Saddest Song You Know?

[OhDannyBoy]

I can't Make You Love me - Bonnie Rait
Turn down the lights
Turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me
Tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize
Don't patronize me
'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't
I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight
'Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these final hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'Cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

 

[Grand Koalafornian]

For me "Will I" and "I'll Cover You" from Rent. It was my little sister's favorite musical. We saw the movie on opening night and she wore out her first DVD I also took her to see the stage show a few months before she died. She had a different disorder but she related to the show a lot.

 

[zackiedawg]

Last Kiss - written by Wayne Cochran, later covered by J Frank Wilson, and even later a bigger cover hit for Pearl Jam:

Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
We were out on a date in my daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, straight ahead
A car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
I'll never forget, the sound that night
The screamin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream, that I heard last
Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world
When I woke up, the rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm flowin' through my eyes
But somehow I found my baby that night
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said
"Hold me darling, just a little while"
I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love, that I knew I had missed
And now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love, my life that night
Oh, where oh where can my baby be?
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven, so I got to be good
So I can see my baby when I leave this world

 

[mumto3girls]

Angel by Sarah McLachlan

My mom’s funeral was last week and this is one of the songs we played. I think it is actually about heroin addicts, which she was not, but we liked the lyrics. Not ready to hear it again so soon.

 

[OhDannyBoy]

As someone who has struggled with addiction before these hit home for me.

Nutshell - Alice In Chains

This one is sad to me as when Layne Stanley wrote it he was struggling with addiction and he knew it would ultimately kill him.

We chase misprinted lies
We face the path of time
And yet I fight
And yet I fight
This battle all alone
No one to cry to
No place to call home
Oooh... Oooh...
Oooh... Oooh...
My gift of self is raped
My privacy is raked
And yet I find
And yet I find
Repeating in my head
If I can't be my own
I'd feel better dead
Oooh... Oooh...
Oooh... Oooh...

Pool Shark - Sublime

Again, written by Bradley Nowell while struggling with an addiction he knew would ultimately kill him.

Lying in my plastic bed
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom
Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool
Now I've got the needle
And I can't bleed, but I can't breathe
Take it away and I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war
Lying in my plastic bed
Thinkin' how things were so cool to me
My baby likes to shoot pool
I like lying naked in my bedroom
Tying on the dinosaur
Tonight it used to be so cool
Now I've got the needle
And I can't shake
But I can't breathe
Take it away and but I want more and more
One day I'm gonna lose the war

 

[tvguy]

You've never struck me as a person afraid of disagreement. I've always noted you diving in head first most of the time.

Once burned, twice shy.

 

[DVCjj]

I'm getting depressed. Someone please start another ice cream flavors thread.

That is so funny and so true. Can't begin to tell you I have to shut off the car radio sometimes as I'm bawling my eyes out.

 

[Pea-n-Me]

I agree with some of the others listed.

I’ll add this one, Hold On To Memories by Disturbed

 

[kiddo76]

This Woman's Work

 

[Pea-n-Me]

This song is special to my son and I, so it always brings a big lump to my throat and tears to my eyes.

 

[Dan Murphy]

My Heart Will Go On--Celine Don

 

[penn19]

Thought of another one. Last Train Home by Pat Matheny. I used to live in Florida and it was in a Publix commercial around the holidays. Every time I heard it I cried.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Tears In Heaven ~ Eric Clapton

worst life event you could have, imho

When I was in elementary school a kid in my grade (who my best friend knew better than I did) his younger brother (I don't remember his age) was riding his bike on one of the main roads in the neighborhood and was hit by a car and died. It was just such a shocking event for the area that they held something similar to a memorial but not quite for him at the school.

Two songs were played for very different reasons. I'm not sure the reason for this one above, if it was more the parents who wanted a song to match their grief, IDK. But the other song was much more of a happier note. His favorite song was Pinball Wizard from The Who.

Both songs however have always reminded me of the tragedy.

 

[wvjules]

The Escape Club‘s I’ll Be There

Don't be afraid, oh my love
I'll be watching you from above
And I'd give all the world tonight,
To be with you
Because I'm on your side,
And I still care
I may have died,
But I've gone nowhere

That song always me think of my dad. Can't believe I forgot about it.

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

It's not so much the beat or the words you hear for me personally but more the meaning of the song and the context in which I heard it. It evokes so much emotion, sadness, grief, shock, and just memory of the day.

It's tied to 9/11 (as in the song is about 9/11 too) and the first time I had heard it even many years after its release was at the end of 2017 when we were in NYC and went to the 9/11 museum. The area where this song played was an exhibit of art pieces made from the ash and soot from the towers coming into people's windows, apartments, condos, etc in the area.

 

[GreatLakes]

Dave Matthews Band - Shotgun, especially the 2012 Hershey Park Version:

This photograph of you and me
when these old boots of mine were brand new
look at you
how you smile, smile
look at you
you smile
the photograph of you and me

What has become of us?
we're chasing the avalanche down
watching the world on TV
there must be something better on

Shotgun
is it for putting in your mouth?
in a world as upside down as this one
pretty patterns on the wall
mama screaming down the hall, babe
baby, yeah, why did you not just talk to me baby?
talk to me, talk to me, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah, oh
talk to me, talk to me girl
won't you talk to me, talk to me babe
oh, I'm not, I'm not, hey
running out of time

What has become of us?
watching the world on TV
we're chasing the avalanche down
there must be something better on

I used to fly, I swear I did, and make it
what has become of us?
I spread my heart so wide I couldn't drink it
[...] the world on TV
and all I ever needed was you beside me
climbing the avalanche down
and all I ever needed was you beside
must be something better on

Shotgun
everybody get down on the floor
I don't want to hurt anyone anymore
but I've been driven by a need
by some desperate necessity, babe
I need more than I ever did
I've been working until I'm dead
I'll be working to get you [?], yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
yeah, yeah, yeah
shotgun

What has become of us?
I used to watch, I used to laugh, and then it's
chasing the avalanche down
and see you smile, I can fail too, the spirit
[?] him on the TV
Out in the morning 'til we act a minute
there must be something better on

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

Not so much sad in the sense of some other songs but more reflective of our society and the treatment and expectations of girls and women-Strawberry Shortcake by Melanie Martinez.

I think it's on the sad spectrum because of how relatable it is to many people, how many of us women can remember feeling a certain way (and can still feel this way).

The artist says the meaning (which the lyrics are pretty straightforward anyways) is "how many girls are taught from a young age that they are only valued if they are attractive to men. This regularly causes them to feel insecure about how they look since they do not fit society's standards." Further into the song it's about "sexual harassment and carries a critique of rape culture and victim-blaming." She also brings up the dress code=distraction to boys of her schooling days in terms of the meaning behind it.

In some ways it's more the blatant out there that makes it more sad to me, there's no tip-toeing around the subject just an out there.



Along this lines is "girls like us" by Zoe Wees which touches on the same vibe of expectations/insecurities track. Although this one is less sad and more like a "I get you, you're not alone"

 

[Dan Murphy]

Philosopher's Stone--Van Morrison

 

[Mackenzie Click-Mickelson]

The video paired with the lyrics paired with the beat

 

[Dan Murphy]

My Way--Sinatra