Saddest Song Ever?

In Memory-Black Sabbath

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Under Your Tree- Sonata Arctica

I don't really like much anything off 'Unia', but I always thought 'tree' was sort of a sad word in itself. You know? Maybe. I dunno.

detuned wrote:

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (about the lynchings in the south during the 30's)

This is a chilling song. Billie would close a set with this song, singing it center stage with a single spotlight and would refuse curtain calls after it. And she did this in white clubs before civil rights. A huge example of music as a protest.

One of my favorite sad songs is "Don't You Cry" from Kamelot's Karma. It was written for Youngblood's dad and makes me think of mine who passed 20 years ago. Khan's vocal is beautiful on this song.

QuothTheRaven wrote:

detuned wrote:

Billie Holiday - Strange Fruit (about the lynchings in the south during the 30's)

This is a chilling song. Billie would close a set with this song, singing it center stage with a single spotlight and would refuse curtain calls after it. And she did this in white clubs before civil rights. A huge example of music as a protest.

One of my favorite sad songs is "Don't You Cry" from Kamelot's Karma. It was written for Youngblood's dad and makes me think of mine who passed 20 years ago. Khan's vocal is beautiful on this song.

My father passed away in April, when I listen to " In Memory" from Black Sabbath, it now reminds me of my father, I believe that Iommi wrote that about the passing of his own father,
"An empty place where you used to be"

A lot of sad songs and songs that make me tear up and tug at my heart:

Savatage-If I Go Away
Savatage-This Isn't What We Meant
Savatage-All That I Bleed
Savatage-Alone You Breathe
Savatage-Rumor
Alice Cooper-Every Woman Has A Name
Dream Theater-Take Away My Pain
Dream Theater-Live Another Day
Dream Theater-Space-Dye Vest
Dream Theater-Anna Lee
Bruce Dickinson-Tear Of The Dragon
Candlebox-Far Behind
Mutha's Day Out-Green
Elton John-Candle In The Wind
Edenbridge-Velvet Eyes Of Dawn
Nightwish-Dead Boy's Poem
Nightwish-Forever Yours
Nightwhish-Sleeping Sun (also the most beautiful song ever IMO)
Edguy-Scarlet Rose
Genesis-No Son Of Mine
Extreme-Who Cares?
G&R-November Rain
Skid Row-I Remember You
Skid Row-18 & Life
Hammerfall-The Fallen One
Idle Cure-Merciful Man
Iona-Wave After Wave
Iona-Irish Day
Jacob's Dream-Sarah Williams
John Elefante-Where Does Our Love Go
John Elefante-Pass The Flame
John Denver-Montanna
John Denver-Perhaps Love
Jon Oliva's Pain-Still I Pray For You Now
Jon Oliva's Pain-The Answer
Jon Oliva's Pain-Firefly
Jon Oliva's Pain-O to G
Jon Oliva's Pain-Open Your Eyes
Jon Oliva's Pain-Someone/Souls
The Lost Dogs-Rebecca Go Home
The Lost Dogs-If It Be Your Will
The Lost Dogs-Waiting for You to Come Around
The Lost Dogs-Dunce Cap
The Lost Dogs-Jimmy
The Lost Dogs-No Room For Us
Marillion-Easter
Marillion-Estonia
Marillion-Pseudo Silk Kimono
Marillion-No One Can
One Hundred Days-Rattling The Air
One Hundred Days-Song For Paul
One Hudred Days-Victory Day
The Moody Blues-Haunted
The Moody Blues-Celtic Sonant
The Moody Blues-Never Blame The Raibow
The Moody Blues-Forever Autumn
Kansas-Dust In The Wind
Kansas-Nobody's Home
Kansas-Play The Game Tonight
Kansas-The Closet Chronicles (in lyrics moreso than music)
Kansas-The Wall
Kansas-Wheels
Kansas-The Comming Dawn
Kansas-Byzantium

Some more:

Shadow Gallery-Don't Ever Cry, Just Remember (this may be the saddest, but it has some close competition)
Shadow Gallery-Hope For Us?
Shadow Gallery-Christmas Day
Sonata Arctica-Shamandalie
Sonat Arctica-My Selene (again more in lyrics than music)
Spock's Beard-Open Wide The Floodgates
Symphony X-Candlelight Fantasia (mostly the chorus)
Tela-Changes
Tesla-Paradise
Testament-Return To Serenity
Thunderstone-Spread My Wings
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-What Is Eternal
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-The Moment
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-The Dreams Of Candlelight
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-I'll Keep Your Secrets
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-The Dark
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-After The Fall
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-This Is Who You Are
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Who Is This Child
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Final Dream
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Chrismas Cannon
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Find Our Way Home
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-The Snow Came Down
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Dream Child
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Ornament
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Old City Bar
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Back To A Reason Pt. 2
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-What Child Is This
Trans-Siberian Orchestra-Different Wings
Van Zant-Friend
Vince Niel-Forever (even sadder when you remember the song is about his daughter that died of cancer)
Warrant-Bitter Pill
Warrant-I Saw Red
Bon Jovi-Dry County

TSO songs cause me to tear up especially when I sing them. Paul O' Niel and Jon Oliva have a great talent for emotional songwriting.

