What is the saddest song you have ever heard?

.jacksparrow.

Johnny cash hurt

vedwards

Eleanor Rigby
Waltzing Matilda
Nobody's Child
Danny Boy (Judith Durham)
Abide With Me
After The Ball Was Over

Tunes:
Una furtiva lagrima (Donezetti)
Benedictus (Mass -Beethoven)
Victimae paschali laudes (Gregorian)

sinead88

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8MJio3s2wFI

I can't get the video embedding thing to work properly but Bon Iver does this very very sad version of "I Can't Make You Love Me". I'm not sure it's the saddest song I've ever heard but it's one that springs to mind right now. "Only our Rivers Run Free" is also fairly depressing.

DEFTLEFTHAND

Another sad one

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

yellow hen

REM -everybody hurts
Johnny cash (not nine inch nails) -hurt
Don McLean -the grave

DEFTLEFTHAND

Speaking of sad Cash songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cvMy5tATjM

Cienciano

Cinematic Orchestra, To Build a Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QB0ordd2nOI

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust
This is a place where I don't feel alone

This is a place where I feel at home

And I built a home
For you
For me

Until it disappeared
From me
From you
And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

(Instrumental)

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree that's old as me
Branches were sewn by the colour of green
Ground had arose and passed its knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
I held on as tightly as you held onto me
I held on as tightly as you held onto me

And I built a home
For you
For me

Until it disappeared
From me
From you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust

PropJoe10

Alice In Chains - Nutshell

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.

rwg

Great thread - my contribution

323gtr

johnny cash - hurt.

Aideenr1

The mirror by John Frusciante

Eeden

I think it's going to rain today = Randy Newman (Nina Simone also does a great version of this)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8avlqgfY_lQ

Broken windows and empty hallways
A pale dead moon in the sky streaked with gray
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Scarecrows dressed in the latest styles
With frozen smiles to chase love away
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

Lonely, lonely
Tin can at my feet
Think I'll kick it down the street
That's the way to treat a friend

Bright before me the signs implore me
To help the needy and show them the way
Human kindness is overflowing
And I think it's going to rain today

biko

The long song by Murray Gold in Doctor Who.
"And that's ok, that's good, as long as you keep moving, as long as you remember all the people that you used to be."
Sorry, something got stuck in my throat...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2RYJ3I3zG3w

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ijf8MN0-nEI

Paulie Gualtieri

A slower version of the fureys - The old man , about someone losing their father

The Princess Bride

I haven't heard this song since I was a child.
Back then, I used to cry any time it was on the radio as it was such a miserable story.

Nobody's Child.

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

Wellyd

To where you are by josh groban always makes me well up.

Also Kings of Leon's live lounge version of Dancing on my Own by Robyn. It gives me goosebumps and rips the heart out of me at the same time!

ThomasAlan

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j24RpX6FVF8

McChubbin

This is a very sad song that I just cannot take seriously anymore thanks to Father Ted...
Radiohead- Exit Music

Overmanlyman

One and only by Ed sheeran.
It makes it makes my eyes sweat

blue-army

alleystar

+1 on Alice In Chains. First song I thought of when I saw this thread.

Billy Joel's And So It Goes is quite sad, beautiful song though - especially when sung by a choir.

Some others too:

Laura - Bat For Lashes
Black Flies - Ben Howard
Smother - Daughter
Interlude - London Grammar
My Tears Are Becoming A Sea - M83
Berlin - RY X (more depressing than anything)
Srxt - Bloc Party

sinead88

I could never pick my saddest song ever but this is pretty damn sad.

I'm a Long Way from Home by Waylon Jennings. It's in Walk the Line if anyone recognises it!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b10QIub95X0

W.Shakes-Beer

I hope to hell I don't relate to this in 40 years time, a bitter-sweet song that I love.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGSNe4r8Epo

annie.t

Johnny Cash - Hurt
also:

Missyelliot2

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NLtFsiOFn-4

'Old and Wise' Alan Parsons Project

I love this sad, sad song. It's just a tale of passing...so very beautiful.

jjpep

Two little boys - Rolf Harris
Waterloo sunset - the kinks
Going back to Tuscan - super suckers
Rescue you - hellacopters
Two out if three ain't bad - meatloaf
Castles made of sand - Jimi Hendrix

sinead88

jjpep wrote: »

Two little boys - Rolf Harris
Waterloo sunset - the kinks
Going back to Tuscan - super suckers
Rescue you - hellacopters
Two out if three ain't bad - meatloaf
Castles made of sand - Jimi Hendrix

Love "Waterloo Sunset"!

SpannerMonkey

lovely song and saddening as it goes on

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N76kAivCb20

Choochtown

"Broom People" or "Hast thou considered the Tetrapod" by The Mountain Goats from the best album ever recorded "The Sunset Tree".