Most depressing lyric?

[Usnota]

When a Man Lies He Murders
Some Part of the World
These Are the Pale Deaths Which
Men Miscall Their Lives
All this I Cannot Bear
to Witness Any Longer
Cannot the Kingdom of Salvation
Take Me Home- the late Cliff Burton of Metallica, to live is to die, the song is a ten minute long near instumental that just t=drives me 2 tears every time I listen 2 it, escpailly if u listen 2 the rest of the album b4, most of the songs r very sadn, like One and Harvester of Sorrow another aside from the very deep and emotional lyrics, its is prettty much Burtons ast words 2 this world, and belive the last line is chisled on his gravestone *sniff* *sniff*

... and people say metal has no emotion

 

[TheMadDoctorsCat]

Why not just post the entire Radiohead output and be done with it? "Creep", "Morning Bell", etc... the list is endless.

 

[Lukeje]

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

I hate to nitpick, but Joplin just covered that song... Kris Kristofferson performed the original...

 

[Karisse]

Not depressing in the morbid way, but in the it-could-happen way:

"I can do anything with no permission
I have it all under my command
'Cause I can guide a missile by satellite
By satellite (x2)
And I can hit a target through a telescope
Through a telescope (x2)
And I can end the planet in a holocaust
In a holocaust (x5)"

That'd be from "Handlebars" by the Flobots. Despite the nature of this post, I heartily endorse this band.

 

[corporate_gamer]

Why not just post the entire Radiohead output and be done with it? "Creep", "Morning Bell", etc... the list is endless.

i saw radiohead live on the 25th and i really didnt walk away feeling that depressed.

personally what i listen to when im in a sulk is re-offender by travis:

Fooling my selfish heart
Going through the motions
But I'm fooling myself
I'm fooling myself
Cause you say you love me
And then you do it again
You do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again
You do it again
Everybody thinks you're well
Everybody thinks I'm ill
Watching me fall apart
Falling under your spell
But you're fooling yourself
Your fooling yourself
Cause you say you love me
And then you do it again
You do it again
You say your sorry's
And then you do it again

 

[the protaginist]

I'm Better Off on My Own by Sum 41. i'd link a video to it,but apparently on youtube,all they have for videos of that song are naruto AMVs.

Viva La Vida.it's about this guy who has it all,but then he does something stupid and loses it all. like britney spears.

oh,and I'm No Superman by lazlo bane.

 

[werepossum]

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

I hate to nitpick, but Joplin just covered that song... Kris Kristofferson performed the original...

True, but Joplin OWNED that song - she really made it hers. Kristofferson was a good songwriter in his day, but an awful singer.

Actually, all the songs I listed are sad, but it occurs to me they aren't actually depressing.

EDIT: Something else that was sad and perhaps mildly depressing was a song Jose Feliciano performed on Carson, unaccompanied, on an acoustical guitar. It was all instrumental, about a village conquered in a battle. Before he played it, he explained it. He said if you listened closely you could hear the crack of muskets, the boom of the cannon, the clash of swords - then the boots of the troops as they marched into the village, and the weeping of the women for their men. And it was true, you could hear it all.

I hadn't thought of that since my eight-track days. Funny what the Internet brings back to you.

EDIT #3: I just remembered something else I'd long forgotten - Heart's Dog and Butterfly. I don't know why the silly idea of a dog trying so hard and yet being unable to fly should bring tears to my eyes, but it always does.

 

[jim_doki]

OH MY GOD! i forgot Mykel and Carli by Weezer.

Back In Wilsons High I had these two best freinds
Till the Schoolbus came and took my friends away

not that sad until you realise that after writing that song Mykel and Carli were killed in a bus crash

Also by Weezer, Butterfly
I'm sorry for what I did
I did what my body told me to

 

[Tanner fool]

one of the most depressing songs ever
"girlfriend in a coma"- the smiths

 

[Pingrash]

Witness a blinding light, Sudden bright light from a blast
Pulsing radiation moving through cracks under skin
Feel the fire in the wind
Deadly kiss of scorching sands

Not a prayer of hope or redemption in your eyes
Hell exploded on this earth to take all thats alive
Standing at the face of death
Terror stealing your last breath

Watch the firestorm incinerate you into ash!

