List the sad songs you like, because of the lyrics or the melody...

I'll start...

 

 

 

Damien Rice - Older chests

 

Older chests reveal themselves

Like a crack in a wall

Starting small, and grow in time

And we all seem to need the help

Of someone else

To mend that shelf

Too many books

Read me your favorite line

 

Papa went to other lands

And he found someone who understands

The ticking, and the western man's need to cry

He came back the other day

I know some things in life may change

And some things they stay the same

 

Like time, there's always time

On my mind

So pass me by, I'll be fine

Just give me time

 

Older gents sit on the fence

With their cap in hand

Looking grand

They watch their city change

Children scream, or so it seems,

Louder than before

Out of doors, and into stores with bigger names

Mama tried to wash their faces

But these kids they lost their graces

And daddy lost at the races too many times

 

She broke down the other day

I know some things in life may change

But some things they stay the same

 

Like time, there's always time

On my mind

So pass me by, I'll be fine

Just give me time

Time, there's always time

On my mind

Pass me by, I'll be fine

Just give me time

Radiohead - let down

 

Transport, motorways and tramlines,

starting and then stopping,

taking off and landing,

the emptiest of feelings,

disappointed people, clinging on to bottles,

and when it comes it's so, so, disappointing.

 

Let down and hanging around,

crushed like a bug in the ground.

Let down and hanging around.

 

Shell smashed, juices flowing

wings twitch, legs are going,

don't get sentimental,

it always ends up drivel.

One day, I'm gonna grow wings,

a chemical reaction,

hysterical and useless

hysterical and

 

let down and hanging around,

crushed like a bug in the ground.

Let down and hanging around.

 

Let down,

Let down,

Let down.

 

You know, you know where you are with,

you know where you are with,

floor collapsing, falling, bouncing back

and one day, I'm gonna grow wings,

a chemical reaction, [You know where you are,]

hysterical and useless [you know where you are,]

hysterical and [you know where you are,]

 

let down and hanging around,

crushed like a bug in the ground.

Let down and hanging around.

 

just how i feel :/

I love that song, Ren!!!

is one of my favs :P

I dedicate this one to you, hun!! Because I love it so... :D

 

 

Travis - The Humpty Dumpty love song

 

All of the king's horses and all of the king's men

couldn't pull my heart back together again

all of the physicians and mathematicians too

failed to stop my heart from breaking in two

 

cos all i need is you

i just need you

yeah you got the glue so i'm gonna give my heart to you

 

i had a premonition

a movie in my hand

confirming my suspicions of what i would find

it followed me to l.a.

down to mexico

came in through the back door at the start of the show

 

still all i need you

i just need you

yeah you got the glue so i'm gonna give my heart to you

 

oh was a perfect day

oh in a perfect way

you know something had go

you left me high

you left me low

 

now as i lie in pieces and wait for your return

the sun upon my forehead it burns baby burns baby burns

an eye on all my horses

you've slept with all my men

i'm never gonna get it together again

 

still all i need is you

i just need you

yeah you got the glue

so i'm gonna give my heart to you

yeah you got the glue and there's nothing i can do

yeah you got the glue so i'm gonna give my heart to you

:blush: that's so sweet! :kiss:

this one is for u noni! :P :kiss:

Radiohead - lucky

 

I'm on a roll,

I'm on a roll this time

I feel my luck could change.

 

Kill me Noni,

kill me again with love,

it's gonna be a glorious day.

 

Pull me out of the aircrash,

Pull me out of the lake,

I'm your superhero,

we are standing on the edge.

 

The head of state has called for me by name

but I don't have time for him.

It's gonna be a glorious day!

I feel my luck could change.

 

Pull me out of the aircrash,

Pull me out of the lake,

I'm your superhero,

we are standing on the edge.

 

We are standing on the edge.

:cool:

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

 

This is our last goodbye

I hate to feel the love between us die

But it's over, just hear this and then I'll go

You gave me more to live for, more than I'll ever know

 

This is our last embrace

Must I dream and always see your face?

