# Your Favorite Depressing Songs **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 23, 2009, 9:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421 "2009-05-23T21:11:34Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Gail](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/b9e5f3/32.png) [@Gail](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gail)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/101 "2009-06-19T02:38:12Z")
_Crazy_ by Patsy Cline I’m reading a book about Carly Simon, Carole King, and Joni Mitchell so _That’s the Way I’ve Always Heard it Should Be_ by Carly Simon ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 12:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/102 "2009-06-19T12:28:42Z")
I read that book! ---
**Author:** ![Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/5f8ce5/32.png) [@Ian\_D.Bergkamp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ian_D.Bergkamp)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/103 "2009-06-19T14:33:58Z")
“The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald” by Gordon Lightfoot, pretty much anything by the Smiths or Bright Eyes, and “Alone” by Blues Traveler. I’m a sucker for sad songs. ---
**Author:** ![Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/3e96dc/32.png) [@Gam\_Zeh\_Yaavor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gam_Zeh_Yaavor)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 5:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/104 "2009-06-19T17:05:00Z")
Elliott Smith’s already been mentioned a few times, but you really can’t beat him for relentlessly crushing depression. “A Fond Farewell”: \*I see you’re leaving me and taking up with the enemy The cold comfort of the in-between A little less than a human being A little less than a happy high A little less than a suicide The only things that you really tried This is not my life It’s just a fond farewell to a friend \* “Twilight”: _You don’t deserve to be lonely But those drugs you’ve got won’t make you feel better Pretty soon you’ll find it’s the only Little part of your life you’re keeping together … Because your candle burns too bright Well, I almost forgot it was twilight Even if I think that you’re all right Well, I’m tired of being down, I got no fight_ ---
**Author:** ![Covered\_In\_Bees](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7ab992/32.png) [@Covered\_In\_Bees](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Covered_In_Bees)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 9:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/105 "2009-06-19T21:01:28Z")
**[How Could You?](http://musicremedy.com/audio/index.cfm?FuseAction=ShowAudioPlayer&AudioId=32163&Quality=6)** -Saliva ---
**Author:** ![Peanuthead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peanuthead/32/360_2.png) [@Peanuthead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peanuthead)\ **Post date:** [June 19, 2009, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/106 "2009-06-19T22:44:17Z")
**Goin’ Down Slow** by _Ray Charles_ ---
**Author:** ![Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/le_ministre_de_l_au-dela/32/12181_2.png) [@Le\_Ministre\_de\_l\_au-dela](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Le_Ministre_de_l_au-dela)\ **Post date:** [June 20, 2009, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421/107 "2009-06-20T00:09:12Z")
Gustav Mahler - [Kindertotenlieder](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H1tFs0c8XMM&feature=channel) (Songs on the Death of Children), based on 5 poems of Friedrich Rückert. Wiki article and complete translation [here](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kindertotenlieder). "When your mother steps in through the door and I turn my head to look at her, my glance does not go first to her face, but nearer the doorstep, there, there where your dear little face used to be, as if you were bringing the beauty of joy in with you as you used to, my little daughter… " “Often I think that they have only stepped out - and that soon they will reach home again. The day is fair - O don’t be afraid - They are only taking a long walk…” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/your-favorite-depressing-songs/497421.md?page=5)