Your favorite sad/depressing song?
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"What Did You Think" as performed live by Billy Vera and The Beaters 1987
Roberta Flack is one of my all time favorite female vocalists and I love her voice and music. But I can't see how First Time... is a depressing song. http://www.stlyrics.com/songs/r/robertaflack8341/thefirsttimeeverisawyourface288479.html
She sings quietly of the love she feels.
Pray tell how is it depressing please?
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"Marian" by the Sisters of Mercy
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The Fate Of Norns
By: Amon Amarth
I feel a chill in my heart
Like lingering winter cold
I and my son are torn apart
He was just 6 winters old
My first-born was he
And the last of my kin
The last one to carry my name
Death smiled at him its deadly grin
There is no one for me to blame
The fate of Norns await us all
There is no way to escape
The day to answer Oden's call
Or walk through hel's gate
I carry him to my ship
He seems to be asleep
But the deep blue colour of his lips
Is enough to make me weep
No man should have to bury his child
Yet this has been my share
The tears i shed run bitter and wild
It's a heavy burden to bear
His body feels so light in my arms
His skin is pale as snow
Yet his weight feels heavy in my heart
As my sadness continues to grow
Allfather!
What fate has been given me?
Why must I suffer?
Why must I feel this pain?
Allfather!
LIfe has lost it's meaning to me
I think I'm going insane!
I lay him down on a pyre
A burial worthy a king
And as I lie down by his side
I hear the weaving norns sing
The fate of Norns await us all
There is no way to escape
The day to answer Oden's call
Or walk through hel's gate
The fate of Norns await us all
I know this to be true
It's time to answer Odens's call
My son, he calls for me and you
One of my favorite songs ever, but yes it's very sad.
By: Amon Amarth
I feel a chill in my heart
Like lingering winter cold
I and my son are torn apart
He was just 6 winters old
My first-born was he
And the last of my kin
The last one to carry my name
Death smiled at him its deadly grin
There is no one for me to blame
The fate of Norns await us all
There is no way to escape
The day to answer Oden's call
Or walk through hel's gate
I carry him to my ship
He seems to be asleep
But the deep blue colour of his lips
Is enough to make me weep
No man should have to bury his child
Yet this has been my share
The tears i shed run bitter and wild
It's a heavy burden to bear
His body feels so light in my arms
His skin is pale as snow
Yet his weight feels heavy in my heart
As my sadness continues to grow
Allfather!
What fate has been given me?
Why must I suffer?
Why must I feel this pain?
Allfather!
LIfe has lost it's meaning to me
I think I'm going insane!
I lay him down on a pyre
A burial worthy a king
And as I lie down by his side
I hear the weaving norns sing
The fate of Norns await us all
There is no way to escape
The day to answer Oden's call
Or walk through hel's gate
The fate of Norns await us all
I know this to be true
It's time to answer Odens's call
My son, he calls for me and you
One of my favorite songs ever, but yes it's very sad.
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Cats in the Cradle....Very good one.
BUT, my picks....as runner up...
"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
And number one....(and I'm really SHOCKED that no one has mentioned it yet, because I think that the singer ACTUALLY CRIES during it)
"Since I told you its over" by Stereophonics
BUT, my picks....as runner up...
"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
And number one....(and I'm really SHOCKED that no one has mentioned it yet, because I think that the singer ACTUALLY CRIES during it)
"Since I told you its over" by Stereophonics
I love ballads, so this is going to be a longish list...
Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town; Reuben James; Lucille; Daytime Friends
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car; Smoke and Ashes; Cold Feet; The Rape of the World; Less than Strangers; Behind the Wall
Barry Manilow - Copacabana
Don McLean - American Pie
Elton John - Daniel
Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
Simon & Garfunkel - Richard Cory
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
Rod Stewart - Young Turks
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Kenny Rogers - Ruby, Don't Take Your Love to Town; Reuben James; Lucille; Daytime Friends
Tracy Chapman - Fast Car; Smoke and Ashes; Cold Feet; The Rape of the World; Less than Strangers; Behind the Wall
Barry Manilow - Copacabana
Don McLean - American Pie
Elton John - Daniel
Nickelback - If Everyone Cared
Simon & Garfunkel - Richard Cory
Tim McGraw - Live Like You Were Dying
Rod Stewart - Young Turks
Gordon Lightfoot - Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald
Ghosts of Autumn by Spock's Beard
Listen to the whisper of the rain
Voices in the mist
Beyond your window
And you remember
Days of love she spun a web of chains
That wrapped around your heart
And when you held her
You held forever
Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she's lost among the
Ghosts Of Autumn
Fate's a quiet river at your feet
It rose up slow and dark
Without a warning
And pulled you under
Now she's gone but haunting every dream
Scattered on the wind
And in the rolling
Of distant thunder
Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she's lost among the
Ghosts Of Autumn
Listen to the whisper of the rain
Voices in the mist
Beyond your window
And you remember
Days of love she spun a web of chains
That wrapped around your heart
And when you held her
You held forever
Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she's lost among the
Ghosts Of Autumn
Fate's a quiet river at your feet
It rose up slow and dark
Without a warning
And pulled you under
Now she's gone but haunting every dream
Scattered on the wind
And in the rolling
Of distant thunder
Green to grey
As forever slipped away
And down through the years
The seasons changed
Still a cold wind blows today
No sun to melt the frost
Because she's lost among the
Ghosts Of Autumn
While not a depressing song as such the meaning of it for me means it's a sad song. I think people attach sentiments to songs that the sing/writer didn't mean at the time the record was made?
