About a real life tragedy. The School House Fire 'Twas an afternoon in springtime Folk were happy everywhere Preparing for a joyous evening Never dreamed that death was near To a little country schoolhouse Neighbors thinking they would go They would have a jolly evening At the children's little show You could hear those children singing Voices ringing clear and sweet Never dreamed in all their joy Of the fate they were to meet But their joys all were blighted They began to scream and rage When a lantern fell that evening Streaming fire upon the stage It was on that fatal evening They could not control the fire They made a mad dash for freedom But they perished in the fire You could hear those children screaming While the flames were rolling high Daddy, come and get your baby Will you stand and let us die Their brave daddys, they were trying To their little ones to go But the brave old fellows perished In the chaos from the show Little children they were trampled In that mighty rolling flame Others on that night were screaming Death was dealing just the same There's a lonely spot in Cleveland Nicely fenced around and wired There's a monument erected Tells the story of the fire You could hear those children screaming While the flames were rolling high Daddy, come and get your baby Will you stand and let us die
And it came to me then That every plan Is a tiny prayer to father time As I stared at my shoes In the ICU That reeked of piss and 409 And I rationed my breaths As I said to myself That I'd already taken too much today As each descending peak On the LCD Took you a little farther away from me Away from me Amongst the vending machines And year old magazines In a place where we only say goodbye It sung like a violent wind That our memories depend On a faulty camera in our minds And I knew that you were truth I would rather lose Than to have never lain beside at all And I looked around At all the eyes on the ground As the TV entertained itself 'Cause there's no comfort in the waiting room Just nervous paces bracing for bad news And then the nurse comes round And everyone lifts their heads But I'm thinking of what Sarah said That love is watching someone die So who's gonna watch you die?
"The Worst That Could Happen" by Brooklyn Bridge The vocal delivery is fantastic and full of hurt. That one gets me every time.
A song that is beautiful from a melody standpoint and on the surface sounds quite joyful. Until you listen to the lyrics. Where Is the Love by Roberta Flack and Donny Hathaway
I second "Tecumseh Valley." Emmylou Harris - "Red Dirt Girl" kills me every single time. O.V. Wright - "He's My Son (Just The Same)" And of course The Band's "It Makes No Difference." One of the few songs I'd prefer nobody covers, as Danko's vocal just cannot be topped.
Genesis - Squonk When I was a teenager, I thought this was the saddest thing I had ever heard. It is pretty sad.
"True Love Ways" and "Grow Old With Me"...both about looking forward to a long and happy life with your true love, and in both cases we now know they had only weeks to live.
Some damn fine depressing sh!t here, I'll add these Def Leppard--Love Bites Bette Midler--Wind beneath my wings The Smithereens--Cut Flowers The Offspring- Gone Away
