Most depressing lyric?

[shadowyoasis]

Gorillaz - Tommorrow comes
extremely meloncholy whistling tune in the end.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=h2QP832OstY


one alot of people heard but probably don't know the name of

Akira Yamoaka- Roof of Angels

http://youtube.com/watch?v=b4rXbSnk2ng

its from silent hill
to quote

You lie silent there before me
Your tears they mean nothing to me
The wind howling at the window
The love you never gave I give to you
You really don't deserve it
But now there's nothing you can do
So, sleep in your only memory
Of me, my dearest mother

 

[Gravy Devil]

eh,I find the whole song: "Cats in the Cradle", by Chapin, very depressing. Not usually my style of music, but I listened to it as a child while driving around with my father, so it sorta makes sense.

 

[BleachedBlind]

"Should've picked the photograph, it lasted longer than you."
Putting Holes in Happiness - Marilyn Manson

The entire song of Nothing to Lose by Billy Talent (amazing band and song).

Almost ANYTHING by Smile Empty Soul.

 

[talon92]

new slang by the shins

"dawn breaks like a bull through the hall,
never should have called,
put my heads to the wall and i'm lonely"

its not the lyrics but the way they are sung. i know most people won't understand this one, because i don't think many people listen to the shins on this forum, but if you feel sad, download this song, listen to it until you think you understand it and before you know it you'll feel better.
"it'll change your life" - garden state

 

[Gigantor]

Bleak stuff.

Fitter Happier by Radiohead:

still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

Sigh.

 

[Aries_Split]

I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done

And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here

Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear

Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say

To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do

Light up...

Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads

Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess


Run-Snow patrol

I want this song played at my funeral.

 

[000Ronald]

King of Pain and Invisible Sun (both by The Police) are really sad. Invisible Sun is a little disturbing, too, come to think of it...

One lyric that stands out in my mind, though, is from "The Battle of Evermore" by Led Zepplin. In always makes me a little sad, because of how true it is.

"The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath."

It's like my grandfather told me after my Uncle Gary (a Green Berett with two purple hearts and a Bronze Star) told me, "Dying isn't hard for the person who's dead; they're there one second and the next they're not. No, dying is hard for everyone else, the people who survive who have to pick up all the bullshit everyone left behind."

Apologies if I ruined that song for you.

 

[stompy]

Bleak stuff.

Fitter Happier by Radiohead:

still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

Sigh.

Actually, Radiohead have quite a few sad songs. I mean, Paranoid Android is supposed to be about suicide, as well as No Surprises. Still a good band though.

 

[Gigantor]

Bleak stuff.

Fitter Happier by Radiohead:

still cries at a good film,
still kisses with saliva,
no longer empty and frantic like a cat tied to a stick,
that's driven into frozen winter shit
(the ability to laugh at weakness)
calm,
fitter,
healthier and more productive
a pig in a cage on antibiotics.

Sigh.

Actually, Radiohead have quite a few sad songs. I mean, Paranoid Android is supposed to be about suicide, as well as No Surprises. Still a good band though.

I'd noticed: also see "Climbing up the Walls"-


I am the key to the lock in your house
That keeps your toys in the basement
And if you get too far inside
You'll only see my reflection

It's always best when the light is off
I am the pick in the ice
Do not cry out or hit the alarm
You know we're friends till we die

And either way you turn
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there
Climbing up the walls

It's always best when the light is off
It's always better on the outside
Fifteen blows to the back of your head
Fifteen blows to your mind

So lock the kids up safe tonight
Put the eyes in the cupboard
I've got the smell of a local man
Who's got the loneliest feeling

That either way he turns
I'll be there
Open up your skull
I'll be there

Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls
Climbing up the walls


They're not really sad, actually: more scary than anything else.

I'm gonna go listen to something happy now. This thread is getting me down.

 

[stompythebeast]

"The Light Before We Land" - The Delgados, from the "Gunslinger Girl" short anime series. I dont think its supposed to be sad, but the womans voice and the rhythm of the song makes it sad.
"In truth there is no better place to be
Than falling out of darkness still to see"

 

[Duck Sandwich]

Amazed - The Offspring

Sometimes I think I'm gonna drown
Cause everyone around's so hollow
I'm alone

Sometimes I think I'm going down
But no one makes a sound, they follow
And I'm alone

Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed
Just to find tomorrow
One more day and I'd be amazed
Just to see it waiting
And if I make it I'm still alone
No more hope for better days
But if I could change
Then I'd really be amazed

And when you know you can't relate
To one more shiny face
Your heart breaks
No one cares

And when you know you can't go on
Cause everything is wrong
Your heart breaks
But no one's there

 

[Auron555]

"You radiate cold shafts of broken glass."
-Pink Floyd, Pigs (Three Different Ones)

 

[Conartist]

Show no compasion, like havin' a straight face orgasm.

