# Songs that make you sad :( **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 27, 2005, 3:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311 "2005-04-27T03:19:23Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![melondeca](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/b5a626/32.png) [@melondeca](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/melondeca)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 2:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/21 "2005-04-27T14:42:25Z")
_Adam’s Song_-Blink 182 This song always reminds me of my dear friend Nick who decided, at the age of 17, that his girlfriend cheating meant his life was over and the only way to rectify the situation would be to suck on the busy end of a shotgun. Dammit Nick ☹ ---
**Author:** ![Jayn\_Newell](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Jayn\_Newell](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jayn_Newell)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/22 "2005-04-27T15:45:26Z")
_Goodbye to You_ by, erm, whoever the heck sings it, tends to make me a little sad, with some resentment sprinkled in. When I was in high school, some of my ‘friends’ decided they wanted to use that as our graduation song, with some of the words changed. It didn’t get used, but now I tend to associate it with high school. I don’t get sad because I miss it–I’m glad to be out of that place–but because I wish high school hadn’t sucked so much for me. (The resentment comes in in that since then I’ve realised that those ‘friends’ were never really my friends at all.) I wish I could have had real friends during those years. ---
**Author:** ![Kythereia](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/e8c25b/32.png) [@Kythereia](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kythereia)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 3:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/23 "2005-04-27T15:51:28Z")
Geek alert: “The Hornburg”, “The Gray Havens”, and “The Breaking of the Fellowship”–from the _Lord of the Rings_ soundtracks–all make me burst into tears. Every single freaking time. Never fails… “Miserere”, by Allegri, gets me in a good blue funk, and the Last Reveille (the tune they play at the memorial service for the war dead on Remembrance Day) makes me sad in a solemn, dignified sort of way. ---
**Author:** ![picunurse](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/7bcc69/32.png) [@picunurse](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/picunurse)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/24 "2005-04-27T16:39:22Z")
When My son died, the song _In the Arms of theAngels_ was popular. I still burst into tears when I hear it. 5 years ☹ ---
**Author:** ![ivylass](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/9de053/32.png) [@ivylass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ivylass)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/25 "2005-04-27T16:41:53Z")
**Where Were You When the World Stopped Turning** by Alan Jackson. That sone came on the radio a few days ago, and after it was over we had to pop in Toby Keith’s **Courtesy of the Red White and Blue** to pep us up. Jackson’s song has been read into the Congressional Record. ---
**Author:** ![Slacker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6bbea6/32.png) [@Slacker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slacker)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 5:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/26 "2005-04-27T17:50:08Z")
Pretty much every **Aimee Mann** song, but especially _Just Like Anyone_. “And I will wonder, just like anyone, if there was something else I could have done.” _Drawn to the Deep End_ by **Gene** “Everyone has a place, I know mine. In bed where I was born, where I live, where I’ll die.” And of course I can always count on Morrisey/The Smiths for depressing dittys like _Suffer Little Children_. “A woman said I know my son is dead… I’ll never read my hands on his sacred head…” Ok, time to flip the iPod back to the Cardigans to cheer me up. 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 10:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/27 "2005-04-27T22:32:52Z")
Gordon Lightfoot’s “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” - it’s sad because it’s true. Jewel’s “You Were Meant For Me” - She does a good job of relating crushing emotions. However, it sounds like whoever she broke up with was a jerk. ELO’s “Big Wheels” - mainly because of the strings. The Carpenters’ “Superstar” - This applies to nearly anything sung by Karen. Even a song as peppy and uplifting as “Top of the World” sounds a bit darker when she sings. Hard to believe she’s been gone for over 20 years. ---
**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 11:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/28 "2005-04-27T23:20:52Z")
‘With a little help from my friends’ - mainly because it was played, slow and sad on a beautifully toned piano, at an ex SO’s funeral, and 'how ‘bout another first kiss?’ by they might be giants, because this ex-SO sang it to me in an attempt to make amends one of the last nights I saw him. Incidentally the same night he insisted that we should iron everything out because we’d never see each other again. Tough breaks. Thanks, nate, big-guy-in-the-sky, for making me cry again… ---
**Author:** ![exastris](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/b38774/32.png) [@exastris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/exastris)\ **Post date:** [April 27, 2005, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/29 "2005-04-27T23:22:40Z")
> [@exastris](#): > > Thanks, nate, big-guy-in-the-sky, for making me cry again… Oh, and Rainbow Connection, for the same reason as ‘with a little help’. Absolutely can’t hear that song without losing it. ---
**Author:** ![Carm6773](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/2bfe46/32.png) [@Carm6773](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Carm6773)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/30 "2005-04-28T01:05:23Z")
[The River](http://www.planetgarth.com/lyrics/the_river.shtml) by Garth Brooks always makes me think of my Uncle Bob. He loved anything associated with boating. He was also my father figure since my jerk of a dad walked out (probably why **Dance With My Father** also gets me weepy- I never got to talk or dance with him before _he_ died). Anyway, he had visited my home on his way to a fishing trip and was going to come back and visit again and play cards with me (a tradition between us) afterwards. He died on the trip. I have always felt like I didn’t get to say goodbye. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![DVsickgirlDV](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/b5e925/32.png) [@DVsickgirlDV](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DVsickgirlDV)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 5:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/31 "2005-04-28T05:16:30Z")
