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OT: Songs that make you sad...for whatever reason

This is a melancholy song from Jimmy Buffet, who is better known for his good time party songs.

 


This song is about lying in bed next to a partner that you're about to break up with. It is beautifully sung by Bonnie Raitt. Full of both affection and sadness, she ultimately accepts that "I can't make you love me, if you won't." Probably her favorite performance to me.
 
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This song is about lying in bed next to a partner that you're about to break up with. It is beautifully sung by Bonnie Raitt. Full of both affection and sadness, she ultimately accepts that "I can't make you love me, if you won't." Probably her favorite performance to me.
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I was just going to name this song. I never cared for Bonnie Raitt, except for this song.
 
Some other songs that for me have a sad feel are "The Heart of the Matter" by Don Henley, "The Freshman" by The Verve Pipe,
and though it's from an animated movie, I think Sarah McLachlan's "When She Loved Me" from Toy Story 2 is extremely saddening.
 
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When I was going thru my divorce circa 2000 this came on the radio I almost crashed my car. After it was finalized and I found out she was cheating on me, I wished I crashed my car into her .....
 
'yeehaw' shade would love this thread with all the country music recognition. i don't know if these moving musical pieces qualify as songs, they certainly qualify as sad:

samuel barber's 'adagio for strings'

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and 'pavane for a dead princess' by maurice ravel.

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CSNY’s Ohio reminds me not only of the 4 students shot and killed at Kent State on May 4,1970, but also the thousands who didn't come home from Vietnam and especially the guys from my old Brooklyn neighborhood whose names are on the Vietnam Wall.
 
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I Dreamed A Dream, from Les Mis

I dreamed a dream
in time gone by,
when hope was high
and life worth living
i dream that love will never die
i dreamed that god would be forgiving
when i was young and unafraid
and dreams were made and used and wasted
but their's no ransom to be paid
 
Another classical in order to get away from all country. This one was written in protest of the plans to mine uranium in the Orkney Islands.

 
John Prine's "Hello in There" is about as sad and poignant a song as I have ever heard:

 
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