In Your Opinion What is the Saddest Song EVER?

[KAMALARAMBO: BOOMSHAKALAKA!!!]

For me the song I picked the lyrics aren't even sad, but optimistic. It only really hits you if you know the movie though the tone of the song in the performance is also quite sad. Anyway:

[Hit Girl]

Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton, because it's about his dead son

[Magic knows Black Lives Matter]

Lenny Williams- Cause I Love You.

[Piccolo]

These country songs make me cry violently:

"Cowgirls Don't Cry" by Brooks and Dunn and Reba
"Highway 20 Ride" by Zac Brown Band
"Travelin' Soldier" by the Dixie Chicks
"Probably Wouldn't Be This Way" by Leann Rimes
"Alyssa Lies" by someone I don't remember
"Three Wooden Crosses" by Randy Travis

I don't understand why there's an entire genre of music created just to make me cry.

In non-country music, "Let Her Go" by Passenger did a number on me after an unexpected, crushing breakup, particularly, "Staring at the bottom of a glass / hoping one day you'll make a dream last / but dreams come slow, and they go so fast." Good thing I can still drive effectively while I'm sobbing.

[Mr PONYMANIA Mr Jenzie]

MATCHSTICK MEN AND MATCHSTICK CATS AND DOGS - BRIAN AND MICHAEL

the end get's to me EVERY TIME!

[Beast Army Ass]

Johnny Cash's cover of "Hurt" by Nine Inch Nails...especially if you watch the video. Oof it's rough watching old man Cash.

[angryfan]

All Out of Love by Air Supply. It was my maternal grandmother's favorite song, played at her funeral, and I can't hear it without crying. She's been dead for over 30 years, and I still have to leave the room when the song comes on.

[Deleted]

"Song for My Father" by The Angels of Light. Beautiful yet utterly heartbreaking.

[kidglov3s]

These are some that I associate with sadness.

Does Not Suffice - Joanna Newsom

"It does not suffice
for you to say I am a sweet girl,
or to say you hate to see me sad
because of you.
It does not suffice,
to merely lie beside each other,
as those who love each other do.

I picture you, rising up in the morning:
stretching out on your boundless bed,
beating a clear path to the shower,
scouring yourself red.

The tap of hangers,
swaying in the closet —
unburdened hooks
and empty drawers —
and everywhere I tried to love you
is yours again,
and only yours."

In Liverpool - Suzanne Vega

"And the boy in the belfry
He's crazy, he's throwing himself
Down from the top of the tower
Like a hunchback in heaven
He's ringing the bells in the church
For the last half an hour
He sounds like he's missing something
Or someone that he knows he can't
Have now and if he isn't
I certainly am"

[Deleted]

Do NOT play "Christmas Shoes" in my presence. Ever. I bawl like a baby at that one.

[Brood Lone Wolf Funker]

Mayday Parade-Terrible Things
We The Kings-Sad Song

[The Unconquered Sun]

Seasons in the Sun, the terry jacks version. Anytime you need to sit in a bathtub and open a couple of veins listen to that one.

[4real]

Other than the obvious answers like 'Hurt' and 'Everybody Hurts' I'll go with 'I know it's over' by The Smiths. Very depressing song.

[riseofsetian1981]

For me it begins and ends with Korn's "Daddy". That song just makes a person feel absolutely horrible after listening to Jonathan Davis have a mental/psychotic break down during the song.

[SHAKEMASTER TV9 is Don Knotts]

Elton John - Sad Songs

[hossfan]

Harry Chapin, "The Shortest Story"

[angryfan]

Jun 19, 2014 17:40:22 GMT -5 @wordlifeecw said:

Do NOT play "Christmas Shoes" in my presence. Ever. I bawl like a baby at that one.

So I had somehow forgotten this song. Go ahead and toss "Flowers for Mama" in with it, and then hire a mariachi band in cleats to jump on my chest for a while.

[Jazzman]

"OK, Here's The Truth" by Javier Colon. Check it out if you've never heard it.

[edgestar]

Joke Answer: happy birthday, for people that hate getting older
Real answer: tears in heaven

[Wolfpack Bitch]

Concrete Angel - Martina McBride