 

[H0ncho]

Stein um Stein by rammstein

English translation:

I have plans, big plans
I'll build you a house
Every stone will be a tear
and you will never move out
Yes, I'll build a little house for you
Has no windows, no door
Inside it is dark
And no light penetrates within

Yes, I'll make you a home
And you will be part of the whole thing

Stone by stone, I wall you in
Stone by stone
I will always be with you

Without clothes, without shoes
You watch me at my work
With feet in cement
You brighten up the foundation
there will be a garden outside
And nobody will hear you scream

Stone by stone, I wall you in
Stone by stone
I will always be with you

what a beating, what a hammering
Outdoors it fades to dusk
All nails stand to attention
Into your body-wood I ram-

Stone by stone, I wall you in
Stone by stone
And nobody can hear you scream

Disturbing song

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

The Smiths - The Time is Now - "You want to find someone who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die."

Charming.

 

[Stammer]

Bent double, like old beggars under sacks,
Knock-kneed, coughing like hags, we cursed through sludge,
Till on the haunting flares we turned our backs
And towards our distant rest began to trudge.
Men marched asleep. Many had lost their boots
But limped on, blood-shod. All went lame; all blind;
Drunk with fatigue; deaf even to the hoots
Of disappointed shells that dropped behind.

GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling,
Fitting the clumsy helmets just in time;
But someone still was yelling out and stumbling
And floundering like a man in fire or lime.--
Dim, through the misty panes and thick green light
As under a green sea, I saw him drowning.

In all my dreams, before my helpless sight,
He plunges at me, guttering, choking, drowning.

If in some smothering dreams you too could pace
Behind the wagon that we flung him in,
And watch the white eyes writhing in his face,
His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin;
If you could hear, at every jolt, the blood
Come gargling from the froth-corrupted lungs,
Obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,--
My friend, you would not tell with such high zest
To children ardent for some desperate glory,
The old Lie: Dulce et decorum est
Pro patria mori.

Lyrics can be poems too right? This is the poem that got me into war and respecting our veterans as much as I am today. The imagery is baffling. You can just picture a guy choking on the blood being spewed from his lungs clawing at you all because he couldn't get his helmet on in time.

 

[Frosk]

Stein um Stein by rammstein

...

Disturbing song

Not as disturbing as "Heirate Mich", that's fucking disturbing.

http://www.lynchnet.com/lh/heirate.html

 

[werepossum]

I would have said that I despised angst and emo music, but this thread made me think a bit. I don't go in for the emo angst or country heartbreak songs, but five sad, sweet songs do come to mind. I guess personal loss trims my wick more than death or general misery. (Or I'm an old closet emo, take your pick.)

Brokedown Palace Grateful Dead - A song about a man trying to get to the riverside to die.
http://www.getlyrics.com/song/grateful+dead/brokedown+palace

Brown-eyed Woman in Red Grenadine Grateful Dead - Dead mother, broken father, life gone wrong, and getting old.
http://www.getlyrics.com/song/grateful+dead/brown+-+eyed+women

Sweet Blue Midnight Georgia Satellites - Hanging on and pretending there's a future, when she no longer pretends.
http://www.getlyrics.com/song/georgia+satellites/sweet+blue+midnight

Angle in Blue - J. Geils Band - Song about a stripper. "And she never had dreams, so they never came true."
http://www.getlyrics.com/song/j.+geils+band/angel+in+blue

And the saddest of all time -
Me and Bobby McGee - Janis Joplin "And I'll trade all my tomorrows for a single yesterday"
http://www.getlyrics.com/song/joplin+janis/me+and+bobby+mcgee

 

[Gene O]

I've got another:

New Order's 'Blue Monday'
"Tell me how does it feel when your heart grows cold?"

I only include this because I'd been listening to the song for 10 years before I realized that the question was not meant metaphorically. I know... I can be dense sometimes.

 

[Isaac Dodgson]

Depressing lyrics for me usually are spawned from personal events, and I can attach the song with them...usually with relationships.

The first stanza of Placebo's "Every You, Every Me." relates to an old fling of mine as it died:

Sucker love is heaven sent
You pucker up, our passion?s spent
My hearts a tart your body?s rent
My body?s broken yours is bent

The entire song "You Could Be Happy" by Snow Patrol (I hate that band oddly enough) used to really get to me, and "Blue" by A Perfect Circle still nearly drives me to tears because of other events that eerily mirror the song.