my friends
The stars wait for me
Who knows where we shall meet again
If ever
But time
Keeps flowing like a river (on and on)
To the sea, to the sea

Till it's gone forever
Gone forever
Gone forevermore

[Sugar Smack]

46. "Needle in the Hay". On the Royal Tenenbaums soundtrack.

That, or "Martha" by Tom Waits.

[DeposeTheBoyKing]

48. The Smiths - "I Know It's Over"

Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
And as I climb into an empty bed
Oh well. Enough said.
I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Oh ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
See, the sea wants to take me
The knife wants to slit me
Do you think you can help me ?
Sad veiled bride, please be happy
Handsome groom, give her room
Loud, loutish lover, treat her kindly
(Though she needs you
More than she loves you)
And I know it's over - still I cling
I don't know where else I can go
Over and over and over and over
Over and over, la ...
I know it's over
And it never really began
But in my heart it was so real
And you even spoke to me, and said :
"If you're so funny
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
And if you're so clever
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very entertaining
Then why are you on your own tonight ?
If you're so very good-looking
Why do you sleep alone tonight ?
I know ...
'Cause tonight is just like any other night
That's why you're on your own tonight
With your triumphs and your charms
While they're in each other's arms..."
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes strength to be gentle and kind
Over, over, over, over
It's so easy to laugh
It's so easy to hate
It takes guts to be gentle and kind
Over, over
Love is Natural and Real
But not for you, my love
Not tonight, my love
Love is Natural and Real
But not for such as you and I, my love
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can even feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my head
Oh Mother, I can feel the soil falling over my ...

[Ikonoklast]

49. Depressing? That's easy.

Happy Birthday.


If you are of a 'certain age', you'll know why.

[dropkickpa]

50. This one depresses me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LKu_QA8Bn9o

[BlueIris]

51. Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car."

[tigereye]

53. Strange Fruit, followed by I don't like Mondays...

[Mojambo]

54. This one is up there

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZOiZ6bZ_KM

[Bzzzz]

55. Gilbert O'Sullivan- Alone Again, Naturally...

In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise 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 you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's 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 well 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
Or 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?

Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever 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

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D_P-v1BVQn8

[blueknight]

57. my aunt was skeeter davis

she had a terribly sad song, "the end of the world"

[Pale Blue Dot]

85. Cool!

"The End of the World" is a fantastic song. My dad just bought a Skeeter Davis Greatest Hits collection. Is she still around?

[Hugin]

56. Allow me to put this thread to rest....

"Seasons in the Sun".

[Xipe Totec]

58. Los Lobos - Is This All There Is?

Climbing high to the mountain top
Reaching up to the sky above
Asking to myself
Is this all there is?

Sailing into the ocean blue
Trying to find at least one clue
On a paper scrawled
Is this all there is?

And they all came to talk about it
The came to cry and laught and fight about it
All searching for the promised land
Tired souls with empty hands
Asking to themselves
Is this all there is?

Fifteen years on a sewing machine
Where twisted hands don't mean a thing
Wondering to herself
Is this all there is?

Baby crying in an old tin cup
Wanting more but there's never enough
While her mother sighs
Is this all there is?

[mcscajun]

59. "There Goes My Everything" -Englebert Humperdinck

Not just the lyrics, but the way he sings it. Just slash your wrists and get it over with, boy!

I hear footsteps slowly walking,
As they gently walk across a lonely floor,
And a voice is softly saying,
Darling, this will be good-bye for ever more.

CHORUS:
There goes my reason for living,
There goes the one of my dreams,
There goes my only possession,
There goes my everything.

As my memory turns back the pages,
I can see the happy years we had before,
Now the love that kept this old heart beating,
Has been shattered by the closing of the door.

[Lyric]

60. Hallelujah - written by Leonard Cohen, but the best version

was recorded by Rufus Wainwright. I have part of the lyrics as my sigline.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uMrZ7lChK-g (ignore the video and listen)

I've heard there was a secret chord
That David played, and it pleased the Lord
But you don't really care for music, do you?
It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth
The minor fall, the major lift
The baffled king composing Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Your faith was strong but you needed proof
You saw her bathing on the roof
Her beauty in the moonlight overthrew you
She tied you to a kitchen chair
She broke your throne, she cut your hair
And from your lips she drew the Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe I've been here before
I know this room, I've walked this floor
I used to live alone before I knew you
I've seen your flag on the marble arch
Oh, love is not a victory march
It's a cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

There was a time you let me know
What's real and going on below
But now you never show it to me, do you?
And remember when I moved in you?
The holy dark was moving too
And every breath we drew was Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

Maybe there's a God above
And all I ever learned from love
Was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you
And it's not a cry you can hear at night,
It's not somebody who's seen the light
It's cold and it's a broken Hallelujah

Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah
Hallelujah, Hallelujah

[mcscajun]

61. Love that tune, but prefer the Jeff Buckley version.

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

[vi5]

66. Finally, someone else prefers Rufus's version...

That's my favorite. I feel bad for the late Jeff Buckley, but his music always annoyed me.

[sasquatch]

87. Is that the version they play on Scrubs?

[nyhuskyfan]

62. Tears In Heaven

Especially since you know that the song was written about Eric Clapton's son, who died when he fell out a window at age four or five.

