Is this the saddest song ever written?

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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by JOZeldenrust » Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:30 pm

JOZeldenrust wrote:
devogue wrote:Tears in Heaven.
God, no. That's the kind of grief you should keep private, the kind that makes you write sugar-coated nastiness. Awful.

I'd say the saddest song is Blaze Foley's If I Could Only Fly

On secons thought, no.

Ne me quitte pas by Jacques Brel is sadder.

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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by devogue » Sat Feb 12, 2011 5:36 pm

JOZeldenrust wrote:
devogue wrote:Tears in Heaven.
God, no. That's the kind of grief you should keep private, the kind that makes you write sugar-coated nastiness. Awful.
He needed to let it out, so he shouldn't have kept it private. If ever he should be allowed to call it, that was the one. I can hardly listen to it, it's incredibly raw. Jesus, what he and the mother of his child went through doesn't bear thinking about.

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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by Robert_S » Sat Feb 12, 2011 6:46 pm

I'm going with the song "Temporary" off the Slaid Cleaves album "Everything You Love Will be Taken Away" for a sad song about life in general.


And for a sad story song, I think James McMurtry's "Fireline Road", which I can't find a good video for, so I'll link the lyrics
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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by Feck » Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:04 pm

Tears in Heaven :|~ someone should have pushed him out a window for that !


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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by lsdetroit » Sat Feb 12, 2011 7:13 pm

"When you do things right, people won't be sure you've done anything at all."

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Re: Is this the saddest song ever written?

Post by surreptitious57 » Fri Mar 04, 2011 2:37 am

OHIO - NEIL YOUNG
ASYLUM - SUPERTRAMP
CRY BABY - JANIS JOPLIN
TANGERINE - LED ZEPPELIN
I NEED LOVE - ELTON JOHN
THE PUSHER - STEPPENWOLF
FIRE AND RAIN - JAMES TAYLOR
DON ' T SAY YOU LOVE ME - FREE
TUESDAY ' S GONE - LYNYRD SKYNYRD
NO EXPECTATIONS - ROLLING STONES
WHEN A BLIND MAN CRIES - DEEP PURPLE
CAN ' T FIGHT THIS FEELING - R E O SPEEDWAGON
SUITE : JUDY BLUE EYES - CROSBY, STILLS AND NASH
A MIND IS LIKE A PARACHUTE : IT DOES NOT WORK UNLESS IT IS OPEN

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