As Tears Go By. I'm not all that familiar with what the song's about, but the lyrics and the tone suggests it's supposed to be very sad. Everything is Wonderful. The tone may be energetic and upbeat, but it's really not. It's about the singer venting out the frustration he felt as a child when his parents, who were clearly fighting each other, would lie to his face that everything was wonderful, that nothing was at all wrong. No Depression. I have a deep, deep suspicion that this song is really about suicide and how the singer eagerly awaits the next life where there is no toil and turmoil. Even the lyric 'I'm goin' where there's no depression' basically says he's gonna go commit suicide to escape to the 'better land'. I Flirted With You All My Life- Chestnut is singing about death, basically.
I have legitimately cried at this song on a number of occasions. I can't even explain why, I think perhaps it sounds like the end of a big adventure or something and that is sad for some reason? On a more serious note though 'Winter' by Bayside always gets me a bit choked up. 'How to Disappear Completely' by Radiohead is just so hopeless and depressing. I find it quite scary to listen to sometimes.
Okay guys, without a shadow of a doubt, the saddest song I have ever heard in my entire life is this one, This Woman's Work by Kate Bush. First time I heard it was in the movie "She's Having A Baby." Now sit back, listen away, and ball your eyes out... Headphones work well too.
"Time In A Bottle" JIM CROCE Croyce was killed in a plane crash so a song about mortality and having more time resonates with me. Life is precious and we should live every second.
Yeah, that's a good one. Other honorable mentions for me would be... Holding Back The Years by Simply Red (which is literally my all-time favorite song and the lead singer wrote it when he was seventeen years old!) Disarm - The Smashing Pumpkins Track 4 - Sigur Ros With or Without You - U2 Letting the Cables Sleep - Bush Perfect Day - Roxette (I'll actually post that one, her voice is amazing, and I love the accordion in it.) Take a listen to them all if you can.
Oh, this is an interesting thread. When I saw it, two songs almost instantly sprung to mind. Christ! I even started to well up just finding them.
Since we're now listing sad musics from video games, may I present the saddest of them all? Imagine the saddest scene in your books with that music playing. You're welcome.
Oh, wow. That is quite a sad tune considering the game involved beating zombies to death with various household appliances. It also reminded me of another sad song, so here goes.
This may sound weird but the theme song for Jurassic Park as done in the trailers for Jurassic World. The slow, haunting, piano keys that play out the melody sends chills of nostalgia and pangs of sadness in me and for some reason, I'm not really sure why.
Love by John Lennon is one song I always feel the most disturbing strums of my heartstrings from... the haunting piano line, just knowing what happened to end the guy's existence and listening to it always seems somehow distantly mocking and contrary, it's a stunning song by itself but I have never been able to separate Lennon's fate and the content.
One of the saddest songs I have experienced is Jealous by Labrinth. The imagery in the song is just amazing. Masterpiece.
Saddest? I don't know. Most depressing? Maybe... "Here's to love, the sickness, The great martyr of the soul. Here's to life, the vice, The great herald of misery. In this cup, spiritus frumenti, For this is the nectar of the spirit. Quench the thirst, drown the sorrow And forget about cold yesterdays..."
Jim Croce's Time In A Bottle. It makes me sad for many reasons. It's an amazing song about loss, and about what can pass you by, if you're not careful.
A Woman's Work - Kate Bush. Reminds me of my late nan. Stay - Sugarland. Always gets me even though I've never been in that situation. Fast Car - Tracey Chapman. I always feel her hopes and dreams being slowly eroded.
Not a song, but the theme for Requiem for a Dream is pretty 'sad' and does go down as the best bit of music for a film, ever. I like this version, although not the best interpretation: For those that care, here's the original:
