The Saddest Songs Ever

Kamelot - Love you to death
Rascal Flatts - What hurts the most
Cold - A different kind of pain
Poets of the fall - Carnival of rust
Black Sabbath - She's gone
Rev Theory - Ten years
Scoripons - Still loving you
Seether - Broken
Thousand Foot Krutch - Hurt
Within Temptation - Somewhere
.......
i can go on but i'll stop now... =]
 
One advantage of being isolated from most pop culture is that "famous" songs aren't ruined. For me, the instrumental coda makes Layla. The first four minutes are good, but they're only a setup for the perfection that follows.
 
Misfits, I know this. I was asking a question though...I forgot to put my question mark in....that is the song that goes "I hurt myself today to see if I could still feel pain", right?
 
Klaus Schulze's album Irrlicht probably takes the cake for the most moving album I have heard, even if it isn't necessarily sad... just very powerful. Depressing-wise, basically any output by Red House Painters, particularly Medicine Bottle and Katy Song. Personally, The Narrow Way pt. III by Pink Floyd sounRAB like the saddest song of all time to me.
 
What does it matter, a dream of love
Or a dream of lies
We're all gonna be in the same place
When we die
Your spirit don't leave knowing
Your face or your name
And the wind through your bones
Is all that remains
And we're all gonna be
We're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

The quill from a buzzard
The blood writes the word
I want to know am I the sky
Or a bird
'Cause hell is boiling over
And heaven is full
We're chained to the world
And we all gotta pull
And we're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

Now the killer was smiling
With nerves made of stone
He clirabed the stairs
And the gallows groaned
And the people's hearts were pounding
They were throbbing, they were red
As he swung out ofver the crowd
I heard the hangman said
We're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

Now Cain slew Abel
He killed him with a stone
The sky cracked open
And the thunder groaned
Along a river of flesh
Can these dry bones live?
Ask a king or a beggar
And the answer they'll give
Is we're all gonna be
Yea yeah
We're all gonna be just
Dirt in the ground
 
Although not the saddest song... the lyric "I don't wanna die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" from Bohemian Rhapsody always senRAB shivers down my spine (how clever am I?) especially since Mercury's death.
 
^Oh I agree completely & in my opinion the "fast" version that Clapton does without the instrumental at the end just kinda leaves ya hangin' - "where's the exit?". But I think what I was saying in my list was that because the song is so popular, and the exit music is used a lot for media purposes, that the meaning of the song is somewhat lost in the culture, I suppose? Something like that. No bother, it's still about unrequited love and angst, still a great shout & arguable one of the saddest songs ever.
 
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