The Saddest Songs Ever

Hi but I am glad DiSTANToblivion post Lazarus here, I forgot it :D

I love this song (piano in chorus is great), I love also contrast between Shallow and Lazarus.

Here is one live version with Jordan Rudess (Dream Theater) on piano...

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Skinny Love - Bon Iver.
Mad World - Gary Jules.
Hide And Seek - Imogen Heap
^ Not exactly tragical, heart-wrenching melodies, but they have something about them that crawls into my heart and makes me want to just stand in the pouring rain and cry.
>.<
Hallelujah - Jeff Buckley >> Classic heartbreaker.
Hallelujah - Imogen Heap >> Season 3 Finale of The OC. ='[
Running Up That Hill - Placebo >> Episode 1 Season 4 of The OC. It's killer.
Wicked Game - Chris Isaak >> I've had this played my whole life and his voice makes me die a little bit inside everytime I hear it. Again, it's not especially sad, just emotional. HIM did an insane cover of it as well ^_^
 
:(The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald, Gordon Lightfoot:(

or

Sullivan, Caroline Spine...:confused: I couldn't choose... shoot me.:bringit:

I always feel that maritime songs are the saddest, something about dying in water, bummer.
 
Counting Crows "Round here" always gets to me....I always loved that line

"In between the moon and you
the angels get a better view
of the crurabling difference between wrong and right."
 
The name she gave was Caroline
The daughter of a miner
And her ways were free
And it seemed to me
That the sunshine walked beside her

She come from Spencer, across the hill
She said her pa had sent her
Cause the coal was low
And soon the snow
Would turn the skies to winter.

She said she'd come to look for work
She was not seekin' favors
For a dime a day
And a place to stay
She turn those hanRAB to labor

Well times were hard and, lord, jobs were few
All through Tecumseh Valley
But she asked around
And a job she found
Tending bar at Gypsy Sally's

Well she saved enough to get back home
When spring replaced the winter
But her dreams were denied
Her pa had died
The word came down from Spencer.

Well she took to whorin' out in the streets
With all the lust inside her
And it was many a man
Who returned again
To lay himself beside her.

They found her down beneath the stairs
That led to Gypsy Sally's
And in her hand when she died
Was a note that cried
Fare-thee-well, Tecumseh Valley

The name she gave was Caroline
The daughter of a miner
And her ways were free
And it seemed to me
That the sunshine walked beside her


"Tecumseh Valley," Townes Van Zandt.
 
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