Fellow escapists,
What do you think is the most depressing lyric ever? For me it is "Oh mother I can feel the soil falling over my head" from I Know Its Over by The Smiths. Its apparently about the moors murders and cunjures up heartbreaking images in my head every time I hear it.
Now, your turn :D

"Sarah... Won't you tell me your name" from the song "Sarah" by Eskimo Joe.

and

"Na na na, na na nana na na na na, na na nana na" in pretty much any song by Kylie Minogue.

They're depressing, but for a different reason.

"Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown" from The Drugs Don't Work, by the Verve.

Haha..I don't know what to say to those, LordKrunk. I'm crying, laughing and making Kylie Minogue eat her own face all at the same time ;)
LilMissEvil that is also one of my favourites :p

No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

I like the song by the Verve (if I can remember correctly, it's about his father dying of a terminal illness, hence the drugs not working, but I could be wrong), for that reason it makes me think of my grandfather whenever I hear it.

I just think the cat in a bag line makes it all the more depressing, being a huge cat person.

Other than that, I agree with the Kylie statement. Though the same could be said for all pop artists.

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

LilMissEvil you're partially correct. The song is actually about his mother :P I love cats as well. *sigh* That lyric may actually be my favourite now.

"And I find it kinda funny, I find it kinda sad. The dreams in which I'm dying are the best I've ever had." Mad World by Tears for Fears/Gary Jules

manicfoot:

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

Nah, tearing a guy apart in MK and God of war does that better for me. Sad songs usually make me sadder or just confused.

M0rp43vs:

manicfoot:

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

Nah, tearing a guy apart in MK and God of war does that better for me. Sad songs usually make me sadder or just confused.

Each to their own. I just can't see myself listening to waaakeee me upppp before you go-go when a loved one dies personally :p

I always liked
"Ill face it with a grin
Im never giving in
On - with the show -
Ill top the bill, Ill overkill
I have to find the will to carry on
On with the -
On with the show -
The show must go on..."
from queen

manicfoot:

M0rp43vs:

manicfoot:

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

Nah, tearing a guy apart in MK and God of war does that better for me. Sad songs usually make me sadder or just confused.

Each to their own. I just can't see myself listening to waaakeee me upppp before you go-go when a loved one dies personally :p

i wouldn't listen to 'if tomorrow never comes' either.

there's something deeply unhappy about unhappiness... oh wait. but your right, each to their own, i suppose i have always had a gift for walling things up inside.

Ultrajoe:

manicfoot:

M0rp43vs:

manicfoot:

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

Nah, tearing a guy apart in MK and God of war does that better for me. Sad songs usually make me sadder or just confused.

Each to their own. I just can't see myself listening to waaakeee me upppp before you go-go when a loved one dies personally :p

i wouldn't listen to 'if tomorrow never comes' either.

there's something deeply unhappy about unhappiness... oh wait. but your right, each to their own, i suppose i have always had a gift for walling things up inside.

Jesus, I was trying to liven up this thread.

STOP DEPRESSING ME!

Chances are if you enter a thread titled "most depressing lyric ever?" you're gonna get depressed XD

manicfoot:
Fellow escapists,
What do you think is the most depressing lyric ever? For me it is "Oh mother I can feel the soil falling over my head" from I Know Its Over by The Smiths.:D

Agree with you there very powerful lyrics.

But this for some reason has me in tears everytime

"Wavering shadows loom
A piano plays in an empty room
There'll be blood on the cleaver tonight
And when darknesss lifts and the room is bright
I'll still be by your side
For you are all that matters
And I'll love you to till the day I die" The Hand That Rocks The Cradle by The Smiths

Lord Krunk:

Ultrajoe:

manicfoot:

M0rp43vs:

manicfoot:

Ultrajoe:
No idea, i avoid sad songs.

By default sad songs make you sad.

Sad is unenjoyable people, thats right there in the definition.

Yes, but people can find comfort in sad songs and they can actually make you feel better when you're going through a bad time in your life.

Nah, tearing a guy apart in MK and God of war does that better for me. Sad songs usually make me sadder or just confused.

Each to their own. I just can't see myself listening to waaakeee me upppp before you go-go when a loved one dies personally :p

i wouldn't listen to 'if tomorrow never comes' either.

there's something deeply unhappy about unhappiness... oh wait. but your right, each to their own, i suppose i have always had a gift for walling things up inside.

Jesus, I was trying to liven up this thread.

STOP DEPRESSING ME!

What? the song or my own crippling emotional barriers

Brand New do some pretty good depressing lyrics. I submit:

"Is this the way a toy feels when its batteries run dry? I am the watch you always wear but you forget to wind." - Guernica

"What they call love is a risk, cause you will always get hit out of nowhere by some wave and end up on your own." - Play Crack the Sky

"Have another drink and drive yourself home, i hope theres ice on all the roads. You can think of me when you forget your seatbelt, again when your head flies through the windshield" - Seventy times 7 (this one is depressing in context. Its a song written about a betrayal of freindship)

"Last week... kyle quit the band"

Sorry, my tenacious D playlist came on and i'm quoting it left right and centre.

Not so much a lyric as the music video for One coupled with the lyrics. Man, that destroyed my love of life for a whole day.

Alice in Chains - Down in a Hole:

Bury Me Softly In This Womb
I Give This Part Of Me For You
Sand Rains Down And Here I Sit
Holding Rare Flowers
In A Tomb.....In Bloom

Down In A Hole And I Don't Know
If I Can Be Saved
See My Heart I Decorate It
Like A Grave
You Don't Understand Who They
Thought I Was Supposed To Be
Look At Me Now A Man
Who Won't Let Himself Be

Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Losin' Control
I'd Like To Fly
But My Wings Have Been So Denied

Down In A Hole And They've Put All
The Stones In Their Place
I've Eaten The Sun So My Tongue
Has Been Burned Of The Taste
I Have Been Guilty
Of Kicking Myself In The Teeth
I Will Speak No More
Of My Feelings Beneath

Oh I Want To Be Inside Of You

Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Feelin' So Small
Down In A Hole, Losin' My Soul
Down In A Hole, Out Of Control

I'd Like To Fly
But My Wings Have Been So Denied

No clue. I don't listin to sad music.

