Sad songs are part of our lives like it or not. These are my ten. What would be yours?
Music is meant to be a joyful, delightful sensation. But unfortunately, mankind also saw that, in addition to happiness, music can also express sorrow. Sad songs have been with us for ever it seems, but with the advent of pop music, sad songs just got more prominent.…
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276 - Mary
Nobody knows the song of kansas... dust in the wind.
This is the saddest song ever!
277 - bill
You guys... This is amatuer hour. The saddest song ever written is "Old Shep", by Elvis Presley. If you're a dog lover, fugget about it. Ten tissue song. It's on youtube. Check it out.
278 - Jake
These are my sad songs:
1. Moments Rewound by Vedera
2. What If? by Safetysuit
3. Day Old Hate by Dallas Green
4. Almost Lover by A Fine Frenzy
5. Lonely Day by System of a Down
6. Obsession by InnerPartySystem
7. Lose It All by The Backstreet Boys
8. Oh, Look What You've Done by Jet
9. Lemon Meringue Tie by Dance, Gavin, Dance
10. Growing Up by Fall Out Boy
Hope you like the songs I frequently cry to!
J.A
279 - Naomi
I have a lot of sad songs. The ones that come to mind are (along with my top 5):
#1 concrete angel - DJ Boonie remix (It's about a young girl that is beeing abused. The song is slightly chipmunked but sounds like a child may be singing it which makes it more sad).
"A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot."
#2 Hurt - Johnny Cash (his last song before he died... it's so emotional)
"What have I become
My sweetest friend
Everyone I know goes away
In the end
And you could have it all
My empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt"
#3 Happy Birthday - Flypside ft TaTu (a rapper rapping about him paying for his unborn babies "murder" and how he feels guilty about it)
"I think about it every year so I piked up a pin,
Happy birthday,
love you whoever you would have been
Happy birthday..."
#4 Heaven (9/11 Remix)- DJ Sammy (the song is made to sound like a young girl talking about her father's death from 9/11 and how it's affected her.)
"It's been a year daddy, I really really miss you. Mommy says you're safe now, in a beautiful place called heaven."
#5 Tears In Heaven - Eric Clapton (eric clapton wrote this song after the death of his toddler son who fell off of a high balcony. Listening to this makes me cry every time for a lot of personal reasons).
"Beyond the door
There's peace I'm sure.
And I know there'll be no more...
Tears in heaven"
SOME OTHER SAD SONGS I LIKE:
Face Down - The red jumpsuit apparatus
behind blue eyes - limp bizkit
Black Roses red - Alana Grace
Passive - A perfect circle
Room of angel (silent hill soundtrack) - Akira Yamaoka
Knocking on heavens door - Avril Lavign
Forgotten - Avril lavign
when your gone - avril lavign
i'm with you - avril lavign
When she cries - britt nicole
tears don't fall - bullet for my valantine
listen to your heart (slow) - DHT
Stay with me - Danity Kane
Cancer - My chemical romance
What if - Emilie Autumn
save you - Emilie Autumn
Willow - Emilie Autumn
(A lot of emilie autumn's music is sad... and especially her poems. She is an amazing woman with so much talent!)
Linkin Park - My December
in the end - linkin park
leave out all the rest - linkin park
Faith Hill - There You'll Be
runnin up that hill - placebo
Here Without you - 3 Doors Down
away from the sun - 3 doors down
scars - papa roach
May It Be - Enya
My Immortal - Evanescence
My last breath - evanescence
last song i'm wasting on you - evanescence
Broken - Seether Ft. Amy Lee
Sally's song - covered by Amy Lee
superchick - beauty from pain
superchick - Stand in the rain
enrique iglesias - hero
Your Guardian Angel - The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus
i miss you - miley cyrus
saying sorry - hawthorne heights
Am I not pretty enough? - casey chambers
1000 words (final fantasy x-2 soundtrack) - jade from sweetbox. (this song is amazing and breath-taking. Watch the ffx-2 1000 words clip! If you've ever played the game then you will understand how emotional it is).
To Zanarkand (ffx soundtrack)
Monster - Meg and dia (this song is about a girl who knows she was unwanted and came into this world because her mother was raped).
"...I'm a glass child... I am Hannah's regrets."
