What's the saddest song you've ever heard?

Noritha · Post by **Noritha** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:05 pm

I enjoy project pitchfork for their ability to talk about issues we don't really want to think about, and I think that's what makes this song so sad, it's about something many choose to ignore.

Mine / Beast Of Prey

the sun is shining
it could be a wonderful day
the children play outside
while the birds sing in the sky

a warm breeze moves the grass
and small feet squeeze it
and while a butterfly passes
you hear the children laugh

it's waiting in the dark

a tiny metal bar
peeps out of the ground
dew reflects the sunrays
see me
see me
oh please see me

it's waiting in the dark

a stone is pushed back in the earth
while a small sole pushes the metal bar

a tiny flash
disappears into the ground
a soft click
and with a hollow sound
slowly it ejects - irrevocable
with a swirling movement like a butterfly
it's slowly climbing high
it passes the knees
it passes the hands
it passes the chest
until it reached its high
another click
and a fireball appears out of a shockwave
- the eardrums break
like deadly insects
a swarm of glowing spikes
bursts out of the red center
while flying razorblades
peel the last laugh off the face
- smeared with blood
a firestorm burns down pieces of flesh
on the red colored grass

stop searching
hell is already here
yes we made it happen
worse than any beast of prey

also, Clan of Xymox "The Same Dream" tugs at me, just from some personal experience. plus other songs already listed.

torch_32 · Post by **torch_32** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:39 pm

"Your Cloud," by Tori Amos, off of her Scarlett's Walk CD. I was listening to it right around the time I was getting divorced. The song is about splitting up and deciding who gets what, and it uses rain as a metaphor. That's the only song that's made me cry since I was an emotional teenage basket case.

Caustic · Post by **Caustic** » Tue Oct 14, 2003 8:59 pm

Noritha wrote:Mine / Beast Of Prey

I have the shirt from that song, with the "Stop searching; Hell is already here" lyrics on the back, and I'd never actually read the lyrics until now.

Well.

It does put things into perspective.

FalseAbsolution · Post by **FalseAbsolution** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 2:05 pm

Waking up beside you (remix) - Stabbing Westward

I've definatly have to agree with you on that one. It's definatly up there on my list. a couple others on my list are:

I remember by Stabbing Westward
Last Day Of Summer by the Cure
Dead Soul Dreaming by Diary of Dreams
Something i can never have by NIN
Whisper by Bella Morte
Coma Black by Marilyn Mason

"this was never my world, I killed myself to make everybody pay"

And Goodbye by Stabbing Westward

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 5:26 pm

i agree with both stabbing westward songs you just named. think i left those out.

TerribleLie · Post by **TerribleLie** » Wed Oct 15, 2003 8:17 pm

theres a tear in my bear. hank williams jr

i mean really,its sad in every way.

Synthpopalooza · Post by **Synthpopalooza** » Thu Oct 16, 2003 12:41 am

Seven Words - "So Sweet the Promise"

(before you read these lyrics, bear in mind the song is about an elderly man in a nursing home, whose wife has died, and he has thoughts about suicide and wanting to be with her again)

--

Their words are hollow; they mean nothing to me.
They're standing between us again. Can't they just let me be?

She comes to me in my dreams saying, "When will you follow me?"

I want to be with her again, to leave all this behind.
I need to be with her again. Nothing left to my life.

So sweet the promise of an end to the pain.
Left to my own devices I'd be with her again.

But they always interfere saying, "We know what's best for you".

I'll end my life if it means I could hold her in my arms once more...

--

Space Traveler 9 · Post by **Space Traveler 9** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 10:36 am

I would have to say that the saddest song (to me, right now, anyways) is Joe by the Cranberries, only because i had a really good friend who was deployed earlier this year... unfortunately i found out that he had recently been killed... :banghead:

FUCKING AMERICA!!

*me crying - lyndon!!!

jjenisis · Post by **jjenisis** » Fri Oct 17, 2003 12:12 pm

when i die by GG allin

thats great!

judas gnb · Post by **judas gnb** » Mon Oct 20, 2003 10:54 pm

no more tears-ozzy
these are the days of our life-queen
somebody to love-queen
outta of tears-rolling stones

junkie christ · Post by **junkie christ** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 12:01 am

jjenisis wrote:
when i die by GG allin

thats great!

holy shit someone else agrees with me on that
im terminally floored

Reverend_ Hate · Post by **Reverend_ Hate** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 4:10 am

I don't know if I could name THE saddest song I've ever heard,but a short list of the most depressing songs to me would be:

She And Her Darkness-Diary of Dreams
Hurt-NIN
Burn-The Cure
Shame-Stabbing Westward
The Great Below-NIN
The Damage-Tapping the Vein
The Fragile-NIN (personal reasons)

Codeine Coma · Post by **Codeine Coma** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 5:05 am

The saddest song ever..."Danger Zone"-Kenny Loggins (Damn Goose don't die!!!) :twisted:

Second saddest song ever... "Love Shack"-B52's (I never got any alternative girls in high school because,I hated this song soo bad.)

:evil:

And on a serious note...I have never really been depressed by music. But,I have been known to shed a tear for "A warm Place" by NIN on lots of meds. :nopity:

popuri · Post by **popuri** » Tue Oct 21, 2003 3:58 pm

For me, the saddest song ever is And All That Could Have Been, by (who else?) NIN. If you guys have kazaa or any other downloading software, listen to it! It's fabulous :cry:

suckTheBloodFromMyWrist · Tue Oct 28, 2003 9:26 am

Waking up Beside you - stabbing westward.

vicious_blood · Post by **vicious_blood** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 12:26 pm

"Changed My Name" - Sugarcult

Yeah, I know Sugarcult is more "poppy" but that song has special meaning to me.
I don't know if it's the saddest I've heard...but it makes me cry.

Oh, and "122 and Highland" - Mest

It reminds me of Willow. :cry:

shadow dancer · Post by **shadow dancer** » Tue Oct 28, 2003 10:04 pm

Claire Voyant - Her
Per Somnia - Drifting
De/Vision - Self Deception
Evanescence - My Immortal

FalseAbsolution wrote:Dead Soul Dreaming by Diary of Dreams

That is definitely one of my favorites by them.

Space Traveler 9 · Post by **Space Traveler 9** » Wed Oct 29, 2003 10:30 pm

i would have to say Punk Princess by Juliana Theory (is that who the song is by?) because this guy wanted to play it for me... *sigh*...

FalseAbsolution · Post by **FalseAbsolution** » Thu Oct 30, 2003 10:12 am

shadow dancer wrote:
FalseAbsolution wrote:Dead Soul Dreaming by Diary of Dreams

That is definitely one of my favorites by them.

I fell in love with that song the very first time i heard it. Diary of Dreams is probably my favorite band right now.
Some of their song hist so close to home for me. I'm still not used to people knowing the stuff i listen to. Where i live there's almost no one that knows who Type O Negative is let alone who a band like Diary of Dreams are.

jinx · Post by **jinx** » Thu Nov 06, 2003 12:24 pm

dammit,can't remember the name,it's either "nutshell" or "rotten apple",i always get the two confused....alice in chains

we chase misprinted lies
we face the path of time
and yet i fight,and yet i fight this battle all alone
no one to cry to
no place to call home
my gift of self is raped
my privacy is raked
and yet i find,and yet i find repeating in my head
if i can't be my own
i'd feel better dead.......