This morning at breakfast my daughter asked what the saddest song I'd ever heard was.
Thankfully, I had "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fresh on my mind, because that's a more acceptacle answer to give an 8-year-old ("remember, the one about the shipwreck?") than "If We Were Vampires"
Thankfully, I had "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" fresh on my mind, because that's a more acceptacle answer to give an 8-year-old ("remember, the one about the shipwreck?") than "If We Were Vampires"
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...even if my real answer is "Autoclave" by @themountaingoats.bsky.social which is a song I've never gotten through without crying.
Or table for two by Abel korzeniowski !
I love this kind of music
it’s so captivating and flowing. Like a total breathe of fresh air in a world made of primarily smog
My fella loved/es to play guitar and sing with the kids, and consequently my 24yo claims lowkey PtMD trauma.
Big best wishes to you and your kid 🖤
Dragons live forever.
I promise you you will not be able to read the last page.
At the funeral, it was announced that a niece would be playing and singing this song.
Everyone on my row went, "oh no."
The niece had to hum it because she couldn't make it through.
They haunt me like a curse
Is a dream a lie if it don't come true
Or is it something worse
The River by Springsteen
RIP x 3 🪦🪦🪦
https://youtu.be/8UkzeNIgvg0?si=A_hIictEulMIWxAY
Hence so many went to America. God Bless America.
"Lost your family wrecked your truck, I used to love you now you suck"
Saddest song
Jesus Christ died for nothin' I suppose”
“We lost Davy in the Korean War
And I still don't know what for
Don't matter anymore”
I don't think it's sad at all. It's a beautiful song about accepting mortality and choosing what yo do with our limited minutes on earth.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8AHCfZTRGiI
It's the full song playing over video and images of Big Fitz, and includes radio traffic from the search.
It's haunting, to say the least.
Martha - Tom Waits
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
I have to turn both of those songs off if I hear more than a few notes.
https://youtu.be/Web007rzSOI?si=AvKmo91zlthxjUDq
*lost one family member that way and almost a second
Enjoy
https://youtu.be/gzY2VdE_NXo?si=b33FDhN0D_Ixzauk
Not a criticism in any way.
Just interesting to me.
Now, I am the ancient one at too many of the shows I go to.
As if I needed any further reminders of how fleeting it all is…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_NChAum7AmM
Of the big lake they call Gitche Gumme”- a great Gordon Lightfoot song
30% didn’t know the song
30% were disturbed and shocked
40% drunken sing along
By Gilbert O’Sullivan
"And I was so young when I behaved 25
Yet now I find I've grown into a tall child
And I don't wanna go home yet
Let me walk to the top of the big night sky" has me bawling every time
“Mama’s Hungry Eyes” - Merle Haggard. Can’t get out of poverty despite working hard.
“Holding Her and Loving You” - Earl Thomas Conley. Man realizes he married a good woman, but not the right woman.
Both went to number 1 on the country charts
“Merle’s good.”
“Carolyn” ..the subject matter would tick some people off, but it rings true (man in an awful marriage sees a hooker)
"Human Kindness, overflowing" is sarcasm.
Makes me cry.
Two songs after “End of the Road” by Boys II Men.
https://youtu.be/ge3cf-AEZEs?si=OQrCBtA9r86ZLFNS
Sneaky sad song:
Learned recently Red Hot Chili Peppers "Death of A Martian" was about Flea's dog and now that's a completely different song to my ears
“Won’t it be dull when we rid ourselves of all these demons haunting us, to keep us company?
Won’t it be odd to be happy like we’ve always thought we’re supposed to feel, but never seem to be?”
That and “what a good boy”
Anyway I once assembled a playlist of my saddest songs:
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0n3sJONKSPD7HgC3RN6VbF?si=Ap-ZSrAvShai-XAhPXND2A
Now after living with my mom w/dementia, whose singer-songwriter playlist is constantly on repeat around here, I realize it’s actually a Poe-level Zombie Horse Girl song and mostly just creepy.
the one that’s really just heartbreakingly sad for me is “elephant”
the other's incredibly sad but also beautiful
it's complicated
IT’S ABOUT DOMESTIC ABUSE
It's badass
“Not back when it was written - now, now that there are actual Margaritaville bars in malls.
Wasted away again!”
“He’d have never heard the end of it, would he, Russ?”
Or “Sounds of Silence”
My saddest song is “You’ll Never Leave Harlan Alive” by Patty Loveless, but I’m from Eastern KY so…
https://youtu.be/Sl9ZkYViEIs?si=VYbU-9UHooCSwQ_o
Remembers Elton John nailed it in 1984.
No it’s not a better sad song, just the cycle of realization among generations.
Makes me weep every time
My Immortal - Evanescence
Hurt - Johnny Cash
Cats in the Cradle - Harry Chapin
Dance with My Father - Luther Vandross
Blew my mind when I watched a documentary on it.
I still cry every time.
https://youtu.be/UYWt4vpXGOk?si=N7SnfFoob50ZorRl
Joey by Concrete Blonde
it was my older brother's funeral song.
he died before i met him, but still...
Sad song for me.
Someday when you're doing little things around the house
I hope that you'll think of me and smile
You know that I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for awhile