Far away - nickelback
if everyone cared - nickelback
savin' me - nickelback
This girl - Nikki flores
When it was me - Paula deanda
Marching - Paula deanda (My favourite song)
family portrait - pink
who knew - pink
because of you - kelly clarkson
stole - kelly rowland
30 minutes - TaTu
gomenasai - Tatu
Teardrops on my guitar - Taylor Swift
Forever and always - Taylor Swift
Sadness and sorrow - from naruto soundtrack (I know it's from a anime but the melody is extremely sad and makes me tearful all the time... especially the hokage funeral version)
video kid - The birthday massacre
Blue - The birthday massacre
thousand miles - vanessa carlton
somewhere - within temptation
Forgotten children - Forgotten children(German band who do sing in english too)
don't jump - forgotten children
These are the ones that come to mind at the moment... I'll be able to think of a lot of others with a bit of time and going through my mp3 player.
280 - MorganD_325
Okay. Considering that all of these songs are older ones, I'm gonna give my list of newer sad songs.
In no particular order-
My Chemical Romance-Cancer
My Chemical Romance-Disenchanted
Natalie Imbruglia-Smoke
Muse-Blackout
Fall Out Boy-Headfirst Slide Into Cooperstown On A Bad Bet
Fall Out Boy-Golden
Panic at the Disco-Do You See What I'm Seeing?
My Chemical Romance-Early Sunsets Over Monroeville
My Chemical Romance-Helena
My Chemical Romance-The Ghost of You
Jeff Buckley-Hallelujah
Miley Cyrus-Goodbye
Natalie Imbruglia-Leave Me Alone
Natalie Imbruglia-Goodbye
The Fray-Over My Head (Cable Car)
System of a Down-Chop Suey
And like 347 more, but I don't wanna list 'em all.
Note: I know I have a lot of My Chemical Romance songs up there, but they've helped me through a dark time. And some of their music is actually sad. But, strangely, the sadness makes me happy...
281 - camoreyia
i like aaliyah "i miss u" it can relate to a lot of people who lost someone
282 - berryjel
LOVE HURTS - Nazareth, is a very good depressing song. MAD WORLD - Gary Jules' remake of the Tears For Fears Song is also depressing. But the one that makes my girlfriend cry, (eventhough it suppose to be a pick me up song is EVERYBODY HURTS - REM. Sometimes it get to me too. Oh yeah, any song by Sarah McLaughlin, especially the one in that commercial about the abused animals just makes me wanna take a bottle of sleeping pills and wash it down with JACK DANIELS (DEPRESSING!!)
283 - Mo
Ah! I have sad songs! These made me cry:
Daddy's Little girl- Dj Boony (sung by someone else but I dunno who, some guy. The video clip is sad!)
Concrete Angel - Celine Dion (I think)/ Dj Boonie- Ah this video clip and song is sad!!!!!!!!!
284 - Jaykay
Saddest song ever written is cancer by my chemical romance. Watch the music video and you will cry.
Behind blue eyes is by the who not limp bizkit.
285 - Will Brennan
One of the saddest songs I know has usually been performed like a vaudeville number, but "Me and My Shadow," is an incredible sad song. Imagine it done slowly, by the Cowboy Junkies, say...
Me and my shadow,
Strolling down the avenue,
Me and my shadow,
Not a soul to tell our troubles to . . .
And when it’s twelve o’clock,
We climb the stair,
We never knock,
For nobody’s there . . .
Just me and my shadow,
All alone and feelin’ blue . . .
286 - berryjel
I just remember one of the saddest songs ever!
TIME IN A BOTTLE - Jim Croce. My goodness take your prozac before you listen to this one!
287 - berryjel
STARRY, STARRY NIGHTS - Don Mclean is a great sad song.
288 - Mary
Rilo Kiley* A Man/Me/Then Jim
Rilo Kiley* Does he love you
Ryan Adams* Come Pick Me Up
Rachael Yamagata* Reason Why
Rachael Yamagata* I'll Find A Way
Elliott Smith* Everything Reminds Me Of Her
Damien Rice* Accidental Babies
Lyle Lovett* Nobody Knows Me
Angus & Julia Stone* Wasted
Everclear* I will Buy You A New Life
Kasey Chambers* Am I Not Pretty Enough
Lisa Lobe* Jake
Regina Spektor* Samson
Amy Winehouse* Wake Up Alone
Kate Nash* Nicest Thing
Bitch & Animal* Miss Me My Dear
Bitch & Animal* Traffic
Dido* Marys In India
The Stars*
Beth Orton* Shadow Of A Doubt
Beth Orton* Conceived
Neko Case* Hold On, Hold On
Jack Johnson* Do You Remember
Fiona Apple* I Know
289 - Mary
Oops!
The Stars* The Big Fight
290 - Jon
Josh Groban: You Raise Me Up
Josh Groban: Remember
Enrique: I Will be Your Hero
Alabama: Christmas Shoes
Josh Groban: Ave Maria
Josh Groban: On Eagles Wings
Garth Brooks: More Than A memory
Josh Groban: I can go the distance
291 - Emily
Sugarland-Keep You
-Stay
-Very Last Country Song
-Fall Into Me
-Wishing
Mark Shultz-He's My Son
-Letters From War
Steven Curtis Chapman-Cinderella
Barlowgirl-I Need You To Love Me
-Mirror
-Porcelain Heart
Skillet-The Last Night
-The Older I Get
Seether ft. Amy Lee-Broken
Evanescence-Bring Me To Life
-My Immortal
-My Tourniquet
Flyleaf-So Sick
-Sorrow
Reba McEntire-Fancy
-Every Other Weekend
-He Wants To Get Married
Martina McBride-Independence Day
-Concrete Angel
Mandy Moore-Only Hope
-Mommy Don't Drink Me To Bed Tonight
The Beatles-Let It Be
From Wicked-Defying Gravity
-For Good
Red Is The Rose(most versions are pretty sad)
Annie Laurie(most versions)
Alyssa Lies(forgot who sings it, but it's pretty sad)
....I have a lot more, but I can't think of them right now, and my list is long enough as it is.... Enjoy!!!!
292 - mmmammamma
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293 - gvhfgsh
xixixi :D
294 - Zoey
I'm a teenager still, and I'm growing up with stuff like "Runaway Love" and "Where'd You Go" and "Don't Jump."
I still love the stuff like, "My Heart Will Go On" and others.
295 - Rachel
Hi loads of amazing songs listed here..my favourite sad songs are:
1. With or Without You - U2
2. There You'll Be - Faith Hill
3. Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd
4. I Hope You Dance - Lee Ann Womack
5. You Raise Me Up - Josh Groban/Westlife
6. Run - Snow Patrol
7. The Scientist - Coldplay
8. Fix You - Coldplay
9. If You Believe - REM
10. I Don't Wanna Miss A Thing - Aerosmith
296 - Tristan
(Makes me cry everytime, especially the Radio City version)
1. Some Devil - Dave Matthews
"You said always and forever, now I believed you baby, you said always and forever, such a long and lonely time"
2. Gravedigger - Dave Matthews
"Gravedigger, when you dig my grave, could you make it shallow so that I can feel the rain"
3. Round Here - Counting Crows
"Round here we talk just like lions,
but we sacrifice like lambs"
4. Name - Goo Goo Dolls
"And don't it make you sad to know that life is more than who we are?"
5. Call Me a Dog - Temple of the Dog
"But when it's my time to throw the next stone, I'll call you beautiful, if I call at all"
6. Fallen - Sarah Mclaclhn
"Though I've tried, I've fallen, I have sunk so low, I've messed up, better I should know, so don't come around here, and tell me I told you so"
7. Long Black Veil - Dave Matthews Band version
"She walks these hills in a long black veil, she visits my grave when the night winds wail, nobody knows, nobody sees, nobody knows but me"
8. Pool Shark - Bradley Nowell of Sublime acoustic
"Now I've got the needle, and I can't shake, but I can't breathe, I take it away but I want more and more, one day I'm gonna lose the war"
9. Heart of the Matter - Don Henley
"I've been tryin' to get down to the heart of the matter, but my will gets weak, and my thoughts seem to scatter but I think it's about forgiveness"
(I'm thinking this is probably the saddest song I've ever heard, and I don't know why)
10. Something's Always Wrong - Toad the Wet Sprocket
"Another day,
I call and never speak,
and you would say
nothing's changed at all,
and I can't feel
much hope for anything,
if I won't be there to catch you if you fall
Again,
it seems we meet,
in the spaces,
in between,
you always say,
it won't be long,
oh but something's always wrong
Another game,
of putting things aside,
as if we'll come back to them sometime,
?? of pride and innocence,
and you would say,
something has gone wrong
Again,
it seems we meet,
in the spaces,
in between,
you always say,
it won't be long,
oh but something's always wrong
And again,
it seems we meet,
in the spaces,
in between,
you always say,
it won't be long,
oh but something's always wrong
something's always wrong
something's always wrong"
(Just wanted to add this one, couldn't leave it out)
11. Safari - The Breeders
"He couldn't cry on safari,
in over his knees,
he couldn't leave the finer life,
always huggin' the ground,
and cryin' out for me
He couldn't cry on safari,
in over his knees,
He didn't leave the flock, he couldn't leave
always hugging the man,
and cryin' out for me"
These aren't my favorite "sad songs", but close enough. "Some Devil" would probably top any list for me, with "Something's Always Wrong" not far behind.
