The Saddest Song You Have Ever Heard?

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MCGT

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Mad World is one.

I find The Best is Yet to Come of the MGS soundtrack really sad as well.
 

elemenetal150

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The saddest song I have ever heard is the subtle art of the break up by Cage
It is about a guy who gets all messed up on drugs when he is with his girlfriend and crashes his car and kills her....real heavy and real sad
 

stompy

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Mozared said:
stompy said:
The Saddest Song [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kUDndFKTA0s], of course...
I was wondering if somebody would mention that one. I can't really deny that "The Saddest Song" is the saddest song I've ever heard. Aside from that, Lonely Day by SOAD is probably closest.
The music itself is quite cheerful, and then I started listening to the lyrics... definitely surprised me, to put it mildly.
 

imsheila

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My list of saddest songs- in no order are...

Where've you been- Kathy Mattea
Anymore - Travis Tritt
Tell me I was dreaming - Travis Tritt
Heaven 911
Dont Take the Girl
The letter (If you get there before I do)
Tears in Heaven
The little Girl
Sieze the day
Dont go chasing waterfalls
 

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ssgt splatter said:
SODAssault said:
With Sympathy, Gears 2 soundtrack.(music that plays when Dom finds his wife)
Yes.

YES.

I honestly think that the best song in all of Gears 2. Even if you never saw that scene, just listening to the music from it tells you EXACTLY what's happening.
 

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waggmd said:
Hurt covered by Johnny Cash http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SmVAWKfJ4Go. The man is a music legend.
Darn it. You got to it first.

Three Libras by A Perfect Circle. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EoqXDPbivFs

You can't spell "Tragic" without "Unrequited love."

......wait a second......
 

TaborMallory

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The closest I can get is Saffron's Curse by Cradle of Filth.
For anyone with an ear for this kind of music, this song can really invoke a bitter sadness.
Through arcades where shimmering snowfall
Lay in state with the sad and damned
A rent lament barely flung above a whisper
Drew Me like a ghost to the haunts of Man

I Found Her tempting fate between Her wrist and razor
A kindred spirit in a graveyard
Beneath the stature of a colder saviour
Mist hung like thieves wreathed in scant arabesques
And through the chill earth it bedwed Her drawling breast
Like a come dream true under etched glass spent
Making love to the beautiful dead

She has sinned and severed Heaven
And in it's vulgar sight
Two figures writhe, but one silhouette
Extends it's fingers to the light

"Gothic towers tottered on Her heels
As She fled asylum grounds
Committing hard crimes to soft cells
Where now another's screams resound"

From the gaspings in Her passing
Six feet under or beneath frayed gown
When Her hands pointed to midnight
In a white stained chamber bound

I Swept Her from the abyss of another dementia
Freeing Her soul from the fetters of fate
To take the reins of pleasure
Now nightwane mirrors freeze in seizure
At the glimpse of charmed pins in Her thighs
Ballrooms filled with black cats scratch
Out of spite and playful eyes

Pricked as a Witch Her stitches itch
For familiar lips to lick them dry
Whilst the dark regrasps, for if She asks
The Sun forsakes the rite to rise
And is the first to discern, that this Angel's return
Is a vengeful call on grace
For even martyrdom backs from it's suicide pacts
A leap of twisted fate betrayed...

The scars will last until the stars
Caught in Her train bewitched
Fall into line and yield the sign
That Dawn in born to their eclipse

For Our Inhumankind
Comes an underdog day Sunrise
Rippling with fire like femaledition

Wind amidst the flame
I gazed out
Tapped into the fog and shared her pain
When in her mind she sought his leave
And begged forgiveness

I splintered Her coffin and lay on the floor
Of a vault with Her clasped as the moon hugs the shore
What treachery this that She breathed no more?
Christ you bastard!

I wished Her back but the dead adored Her
Even wild winds sang in chora for Her
Saffron from my heart, from the start I swore
We'd be together more...

Creation froze with the triumph of Death
But still She stirred and awoke bereft
Of concern save for the aeons left
To lead the darkness...

She schemes of growing power and the lengths sucked hard to get it
I dream of being God but ever living to regret it
Our fecund nature decrees that Jesus wept come for
The Devil on Her knees

To grant Her lows a remedy
And mine desire's wish
To taste thereof of Heaven's scent
As sick and twisted as it is
For Her corset laced with arsenic
Hides snake curves within Her midst
Whilst Her halo of white lies supplies
Her temple to what God forbids.
Also...
Fraser.J.A said:
Tool - Wings for Marie (parts 1 and 2)
The song is a eulogy for the singer's mother, a devout Christian, who was paralysed by a stroke and died 27 years later (the title of Part 2 of the song is 10,000 Days, which is roughly the length of time she was paralysed). The singer didn't share her beliefs.

Part One [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rl4Jav58n48]

Lyrics:
A passionate spirit, uncompromised
Boundless and open, a light in your eyes
Then immobilised.

Broken
Fell at the hands of those movements that I wouldn't see.
Yet it was you who prayed for me.
So what have I done to be a son to an angel?
What have I done to be worthy?

I only pray Heaven knows when to lift you out.
Ten thousand days in the fire is long enough;
You're going home.

You're the only one who can hold your head up high,
Shake your fists at the gates saying: "I've come home now!
Fetch me the spirit, the son, and the father.
Tell them their pillar of faith has ascended.
It's time now! My time now! Give me my wings!"

Set as I am in my ways and my arrogance,
(With the) burden of proof tossed upon the believers,
You were my witness, my eyes, my evidence,
Judith Marie, unconditional one.
Those are truly amazing songs...

EDIT:
I just remembered Shadow of the Colossus. Especially the song Demise of the Ritual.
This song always sent shivers down my spine...
 

dalek sec

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"Songs of Captivity and Freedom" from the Doctor Who season four soundtrack.
 

MattiusCaesar

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The Passing of the Elves
by Howard Shore

I find that if you've read (and liked, I guess) The Silmarillion, you can't help but feel the soul-crushing sadness in this song.