At the very end of “I Am a Rock” by Simon & Garfunkel is the line:
*And a rock feels no pain. And an island never cries. 
*
Dopers please post here your end (or near-end) lines from songs that bring tears…
“Excuse me while I disappear…”
“Angel Eyes” by Matt Dennis and Earl Brent, as sung by Frank Sinatra, from the “Only the Lonely” album, 1958.
“My hovercraft is full of eels.”
What about happy lines that threaten tears?
That Ol’ Wind:
“cos they’re finally where their hearts have always been”
"No hero in your tragedy,
No daring in your escape.
No salute to your surrender,
Nothing noble in your fate.
Christ, what have you done?"
Rush, The Pass
The line itself isn’t sad, but taken in the context of the rest of the song, and how it’s sung:
'Cos I love you, yes I love you,
Oh how I love you, oh how I love you.
- Nights in White Satin, The Moody Blues.
Eschew Obfuscation
This part of the song alwaysalways makes me sad:
I dont wanna be the one, the one who’s always left undone, losing more and more and drained of everything falling down…I’ll go see though in the sun…
I don’t wanna be the one sigh if I could only see it, if I could only feel it…will there ever come a day…
(sorry, more than just a line, but its just so sad! especailly when u actually hear it…)
When life throws me a curve ball, my first reaction is to throw
it back. And then I realize, “Hey, I caught it!”
~ Jack Handey
Cold -
I believe the actualy last line to that song is “Don’t turn around and slam the door on me.” (Coldy’s gonna kill me now…)
As for mine, I’ll have to go with “I Will Not Forget You,” by Sarah McLachlan.
“And I ran like the wind to the water
Please don’t leave me again, I cried
And I threw bitter tears at the ocean
But all that came back was the tide.”
**"No hero in your tragedy,
No daring in your escape.
No salute to your surrender,
Nothing noble in your fate.
Christ, what have you done?
All of us get lost in the darkness,
Dreamers learn to steer by the stars.
All of us do time in the gutter,
Dreamers turn to look at the cars.
Turn around and turn around and turn around.
Turn around and walk the razor’s edge.
Turn around and walk the razor’s edge.
Turn around and walk the razor’s edge.
Don’t turn your back and slam the door on me…"**
Rush, The Pass
I stand corrected, Falcon. Just forgot to end the verse, I suppose.
On The Juliet Letters, Elvis Costello ends a song called “Dear Sweet Filthy World,” (a suicide note, obviously) with a repeated “I can’t go on/I can’t go on/I can’t go on.” Gives me chills.
Of course, there’s always “Teen Angel”: “I’ll never kiss your lips again/They buried you today.”
Catrandom
This one still makes me melancholy:
“You packed in the morning, and I/Stared out the window and I/Struggled for something to say…”
From Just When I Needed You Most. What a sad song!!
It’s easier to believe in this sweet madness,
Oh this glorious sadness that brings me to my knees.
Angel by Sarah McLachlan
and
I can promise you
You’ll stay as beautiful
With dark hair
And soft skin…forever
Forever
Forever
Make up your mind
Make up your mind
And I’ll promise you
I will treat you well
My sweet angel
So help me, Jesus
Give it up to me
Give it up to me
Do you wanna be
My angel?
So help me!
Be my angel
Possum Kingdom by the Toadies (Or it could just be me. This one I learned about while role playing. My characters lover asked her if she had considered getting embraced (becoming a vampire) and she decided finally during this song.)
Never run from anything immortal, it attracts their attention.
Brought to you by the Amazon woman of Canada.
“If I could reach my gun, I’d put her in the ground, oh roooobeeee, don’t take your love to town.” Kenny Rogers, from, * what else? * ‘Ruby Don’t Take Your Love to Town’
Brings the tears, don’t it??
A couple from John Prine:
From “Mexican Home”:
"Well my father died, on the porch outside,
On an August afternoon.
I drank beer and bourbon and cried
by the light of the moon.
Father dear, your boy is here,
far across the sea.
Waiting for that sacred core,
that burns inside of me.
Well I feel a storm, all wet and warm
not ten miles away,
approaching my Mexican home."
From “Six O’Clock News”:
"Wanda had a baby, in 1961
Father was a stranger,
Stranger was the son.
Call that child James Lewis,
Call these rooms a home -
Changing all those diapers,
Polish all that chrome.
C’mon baby, spend the night with me.
God bless this kitchen,
Said the knick-knack shelf.
Dinner’s almost ready,
Go and wash yourself.
The stranger’s in the closet,
Locked in the diary.
The past is goin’ faster,
Singing harmony.
C’mon baby, spend the night with me.
All ‘round the schoolyard,
Playin’ all the games.
Running, laughing, back and forth,
The kid with two first names.
Jimmy’s growing up now,
And Wanda’s growing old -
The days are growing shorter,
The nights are long and cold.
C’mon baby, spend the night with me.
Lookin’ in the closet,
And through the diary -
Don’t you know, all he saw,
was all there was to see.
The whole town saw Jimmy
on the Six O’Clock News.
His brains were on the sidewalk,
and blood was on his shoes.
C’mon baby, spend the night with me.
C’mon baby, spend the night with me.
“Lonelyness is such a… drag” - Jimi Hendrix, Burning of the Midnight Lamp
“Tell me are you satisfied with fucking? Don’t walk away, away, away I’m talking to…
Lovey don’t
Lovey Dove Lovey Lonely” - Dave Matthews, Halloween
This isn’t exactly sad, but I find the last line of Alanis Morissette’s “Univited” very provoking: “I don’t think you unworthy, but I need a moment to deliberate.”
Teaching: The ultimate birth control method.
How about “Muskrat Love”? That whole song makes me cry. But not for the same reason. <retch>
“If this desert’s all there’ll ever be
Then tell me what becomes of me.
A fall of rain?
That must have been another of your dreams,
A dream of mad man moon.”
– “Mad Man Moon” - Genesis
Saint Eutychus H.M.S.H.
" ‘He is a prince’ , the minstrels sing.
Among men, yes. Among fools he is a king."
Disney Shorts
The Eutychus Papers
John Brown by Dylan. The song’s about a son who goes to war, and how proud his mother is, telling all the neighbors about her soldier son, etc. One day she gets a telegram telling her that her son is home from the war. She excitedly goes to the station and sees her son “with his face all blown away.” The last stanza (because Dylan is a poet, first and foremost):
As he turned away to walk, his Ma was still in shock
At seein’ the metal brace that helped him stand.
But as he turned to go, he called his mother close
And he dropped his medals down into her hand.
But the OP was my theme song in High School, complete with the last line.
George Jones:
He stopped loving her today;
They placed a wreath upon his door,
And soon they’ll carry him away;
He stopped loving her today…
(George’s comment upon completing this recording: “Nobody’ll buy that morbid son-of-a-bitch.”)
And a cheesy one by Dan Fogelberg:
The snow turned into rain…
From Run, Joey, Run
“Daddy please don’t…we’re gonna get mar…ried…”