MORELOCK Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 How do you write the saddest song on a concept album about working in a cancer ward? Throw in a song about abortion: "We'll make only quick decisions, and you'll just keep me in the waiting room, and all the while I'll know we're fucked and not getting unfucked soon, When we get home we're bigger strangers than we've ever been before, You sit in front of snowy television, suitcase on the floor." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 LET THE WARREN ZEVON ONSLAUGHT OF SHEER DEPRESSION BEGIN NOW! You mean like when he wrote a goodbye song to his family while dying of cancer? 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRGoldman Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 http://youtu.be/5heTJ65bdhU Billy Bragg's eulogy to his father. Absolutely heartbreaking. So many songs encapsulate different aspects of how unbelievably shitty death is, but the seething unfairness that comes through and the resigned sense of his his own mortality just burrows in to me every time. 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lacelle Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Time to pull out the big guns Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RIPPA Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Apparently all off you had to emotionally block out Patsy Cline It would have been cliche to pick "Crazy" plus well... fuck... "I've got your memory, or has it got me. I really don't know, but I know it won't let me be." Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SolidGoldBomb Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JLSigman Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Just when you'd written off the Dropkick Murphys as a punk band, they come back and kill you. I cry every time. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 You can probably use most versions of this song here. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cubbymark Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Dolly Parton chimes in. This one gets me on a personal level in that I grew up poor. Not hillbilly poor but a lot of the teasing was done because of it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zimbra Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 There are a lot of Smog songs that would qualify 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DEAN Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 If you want to go Country Music Endless Heartache, Hank Sr wrote the darkest, most hopeless song (which is OBVIOUSLY my favorite Country song)- You Win Again. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CSC Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 "You are a China shop and I am a bull You are really good food and I am full" Is the best damn lyrical description of a breakup ever. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Right here is just an honest song about loss. Hidden with a catchy riff and some beautiful strings. Plus it was Kurt Cobain's favorite song so there just has t be some underlying pain to it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
piranesi Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I know this song "I'm so lonesome I could cry" seems too obvious...(and I'm going with the Cowboy Junkies version rather than Hank Williams' version to change things up a bit) but have you ever really taken a second to come to terms with the lyrics of this song? At one point it goes:"Did you ever see a robin weepWhen leaves begin to die?Like me, he's lost the will to liveI'm so lonesome I could cry"Just think about that for a second. A robin...a bird mind you...is weeping. The leaves are turning all around it. It's world is collapsing. The things it lives in are dying. It pauses during its day to notice this...that it's just starting to become impossible to deny it. And it (A BIRD MIND YOU) begins to weep and can no longer lift itself off the ground. Why would it bother? It's world is ending.THAT IS INSANE!!! Do you realize how messed up your headspace has to be to think of an image like that? Jesus, Hank Williams...Jesus.At another point it goes:"I've never seen a night so longWhen time goes crawling byThe moon just went behind the cloudsTo hide its face and cry"THE MOON IS WEEPING. The FUCKING MOOOOOON. The night, which is The Moon's natural habitat, mind you...is so hopeless...so devoid of warmth and so inevitable and endless that THE MOON ITSELF CAN'T STAND IT ANYMORE and hides it's face behind a cloud so that all the millions of poor depressed individuals below won't see it convulsively weeping and collectively wilt their last shred of hope into the cold dead earth. THE FUCKING MOOOOOOON IS THINKING THESE THINGS!!!!I can't even. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Web Conn Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Jay-Z & Beanie Sigel talk about their absentee fathers. Beans verse is especially saddening, he even even starts crying during his verse. Jay gets personal which he isnt entirely known for. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 "There's no time for us There's no place for us What is this thing that builds our dreams Yet slips away from us..." The fact that it's Brian May's ethereal voice kills me. The day Freddie Mercury died, I listened to this song on repeat for hours. Here's a memorial song that always gets me, no matter how perky it is. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ace Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Here's another Queen song that gets me, for different reasons. Simply because it's the last one Freddie sang, and he never got to finish it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Isaacduke Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 What's the code to embed a Youtube video again? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lamp, broken circa 1988 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Knowing how Jason's tale ends, this song can inflict some real damage. It feels exactly how it's named: a farewell transmission. Also, as a student learning psychology & front line therapy (hotlines, crisis centers), there's two verses in here that put a lump in my throat. "The real truth about it is No one gets it rightThe real truth about it isWe're all supposed to try There ain't no end to the sands I been trying to cross The real truth about it isMy kind of life's no better offIf it's got the map, or if it's lost" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
caley Posted July 3, 2014 Author Share Posted July 3, 2014 Jim Wise mercy killed his wife in a hospital at her bedside. And he put the gun to his head and it jammed and he didn't die. He went to trial all summer long and his eyes welled up when he told us about how much she loved the backyard garden and the budding rosebush. She loved the garden, and its budding rosebush. A lot of Sun Kil Moon's sentimental songs come off as cloying, but "Jim Wise" makes me weepy. Also, bravo on the tag for this thread. That album's got four contenders, the one you posted, the one about his sister who died when an aerosol can in the garbage exploded; the one about his uncle who also died in an unrelated aerosol can explosion, but my pick of them is 'Micheline'. It starts off silly about a mentally-challenged girl knocking on his door when he was younger and asking his father "Can I take a bath with Mark?" and his dad saying Mark (Singer Mark Kozelek) wasn't home and the family laughing about it afterwards. But then he tells about how some neighborhood thug got her confidence and started stealing her welfare cheques and he busts out "Micheline, Micheline, she wanted love just like anyone else" and that part just gets to me. And that's without getting into the parts about his teenage friend who had an aneurysm from the weird way he played guitar and his grandmother getting cancer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MADCAP Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 BECAUSE EDDY, DAMMIT!!! 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Fowler Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 We probably could have had a separate Hank Williams Sr. Division thread. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
odessasteps Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 I dont really favour the original version by the Dead, but i love this version by Suzanne Vega from the Dedicated album. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 Someone already posted the saddest song, which is And the Band Played Waltzing Matilda by The Pogues. But this is 2nd. Beautiful, melancholic, the vocals hit just the right note. My favorite Kinks song, and it's just brilliant. Sam Stone by John Prine is probably 3rd. But I am following the rules here, so you'll have to look it up yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest The Magnificent 7 Posted July 3, 2014 Share Posted July 3, 2014 And I'll throw the saddest metal song ever into the mix, too, since we got some metal fans here and Fowler did his duty on that front. Soaring yet depressing. The lyrics... Young hearts born with griefShall pay the penalty of truthA season of stolen youthShall teach old hearts to breakIt feels like I've been here beforeHere to where the animals lay down to dieSo we stood alone on a distant storeOur broken spirits in rags and tattersNerve and muscle, heart and brainsLost to Ireland, lost in vainPause and you can almost hearThe sounds echo down through the agesThe creak of the burial cartHere in humiliation and sorrowNot mixed with indignationOne is driven to exclaimOh god, that bread should be so dearAnd human flesh so cheapYoung hearts are born with such griefWe have paid the penalty of truthA season of our stolen youthShall teach our hearts to break Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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