Songs that Make You Sad: Are You Ready To Be Heartbroken

Love that scene where he goes to that woman's place and buys her husband's record collection.
Lot of good scenes in that flick for music lovers.

 

There can never be too many sad songs threads. Here’s a cheerful number

 

Richard and Linda Thompson's "Walking on a Wire" is a standout in a career full of heart rending songs:

 

These are the two saddest songs I have ever heard : First one is The Twilight Sad with "Nobody Wants To Be Here And Nobody Wants To Leave" (Acoustic)



Can you stay tomorrow?
You won't leave tomorrow
I don't know where it all went wrong

 

"Try To Remember" 1965 by Ed Ames

 

Sung with drink in hand , I'm sure.

 

No One But You (Only the Good Die Young)

 

The other, very very sad song is John Grant's "It Doesn't Matter To Him"



If I think about it, I am successful, as it were.
I get to sing for lovely people all over this lovely world.
And I am nowhere near as awkward as I was when I was younger.
I guess I'm one of those guys who gets better looking as they age.
And even though I have felt beaten down by constant doubt,
Depression, and confusion brought about by people's actions, death, and tax forms,
I keep getting up. And I am loved by all my friends and family;
Though, there have been lots of raised eyebrows
And concerned glances lately.

It doesn't matter to him.
I could be anything,
But I could never win his heart again.
It doesn't matter to him.
He took away my AAA pass.
I am invisible to him.

And now I feel the soft, pink flesh of my heart hardening
To the countless possibilities contained within each day.
Vulnerability feels like a cold, wet concrete room lit with fluorescent light,
Which, as you know, makes everything look bad.
I still keep trying to figure out how I became irrelevant,
How I got myself evicted from his heart from one day to the next.
And the worst part is that, even if I got an answer right now,
It would not change anything because we have become two strangers.

 

Genius lyrics:

 

Reverence by Parkway Drive (the rest of the album is stellar and emotionally challenge but this last song really brings it home).

You never know just what you've got
Till it's slipping through your fingers
Never know just what you've got
Till it's gone with the wind
And you never miss your shadow
Till there's no one left beside you
You never miss your shadow
Till you're alone, alone in the dark

You never know just what will break you
Till you're picking up the pieces
Never know just what will break you
Till your world, it falls apart
Never know how small your voice is
Till you're screaming at the silence
Never know how small your voice is
Till you're arguing, arguing with God

But I saw Death's face today
As he led my friend away
I saw Death's face today
As he cast his shadow over me
I saw Death's face today
As he led my friend away
So I'll ask who I gotta pay
To bring him back, bring him back to me
Bring him back to me

You never know the words you should've said until they're all you're left with
Until the dirt is falling and the guilt, it burns your bones
And we ask the biggest question: why the **** did this all happen?
Who on Earth deserves this? And what the hell do we do now?
So we live like we have lost, and we love like we are broken
And as the colour leaves the sky, we're left in reverence of the frailty of it all

 

Always think of this song around September 11 every year. Roy Orbison recorded a great version.

 

There are several i can think of right away, def feel the same about some others already listed, Final Cut album, Billie Holiday Strange Fruit ( i can only watch that Ytube clip once a year), several Hank things, Tom Waits "Tom Trauberts Blues", Steve Earle's "Goodbye", several Townes songs, Billy Joe Shaver has a few that get me.

 

Never saw that until recently i picked up DVD and that scene was in bonus materials. Great scene!

 

Great list. I usually like Steve Earle songs done by the man himself but Emmylou's cover of "Goodbye" on Wrecking Ball really brings on the heartbreak IMO.

 

My Son-Gary Puckett
I Don't Remember Loving You-John Conlee...

and others.

 

does that included songs that are just sad?
Songs that used to make you sad?

 

Oh ! I thought that was actually in the movie. My mind's going..
I can feel it.

 

Whichever way the wind blows you...

 

OK, cool...

 

Now , I thought I had a copy of that flick around here somewhere. Wrong again.
Just thinking about some of the Jack Black bits is making me laugh.

 

This song always gets me:

 

Yes, absolutely, and he's on it! You can hear him count it in... anyway, there's a few others on Wrecking Ball that hit me like that also. Im glad you brought that up

 

I think it would be harder to find a Roy Orbison song without sadness and heartbreak in it than it would be to find one that didn't.

 

A more recent example for me, Dennis Wilson's Pacific Ocean Blue album. Picked it up a couple years ago... wow. Just a whole mood on that. There's uplifting songs, sure, but you can feel the ache, the longing, in his voice on the somber stuff. Beautifully sad...

 

True. But for me "It's Over" hits it just right. It should be called "It's not Over (the top)".