Depressing Songs

[Jennasis]

Time In A Bottle
Return to Pooh Corner
In the Living Years
Arms of the Angel
Wildfire
So Damn Lucky
Lightning Crash

 

[Gumbo4x4]

I don't remember the name of it or who sings it, but back in the 70's a friend's older sister had the 45 & the chorus is burned into my brain:

Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married, just you wait n see

 

[hereyago]

Pearl Jam: where can my baby be. Others mentioned the Edmund Fitzerald and Hurt with Johnny Cash, those songs make me aob and gives me goosebumps. And I can't remeber who did the song:billy don't be a hero. George Jones: he stopped loving her today.

 

[Zooshoveller]

I don't remember the name of it or who sings it, but back in the 70's a friend's older sister had the 45 & the chorus is burned into my brain:

Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married, just you wait n see

Run Joey Run - David Geddes

 

[Cantw8]

I don't remember the name of it or who sings it, but back in the 70's a friend's older sister had the 45 & the chorus is burned into my brain:

Daddy please don't, it wasn't his fault, he means so much to me
Daddy please don't, we're gonna get married, just you wait n see

Run, Joey Run

 

[Gumbo4x4]

Run Joey Run - David Geddes

Run, Joey Run

I knew someone would know it!

 

[awoogala]

any song by Morrissey or the smiths.
I'm not Lisa...(never remember who sings that one)
wildfire
oh very young ..cat stevens, love it, but always gives me the wistful , "have AI been raising my kids right" vibe
jim croce's operator

 

[KristaTX]

The Carpenters "Goodbye to Love". Extra sad since she died so young and just seemed kind of sad. (It also has some bizarre guitar solos in it for the Carpenters.)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nooeMrCws-A

I'll say goodbye to love
No one ever cared if I should live or die
Time and time again the chance for love
has passed me by
And all I know of love
is how to live without it
I just can't seem to find it.
So I've made my mind up I must live
my life alone
And though it's not the easy way
I guess I've always known
I'd say goodbye to love.

There are no tomorrows for this heart of mine
Surely time will lose these bitter memories
And I'll find that there is someone to believe in
And to live for something I could live for.
All the years of useless search
Have finally reached an end
Loneliness and empty days will be my
only friend

From this day love is forgotten
I'll go on as best I can.

What lies in the future
is a mystery to us all
No one can predict the wheel of fortune
as it falls

There may come a time when I will see that
I've been wrong
But for now this is my song.
And it's goodbye to love
I'll say goodbye to love.

 

[low-key]

Time In A Bottle
In the Living Years
Wildfire

yuk, Im depressed just reading these 3

 

[topolino]

Pearl Jam: where can my baby be. Others mentioned the Edmund Fitzerald and Hurt with Johnny Cash, those songs make me aob and gives me goosebumps. And I can't remeber who did the song:billy don't be a hero. George Jones: he stopped loving her today.

The song is actually called, "Last Kiss", and Pearl Jam's version was a remake. The original was done by Wayne Cochran in 1961.

 

[KristaTX]

Even though it's a sad song, "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" is one of the best examples of a narrative song ever written. It is one of my favorite songs ever. If someone played it at a party I went to, I'd stay and say "Play more Gordon Lightfoot!!". But I also think that the greatest era of Pop/Rock music is the 1970s.

 

[hereyago]

or the smiths.
I'm not Lisa...(never remember who sings that one)
wildfire
/QUOTE]

Jessi Colter . I loved that song.

 

[It'sWDW4me]

any song by Morrissey or the smiths.
I'm not Lisa...(never remember who sings that one)
wildfire
oh very young ..cat stevens, love it, but always gives me the wistful , "have AI been raising my kids right" vibe
jim croce's operator

You just reminded me of Jim Croce's Taxi ("A smile seemed to come to her slowly. It was a sad smile, just the same.")

 

[KristaTX]

Here's another oldie but goodie classic depressing song:

"Diary" by Bread

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnRc1saiTUU


I found her diary underneath a tree.
And started reading about me
The words she's written took me by surprise
You'd never read them in her eyes.
They said that she had found the love she waited for.
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

When she confronted with the writing there,
Simply pretended not to care.
I passed it off as just in keeping with
Her total disconcerting air
And though she tried to hide
The love that she denied,
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life, I will give to her my wife
All the sweet things that I can find.

I found her diary underneath a tree.
And started reading about me.
The words began stick and tears to flow.
Her meaning now was clear to see.
The love she'd waited for was someone else not me
Wouldn't you know it, she wouldn't show it.

And as I go through my life, I will wish for her his wife
All the sweet things that she can find
All the sweet things they can find

 

[awoogala]

ooh and you just reminded me of another one...
same old lang sine by dan fogelberg...
met my old lover in the grocery store..
we drank a toast to innocence...
just for a moment I was back at school..and felt that old familiar pain...
gets me crying every time.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Joey by Concrete Blonde


I am not very familiar with the band or anything, but I remember hearing that and was like WOW that song is amazing.

 

[KristaTX]

You just reminded me of Jim Croce's Taxi ("A smile seemed to come to her slowly. It was a sad smile, just the same.")

That is a great song. I think you mean Harry Chapin, though?

 

[topolino]

You just reminded me of Jim Croce's Taxi ("A smile seemed to come to her slowly. It was a sad smile, just the same.")

That's Harry Chapin and not Jim Croce.

 

[Disney Commando]

Pretty much anything by Adele, hear her songs a few times a day at work on the Muzak system

 

[minkydog]

How about "Ya Picked A Fine Time To Leave Me, Lucille" by Willie Nelson. "Four hungry kids and a crop in the field..."