[QUOTE=Phrozen;17201439. . . I have to add I Will Wait For You by Connie Francis as featured on the Futurama dog episode.
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This is the English version of the song from the French movie The Umbrellas of Cherbourg (Je ne pourrai jamais vivre sans toi). Danielle Licari dubbed it in the movie for Catherine Deneuve.
Here it is from the movie.
Jim Stafford has a version of Mr. Bojangles where he becomes Bojangles for the last third of the song. When he gets to the line about dogs at 3:36, I lose it every time.
“Ich Hatte Einen Kameraden”-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5j-9cCHkq8
“Green Fields of France”-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6UvQ52A7ksM
I haven’t listened to it for a while, but I remember that Death Cab for Cutie’s “What Sarah Said” affected me quite a bit.
*But I’m thinking of what Sarah said that “Love is watching someone die”
So who’s going to watch you die…? *
Tom Waits’ “Day After Tomorrow” turns me into a wreck any time I hear it. Especially the last verse. It’s a song sung from the perspective of a young soldier. Joan Baez does a brilliant version, too; as good as, maybe better than Tom’s. Maybe I shouldn’t have posted it, it’s so sad.
needscoffee’s mention of Joan Baez reminds me of another: Green, Green Grass of Home. The Tom Jones version is better-known, but I like Baez’s performance.
Haven’t read the whole thread, but my vote goes for Seals & Crofts’ “Get Closer”. It’s a man who wants his SO to stop two-timing him.
.38 Special’s “Second Chance” really isn’t a love song either, although in this case, he “only made one mistake” and she’s gone, and dude, whatever that mistake was, she ain’t coming back, so get used to it.
Alan Jackson’s “Monday Morning Church” is about a guy whose wife died. She left her bible on the table, and he just picks it up and puts it in a drawer because he can’t stand to pray or look at a bible, not necessarily because he lost his faith, but because his wife prayed and read the bible all the time and those things remind him of the pain of losing her. He can’t find a place to turn to to ease the misery. His heart is “as empty as a Monday morning church”. To somebody like me whose Christian faith means a lot to them, that would be misery to not be able to turn to those things for comfort.
I tend to love sad songs, but Passage, by Vienna Teng (about a woman who died in a car crash, or rather about what happens after her death) is too much for me. I have it included in a compilation, and most of the time I have to give it a pass.
One of my favorite songs ever. Just stunning. And so very, very true.
And another!
I had never heard this before. Thanks for sharing…I think. As a depression sufferer…I’m speechless. And now I have to go listen to all the others and wallow.
*The *Living Years has been mentioned numerous times, so I’ll go with this one…
The almost unbearable pain of being lonely? A one night stand is better than nothing. Or is it? Let Sam Smith tell you about it.
Dierks Bentley - I’m Gonna Get There Someday
I was just about to mention this song. The sentiment is familiar and heartbreaking ( to me ) by itself, but the arrangement coupled with his voice is so freakin’ . . . evocative, that I get lost in it every time I hear it (which is a lot lately)
“When My True Love Becomes Married” (i.e., to someone else) from Gustav Mahler’s “Songs of a Wayfarer.”
Beautiful, brilliant, and…pretty damn sad. There’s even a lively little middle bit where he tries to cheer himself up…but it doesn’t take, and he gets sad all over again.
I first heard this song shortly after my infant son died. I played a CD of it at my dad’s funeral. Gets me in the …, well, you know, every time.
Maybe not the saddest but when a bluegrass song starts with: “Two old friends shared a room in a home for the elderly”, you know that at least one of them isn’t going to make it to the end of the song. (Bed By The Window).
Just yesterday morning, they let me know you were gone.
Suzanne, the plans they made put an end to you.
I walked out this mornin’, and I wrote down this song;
I just can’t remember who to send it to.
He kissed his boy as he lay sleeping
Then he turned around and headed home again
Slip slidin’ away
Slip slidin’ away
You know the nearer your destination
The more you’re slip slidin’ away