What are your favorite sad songs

[dingos8mybaby]

Free Bird - Lynard Skynard
Brown Eyed Girl - Van Morrison
The World Has Turned... - Weezer
Wild Horses - the Stones
Save Me - Aimee Mann
Six Underground - Sneaker Pimps
I Could Have Lied - RHCP
Talk Show Host - Radiohead
Mexico - Incubus
Sway - Bic Runga
...there are tons of others, but these are pretty much on REPEAT. i think that listening to these songs actually helps lift my mood, because after a little brooding, i feel calmed and refreshed. maybe it's because i sing along at full volume and after an hour, i'm pooped, but definitely more relaxed, which is generally a good thing.

 

[Jeremi]

Bohemian Rhapsody - Queen

Freddy Mercury is a god

 

[pard]

I never listen to sad/romantic/emo songs, anything of that genre has been banned from all my equipment for a long time...
If I'm sad I listen either to hateful music (Slipknot anyone?), or something very positive and hopeful like for example many japanese anime soundtracks which will make me feel loved.
If I'm very very very sad and don't want to recover, I put on some very(very very) gloomy metal song with a dark story about some evil power conquering the land.. (I always liked apocalyptic scenarios anyway.. they don't make me 'sad', they are just in tune with my personality )

 

[Jeremi]

Been listening to the album "The Human Equation" by Ayreon. It's really really great. It's about a man in a coma, and you get to follow his wife and best friend at his side, and his own struggle inside himself.

Here's the lyrics, they're amazing. There's lots of great singers performing on the album too
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/ayreon/thehumanequation.html

 

[duckierules7788]

saying goodbye-sugarcult
open your eyes-staind
the little girl-john michael Montgornery
tell mary-meg &dia
My Immortal-evanescence
liar liar (burn in hell)-the used
signal fire-snow patrol
fade-staind
a lonely september-plain white t's
Guernica-brand new
lonely day-phantom planet
untitled-simple plan
welcome to my life-simple plan

 

[Frizbit]

When a friend died we blasted Percy Faith on repeat.

 

[kaviii]

Been listening to the album "The Human Equation" by Ayreon. It's really really great. It's about a man in a coma, and you get to follow his wife and best friend at his side, and his own struggle inside himself.

Here's the lyrics, they're amazing. There's lots of great singers performing on the album too
http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/ayreon/thehumanequation.html

ah nice, you listen to ayreon...do you listen to Arjen Lucassen's other projects or bands?...i love stream of passion

 

[unkn0wn]

well... i'd rather listen to some romantic... "slow" songs...

STING - SHAPE OF MY HEART​

Moby - Why Does My Heart Feel So Bad
Scorpions - You And I
Youssou N'Door & Neneh Cherry - 7 Seconds
dallas_superstars-fine_day
Overkill -- Girl youll be a woman soon
Guns-n-Roses - Don't cry
Scorpions- Still Loving You



P.S. classic romance songs

 

[Blue Sky]

Dreamweaver-- Gary Wright
Freebird--Lynyrd Skynyrd
Shooting Star--Bad Company

 

[askal]

I try not to listen to "sad songs"

Because its counter-productive.

I prefer listening to hardcore hiphop or metal. Yes. All that gengsta honeysuckle and animal noises.

While you may argue that these types of music may promote suicide or criminal behavior... but they emanate toughness.

toughness.

You need alot of that. lol

 

[lonelygirl]

Askal,

I don't agree. I think that gansta rap is just total crap. Why fill your head with honeysuckle?

Seriously! Bad for you, bad for you, bad for you!

 

[lonelygirl]

Another good sad song, corny to say, but good for a funeral:

End of the Road by Boyz II Men.

 

[kaviii]

If I tell you
Will you listen?
Will you stay?
Will you be here forever?
Never go away?

Never thought things would change
Hold me tight
Please don't say again
That you have to go

A bitter thought
I had it all
But I just let it go
Hold your silence
It's so violent
Since your gone

[REF:] All my thoughts are with you forever
Until the day we'll be back together
I will be waiting for you

If I had told you
You would have listened
You had stayed
You would be here forever
Never went away
It would never have been the same
All our time
Would have been in vain
Cause you had to go

The sweetest thought
I had it al
Cause I did let you go
All our moments
Keep me warm
When you're gone

[REF:] All my thoughts are with you forever
Until the day we'll be back together
I will be waiting for you

Within Temptation-Bittersweet

I love this song...always a good song to listen to when you are down.

 

[kaviii]

Another good sad song, corny to say, but good for a funeral:

End of the Road by Boyz II Men.

Hmm, a funeral song...I think this one might be good...from my interpration of the lyrics anyway...seems like its describing a person who just lost someone.

Our Farewell

In my hands
A legacy of memories
I can hear you say my name
I can almost see your smile
Feel the warmth of your embrace
But there is nothing but silence now
Around the one I loved
Is this our farewell?

Sweet darling you worry too much, my child
See the sadness in your eyes
You are not alone in life
Although you might think that you are

Never thought
This day would come so soon
We had no time to say goodbye
How can the world just carry on?
I feel so lost when you are not by my side
But there's nothing but silence now
Around the one I loved
Is this our farewell?

So sorry your world is tumbling down
I will watch you through these nights
Rest your head and go to sleep
Because my child, this not our farewell.
This is not our farewell.

 

[kaviii]

I try not to listen to "sad songs"

Because its counter-productive.

I prefer listening to hardcore hiphop or metal. Yes. All that gengsta honeysuckle and animal noises.

While you may argue that these types of music may promote suicide or criminal behavior... but they emanate toughness.

toughness.

You need alot of that. lol

Hiphop is rubbish, it can get sad at times too...i think some songs from all genre is "sad"...I listen to metal too but nothing hard, Symphonic Metal most of them from europe. In my opinion the only place where real music is from

 

[lonelygirl]

Kavii,

I thought that the End of the Road by Boyz II Men is about a breakup of a love relationship.
However, it can double as the end of a life.

"Though we've come...
To the End of the Road
Still, I can't let go..."

 

[angelus]

"Reflecting Light" by Sam Philips(which I use as my signature),just about anything by Elliott Smith but most espeically 'Between the Bars'.There are lots of others that don't come to mind at the moment.

 

[snow]

I can't believe nobody mentioned Bright Eyes! Especially the older songs such as...
No lies, just love
I'll never be happy again
The calendar hung itself
Waste of paint
If winter ends

The last several albums aren't nearly as sad but it's still great music anyway.

AFI is another band I love...I put the last album decemberunderground on repeat. It's sad...but at least sad songs keep me from getting pissed off...just keeps me well...sad.

When I'm in my occasional upbeat mood I switch to happier songs.

 

[timdjohn]

Just about anything from:

The Cure, older the better
Clan of Xymox
Dead Can Dance
Most Classical Instrumentals

 

[angelus]

Almost anything by Mazzy Star.Any of Neil Youngs so called "doom trilogy" Time Fades Away,On The Beach and Tonights the Night.John Lennon's first solo album 'Plastic Ono band',in which he basically lets out his pain on record.Lou Reed's 'Berlin' and just about anything from Velvet Underground for that matter.Just about anything from Pink Floyd but for me espeically 'Dark Side of the Moon' and 'Animals'.My favorite however is 'Star' by Belly,not all of it is dark but there are so many personal things on there,lyrics that seem so metaphorical and I read alot into them.Like the song 'Witch',as she goes over and over "your not safe in this house" gets to me.