“Just Like Heaven” by the Cure is kinda depressing in its own right.
Aw, god. Sampiro, I hate you for making me remember that song!
It was on the jukebox at the pizza place I worked at in high school and for some reason, some would come in at lunch everyday and play it. EVERYDAY! It’s a wonder the lunch crowd didn’t go throw themselves in traffic.
Nick Cave “I Let Love In”
“Despair and Deception, loves ugly little twins”
Teen Angel
Mark Dinning
-Words and Music by Jean Surrey & Red Surrey
-peaked at #1 in 1960
Teen angel, teen angel, teen angel, ooh, ooh
That fateful night the car was stalled
upon the railroad track
I pulled you out and we were safe,
but you went running back
Teen angel, can you hear me?
Teen angel, can you see me?
Are you somewhere up above
And I am still your own true love?
What was it you were looking for
that took your life that night?
They said they found my high school ring
clutched in your fingers tight
Teen angel, can you hear me?
Teen angel, can you see me?
Are you somewhere up above
And I am still your own true love?
Just sweet sixteen, and now you’re gone
They’ve taken you away.
I’ll never kiss your lips again
They buried you today
Teen angel, can you hear me?
Teen angel, can you see me?
Are you somewhere up above
And I am still your own true love?
Teen angel, teen angel, answer me, please
http://www.webfitz.com/lyrics/Lyrics/1960/461960b.html
Blech.
There goes my baby with someone new.
She sure looks happy
I sure am blue.
She was my baby till he stopped in.
Goodbye to romance that night have been
Cup of coffee by Garbage. Hands down.
OMG, you are SO right. I first heard this song when the guy I was dating was getting ready to leave me for another woman. It sill makes me cry every time I hear it, because I remember those feelings.
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Does anyone else ever have songs turn up that perfectly encapsulate something that happens in their lives? Also, I’ve had relationships that I could pretty much sum up in the lyrics of a particular song.
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Mac Davis claims to have written “Drinkin’ Christmas Dinner Alone Again This Year” which would take the prize for most depressing holiday song, as well.
Stand by Your Man is pretty damn depressing, too.
Vincent by Don McLean is just great for composing that final rant and ending it all.
And So It Goes, by Billy Joel.
“Painters” by Jewel
The most depressing love song I know is one you probably won’t, but go ahead and check it out. Actually, it’s not really depressing, but really, really sad.
It’s The Way by German artist Herbert Groenemeyer. He lost his wife to cancer and went into seclusion almost four years mourning for her. Now he resurfaced and published a love song about her and how he’s going to miss her. Here’s a link with a pretty good English translation of the German lyrics.
This song kills me every time I hear it, when I’m driving I have to change the station because I will not see the road anymore. I am even crying while I type this. Hey, I’m just emotional, I guess. But whenever I marry I hope my husband will write a song like this about me if I should die.
The new Dixie Chicks song “A Home” off the Home CD…
Not a night goes by
I don’t dream of wandering
Through the home that might have been
And I listened to my pride
When my heart cried out for you
Now every day I wake again
In a house that might have been
A home
Fire and Rain, by James Taylor
Runner-up - Both Sides Now by Joni Mitchell - I know it’s not exactly a love song, it’s kind of a ‘I don’t know love’ song which is just as sad.
“Moons and Junes and Ferris wheels
The dizzy dancing way you feel
As ev’ry fairy tale comes real
I’ve looked at love that way
But now it’s just another show
You leave 'em laughing when you go
And if you care, don’t let them know
Don’t give yourself away”
The only lyrics I could find are here, which is a page with the lyrics for the whole album, which is neat because it also has the happiest song I know, Chelsea Morning.
I Miss You by Harol Melvin and the Bluenotes
Standard fare R&B begging until the end of the song, when one of the band members talks as if he’s talking to the object of his affections. In a completely realistic, bittersweet, and heartfelt tone, he tells her how he knows he screwed up, how he’s cleaned up his life, how he’ll do better by her.
And then he asks about his son, who for the first time asked about him recently. You can hear the regret in his voice, but at the same time you know she shouldn’t take him back.
As a child with a deadbeat father, this song ripped out my frickin’ heart and made me see my mother in a new light.
Torn Between Two Lovers Mary MacGregor.
aargh !
Operator by Jim Croce
Is anyone else here ready to go throw themselves under a bus?
I agree with El Paso, (naturally!), And So It Goes, I Can’t Make You Love Me, and a bunch of others. Well, time to go take another Welbutrin. Or a handful.
Okay, this one isn’t exactly depressing in the “love lost” or “what might have been” sense, but I’ve always found it to be really annoying:
This is from that old classic, My Funny Valentine
Is your figure less than Greek?
Is your mouth a little weak?
When you open it to speak, are you smart?
So, what he’s saying is he realizes your dumpy, ugly and dumb. But hey, that’s cool because he goes on to say:
Don’t change a hair for me,
Not if you care for me.
Well, that’s just swell. I can’t think of a better romantic sentiment delivered by the man I love.:rolleyes:
“Well I Guess I Won’t Be F***ing You This Christmas” by Daddy Upright.