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Sad Lines in Sad Songs

Practically every line fits the criteria but, ultimately, it's the heartbreaking plea of everyone when hope is lost, "Please don't go."


I'll hold your hand till it goes cold
I'll hold my tears until you go
With all the life that leaves your bones
It soaks the purpose of my own
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
I love you more than you can know
You've got a home inside my soul
It's like a mountain soaked in snow
It's in the earth the river flows
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
I've kept my own side of the bed
Thinking you'd be home again
I hold myself so I can sleep
My pillow holds the screams of me
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
So lay yourself down on my chest
Cause I know how to hold you best
I'll keep you through these last few breaths
And kiss and love you till the end
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
ooo ooo ooo please don't go
 
"I saw your other man today, he was wearin my brand new shoes"
Ballad of the Seeds and STems, Commander Cody.
 
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Kaizen said:
Carole King - It's Too Late
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Oh, the one that gets me on Tapestry is the title song. Just Carole and her keyboard. Two couplets that I find particularly striking:

Once he reached for something golden hanging from a tree
And his hand came back empty

And

I wept to see him suffer
Though I didn't know him well

 
This is one of those sounds that sounds upbeat but is really depressing. There are a lot of striking lines in it.

One thing they don't tell you 'bout the blues when you got 'em
You keep on sinking 'cause there ain't no bottom
There ain't no end -- least not for Lillian

No one remembers when she started her skid
She was only 27 and she had five kids
Coulda been the whiskey, coulda been the pills
Coulda been the dreams she was trying to kill

But there won'd be a line in the news of the world
'bout the life and death of a Red Dirt Girl named Lillian

 
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RegisteredUconn said:
(Loreena McKennitt Lady of Shalott)
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My favorite tearjerker of Loreena's is Annachie Gordon. One of those old songs about a forbidden love; there are many great versions of it, but hers is my favorite.

The closing lines are

And he kissed her poor lips till his heart it turned to stone
And he died in the chamber where his love she lied in

If I sit and listen to it, I'll have tears streaming down my face by then.

 
Never gonna fall in love again
I don't want to start with someone new
'Cause I couldn't bear to see it end
Just like me and you

No, I never wanna feel the pain
Of remembering how it used to be
Never gonna fall in love again
Just like you and me

My favorite sad song. It doesn't get any better than Never Gonna Fall in Love Again by Eric Carmen.
 
Farewell Waltz - Waterloo Bridge
I think this is one of the saddest song and is used for graduation song.

 
Kaizen said:
Samuel Barber’s Adagio for Strings

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Perhaps the most heart wrenching movement any quartet has ever played. Even when played poorly it's a masterpiece.
 
Another song that pretty much is sad in every line. "We Have Nothing" by John Lombardo and performed by John and Mary.

"As it hides from sunlight the winter moves on
And now gone like ghosts things we counted upon
The check you promised never came
I beat the windows and bawled your name
We have nothing
I've the feeling this is happening twice
Longtime friendships are now melting like ice
So good with words yet now they fail
As seasons meet and the days grow pale
We have nothing
The long-buried poems the night that we met
And then the hour we swore we'd never forget
The ticking clock moved backwards to
Till I wasn't sure if it was you
People stirring at their windows at dawn
We stood pissing on the constable's lawn
Is that the moon there at the foot of the pool
I was happy now I feel like a fool
Like a curtain dropping down from above
It's as though you had never been loved
We made a list from one to five
Good reasons not to be alive
We nursed our drinks in a workmans bar
We kissed good night in a freezing car
We have nothing"

 
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"I had a dream my life would be
So different from this hell I'm living
So different now from what it seemed
Now life has killed the dream I dreamed."

It can't get much worse than these lines from "I Dreamed a Dream" from "Les Mis."
 
"Snowblind Friend" was written by Hoyt Axton and made popular by Steppenwolf; John Kay was buds with Axton, and this song was written about a friend of theirs. It has lines in it like:

He only had a dollar to live on till next Monday
And he spent it all on comfort for his mind

He said he wanted Heaven but praying was too slow
So he bought a one-way ticket on an airline made of snow

 
Bama fan said:
Carly Simon, in 1971, was way to young and lovely to sing this song. But she killed it :
My father sits at night with no lights on, his cigarette glows in the dark.

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That may be my favorite song from a TV concert. Whoever designed that dress for her deserves a Nobel Prize. She did a really good rendition of "Anticipation" in that show, too.
 
Sorry guys, but how could I ever have forgotten this song? Anyone that has ever suffered through loss or the fear of loss during childbirth knows what's behind this song.

Kate Bush - This Woman's Work

"Oh, darling, make it go, Make it go away".

 
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Bigboote said:
That may be my favorite song from a TV concert. Whoever designed that dress for her deserves a Nobel Prize. She did a really good rendition of "Anticipation" in that show, too.
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I love the song, and the dress. She is one of my favorites, and was just stunningly lovely that night.
 
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