Songs That Make You Sad

[Beauts]

There is a lot of beautiful and tragic music out there which can evoke a lot of emotion in people. I was just wondering about songs people find particularly sad or even difficult to listen to, whether because it's just a sad song or because it carries some memory they associate with it.

I personally have one song I cannot listen to without crying. I've walked out of shops when it's come on bawling my eyes out. I have trouble even thinking about it, let alone googling the lyrics for this thread.

That song is 'Forever Autumn' by Justin Hayward.

I suppose I associate it with my cousin's death, because it was played at his funeral. But I also think it's just desperately sad in it's own way, because it makes me think about how a part of you dies whenever someone you love goes.

I watch the birds fly south across the autumn sky
And one by one they disappear
I wish that I was flying with them
Now you're not here

I suppose this verse is the one that stands out most to me. It puts me in mind of the difficulty of facing the world with one less person in it. I don't know, really. But I mean, I can't go past the first line of this song without crying so... haha. The final line is

My life will be forever autumn 'cause you're not here

I suppose it sums up a deep buried feeling for me haha. Anyway enough of be blabbing, do you have any song that makes you sad, and why?

 

[Link Floyd]

Oh gosh there are so many...

1. Champagne Supernova - Oasis

I'm not sure why this one hits me so hard, I guess it's because of the opening lines:

How many special people change?
How many lives are living strange?

Really sums up a lot of the people in my life that come and go.

2. One of My Turns - Pink Floyd

This song always makes me think of this really bad break-up I had at the beginning of this year.

Day after day
Our love turns grey
Like the skin on the dying man
...
I feel
Cold as a razor blade
Tight as a tourniquet
Dry as a funeral drum

3. Mix Tape - Butch Walker

A song for anyone who has loved someone who didn't love them back.

You gave me the best mix tape I had
Even all the bad songs ain't so bad
I just wish there was so much more than that
About me and you

That's all I got right now.

 

[Mamono101]

1. End of May by Michael Bublé manages to encapsulate that feeling of emptiness coupled with pretending you're OK when you're not and it just resonates with me.
   
   This bit in particular sums up everything:
   
   Times like these you feel like you are done with feeling
   Feel you wanna stop the pain from healing
   'Cause you feel like you're the only one
   Who's ever felt this way
   
   
2. Black Orchid by Blue October is another song about feeling empty and alone, so I guess it doesn't take a genius to figure out why this resonates as well.
   
   There's one couplet in the song that really stands out for me:
   
   I want to belong...to someone...
   But maybe life's not for everyone.

 

[fairyfountain]

Marching Bands of Manhattan,What Sarah Said,and Your Heart is an Empty Room by Death Cab for Cutie all make me cry like a baby.After my grandmother (who I was very,very close to and was like a second mother to me) passed away I listened to these songs for at least a month straight as my way to cope so now I cant help but think of that point in my life when I listen to them. Let Down by Radiohead also makes me quite sad,specially the second verse.

 

[Farore's Chosen]

Sleep Like a Child-Joss Stone
I Can't Make You Love Me-Bonnie Raitt
Heaven's Not Enough-Steven Conte
Zombie-Cranberries
are some

 

[Vanessa28]

-Honey - Bobby Goldsboro. I grew up with this one. It was played a huge lot by my mother. I have so many memories of it. I had to make a playlist of my mom's favorite songs to be played at her funeral and this one was on it. All my siblings said "oh my god, Vanessa you've chosen mom's song!"
- I'd love you to want me - Lobo.
- Just when I needed you most - Randy Vanwarmer.
- Pan's Labyrinth sountrack. Seriously, can tracks even get more sad and beautiful than this???? It brings me to tears every freaking time!

 

[Dan]

Probably this song most of all. It really captures such a harmony of both sadness and loss so well and illustrates how precious our life's really are no matter how small we may seem.

Spoiler

 

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I Am Your Clock - LARD. It's basically a 15 minute, extremely bleak and cynical narration of life. I find it to be extremely accurate and relevant, if pessimistic.

Particularly these parts:

First we form our habits then they form us
We dress up as someone else every day
Gingerbread houses, fireplace surprises
What tastes best the witches won't let you have

These days having a baby
Is like what having a BMW used to be
While they're asleep
Play these new age cassettes

To transmit subliminal messages
I like mom, I like school
I like to study, I like rule

I am the school teacher who yelled at you
For not paying attention
And shamed you in front of the entire class
And dragged you around the room by the hair​

and then later in the song,

And you don't want to find out the hard way
How our society treats
The misfits
The ones who make mistakes

Bad failure
Bad failure
Homeless depression
Mental hospitals, murder

Born on the cutting room floor
Die in the bin by the door, hypothermia of the spirit
Why do people chase so many useless toys
In search of the perfect baby sitter?

For just 19.95 and just thirteen minutes out of your busy day
You could have the full rich experience of parenthood
Without the mess of the real thing

It's called Video Baby
From Creative Programming Incorporated
Offering all of the enjoyment
And none of the commitment​

It concludes with

When you're no longer useful
You can finally retire
To the glue factory of your choice
Free at last to scratch your head
Wondering what happened

Find how time flew
Right past you
Free at last to wonder what happened
Free at last, I bid you goodbye

On your own, to wait to die
On your own, to wait to die
On your own, to wait to die
On your own, to wait to die​

The kind of slow, repetitive nature of the song and accusatory tone I think really makes the point well.