Why can't we overcome this wall?

Baby, maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all

 

Kiss me, please kiss me

Kiss me out of desire babe, and not consolation

Oh, you know it makes me so angry

Cos I know that in time

I'll only make you cry

This is our last goodbye

 

Did you say no this can't happen to me?

Did you rush to the phone to call?

Was there a voice unkind

In the back of your mind?

Saying maybe I didn't know him at all

 

The bells out in the church tower chime

Burning clues into this heart of mine

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes

And the memories offer signs that it's over

It's over

Radiohead - let down

 

^^^I love that song :)

 

Drugs Don't Work ~ Verve

 

All this talk of getting old

It's getting me down my love

Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown

This time I'm comin' down

 

And I hope you're thinking of me

As you lay down on your side

Now the drugs don't work

They just make you worse

But I know I'll see your face again

 

Now the drugs don't work

They just make you worse

But I know I'll see your face again

 

But I know I'm on a losing streak

'Cause I passed down my old street

And if you wanna show, then just let me know

And I'll sing in your ear again

 

Now the drugs don't work

They just make you worse

But I know I'll see your face again

 

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too

Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

 

All this talk of getting old

It's getting me down my love

Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown

This time I'm comin' down

 

Now the drugs don't work

They just make you worse

But I know I'll see your face again

 

'Cause baby, ooh, if heaven calls, I'm coming, too

Just like you said, you leave my life, I'm better off dead

 

But if you wanna show, just let me know

And I'll sing in your ear again

 

Now the drugs don't work

They just make you worse

But I know I'll see your face again

 

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

Yeah, I know I'll see your face again

 

I'm never going down, I'm never coming down

No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

I'm never coming down, I'm never going down

No more, no more, no more, no more, no more

high fives mimi! :P oh the verve! i love this line "Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown this time I'm comin' down "

 

The Verve - Sonnet

 

My friend and me

Looking through her red box of memories

Faded I'm sure

But love seems to stick in her veins you know

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

My lord

 

Why can't you see

That nature has its way of warning me

Eyes open wide

Looking at the heavens with a tear in my eye

 

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

Yes, there's love if you want it

Don't sound like no sonnet, my lord

My lord

 

Sinking faster than a boat without a hull

My lord

Dreaming about the day when I can see you there

My side

By my side

 

Here we go again and my head is gone, my lord

I stop to say hello

'Cause I think you should know, by now

By now

By now

By now

By now

By now

Oh, by now

Oh, by now

Oh, by now

Oh, by now

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

Rows of houses all bearing down on me

I can feel their blue hands touching me

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

 

Fade out again

Fade out

 

This machine will, will not communicate

These thoughts and the strains I am under

Be a world child form a circle

Before we all go under

 

Fade out again

Fade out again

 

Cracked eggs dead birds scream as they fight for life

I can feel death, can see it's beady eyes

All these things into position

All these things we'll one day swallow whole

 

Fade out again

Fade out again

 

Immerse your soul in love

Immerse your soul in love

high fives mimi! :P oh the verve! i love this line "Like a cat in a bag' date=' waiting to drown this time I'm comin' down "[/quote']

 

Yeah :D Sonnet is another great one :D

 

Also kind of an obvious one but from Warning Sign:

 

And I’m tired

I should not have let you go...

this one is just..wow..

 

Radiohead - Motion picture soundtrack

 

Red wine and sleeping pills

Help me get back to your arms

Cheap sex and sad films

Help me get where I belong

 

I think you're crazy, maybe

I think you're crazy, maybe

 

Stop sending letters

Letters always get burned

It's not like the movies

They fed us on little white lies

 

I think you're crazy, maybe

I think you're crazy, maybe

 

I will see you in the next life

 

 

Early version has a second verse:

Beautiful angel

Pulled apart at birth

Limbless and helpless

I can't even recognize you

 

I think you're crazy, maybe (x6)

 

I will see you in the next life

 

:(

I think one of the saddest songs ever written is "For No One" by the Beatles. I don't feel like finding the lyrics, though. :P

Here you go Tom

 

For No One

 

Your day breaks, your mind aches,

You find that all her words of kindness linger on,

When she no longer needs you.

