What is the saddest song you've ever heard?

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   nmdondersposted 12 years ago

   What is the saddest song you've ever heard?

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   Eranofuposted 12 years ago

   Hedwig And The Angry Inch - Origin Of Love

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   afundaposted 12 years ago

   Probably Old Man by Neil Young. It's mostly due to the tone of the song, Neil's voice, lyrics...though...it's still one of my favorite songs of all time.

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   B Lucyposted 12 years ago

   "I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt.

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   Derek Slarkposted 12 years ago

   We had just left our daughter in her little room, on her own, in London, as she began her nurses training. A friend had already been through this with their daughter, and warned us not to turn the car radio on as we travelled home. We were already feeling upset as we left her and, forgetting what our friend had said, we turned on the radio to give us something else to think about.
   
   We should have listened to our friend because a song called “Butterfly Kisses” sung by Cliff Richard came on (This was a cover version). The song is about a little girl and her changing relationship with her father as she grows up, and eventually becomes a woman and leaves home.
   
   A few years later when our daughter got married, she had this song playing as she walked up the aisle. So what was our saddest song ever now brings some great memories.
   
   Butterfly Kisses was a sad song for personal reasons, but, purely for the lyrics, "Luka" by Suzanne Vega is probably on of the saddest songs I have heard as it is about child abuse, and there is no happy ending to the song.

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   flashmakeitposted 12 years ago

   Gloomy sunday
   http://www.newgrounds.com/audio/listen/331712
   Billie Holiday Gloomy Sunday Lyrics
   Sunday is gloomy,
   My hours are slumberless
   Dearest the shadows
   I live with are numberless
   Little white flowers
   Will never awaken you
   Not where the black coach of
   Sorrow has taken you
   Angels have no thought
   Of ever returning you
   Would they be angry
   If I thought of joining you?

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   AfricaGurlposted 12 years ago

   well, 'Glitter in the Air" by Pink when I first heard it made me cry, but at that time I was going through a break up so its understandable..
   But the saddest song that I know about is, 'Who Painted the Moon Black?' by Nia Nell, a South African artist, this song was about a girl who had gotten raped and her feelings, its very symbolic in the lyrics so you wouldn't really know what the song is about unless you did research about it.

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