This song by roberta Flack will put me in a gloriously melancholy mood . . .Just read the words . . Someone did a remake not too long ago but her version was more poignant.


Killing Me Softly

I heard he sang a good song
I heard he had a style
And so I came to see him
To listen for a while
And there he was this young boy
A stranger to my eyes
Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

I felt all flushed with fever
Embarassed by the crowd
I felt he found my letters
And read each one out loud
I prayed that he would finish
But he just kept right on

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

He sang as if he knew me
In all my dark despair
And then he looked right through me
As if I wasnt there
But he was there this stranger
Singing clear and strong

Strumming my pain with his fingers
Singing my life with his words
Killing me softly with his song
Killing me softly with his song
Telling my whole life with his words
Killing me softly with his song

Only when sung by Roberta Flack. Further proof how the music industry has been in the crapper for many, many years.

ETA I mean that Roberta Flack got it right, and The Fugees fcuked it up by completely failing to credibly interpret the lyrics.

officially missing you by tamia is a really sad song to me right now cause my bf is like gone and has been for the past couple months up in MI with his parents, i see him every once in awhile but its very rare :( so everytime I hear this song it makes me sad!


Nichole

Sad Eyes is by a British singer named Leo Sayer

Other depressing songs
"Look Away" by Chicago (it was popular around the time my first love dumped me after almost 3 years)
"where do broken hearts go" by Whitney Houston (ditto about the first love)
"The Living Years" by Mike and the Mechanics (it is about the estrangement between a father and son...and BOY I can relate to that one)

"One Sweet Day" by Mariah Carey and "A Change Gonna Come" by Sam Cooke (reminds me of my Uncle Clarence's funeral)

Depeche Mode songs are depressing. I think that they perfected music to slit your wrists to. I remember when I was in college someone had been dumped and decided to play "Somebody" so loudly that everyone in that section of the campus could hear it all day long. It was very depressing. "Blasphemous Rumours" is one of their most depressing songs.

Blasphemous Rumours

Girl of sixteen, whole life ahead of her
Slashed her wrists, bored with life
Didn’t succeed, thank the lord
For small mercies
Fighting back the tears, mother reads the note again
Sixteen candles burn in her mind
She takes the blame, it’s always the same
She goes down on her knees and prays
I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god’s got a sick sense of humor
And when I die I expect to find him laughing
Girl of eighteen, fell in love with everything
Found new life in jesus christ
Hit by a car, ended up
On a life support machine
Summer’s day, as she passed away
Birds were singing in the summer sky
Then came the rain, and once again
A tear fell from her mother’s eye
I don’t want to start any blasphemous rumours
But I think that god’s got a sick sense of humor
And when I die I expect to find him laughing

Uhm...any song by Nirvana...and it doesnt even have to be the lyrics to the song..just watching the video or listening to the beats..it's so sad its damn near suicidal!

Hold on - the good charlottes (?) sad sad song..
Perfect - Simple plan (one of my new fave songs) but its also sad if you can relate to it.

Russell, I dunno, I really liked The fugee remix to the song, maybe cuz of Lauryn's voice!

I am not a depressed person, but I LOVE depressing songs. For some reason, they tend to be more musically interesting.

Fade Into You - Mazzy Star

Marianne - Tori Amos

Winter - also Tori Amos

Not the Red Baron - also....Tori Amos



"Not The Red Baron"
"Not the Red Baron Not Charlie Brown
Think I got the message figured
Another pilot down
And are there devils
with halos
In beautiful capes
Taking them into the flames
Not Judy G
Not Jean Jean with a hallowed heart
I see that screen go
Down in the flames
With every step
with every beautiful heel pointed

Not the Red Baron I'm sure
Not Charlie's wonderful dog
Not anyone I really know
Just another pilot down
Maybe I'll just sing him a last little sound
many there know some girls with red ribbons
The prettiest
Red
Ribbons"


That song reminds me of Sept. 11 :(

I probably made too strong of a statement, and should clarify what I mean. Its not that the Fugee's remix of the song has no artistic validity, or that its not worthy of being liked. My issue is the failure of the music to convey the same emotions as the lyrics.

