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Gone Gonzo  Posts: 2082 Joined: 12 May 2008     | |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1197 Joined: 7 Mar 2008  | King of Pain and Invisible Sun (both by The Police) are really sad. Invisible Sun is a little disturbing, too, come to think of it... One lyric that stands out in my mind, though, is from "The Battle of Evermore" by Led Zepplin. In always makes me a little sad, because of how true it is. "The pain of war cannot exceed the woe of aftermath." It's like my grandfather told me after my Uncle Gary (a Green Berett with two purple hearts and a Bronze Star) told me, "Dying isn't hard for the person who's dead; they're there one second and the next they're not. No, dying is hard for everyone else, the people who survive who have to pick up all the bullshit everyone left behind." Apologies if I ruined that song for you. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 3016 Joined: 21 Jan 2008    |
Actually, Radiohead have quite a few sad songs. I mean, Paranoid Android is supposed to be about suicide, as well as No Surprises. Still a good band though. |
Genetically Different  Posts: 463 Joined: 26 Dec 2007    |
I'd noticed: also see "Climbing up the Walls"-
It's always best when the light is off And either way you turn It's always best when the light is off So lock the kids up safe tonight That either way he turns Climbing up the walls They're not really sad, actually: more scary than anything else. I'm gonna go listen to something happy now. This thread is getting me down. |
Paperboy Posts: 13 Joined: 6 May 2008  | "The Light Before We Land" - The Delgados, from the "Gunslinger Girl" short anime series. I dont think its supposed to be sad, but the womans voice and the rhythm of the song makes it sad. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 585 Joined: 13 Dec 2007    | Amazed - The Offspring Sometimes I think I'm gonna drown Sometimes I think I'm going down Yeah if I make it I'd be amazed And when you know you can't relate And when you know you can't go on |
Beat Writer  Posts: 154 Joined: 15 Jun 2008  | "You radiate cold shafts of broken glass." |
Paperboy  Posts: 13 Joined: 16 Jul 2008   | Show no compasion, like havin' a straight face orgasm. |
Beat Writer Posts: 158 Joined: 4 Feb 2008 | Stein um Stein by rammstein English translation:
Disturbing song |
Beat Writer Posts: 211 Joined: 2 Apr 2008 | The Smiths - The Time is Now - "You want to find someone who really loves you. So you go and you stand on your own, and you leave on your own, and you go home and you cry and you want to die." Charming. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 720 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 | Bent double, like old beggars under sacks, GAS! Gas! Quick, boys!-- An ecstasy of fumbling, In all my dreams, before my helpless sight, If in some smothering dreams you too could pace Lyrics can be poems too right? This is the poem that got me into war and respecting our veterans as much as I am today. The imagery is baffling. You can just picture a guy choking on the blood being spewed from his lungs clawing at you all because he couldn't get his helmet on in time. |
Beat Writer  Posts: 218 Joined: 12 Mar 2008 |
Not as disturbing as "Heirate Mich", that's fucking disturbing. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1367 Joined: 12 Sep 2007   | I would have said that I despised angst and emo music, but this thread made me think a bit. I don't go in for the emo angst or country heartbreak songs, but five sad, sweet songs do come to mind. I guess personal loss trims my wick more than death or general misery. (Or I'm an old closet emo, take your pick.) Brokedown Palace Grateful Dead - A song about a man trying to get to the riverside to die. Brown-eyed Woman in Red Grenadine Grateful Dead - Dead mother, broken father, life gone wrong, and getting old. Sweet Blue Midnight Georgia Satellites - Hanging on and pretending there's a future, when she no longer pretends. Angle in Blue - J. Geils Band - Song about a stripper. "And she never had dreams, so they never came true." And the saddest of all time - |
Paperboy Posts: 15 Joined: 9 Jul 2008 | I've got another: New Order's 'Blue Monday' I only include this because I'd been listening to the song for 10 years before I realized that the question was not meant metaphorically. I know... I can be dense sometimes. |
Infamous Scribbler  Posts: 685 Joined: 11 May 2008 | Depressing lyrics for me usually are spawned from personal events, and I can attach the song with them...usually with relationships. The first stanza of Placebo's "Every You, Every Me." relates to an old fling of mine as it died: Sucker love is heaven sent The entire song "You Could Be Happy" by Snow Patrol (I hate that band oddly enough) used to really get to me, and "Blue" by A Perfect Circle still nearly drives me to tears because of other events that eerily mirror the song. |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 74 Joined: 3 Jul 2008 | When a Man Lies He Murders ... and people say metal has no emotion |
BANNED Posts: 38 Joined: 9 Jun 2008 | No Surprises by Radiohead A heart that's full up like a landfill You look so tired and unhappy No alarms and no surprises This is my final fit, my final bellyache with No alarms and no surprises Such a pretty house, such a pretty garden No alarms and no surprises (let me out of here) possibly not sad but very depressing User was banned for: Which Game Chick Would You Most Like T o Fuck. (Permanent) |
BANNED Posts: 38 Joined: 9 Jun 2008 | Let Down by Radiohaed Transport, motorways and tramlines Let down and hanging around Shell smashed, juices flowing One day I'm going to grow wings Let down and hanging around Let down again You know, you know where you are with Let down and hanging around could someone pass the razorblade please User was banned for: Which Game Chick Would You Most Like T o Fuck. (Permanent) |