Oh, and Hurt (I only know Johnny Cash's cover)

I forgot some other country songs:

Kenny Rogers-The Gambler
Kenny Rogers-Lucille
The Highwaymen-Deperatos Waiting For A Train
The Highwaymen-Park View
The Highwaymen-Deportee
The Highwaymen-Jim I Wore A Tie Today
The Highwaymen-The Last Cowboy Song
Marty Robbins-El Paso


Crap I just remembed more (see what happens when I actually get a day off):

Saviour Machine-Jesus Christ
Saviour Machine-Ascension of Heroes
Saviour Machine-American Babylon
Saviour Machine-Love Never Dies
Godon Lightfoot-If You Could Read My Mind
Ritchie Valens-Sleepwalker
Righteous Brothers-You Lost That Loving Feeling
The Byrds-Turn Turn Turn
The Beatles-Yesterday

Some more that come to mind are

Simple Man - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Joey - Concrete Blonde
Always - Bon Jovi
Tesla - Love Song
Hollow - Pantera

Good call on Simple Man.

How is Simple Man a sad song?

Not arguing, just curious.

I find it more of a "life lesson song"; "live like this".

I find Lucky Man by ELP to be a sad song.

xyz wrote:

I find Lucky Man by ELP to be a sad song.

Yeah, that is a sad song. It's basically a eulogy for a pathetic man.

tohostudios wrote:

xyz wrote:

I find Lucky Man by ELP to be a sad song.

Yeah, that is a sad song. It's basically a eulogy for a pathetic man.

I'm with you there.

"A bullet had found him.
His blood ran as he cried.
No money could save him.
So he laid down, and he died."

tohostudios wrote:

How is Simple Man a sad song?

Not arguing, just curious.

I find it more of a "life lesson song"; "live like this".

Well, my wife's 17 year old brother died in a car wreck two summers ago and his favorite group was Skynyrd and he was also a very Simple Man, by the songs standards. The first time that we drove by the roadside memorial Simple Man came on the radio (that kind of stuff always happens, weird) and needless to say it was very emotional. So it's all in how you interpret things and what playing in the background of your life when something memorable happens.

Anyway, two songs that I think are very sad are:

Jim Croce - Time in a Bottle
Harry Chapin - Cats in the Cradle

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Nightwhish-Sleeping Sun (also the most beautiful song ever IMO)

'Sleeping Sun' rules! Though I just sort of see it as more subdued, ambient..more calm sad I guess than out and out sad. I've never heard the re-recording but I'm afraid to...bands need to stop that..

Surprised noone has said..

Judas Priest - Beyond the Realms of Death


back when Priest had a 3rd dimension!

"Keep Me In Your Heart For a While" by Warron Zevon. He recorded this right before he passed away a couple years ago. Very sad tune.

Metal Church - Anthem to the Estranged

I was listening to Alice Cooper's Brutal Planet yesterday and realized that "Pick Up the Bones" qualifies as a sad song. It's about the Holocaust. Very poignant song.

Metallica-Fade To Black (ironic when you consider that the inspiration for it came when someone stole their equipment-They must have loved that euipment a LOT to get so depressed at the loss)

Sad Cafe - Eagles
When The Smoke Is Going Down - Scorpions
Sleeping Sun - Nightwish
Wish I Could Believe - Europe
Save Me From Myself - Sirenia
The Show Must Go On - Queen

DallasBlack wrote:

Metallica-Fade To Black (ironic when you consider that the inspiration for it came when someone stole their equipment-They must have loved that euipment a LOT to get so depressed at the loss)

Ahaha ya it is kinda wierd how they came to write it.. But id say its a sad song then it picks up and kicks you in the chest.

ThrashedOutCobra33 wrote:

DallasBlack wrote:

Metallica-Fade To Black (ironic when you consider that the inspiration for it came when someone stole their equipment-They must have loved that euipment a LOT to get so depressed at the loss)

Ahaha ya it is kinda wierd how they came to write it.. But id say its a sad song then it picks up and kicks you in the chest.

For me the entire song is sad because it marked the end of THE gretest radio stations to ever reach DFW, 99.1 Z-Rock. It was appropreate (sic) because when the song ended, the station faded to black. The next moring, in it's place was a Tejano station (as if Texas didn't already have enough of those ).

Temple of the Dog-Say Hello to Heaven.

Journey - Faithfully
Scorpions - Wind of Change