All that you know burns away into dust
So many lives
So many inocent
Burn!

Every particle returns to its natural form
Ashes into ashes blown away just like the dust
Heaven burning with the sky
Hell is not the reason why

Feel the firestorm melting your spirit into glass!

All that you know burns away into dust
So many lives
So many innocent
Burn!

So many lives
So many innocent

All that you know burns away into dust
So many lives
So many innocent

So many lives
So many innocent
[Repeat]

Burn!
[Repeated until the end]

-Fear Factory:540,000° Fahrenheit

I don't know why but just the way he sings this song makes me feel down.
If you've never heard the song here's a link to a youtube vid of it- http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_XxH7fszUY

 

[Strafe Mcgee]

oh,and I'm No Superman by lazlo bane.

What?!? That's one of the most uplifting and happy songs I know! It's not depressing, it's nice!

 

[Somethingironic]

Sound Of Your Voice: BNL

The moon is full but there is an incompleteness
The days are beautiful but I feel a bitter sweetness
If I had a wish, or even a choice
I'd wake up to the sound of your voice
How I miss waking up to the sound of your voice

I let you down and fell right off of your good list
I hope each day you'll find peace and forgiveness
The alarm clock rings, What a lonely noise
And I long for the sound of your voice
Oh, how I miss waking up to the sound of your voice

Take it from me: there's not much to see
In this void

The saying goes there will be other dances (don't give up)
This little song is about second chances
Just say the word and I will rejoice
And wake up to the sound of your voice
Oh, how I miss waking up to the sound
To the sound (sound)
To the sound (to the sound)
To the sound
Waking up to the sound of your voice

Take it from me: there's not much to see
In this void

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

On a tangent from that, does anyone know the name of the composer or the music that was used in the trailer for Sunshine? I've heard it in other trailers too, but can't think what at the minute!!

Requiem for a Dream by Clint Mansell.

Clint Mansell, the genius behind the ultra-awesome Pop Will Eat Itself.

The saddest song for me is.. well.. The Saddest Song by The Ataris. Kris Roe wrote it about being away from his daughter and having a young daughter and being separated from her mother myself I can totally relate to it. It makes me cry without fail.

The Saddest Song - The Ataris

Only two more days, until your birthday
Yesterday was mine
You'll be turning five
I know what it's like, growing up without your father in your life
So I pretend, I'm doing all I can
And I hope someday you'll find it in your heart

To understand
Why I'm not around
And forgive me for not being in your life

I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all
I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Waiting there to find nothing at all

Maybe someday
you'll really get to know me
not just FROM letters read to you
I pray I get the chance
To make it up to you
We got a lot of catching up to do

So I pretend, I'm doing all I can
And hope someday you'll find it in your heart

To understand
Why I'm not around
And forgive me for not being in your life

I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Remember waiting there to find nothing at all
I remember waiting
For you to come
Remember waiting
For you to call
Waiting there to find nothing at all

Forgive me!
I'm so sorry!
I will make it up to you....

 

[Cakelord]

The saddest music is instrumental. Beethoven's Ninth was incredibly depressing. It was written after he started to go deaf (As a composer hearing is obviously required to admire one's own art), it was really one of the first sad, angry, emotionally moving pieces of music ever. When people heard it they were actually afraid of the first few bars. They said "Beethoven, yore a adman!" and Beethoven just said "Sorry, I didn't catch that."

Since this thread is about lyrics (as aposed to the important stuff)Dirt by Alice in Chains. An excerpt-
You, you were so special
you had the talent
to make me feel like talent
and you
you use your talent
to take me under
and cover me with dirt.

 

[dudehead]

"father come home... momma dont go" Mother- John Lennon

"And if the damn breaks open many years too soon
And if there is no room upon the hill
And if your head explodes with dark forbodings too
Ill see you on the dark side of the moon" Brain Damage - Pink Floyd. Whenever i hear this song, Spiders by System of a Down, and November rain by Guns And roses i get a mixed felling of sadness/ depression and contact high when the volume is really loud. Oh and The End by The Doors, especially when its raining or thundering.

 

[dudehead]

"This is the End,
My only friend the end,
Ill never look into your eyes again,
This... is... the... end.............." The End by the Doors

 

[dudehead]

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