I love this song. I love Peggy Lee. This song can still bring tears to my eyes. It is one of the saddest songs I know..
Is this the saddest song ever written?
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Is this the saddest song ever written?
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
Such a subjective measure. This one is close to the top of my list:
"A philosopher is a blind man in a dark room looking for a black cat that isn't there. A theologian is the man who finds it." ~ H. L. Mencken
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"We ain't a sharp species. We kill each other over arguments about what happens when you die, then fail to see the fucking irony in that."
"It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favor of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion."
Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
I don't see how it's 'sad' (the OP) 
I thought it was the opposite. It's message seems to be enjoy life.
I thought it was the opposite. It's message seems to be enjoy life.Libertarianism: The belief that out of all the terrible things governments can do, helping people is the absolute worst.
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
Never much liked Peggy Lee, I find her hard to listten to. I can think of many sad songs that spring to mind, old blues is full of them, and bluegrass, folk etc, murder ballads, death, the depression... This is intensely sad for me, but I think you need to know the musicians there, the story and the significance.
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
I agree. It is to me about enjoying life in the face of its futility. Sometimes the futility is hard to get past though...Animavore wrote:I don't see how it's 'sad' (the OP)
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."
Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
Only if you careRum wrote:I agree. It is to me about enjoying life in the face of its futility. Sometimes the futility is hard to get past though...Animavore wrote:I don't see how it's 'sad' (the OP)
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
Do you know what's even more sad?lsdetroit wrote:
Read the comments to that song.
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Don't pretend you don't care! Cos I know you do!Animavore wrote:Only if you careRum wrote:I agree. It is to me about enjoying life in the face of its futility. Sometimes the futility is hard to get past though...Animavore wrote:I don't see how it's 'sad' (the OP)
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
I don't find it sad either for the same reasons Ani mentions...also, the melody is rather upbeat.Rum wrote:I agree. It is to me about enjoying life in the face of its futility. Sometimes the futility is hard to get past though...Animavore wrote:I don't see how it's 'sad' (the OP)
Makes me cry every time, mostly because it was very popular when my mother died.devogue wrote:Tears in Heaven.
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
If this doesn't make you sad (and maybe laugh at the same time ...):
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It's not up to us to choose which laws we want to obey. If it were, I'd kill everyone who looked at me cock-eyed! - Rex Banner
The Bluebird of Happiness long absent from his life, Ned is visited by the Chicken of Depression. - Gary Larson
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
God, no. That's the kind of grief you should keep private, the kind that makes you write sugar-coated nastiness. Awful.devogue wrote:Tears in Heaven.
I'd say the saddest song is Blaze Foley's If I Could Only Fly
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?
Now that I bothered to look it up this time I agree 100%.JOZeldenrust wrote:God, no. That's the kind of grief you should keep private, the kind that makes you write sugar-coated nastiness. Awful.devogue wrote:Tears in Heaven.
I have respect for Clapton but that song invites my eponymous smiley
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