:asian: ok.
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Queensryche: "Another Rainy Night", "I Don't Believe In Love"
Manowar: "Today Is A Good Day To Die"
Rammstein: "Sonne"
Dethklok: "Detharmonic", "Go Into The Water".
And there are a few American folk songs from the Revolution/Civil War eras that do it too:
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again"
"Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier"( That johnny 's just kept takin' grief over the centuries from EVERYONE, huh?)
Manowar: "Today Is A Good Day To Die"
Rammstein: "Sonne"
Dethklok: "Detharmonic", "Go Into The Water".
And there are a few American folk songs from the Revolution/Civil War eras that do it too:
"Johnny I Hardly Knew Ye"
"When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again"
"Johnny Has Gone For A Soldier"( That johnny 's just kept takin' grief over the centuries from EVERYONE, huh?)
A couple more from my melancholy teenage years:
Early Morning Clown - Nektar
This Time Around - Deep Purple
Heathaze - Genesis
No cloud, a sleepy calm
Sunbaked earth that's cooled by gentle breeze
And trees with rustling leaves
Only endless days without a care
Nothing must be done
Silent as a day can be
Far off sounds of others on their chosen run
As they do all those things they feel give life some meaning
Even if they're dull
Time to stop this dreaming, must rejoin the real world
As revealed by orange lights and a smoky atmosphere
The trees and I are shaken by the same winds but whereas
The trees will lose their withered leaves
I just can't seem to let them loose
And they can't refresh me those hot winds of the south
Feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place
Now the light id fading fast
Chances slip away, a time will come to pass
When there'll be none
Then addicted to a perfumed poison
Betrayed by its aftertaste
We shall lose the wonder and find nothing in return
Many are the substitutes but they're powerless an their own
Beware the fisherman who's casting out his line
Into a dried up river bed
But don't try to tell him cos he won't believe you
Throw some bread to the ducks instead, it's easier that way
Feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place
Early Morning Clown - Nektar
This Time Around - Deep Purple
Heathaze - Genesis
No cloud, a sleepy calm
Sunbaked earth that's cooled by gentle breeze
And trees with rustling leaves
Only endless days without a care
Nothing must be done
Silent as a day can be
Far off sounds of others on their chosen run
As they do all those things they feel give life some meaning
Even if they're dull
Time to stop this dreaming, must rejoin the real world
As revealed by orange lights and a smoky atmosphere
The trees and I are shaken by the same winds but whereas
The trees will lose their withered leaves
I just can't seem to let them loose
And they can't refresh me those hot winds of the south
Feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place
Now the light id fading fast
Chances slip away, a time will come to pass
When there'll be none
Then addicted to a perfumed poison
Betrayed by its aftertaste
We shall lose the wonder and find nothing in return
Many are the substitutes but they're powerless an their own
Beware the fisherman who's casting out his line
Into a dried up river bed
But don't try to tell him cos he won't believe you
Throw some bread to the ducks instead, it's easier that way
Feel like an alien, a stranger in an alien place
I forgot one....
"Regarding Stephen" by Blues Traveler
"Regarding Stephen" by Blues Traveler
donald
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I am either much older than I wanted to believe, or much more sheltered than I ever believed. The vast majority of these songs I have never heard of! That in, and of itself is quite depressing. It brings to mind one of my favorite teen angst songs "Love Hurts" by Nazareth.
Ahh to be YOUNG, and depressed those were the days.
Ahh to be YOUNG, and depressed those were the days.
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It sounds weird, but yes, that's exactly it. Something very oddly appealing about those days...
... if only we had known then that it really was going to turn out all right in the end, eh?
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