Its kind like watching a love scene in a movie, and the background music is the William Tell Overture (Lone Ranger theme.) The acting may be great, and the music may be great, but they are out of context with each other.

Also, there is an art of interpreting lyrics. Frank Sinatra is especially known for this. Not because he was the best, but because his singing voice was considered good, but not great. So, the one aspect of Sinatra's talent that stood out, was what attracted so many people to his singing; The way he sung the lyrics like it was his story, and like it came from his heart.

Let's see hmmm....only wanna name a few....or should i just pick one....how about.....
fading like a flower...by roxette
what about love....by heart
listen to your heart....by roxette

i know a ton more lol

Listening to an oldies station today, I heard both

Taxi (Harry Chapin) and
Same Auld Lang Syne (Dan Fogelberg)


Edited because I can never get a song's name straight! :rolleyes:

That's a sad song. even just thinking about it makes me cry.

The Promise - Tracey Chapman
Make It Real - The Jets
I'll Never Get Over You Getting Over Me - Expose
If You're Not the One - Daniel Bedingfield
Dream About You - Stevie B

Geez, I can't believe we all forgot about this one (especially the fellows of a certain age). "Wasted Time" by the Eagles. This song makes me want to drink an entire bottle of Jack Daniels, ingest copious amounts of legal and/or illegal drugs, and jump off the nearest bridge. Simultaneously.

"Late For the Sky" by Jackson Browne & "Jungleland" by Bruce are in the same vein, but they're more songs where you can get depressed with a whole group. "Wasted Time" is just so personal.

"Black" - Pearl Jam
"Last Night I Dreamt that Somebody Loved Me" by The Smiths

Last night I dreamt
That somebody loved me
No hope - but no harm
Just another false alarm
Last night I felt
Real arms around me
No hope - no harm
Just another false alarm
So, tell me how long
Before the last one?
This story is old - I know
But it goes on

Oh yes, the Smiths have so many depressing songs!

"Asleep" is another one.

"Love Song" by the Cure but I think it just his voice that makes Cure's songs depressing.

TCV

Sooooo true. Last Resort (also by the Eagles) is pretty sad too, as is Desperado, but Wasted Time takes the cake :)

(The Eagles are my favorite band... however, I'm 20... probably not the "certain age" you were thinking of!)

Staind's 'Ephiphany'

"Your words to me just a whisper
Your faces so unclear
I try to pay attention
Your words just disappear

'Cause its always raining in my head
Forget all the thing's I should have said

So I speak to you in riddles because
My words get in my way. I smoke the
whole thing to my head and feel it
wash away 'cause i don't take anymore
or this, I want to come apart.
or dig myself a little hole inside
your precious heart

'Cause its always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said

I am nothing more than a little boy inside
That cries out for attention
though I always try to hide
'Cause I talk to you like children,
Though I don't know how I feel
But I know I'll do the right thing
If the right thing is revealed

'Cause its always raining in my head
Forget all the things I should have said"

And...

OLP's 'Selling My Soul'

"How do you feel
How do you hate
How do you wake up with
That smile that's on your face
Out on the moon
If I was an astronaut
Could I get back to you
I¡¯m out of my head
I¡¯m out of excuses so I¡¯m staring at
The bed, and it's you, it¡¯s you
I hold on I hold on
I can't let go of you
I hold on I hold on
I¡¯d sell my soul for you
I¡¯m losing my heart
I¡¯m losing my pride
I¡¯d burn our initials
In the sun if it would shine
I need a fresh start
¡®Cause I was in heaven until
This world fell apart

I¡¯m out on the run
I¡¯m out in this empty space
Since all of this begun
Well I tried, I tried

Nothing seems to help
Nothing seems to work
Nothing is as beautiful
I¡¯m old enough to take
all the blame
For all the mistakes
All the games and
All the faces
I¡¯m bleeding by myself
But I¡¯m okay"

"I Can't Make You Love Me" by Bonnie Raitt

"Cup of Coffee" by Garbage -- do NOT listen to this song if you're going through a breakup or recently have.

I also agree about "Cat's in the Cradle" (except I think I have a more modern version...who did the original?) and Ben Fold's "Brick".