Watching The Wheels by John Lennon always makes me sad, since that came out on the radio right around the time he was shot (Starting Over and Woman had already been out, if memory serves).

If You See Her, Say Hello by Bob Dylan is up there.

[alphafemale]

63. That's like a "Chick Tract" set to music. nt

[Lethe]

64. Street Spirit by Radiohead

or Knives Out by Radiohead

[XemaSab]

77. I was going to vote for Fake Plastic Trees

:(

[Perry Logan]

65. "I walked 10,000 miles in the mouth of a graveyard" seems a little down.

[raccoon]

68. "Downbound Train" by Bruce Springsteen. nt

[ironflange]

70. "Ode to Billie Joe"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CZt5Q-u4crc

edit: "Billie," not "Billy"

[Dystopian]

71. Comin' Back to Me-Jefferson Airplane

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMk7PVO9rvk


peace~

[lizziegrace]

72. "Luka" - Suzanne Vega

:(

[Whisp]

73. Missing You and Wildfire

maybe add Kris Kritofferson's 'for the good times'

[taught_me_patience]

75. Metallica: One

I cant remember anything
Cant tell if this is true or dream
Deep down inside I feel to scream
This terrible silence stops me

Now that the war is through with me
Im waking up I can not see
That there is not much left of me
Nothing is real but pain now

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me

Back in the womb its much too real
In pumps life that I must feel
But cant look forward to reveal
Look to the time when Ill live

Fed through the tube that sticks in me
Just like a wartime novelty
Tied to machines that make me be
Cut this life off from me

Hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please god,wake me
Now the world is gone Im just one
Oh god,help me hold my breath as I wish for death
Oh please God help me

Darkness imprisoning me
All that I see
Absolute horror
I cannot live
I cannot die
Trapped in myself
Body my holding cell

Landmine has taken my sight
Taken my speech
Taken my hearing
Taken my arms
Taken my legs
Taken my soul
Left me with life in hell

[Lethe]

76. I would like to add Dirt by Alice in Chains - definitely in the running

I forgot about that one. That song perfectly conveys a sense of self-loathing, frustration and hopelessness.

Runner up is Down in a Hole on the same album. (my friend committed suicide while listening to it, years ago)

Dirt lyrics sample:

I have never felt such frustration or lack of self control
I want you to kill me, and dig me under, I want to live no more

One who doesn't care is one who shouldn't be
I tried to hide myself from what is wrong for me

I want to taste dirty, a stinging pistol, in my mouth on my tongue
I want you to scrape me, from the walls, and go crazy, like you made me

[Felix Mala]

84. Three legged dogs and bugs closed up in a jar are pretty sad...

I thought of Down In a Hole, too... I used to ball my eyes out at "I'd like to fly, but my wings have been so denied...

[Zavulon]

78. "Hail to the Chief" (NT)

[MrCoffee]

79. oh for fuck's sake...it's Joy Division

Love Will Tear Us Apart


geez.

[Lethe]

83. good call

Good song.

[XemaSab]

80. I almost forgot the entire album Kid A

Reminds me of the terrorist attacks. :(

[Lethe]

82. yep

I can't listen to it anymore. Definitely depressing.

[Felix Mala]

81. Mother -- The Wall

[Merrick]

86. Disintegration - The Cure

[Bucky]

88. It is the song that never endsss.... Yes it goes on and on my friendsss.... Some people

started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was
and they'll continue singing it forever just because
it is the song that never ends
yes, it goes on and on my friendsss
some people started singing it, not knowing what it was

But I forget what the last verse was

[QueenOfCalifornia]

93. I hate you

for that

[TrogL]

90. Here's a list

http://arts.guardian.co.uk/fridayreview/story/0,,1502655,00.html

but my fave is 'Watching Scotty Grow' closely followed by 'Taxi'

[lightningandsnow]

91. "Streets of Heaven" by Sherrie Austin

Hello God, it's me again. 2:00 a.m., Room 304.
Visiting hours are over, time for our bedside tug of war.
This sleeping child between us may not make it through the night.
I'm fighting back the tears as she fights for her life.
Well, it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me god, what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
She's much too young to be on her own:
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Tell me God, do you remember the wishes that she made,
As she blew out the candles on her last birthday cake?
She wants to ride a pony when she'd big enough.
She wants to marry her Daddy when she's all grown up.

Well, it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me god, what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
She's much too young to be on her own:
Barely just turned seven.
So who will hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven?

Lord, don't you know she's my angel
You got plenty of your own
And I know you hold a place for her
But she's already got a home
Well I don't know if you're listenin'
But praying is all that's left to do
So I ask you Lord have mercy, you lost a son once too

And it must be kind of crowded,
On the streets of Heaven.
So tell me: what do you need her for?
Don't you know one day she'll be your little girl forever.
But right now I need her so much more.
Lord, I know once you've made up your mind,
There's no use in beggin'.
So if you take her with you today, will you make sure she looks both ways,
And would you hold her hand when she crosses the streets of Heaven.

[RedCloud]

92. Casas de cartón

Here it is right now in Gringolandia:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0MuDqWjuQgY&mode=related&search=

[martymar64]

94. Can't Wrap your Arms around a Memory by Johnny Thunders

Don't try