What do you think is the saddest song ever?

Maybe not the saddest of all time but ...

Solitude- Black Sabbath

really gets to me as does

If You See Her Say Hello -Bob Dylan

 

Do Ya Think I'm Sexy - Rod Stewart

 

Life.

 

Now that is sad, well done.

 

Van Morrison's "Redwood Tree" always gives me a lump in my throat.

 

Got to be, Stay with me Baby, Lorain Ellison everyone knows that feeling.

 

Threads with unfamiliar tunes are pleasant ways to pass the time...usually. Ain't gonna binge on this set!

I find this to be terribly sad. That the genre isn't known for sad songs is the icing on the cake. And it may have been written by one of the most frantic rockabillies ever: Ronnie Self.

 

Divorce and the American South by Aaron West & the Roaring Twenties

 

Oh - how could I forget in my last post? The one that always hits me is the second half of "Is There Anybody Out There" from The Wall. That transition from C to A minor is so heartbreaking. One of the few redeeming moments on what's, for the most part, an awful disc.

 

An incredibly sad but beautiful song. I saw them perform back in '97
Leaving October - Sons Of The Desert

 

John Lennon singing "Grow Old Along With Me, the best is yet to be..." mere months before that would no longer be possible.

 

Anything in D minor, the saddest of all keys.

 

Back when I was a teenager, this was the one that I'd play when thinking of an ex-girlfriend or two.
Mick Ronson was a god...

 

Changing my vote...

Love Is a Losing Game - Amy Winehouse.

 

It's always a toss up between these three:
Sorry Seems to be The Hardest Word-Elton John
Girl of Your Dreams or You'd Think He'd Know Me Better-both by Bobbie Cryner

 

"Tears Dry On Their Own" is the Winehouse song that hits me as the saddest now - that or "Back To Black" - but "Love Is A Losing Game" is a little mini-tragedy as well.

 

Almost any song by Nick Drake...

 

"Caroline No" immediately comes to mind...having just seen Love And Mercy.

 

A couple of my favorites that have already been mentioned:
End of the World - Skeeter Davis
Solitude - Black Sabbath

One that hasn't:
Society's Child - Janis Ian

 

Tim Moore-"Second Avenue" makes me sick, it's such a beautiful song, I don't think Art Garfunkel's version was nearly as good. I've got it on a long-gone LP set called Rockin' Easy and it's in between Aretha Franklin "Until You Come Back to Me" and Blue Magic's "Stop To Start" it's almost too much to listen to, ha.

 

Tomorrow Started - Talk Talk

 

Alan Parson's Project - "Time". It gets no sadder.

Ed

 

According to Bill Shakespeare, of all the words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these:

 

I Want My Baby Back