She wakes up, she makes up,

She takes her time and doesn’t feel she has to hurry,

She no longer needs you.

And in her eyes you see nothing,

No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one,

A love that should have lasted years.

You want her, you need her,

And yet you don’t believe her,

When she says her love is dead,

You think she needs you.

And in her eyes you see nothing,

No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one,

A love that should have lasted years.

You stay home, she goes out,

She says that long ago she knew someone but now,

He’s gone, she doesn’t need him.

Your day breaks, your mind aches,

There will be times when all the things she said will fill her head,

You won’t forget her.

And in her eyes you see nothing,

No sign of love behind the tears cried for no one,

A love that should have lasted years.

I think im off im gonna listen to let down non stop today coz thats how i feel :/

take care Denise! :)

Take care Ren ! :kiss:

Elliott Smith - waltz #2

 

First the mic then a half cigarette

Singing 'Cathy's Clown'

That's the man she's married to now

That's the girl that he takes around town

 

She appears composed, so she is, I suppose

Who can really tell?

She shows no emotion at all

Stares into space like a dead china doll

 

I'm never gonna know you now

But I'm gonna love you anyhow

 

Now she's done and they're calling someone

Such a familiar name

I'm so glad that my memory's remote

Cause I'm doing just fine hour to hour, note to note

 

Here it is, the revenge to the tune

"You're no good,

You're no good you're no good you're no good"

Can't you tell that it's well understood

 

I'm never gonna know you now

But I'm gonna love you anyhow

 

I'm here today and expected to stay on and on and on

I'm tired

I'm tired

 

Looking out on the substitute scene

Still going strong

XO, Mom

It's ok, it's alright, nothing's wrong

 

Tell Mr. Man with impossible plans to just leave me alone

In the place where I make no mistakes

In the place where I have what it takes

 

I'm never gonna know you now

But I'm gonna love you anyhow

I'm never gonna know you now

But I'm gonna love you anyhow

I'm never gonna know you now

But I'm gonna love you anyhow

Radiohead- Black Star

I get home from work and you're still standing in your dressing gown

Well what am I to do?

I know all the things around your head and what they do to you

What are we coming to?

What are we gonna do?

 

Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

 

The troubled words of a troubled mind I try to understand what is eating you

I try to stay awake but its 58 hours since that I last slept with you

What are we coming to?

I just don't know anymore

 

Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

 

I get on the train and I just stand about now that I don't think of you

I keep falling over I keep passing out when I see a face like you

What am I coming to?

I'm gonna melt down

 

Blame it on the black star

Blame it on the falling sky

Blame it on the satellite that beams me home

This is killing me

This is killing me

 

that song is great!^

Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)

 

that's probably the saddest song ever. Good one!

Coldplay - The Scientist

 

Come up to meet you,

Tell you I'm sorry,

You don't know how lovely you are.

 

I had to find you,

Tell you I need you,

Tell you I set you apart.

 

Tell me your secrets,

And ask me your questions,

Oh, let's go back to the start.

 

Runnin' in circles,

Comin' up tails,

Heads are a science apart.

 

Nobody said it was easy,

It's such a shame for us to part.

Nobody said it was easy,

No one ever said it would be this hard.

Oh, take me back to the start.

 

I was just guessing,

At numbers and figures,

Pulling your puzzles apart.

 

Questions of science,

Science and progress,

Do not speak as loud as my heart.

 

Tell me you love me,

Come back and hold me,

Oh, when I rush to the start.

 

Runnin' in circles,

Chasin' tails,

Comin' back as we are.

 

Nobody said it was easy,

Oh, it's such a shame for us to part.

Nobody said it was easy,

No one ever said it would be so hard.

I'm goin' back to the start.