> [@pasunejen](#): > > “Between the Bars” by Elliott Smith. Though maybe the word is “depressed” rather than “sad”. It’s a really good song, but it makes me think about things from my past I’d just as soon leave buried. Or, as the first part of the chorus goes: > > “The people you’ve been before > That you don’t want around anymore > They push and shove > And won’t bend to your will…” > > I can’t let myself listen to it anymore. I just wanted to second this song. ---
**Author:** ![ccwaterback](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/df705f/32.png) [@ccwaterback](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ccwaterback)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/32 "2005-04-28T07:11:22Z")
Listening to a lone bagpipe player in the distance (Amazing Grace) watching the sun go down into the sea. ---
**Author:** ![woodstockbirdybird](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/woodstockbirdybird/32/7905_2.png) [@woodstockbirdybird](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/woodstockbirdybird)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 8:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/33 "2005-04-28T08:33:19Z")
The ones that do it for me are a couple off Hüsker Dü’s _Candy Apple Grey_ album. I think it’s intensified by the fact that they come one after another. “Too Far Down”, which is about depression, and “Hardly Getting Over It”, which contains these lyrics in the final verse: “Grandma, she got sick, she is going to die And grandpa had a seizure, moved into a hotel cell, and died away Now my parents they just wonder when they both are going to die And what do I do when they die?” I also agree with the Elliott Smith selection and “The Rainbow Connection”. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [April 28, 2005, 1:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/34 "2005-04-28T13:18:05Z")
**Elliott Smith** again, but in particular **Pitseleh** and **Needle In The Hay**. Needle In The hay was of course playing as Baumer attempted suicide in The Royal Tenenbaums. **Last Goodbye** , **Lover You Should’ve Come Over** , and **Hallelujah** , all by **Jeff Buckley**. **Tell Her** by **Del Amitri**. **Missy Higgins** has also been mentioned, but I’ll go further to say anyone here that hasn’t heard her before will do well to check out her album **“The Sound Of White”.** And so many more, but these ones immediately spring to mind. It’s nice to feel sad sometimes. ---
**Author:** ![Ranchoth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ranchoth/32/1066_2.png) [@Ranchoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ranchoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 3:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/35 "2005-04-29T03:20:59Z")
Well, it was _designed_ to be sad from the outset, but _Gortoz a Ran_ from the _Black Hawk Down_ soundtrack tugs at the ol’ heartstrings. Damn straight, it does. ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/36 "2005-04-29T05:17:47Z")
Dire Straits [Skateaway](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Y6NX/ref=pd_sim_music_2/002-7366995-3574413?v=glance&s=music). Becky, if you see this, I still love you. God, that hurts. (again) ---
**Author:** ![Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/a9a28c/32.png) [@Oslo\_Ostragoth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oslo_Ostragoth)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/37 "2005-04-29T05:27:01Z")
> [@Oslo Ostragoth](#): > > Dire Straits [Skateaway](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Y6NX/ref=pd_sim_music_2/002-7366995-3574413?v=glance&s=music). > > Becky, if you see this, I still love you. > > God, that hurts. (again) Criminy, I think I hate whoever started this thread… ---
**Author:** ![manx](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/65b543/32.png) [@manx](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/manx)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/38 "2005-04-29T05:29:41Z")
> [@TastesLikeBurning](#): > > **Missy Higgins** has also been mentioned, but I’ll go further to say anyone here that hasn’t heard her before will do well to check out her album **“The Sound Of White”.** She’s starting to get a fair bit of airtime over here - I caught a concert of hers on one of the music channels and liked the sound of it - how many albums does she have? I have a CD, the last few tracks of which are David Gray’s _This Year’s Loving_, Jeff Buckley’s_Haleluja_, _Mad World_ by Gary Jules, _Lux Aeterna_ and _Arms of the Angels_. A beautiful run of songs, but one that finished with me in a flood of tears ---
**Author:** ![Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/regallag_the_axe/32/445_2.png) [@Regallag\_The\_Axe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Regallag_The_Axe)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 6:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/39 "2005-04-29T06:10:55Z")
Songs that make _me_ sad: “Watching Over Me” by Iced Earth; “Theater of Pain (Orchestral Version)” by Blind Guardian; “To France” written by Mike Oldfield as performed by Blind Guardian; “Watcher in the Sky” by Iron Savior; “Dead Meadow” by Black Label Society. ---
**Author:** ![TastesLikeBurning](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/839c29/32.png) [@TastesLikeBurning](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TastesLikeBurning)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2005, 1:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311/40 "2005-04-29T13:36:15Z")
> [@manx](#): > > She’s starting to get a fair bit of airtime over here - I caught a concert of hers on one of the music channels and liked the sound of it - how many albums does she have? One long player and a few single releases with extras. All info here, [http://www.missyhiggins.com/](http://www.missyhiggins.com/) [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/songs-that-make-you-sad/301311.md?page=3)