Although if it wasn't for the screaming, the ranting part of "Down With The Sickness" could be looked at as being sad.

The whole song of Dethklok's Murdertrain A-Comin' where it was so depressing that tornados came and killed the people who didn't commit suicide simply from hearing their song.

No, but really, I've always thought Dust in the Wind was a pretty depressing song.
"All we are is dust in the wind."
"And all your money won't another minute buy."
The whole song talks about how we're just an insignificant speck in the universe that no one cares about except yourself. I mean, you're born, you raise kids, you die. You may save a life, you may build buildings, and you may come up with a life-changing invention. But in reality, that life you saved will be taken one day, that building you built will be torn down one day, and the life-changing invention will either be obsolite soon or will die with humanity when it ends. It's really depressing knowing all that.

Bohemian Rhapsody if you listen to it: The mellow piano doesnt help much

"Momma just killed a man, put a gun against his head. pulled my trigger now he's dead.
Momma life had just begun, but now I've gone and thrown it all away.
Momma oooooh, didn't mean to make you cry, if I'm not back this time tomorrow,

Carry On, Carry on, as if nothing really matters."
Too late my time has come, sent shivers down my spine, body's achin' all the time,

goodbye everybody I've got to go, gotta leave you all behind and face the truth
momma, oooooh, i don't wanna die, but sometimes wish I'd never born at all."

The way Mercury sings it makes it so believable that it justs becomes depressing while he sings it.

Then it goes into the fast paced part as to keep from being too somber.

Lars Demian - Fyllot och Miss World.
All of it, hard to pick just a part of it.
Sad, but beautiful, song.

Most of the songs on the "Castaways and Cutouts" album have pretty depressing lyrics as well, but I rarely get past July, July; when I get to that I usually just set it to repeat.

"I hurt myself today,
to see if I still feel.
I focus all the pain,
the only thing that's real."

Hurt, as made famous by Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash.

PedroSteckecilo:
"I hurt myself today,
to see if I still feel.
I focus all the pain,
the only thing that's real."

Hurt, as made famous by Nine Inch Nails and Johnny Cash.

I hate to be pedantic, but...

Nine Inch Nails made it famous, Cash just covered it.

What about the big one? "I Hate Everything About You!"

Surely the 'most depressing lyric' award has to go to a country singer...(try Whippin' that Old T.B. by Jimmie Rodgers, or some Johnny Cash), but as far as 'mainstream' music goes, THe Smiths take it every time... such as There is a Light:
"and if a double-decker bus, crashes into us, to die by your side, oh what a wonderful way to die"

I like sad music. To me, music is about expression, and sad songs can portray emotions so poetically.

First thing that popped into my head would by Sadness, by the Belgian band Stash.
"If sadness is a color, then it's blue just like your eyes.
And sorrow can be all over you, but it will never tear me down"

It's not hard to find it on youtube if you want to give it a listen.

Second one that popped up was 'So Come Back, I Am Waiting', by Okkervil River. The entire cd is based on Tim Hardin's life. Throughout the song, the 'Black Sheep Boy' (a reference to one of Hardin's songs) is deteriorating, and as the song nears its end, the tone of the song grows triumphant, but when you interpret the lyrics, you realize that he's actually just going back to his drug habits, which eventually led to his death.

They did a similar thing in the album after that, by making a 2-part song: the first part is a (fake, of course) suicide note of John (Berryman), the second part is a cover of 'Sloop John B' by the Beach Boys.
The suicide note prologue to the cover completely changes the interpretation of the Beach Boys song, turning the entire story into a morbid joke about someone who failed so bad at life, he couldn't even kill himself properly (Berryman jumped off a bridge and wanted to drown, the same way his father did... but instead missed the water and landed head first on concrete... the worst part was, that didn't immediatly kill him)

I could go on with loads of sad songs...
But, right... long story short: sad songs that tell stories. Love 'em.

Any of you ever heard "Strange Fruit" from Billy Holiday? That's a fucked up song.

And as we wind on down the road
Our shadows taller than our soul
There walks a lady we all know
Who shines white light and wants to show
How everything still turns to gold
And if you listen very hard
The tune will come to you at last
When all are one and one is all
To be a rock and not to roll
Woe oh oh oh oh oh
And she's buying a stairway to heaven

Hmm. I think of the end to Stairway as actually pretty, err... not positive per se, but more charitable towards the "lady" than the rest of the song. Hopeful, almost.

-- Alex

Frosk:
I hate to be pedantic, but...

Nine Inch Nails made it famous, Cash just covered it.

I just find Cashes version a lot more depressing and heart breaking.

Alex_P:
Hmm. I think of the end to Stairway as actually pretty, err... not positive per se, but more charitable towards the "lady" than the rest of the song. Hopeful, almost.

-- Alex

I dunno...The song is about drugs and addiction, so probably not. It's kind of like, after all the fuss of the song, and all of that effort, he/she is still going back to drugs.

LilMissEvil:
"Like a cat in a bag, waiting to drown" from The Drugs Don't Work, by the Verve.

Sorry to correct you, that thats "in a bath, waiting to drown"

I agree with you regardless though.

EDIT: WTF! It IS "in a bag", how the hell did I not know that until now.

I am ashamed...