Queen The show must go on

Even finding these lyics makes me cry

 

The Show Must Go On

Words and music by Queen

 

Empty spaces - what are we living for

Abandoned places - I guess we know the score

On and on

Does anybody know what we are looking for

 

Another hero another mindless crime

Behind the curtain in the pantomime

Hold the line

Does anybody want to take it anymore

 

The show must go on

The show must go on

Inside my heart is breaking

My make-up may be flaking

But my smile still stays on

 

Whatever happens I'll leave it all to chance

Another heartache another failed romance

On and on

Does anybody know what we are living for

I guess I'm learning

I must be warmer now

I'll soon be turning round the corner now

Outside the dawn is breaking

But inside in the dark I'm aching to be free

 

The show must go on

The show must go on - yeah

Ooh inside my heart is breaking

My make-up may be flaking

But my smile still stays on

 

Yeah, oh oh oh

 

My soul is painted like the wings of butterflies

Fairy tales of yesterday will grow but never die

I can fly - my friends

 

The show must go on - yeah

The show must go on

I'll face it with a grin

I'm never giving in

On with the show

 

I'll top the bill

I'll overkill

I have to find the will to carry on

On with the

On with the show

 

The show must go on, go on, go on, go on, ...

UNKLE (featuring Thom Yorke & DJ Shadow) - Rabbit In Your Headlights

 

I'm a rabbit in your headlights

Scared of the spotlight

You don't come to visit

I'm stuck in this bed

 

Thin rubber gloves

She laughs when she's crying

She cries when she's laughing

 

Fat bloody fingers

Are sucking your soul away

 

I'm a rabbit in your headlights

Christian suburbanite

Washed down the toilet

Money to burn

 

Fat bloody fingers

Are sucking your soul away

 

If you're frightened of dying

And then you're holding on

You'll see devils tearing your life away

But if you've made your peace

Then the devils are really angels

Freeing you from the Earth

 

White worms on the underground

Caught between stations

Butterfingers

I'm losing my patience

 

I'm a rabbit in your headlights

Christian suburbanite

You've got money to burn

 

Fat bloody fingers

Are sucking your soul away

Brick by Ben Folds Five

 

6 am day after Christmas

I throw some clothes on in the dark

The smell of cold

Car seat is freezing

The world is sleeping

I am numb

 

Up the stairs to the apartment

She is balled up on the couch

Her mom and dad went down to Charlotte

They're not home to find us out

And we drive

Now that I have found someone

I'm feeling more alone

Than I ever have before

 

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

 

They call her name at 7:30

I pace around the parking lot

Then I walk down to buy her flowers

And sell some gifts that I got

Can't you see

It's not me you're dying for

Now she's feeling more alone

Than she ever has before

 

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

 

As weeks went by

It showed that she was not fine

They told me son, it's time to tell the truth

 

She broke down, and I broke down

Cause I was tired of lying

 

Driving home to her apartment

For a moment we're alone

Yeah she's alone

I'm alone

Now I know it

 

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Off the coast and I'm headed nowhere

She's a brick and I'm drowning slowly

Jeff Buckley - Last Goodbye

 

This is our last goodbye

I hate to feel the love between us die

But it's over, just hear this and then I'll go

You gave me more to live for, more than I'll ever know

 

This is our last embrace

Must I dream and always see your face?

Why can't we overcome this wall?

Baby, maybe it's just because I didn't know you at all

 

Kiss me, please kiss me

Kiss me out of desire babe, and not consolation

Oh, you know it makes me so angry

Cos I know that in time

I'll only make you cry

This is our last goodbye

 

Did you say no this can't happen to me?

Did you rush to the phone to call?

Was there a voice unkind

In the back of your mind?

Saying maybe I didn't know him at all

 

The bells out in the church tower chime

Burning clues into this heart of mine

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes

And the memories offer signs that it's over

It's over

 

WHAT a brilliant song! :)

 

I also like Noni's choice of 'Older Chests' by Damien Rice