What is the saddest song you have ever heard?

grenache · 10-01-2014 1:33am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YTBC7ckTWpo

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Duck Soup · 10-01-2014 1:42am

Beautiful Child by Fleetwood Mac.

La_Gordy · 10-01-2014 1:45am

I heard this song before one of the worst moments in my life and I hear it in my head when things feel pish.

That said it was in Family Guy...

ViveLaVie · 10-01-2014 1:47am

Johnny Cash's version of Hurt kills me every time.

jimboblep · 10-01-2014 1:50am

The version of" the parting glass " at the end of assassins creed

lukesmom · 10-01-2014 1:56am

Mike & the mechanics - The living years always brings a tear to my eye

By FAR the SADDEST song ever written.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uGDA0Hecw1k&feature=youtube_gdata_player

foxy farmer · 10-01-2014 2:06am

The Wreck of the Edmond Fitzgerald by Gordon Lightfoot. Based on real events.

zenno · 10-01-2014 2:15am

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VosFiY1SifA

jandm · 10-01-2014 2:19am

The Contender by Jimmy MacCarthy about the rise and fall of the boxer Jack Doyle

When I was young and I was in my day
I could steal what woman’s heart there was away
I’d sing and dance till morning blaze away until the dawning
Long before I was the man you see today

I was born beneath the star that promised all
I could have lived my life between Cork Cobh and Youghal
But the Wheel of Fortune took me from the highest point it shook me
By the bottle live by the bottle I will fall

But there in the mirror on the wall
I see the dream is fading
From the contender to the brawl
The Ring, The Rose, The Matador is raving

When I die I’ll die a drunk down on the street
You can count me out to 10 in clear defeat
Wrap the starry plough around me and let the piper’s air resound me
There I’ll rest until the Lord of Love I meet

ConcertKing · 10-01-2014 2:19am

This song always gets me.

Bob Carlisle - Butterfly Kisses

ConcertKing · 10-01-2014 2:22am

And this song by Gary Barlow -Don't Say Goodbye.

Such a beautiful tearjerker.

lukesmom · 10-01-2014 3:10pm

Mike & the mechanics - the living years

I wasn't there that morning
When my Father passed away
I didn't get to tell him
All the things I had to say

I think I caught his spirit
Later that same year
I'm sure I heard his echo
In my baby's new born tears
I just wish I could have told him in the living years

Dr conrad murray · 10-01-2014 11:17pm

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KylMqxLzNGo

saddest song ive ever heard.. as featured in the movie "Platoon"

whirlpool · 11-01-2014 5:35am

Not the saddest song I've ever heard, but new Beyonce song "Heaven" is pretty sad.

http://www.downvids.net/beyonce-heaven-official-video--521403.html

rockatansky · 11-01-2014 5:38am

LCD Soundsystem - Someone Great.

Sometime I have to turn it off mid song.

The_Mask · 11-01-2014 5:54am

The Lonesome Boatman by the Furey Brothers and Davey Arthur

Mr Pseudonym · 11-01-2014 8:18am

Taking ages to load, so I can't tell whether I like this interpretation. Anyway - Vivaldi: The Four Seasons, Spring, Second Movement (E major)

hattoncracker · 11-01-2014 8:40am

"angel of sadness" by A Camp.

blade1 · 11-01-2014 8:57am

Liam Clancy-The Parting Glass.
Played at my Father's Funeral.
My Father had always said he wanted it played.

shar01 · 11-01-2014 9:06am

Kilkelly, Ireland - has been covered by many but I like the Mick Maloney, Jimmy Keane and Robbie O'Connell version.

Sonny - Mary Black, Dolores Keane and Emmylou Harris

Tomohawk · 11-01-2014 9:18am

Yeats wrote this in 1886, Mike Scott and the Waterboys put it to music nearly one hundred years later...

Barcafan11 · 11-01-2014 9:24am

Angel by Sarah Mc Lachlan. Bearing in mind it was a friends baby's funeral which made it even sadder. Or time to say goodbye. Saying that, I like both songs