What do you think is the saddest song ever?

wow.....that's .......hopefully..you can go thru it....and later....leave it behind......yup......those songs can do ya in....

 

I've come to the conclusion that perhaps you never really get over it...but that time and just moving forward helps you live with it.
It's not all been bad... I've found out I am much stronger than perhaps I ever thought...and I have my 2 lads living with me.
Life ehh!!!!!

 

Pink Floyd - When the Tigers Broke Free

 

Tank Park Salute - Billy Bragg

 

I always cry during Ohm Sweet Ohm by Kraftwerk for some reason

 

Mark Knopfler - Heart of Oak (off Tracker Bonus Disc)

This groundbreaking guitarist is of course one of my favourites, and a great composer too. On that track I can feel a seemingly consolating spirit.

Never paid attention to the lyrics though (usually my fault, still some difficulties due to my limited vocabulary)

 

And he looks like he's had a stroke too. Tragic at so young an age!

 

Neil Young - Harvest

 

Powerfully moving.. Kind of transports you to another place

 

Ram on Yam!!

 

This may sound like a strange choice, but Trailer by Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers is devastatingly sad to me.

 

The Cure's The Drowning Man. The lyrics are downright vivid but very sad and depressing. Ouch.

 

Birds by Neil Young or Caroline No by The Beach Boys.

 

Just about ALL of Lou Reed's "Berlin"

 

Last Kiss by Pearl Jam is a good contender.

 

I’ve already nominated a couple but I’d forgotten this one. I don’t actually know what it’s about, or if it’s meant to be sad, but it gets me every time.

 

Richard Thompson should own this category! I'll go with "Beeswing," about a lost love too wild for the narrator.

 

Without You by Badfinger.
The chorus "I can't live if living is without you. I can't live. I can't give anymore." composed and sung by two people who later decided to take their own lives is heartbreakingly poignant.

 

Can you imagine the humiliation?

 

But what about the mule?!?

 

The saddest is virtually impossible for me so I will list my considerations;
1.Hank Williams I'm so Lonesome I...
2.Ray Charles Drown in My Own Tears
3.Ray Charles Lucky Old Sun
4.Irma Thomas I wish Someone Would Care.
5.Jody Reynolds Endless Sleep
6.Lyn Sky Ballad of Curtis Loew
7.KoKo Taylor Insane Asylum
8.Van Morrison Madame George
9.Dylan Hollis Brown
10.Velvets Heroin
11.Elton John Candle in the Wind
12.Elton John Ticking
14.Steely Dan Any World I'm Welcome To
15.Dead Black Peter
16.Percy Sledge Just Out of Reach of My Two Arms
17.Johnny Ace Pledging My Love
18.Mother Earth Down So Low
19.Al Green Funny How Time Slips Away
20.Otis Redding These Arms of Mine
21.Smokey&Miracles The Love I Saw In You Was Just a Mirage
22.Smokey&Miracles Tracks of My Tears
23.Country Joe Jean De Pres
24.Neil Young Tonight's the Night
25.Almost half of Harry Smith Anthology of Folk Music
26.John Lennon Mother

 

"Chiseled in Stone" Vern Gosdin

 

mercy seat (Johnny Cash version)...even thinking of that song makes me cry.

 

I guess we all have our favorite tearjerkers.

Abba's the Winner Takes it All is sublime, even tho its sort of a disco ballad. Still, Aggie really sells the heartbreak and the arrangement, to me, is beyond brilliant.

I have other songs that are sad, for my own personal reasons, that might not appear sad to other people.

I Wish I Was Your Mother and Sea-Diver, by Ian Hunter/Mott, and Gypsy, by Suzanne Vega, are terribly sad to me because they remind me of someone's tragic death.

Nothing But A Child by Steve Earle reminds me of the child I lost in a divorce.

things like that, I guess we all have these song associations.