Beat Writer Posts: 211 Joined: 2 Apr 2008 | Why not just post the entire Radiohead output and be done with it? "Creep", "Morning Bell", etc... the list is endless. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 813 Joined: 6 Feb 2008 |
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BANNED Posts: 38 Joined: 9 Jun 2008 | do you really think i should or was that pedantism? User was banned for: Which Game Chick Would You Most Like T o Fuck. (Permanent) |
Copy Clerk  Posts: 90 Joined: 16 Apr 2008 | Not depressing in the morbid way, but in the it-could-happen way: "I can do anything with no permission That'd be from "Handlebars" by the Flobots. Despite the nature of this post, I heartily endorse this band. |
Muckraker  Posts: 342 Joined: 17 Apr 2008 |
i saw radiohead live on the 25th and i really didnt walk away feeling that depressed. personally what i listen to when im in a sulk is re-offender by travis: Fooling my selfish heart |
Press Junketeer  Posts: 369 Joined: 4 Jul 2008 | I'm Better Off on My Own by Sum 41. i'd link a video to it,but apparently on youtube,all they have for videos of that song are naruto AMVs. Viva La Vida.it's about this guy who has it all,but then he does something stupid and loses it all. like britney spears. oh,and I'm No Superman by lazlo bane. |
Gone Gonzo Posts: 1367 Joined: 12 Sep 2007 |
True, but Joplin OWNED that song - she really made it hers. Kristofferson was a good songwriter in his day, but an awful singer. Actually, all the songs I listed are sad, but it occurs to me they aren't actually depressing. EDIT: Something else that was sad and perhaps mildly depressing was a song Jose Feliciano performed on Carson, unaccompanied, on an acoustical guitar. It was all instrumental, about a village conquered in a battle. Before he played it, he explained it. He said if you listened closely you could hear the crack of muskets, the boom of the cannon, the clash of swords - then the boots of the troops as they marched into the village, and the weeping of the women for their men. And it was true, you could hear it all. I hadn't thought of that since my eight-track days. Funny what the Internet brings back to you. EDIT #3: I just remembered something else I'd long forgotten - Heart's Dog and Butterfly. I don't know why the silly idea of a dog trying so hard and yet being unable to fly should bring tears to my eyes, but it always does. |
Gone Gonzo  Posts: 1582 Joined: 29 Mar 2008  | OH MY GOD! i forgot Mykel and Carli by Weezer. Back In Wilsons High I had these two best freinds not that sad until you realise that after writing that song Mykel and Carli were killed in a bus crash Also by Weezer, Butterfly |
Paperboy  Posts: 34 Joined: 24 May 2008 | one of the most depressing songs ever |
Beat Writer  Posts: 165 Joined: 30 Mar 2008  | Witness a blinding light, Sudden bright light from a blast Not a prayer of hope or redemption in your eyes Watch the firestorm incinerate you into ash! All that you know burns away into dust Every particle returns to its natural form Feel the firestorm melting your spirit into glass! All that you know burns away into dust So many lives All that you know burns away into dust So many lives Burn! -Fear Factory:540,000° Fahrenheit I don't know why but just the way he sings this song makes me feel down. |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 925 Joined: 25 Jan 2008 |
What?!? That's one of the most uplifting and happy songs I know! It's not depressing, it's nice! |
Beat Writer Posts: 142 Joined: 5 Jul 2008 | Sound Of Your Voice: BNL The moon is full but there is an incompleteness I let you down and fell right off of your good list Take it from me: there's not much to see The saying goes there will be other dances (don't give up) Take it from me: there's not much to see |
Pulitzer Laureate  Posts: 891 Joined: 26 Mar 2008  |
Clint Mansell, the genius behind the ultra-awesome Pop Will Eat Itself. The saddest song for me is.. well.. The Saddest Song by The Ataris. Kris Roe wrote it about being away from his daughter and having a young daughter and being separated from her mother myself I can totally relate to it. It makes me cry without fail. The Saddest Song - The Ataris Only two more days, until your birthday To understand I remember waiting Maybe someday So I pretend, I'm doing all I can To understand I remember waiting Forgive me! |
Paperboy  Posts: 19 Joined: 11 Jul 2008 | The saddest music is instrumental. Beethoven's Ninth was incredibly depressing. It was written after he started to go deaf (As a composer hearing is obviously required to admire one's own art), it was really one of the first sad, angry, emotionally moving pieces of music ever. When people heard it they were actually afraid of the first few bars. They said "Beethoven, yore a adman!" and Beethoven just said "Sorry, I didn't catch that." Since this thread is about lyrics (as aposed to the important stuff)Dirt by Alice in Chains. An excerpt- |
Paperboy  Posts: 15 Joined: 21 Jul 2008 | "father come home... momma dont go" Mother- John Lennon "And if the damn breaks open many years too soon |
I'll sing it one last time for you
Then we really have to go
You've been the only thing that's right
In all I've done
And I can barely look at you
But every single time I do
I know we'll make it anywhere
Away from here
Light up, light up
As if you have a choice
Even if you cannot hear my voice
I'll be right beside you dear
Louder louder
And we'll run for our lives
I can hardly speak I understand
Why you can't raise your voice to say
To think I might not see those eyes
Makes it so hard not to cry
And as we say our long goodbye
I nearly do
Light up...
Slower slower
We don't have time for that
All I want is to find an easier way
To get out of our little heads
Have heart my dear
We're bound to be afraid
Even if it's just for a few days
Making up for all this mess
Run-Snow patrol
I want this song played at my funeral.