Depressing Songs

[TifffanyD]

Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley

Or the original version... Leonard Cohen

 

[KristaTX]

For me, it's "Copacabana" by Barry Manilow. DS is a professional musician who plays it and always thought it was upbeat and jazzy til I made him listen to the words.

Wow, I never knew all the words either! I'm going to have to see if anyone ever did a sad sounding version. . .

 

[TifffanyD]

I want to add "Where the Wild Roses Grow" by Nick Cave... Off of Murder Ballads

Also the song "Long Time" by Cake off their newest album... Listen to the lyrics... "It's been a long time since we tripped into this ditch... It's been a long time since we drank the arsenic"

 

[EMom]

Wow, I never knew all the words either! I'm going to have to see if anyone ever did a sad sounding version. . .

Copacabana is like a short movie in song. You can SEE it when you hear it.

 

[ChrisFL]

"Its a Small World"

 

[Lintasare]

one more... In your wildest dreams by the moody blues..

Speaking of The Moody Blues I would add "New Horizons" and "Haunted".

 

[Lintasare]

I don't mean to nit-pick but since I've seen it multiple times on the thread I have to point out that the song is just titled Angel

There is a Nickelback song that plays in the background of a video of a little boy who died in a car crash. I don't know the song, but when I hear it I know its the one because it makes me remember the video. Its very depressing

Do you know some of the lyrics to the Nickelback song? I might be able to figure out the song title.

 

[DMickey28]

I love that song but it makes me cry all the time. It's called Far Away.

Eta: the Nickleback song from the video, it's called Far Away. The video is advocating extended five point harnesses in children. I have my 65lb 48inch tall 5.5 year old in a five point harness that he can stay in until 85lbs.

 

[Lintasare]

I love that song but it makes me cry all the time. It's called Far Away.

Eta: the Nickleback song from the video, it's called Far Away. The video is advocating extended five point harnesses in children. I have my 65lb 48inch tall 5.5 year old in a five point harness that he can stay in until 85lbs.

I guess I don't consider Far Away to be depressing. It is a song about being in love.

 

[DMickey28]

I guess I don't consider Far Away to be depressing. It is a song about being in love.

I think it's more that the first time I heard that song was on that video so it makes me think of it and makes me sad. The video is about a little boy who was technically big enough to just be in a booster in the car but was killed in a car accident. Had he been in a 5pt harness he would not have sustained the injuries he did. His family no advocates the extended use of a 5 pt harness passed the legal ages/size requirements.

 

[Lintasare]

I think it's more that the first time I heard that song was on that video so it makes me think of it and makes me sad. The video is about a little boy who was technically big enough to just be in a booster in the car but was killed in a car accident. Had he been in a 5pt harness he would not have sustained the injuries he did. His family no advocates the extended use of a 5 pt harness passed the legal ages/size requirements.

I have never seen that video.

 

[JenM]

I personally find it depressing when a lot of people think a song is the opposite of what it is, like:

"Born in the USA" is not a patriotic song.
"Every Breath You Take" is about a stalker, not a love song
"I Will Always Love You" was commonly dedicated by SOs on the radio when it was popular after the Bodyguard, and I don't think they meant to be breaking up with their SOs.
"Saving All My Love for You" was a common wedding song in the 80s, it's about an affair.

Or "Wake Me Up When September Ends", which people think is a 9/11 song, but Billie Joe Armstrong actually wrote it about the death of his father, who died in September 1982.

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

What's up with Nickelback and depressing videos?? I haven't seen the "Far Away" video, but

I remember the one "Someday", the song is great but the video just freaks me out!

 

[moon]

I can't believe no one has mentioned this one. It's pretty old, and soooo depressing...


In a little while from now
If I’m not feeling any less sour
I promise myself to treat myself
And visit a nearby tower
And climbing to the top will throw myself off
In an effort to make it clear to who
Ever what it’s like when you’re shattered
Left standing in the lurch at a church
Where people saying: "My God, that’s tough
She's stood him up"
No point in us remaining
We may as well go home
As I did on my own
Alone again, naturally

To think that only yesterday
I was cheerful, bright and gay
Looking forward to well wouldn’t do
The role I was about to play
But as if to knock me down
Reality came around
And without so much, as a mere touch
Cut me into little pieces
Leaving me to doubt
Talk about God and His mercy
Or if He really does exist
Why did He desert me in my hour of need
I truly am indeed Alone again, naturally

It seems to me that there are more hearts
broken in the world that can’t be mended
Left unattended
What do we do? What do we do?

Alone again, naturally
Now looking back over the years
And whatever else that appears
I remember I cried when my father died
Never wishing to hide the tears
And at sixty-five years old
My mother, God rest her soul,
Couldn’t understand why the only man
She had ever loved had been taken
Leaving her to start with a heart so badly broken
Despite encouragement from me
No words were ever spoken
And when she passed away
I cried and cried all day
Alone again, naturally
Alone again, naturally

listening to it is even sadder....

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eki_PRzNk-Y

 

[Kathryn Merteuil]

Dixie Chicks had some really sad stuff like:

Travelin' Soldier
Top of the World
So Hard
Voice Inside My Head

 

[Lintasare]

What's up with Nickelback and depressing videos?? I haven't seen the "Far Away" video, but

I remember the one "Someday", the song is great but the video just freaks me out!

IIRC the "Far Away" video is about a firefighter and his wife/girlfriend. He goes off to fight a forest fire but it has a happy ending and he comes home.

I will agree "Someday" is a depressing song and so is the video.

 

[pixie dust 112]

Billie Don't be a Hero - Paper Lace
Seasons in the Sun - Terry Jacks
Alone Again (naturally) - Gilbert O'Sullivan
Honey - Bobby Goldsboro

Yup I'm old!

 

[violetrose]

Haven't read any of the replies but the first that come to mind are: DOA (song from the 60s or early 70s), Tears in Heaven, Hell is for Children, Alone Again, Naturally.

 

[violetrose]

More from the 70s: Timothy, Diary, One Tin Soldier, Signs, Sunshine, and Sylvia's Mother.

 

[Gumbo4x4]

More from the 70s: Timothy, Diary, One Tin Soldier, Signs, Sunshine, and Sylvia's Mother.

Signs?


Oh, add "Amazing Grace" if done on the bagpipes.......