The saddest song you've ever heard (page 9)

fairchild

Nikita by Elton john. You have no idea how much I can relate to the words of this song.. I have carried the lyrics in my wallet for years. I don't hear the song often, but when I do, my eyues never stay dry.

Hey Nikita is it cold
In your little corner of the world
You could roll around the globe
And never find a warmer soul to know

Oh I saw you by the wall
Ten of your tin soldiers in a row
With eyes that looked like ice on fire
The human heart a captive in the snow

Oh Nikita You will never know anything about my home
I'll never know how good it feels to hold you
Nikita I need you so
Oh Nikita is the other side of any given line in time
Counting ten tin soldiers in a row
Oh no, Nikita you'll never know

Do you ever dream of me
Do you ever see the letters that I write
When you look up through the wire
Nikita do you count the stars at night

And if there comes a time
Guns and gates no longer hold you in
And if you're free to make a choice
Just look towards the west and find a friend

stillajwexelder

working class hero - John Lennon

gwyneth

There are many songs already mentioned that make me cry, but here are a few that may have not been mentioned yet...

Acoustic version of "Everlong," Foo Fighters

"Time to Say Goodbye," Sarah Brightman/Andrea Bocceli (sp)

That song off the latest Avril Lavigne CD about her grandfather passing away... "I Miss You"??

"You Know You're Right," Nirvana

"Long December," Counting Crows ("it's all alot of oysters, but no pearls")

"In This Diary", The Ataris and "One Hundred Years", Five for Fighting, both about growing older

"Scarlet Ribbons," Harry Belafonte

"Dreaming My Dreams With You," Cowboy Junkies

"She's Leaving Home," Beatles

"Forgive Me," ?? bonus track, Alanis Morrisette Jagged Little Pill

simplesally

Sandy, that was the other song I was thinking of........... I always think of my grandmother and when I left her in her bed at her house, I had to say goodbye, I didn't want to leave, I knew it was the last time I would see her as I had to fly home. I remember crying in her bed with her, I remember leaving the room and seeing her cry, too. And I heard that song after she died, way after, and had to pull off the freeway and ball my eyes out. Every time, EVERY time, I think of her and cry, even now there is a lump in my throat.

FlyingHighNow

Speaking of sad grandpa songs:

When this song gets to the line:

Did daddies really never go away? I always am overcome with emotion and I cry. I don't really realize how painful it was for my daddy to leave us until I hear that line. I guess I am good at keeping that pain at a huge distance.

You can listen to the whole Judds' version at this link. If your dad or even your mother left your family when you were a child, try listening to this and see if you can get through that one part without tears. The whole song is very sentimental and a reminder of how our world has changed and not all for the better.

http://www.ladyjayes.com/grandpa.html

Grandpa (Tell Me 'Bout The Good Old Days)

Song - By The Judds
Words and Music by Jamie O'Hara

Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Sometimes it feels like
This world's gone crazy
Grandpa, take me back to yesterday
When the line between right and wrong
Didn't seem so hazy Did lovers really fall in love to stay
And stand beside each other come what may?
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say?
Did families really bow their heads to pray?
Did daddies really never go away?
Oh, Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days

Grandpa, everything is changing fast
We call it progress
But I just don't know
And Grandpa, let's wander back into the past
And paint me the picture
Of long ago

Did lovers really fall in love to stay
And stand beside each other come what may?
Was a promise really something people kept
Not just something they would say and then forget?
Did families really bow their heads to pray?
Did daddies really never go away?
Oh, Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days
Oh, Grandpa, tell me 'bout the good old days

freedom96

littlerockguy-

I also can't handle that song, Cats in the Cradle. Too much emotion; those with children I am sure you will understand. If it comes on, I can't hit the change station button quick enough. And then it still bugs me, because it stays in my head.

Golden Girl

Oh brother...you guys are tough!

Swan..you gave me goosebumps!..My Mother used to sing that same song!

My Bonnie lies over the ocean!..I forgot all about that one!

And Sandy..having lost my hubby 2 short years ago..that one really got to me..

Any sad songs ..I can't handle still.

Two that I heard when hubby had passed away were:

"Someday" by Sugar Ray... (You were always there for me)

"How far is Heaven" by "The Los Lonely Boys"

Both bring tears to my eyes ..I listen to them to get the tears out..then I put in

"Cherry Wine" by John Mellencamp to dry my tears...Works every time and I get release for some of my sadness..

Snoozy...

FlyingHighNow

For Golden Girl and any of us who have lost people we intensely love, the beautiful and haunting: ONE SWEET DAY by Mariah Carey

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say
And now it's too late to hold you
'Cause you've flown away
So far away

Never had I imagined
Living without your smile
Feeling and knowing you hear me
It keeps me alive
Alive

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Darling, I never showed you
Assumed you'd always be there
I took your presence for granted
But I always cared
And I miss the love we shared

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Although the sun will never shine the same
I'll always look to a brighter day
Lord I know when I lay me down to sleep
You will always listen as I pray

And I know you're shining down on me from Heaven
Like so many friends we've lost along the way
And I know eventually we'll be together
One sweet day

Sorry I never told you
All I wanted to say

Whiskeyjack

Oh Gods... Now I'm really depressed!!!!

For my Money, it's gotta be the Smith's Please, Please, Please, Let Me Get What I Want (1984-grade 11 for me)

Good Times for a change

See, the luck I've had

would make a good man

turn bad

So please, please, please

let me, let me, let me

let me get what I want

This time

Haven't had a dream in a long time

See, the life I've had

would make a good man bad

So for once in my life

let me get what I want

Lord knows, it would be the first time

(Secod mention goes out to the Goodies (any Brits remember that show where on a game show they had to write a song to make granny dry?)

W.

evita

Guantanamera - the Pete Seeger version with the audience singing. I always cry, it's just so beautiful.

Kisses Sweeter Than Wine

Beautiful Boy - John Lennon - This really gets to me as the mom of 3 boys.

We shall Overcome - When I was a small child, my mom took me to a protest march (early 60's). Everyone was singing this song and it still is incredibly moving to me to hear it sung by a crowd.

Circle Game - Joni Mitchell
"Yesterday a child came out to wonder. Caught a dragonfly inside a jar..."

Who Knows where the Time goes? - Judy Collins

I''m gonna have to listen to these soon and have a good cry.

E.

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