297 - Sophie
I know this song is old but
Peter Sarstedt- Where do you go to my lovely
This is so sad its supposed to be about Sophia Loren.
Taylor Swift- Tear Drops on my guitar
The lyrics are really awful, i go weepy straight away.
Billy Joel- Piano Man
I know this song is about life, but isnt life soo sad.
298 - coreyboy
wow, how did ya'll miss this one
Annie Lennox "why?" - haunting
299 - Sarah brown
running up that hill - placebo
fast car - tracey chapman
sailing - rod stewart
speeding cars - imogen heap
karma police - radiohead
300 - Thomas
eleanor rigby - beatles
death of cedric - harry potter soundtrack :D
now we are free - enya
301 - Silas Marner
Jeff Buckley's cover of Hallelujah. Supremely sad.
302 - Rhea
I'm suprised I haven't seen anyone (however i havent read all the comments) write about 'everybody hurts' - REM that has to be one of the all time saddest, moving songs I've ever heard
also other songs that are very sad - day old hate by dallas green, metal heart by cat power, see you soon and we never change by coldplay
and a lot of songs by radiohead are also very sad, including fake plastic trees
303 - hady
the saddest song is "9 crimes" Damien rice
304 - randa-22
(( My Heart Willoh my god
it's the best sad song
((Love can touch us one time
And last for a lifetime
And never let go till we're gone
Love was when I loved you
One true time I hold to
In my life we'll always go on))
Go On ))
305 - natasha.
hurt-johnny cash
walk away-ben harper
city of angels-goo goo dolls
stay-sugarland
broken-seether ft amy lee
306 - amber
chantal kreviazuk - feels like home
307 - dave
nick cave and the bad seeds- people aint no good
308 - jamie
i totally agree with forever autumn
but i think that ,no one but you - Queen is quite a sad song
309 - Lala
I don't care if anyone thinks it's cliche, because Tears In Heaven get's me everytime.
310 - C
Who the hell does not know Trent Reznor wrote "Hurt"?
Jesus, you call yourself a fan?!
311 - Tony
Karen Carpenter's "I can dream can't I" and her version of "End of the world".
312 - tom
landslide by fleetwood mac. Song written for a dying dad about growing older. Yeah.
313 - jessica
hi i am new i am a singer i am not famous i just love sinning i am gonna post a song and please i hope you love it here it is
There will always be another mountain,
Never, ever say goodbye
Always remember to keep your head up high,
Someone’s always trying to find me,
Something inside my head is… saying,
But I can’t turn around and face the world,
On who you are,
It is not good bye just yet
It’s written in your eyes,
It’s written on your face,
I know that that is true
Reach for the stars,
And when that rainbow’s shining over you,
That’s when your dreams will all come true,
There will always be another mountin
Just keep your head up high
Don’t fade away
No no
I covered my face and looked away
I turned back round and opened my eyes
Tears started dripping
You started fading
I can almost see it
That dream I’m dreaming
My faith is taking but I
I may not know it
I’m always gonna wanna make it move
I won’t lose you no
I’ve got that way of knowing
You’ve got that heart beating slowly falling
Every step I’m taking
Your eyes started closing
But I said
Nooooo
This can’t be true
I need to know and question how I’m feeling
Theirs no use looking back
No no no
There will always be another mountin
Don’t carry your fears away
You’re the one I think about each day
You’ll always be in my heart
No no no
Take a look in my eyes
I carry you away like a rose on water
I carry you away like a rose on water
I carry you away like a rose on water
I carry you away like a rose on water
314 - Connor
I would add "Last Kiss" - Pearl Jam. and "I Give Everything I Own" - Bread
315 - Anders
Hard one, but on the top of my mind it would be a top 10.
1. Linkin Park - Hands Held High
2. Turn - Close Your Eyes
3. Linkin Park - Shadow of the Day
4. Jeff Buckley's cover - Hallelujah
5. Oasis - Little By Little
6. Pink - Dear Mr. President
7. Oasis - Don't Look Back In Anger
8. Pink - I Don't Believe You
9. Poison - Every Rose Has It's Thorns
10. REM - Everybody Hurts
316 - Mii
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