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All the music at our wedding was Silver Jews. My wife walked down the aisle to our friends playing an instrumental of Trains Across the Sea.
I'll pick a different Kent song that I think is their saddest (although I can't find a video with English):
Two others:
I'd entirely forgotten about that song, as I really wasn't a fan of their final two albums. The material just wasn't up to the high standards you'd usually get from Kent, besides a few songs. To me it really sounded like the band was burnt out and their hearts weren't into it anymore. I think they were smart to call it quits while they still were on top of their game. Glad I got to see them on their farewell tour.
Sufjan has a lot of sorrow in his music, but this one always felt the most heartbreaking. After losing someone he loves he is reminded of their absence everywhere he looks, in everything he feels, and ponders the reasons that keep him from just ending his life. It's heavy and somber, but more than anything what makes it so heartbreaking is how... sweet and gentle it is. It paints this kind of hopeless brokenness that comes from having so much love for someone you can't give it to.
Read this fucking verse
"Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known
Deep down would not include you
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real"
"Crusted with tears, catatonic and raw
I go downstairs and outside and you still get mail
A week after you died a package with your name on it came
And inside was a gift for our daughter you had ordered in secret
And collapsed there on the front steps I wailed
A backpack for when she goes to school a couple years from now
You were thinking ahead to a future you must have known
Deep down would not include you
Though you clawed at the cliff you were sliding down
Being swallowed into a silence that's bottomless and real"
I think no song holds a candle to this one when it comes to sad songs. Or beautiful songs.
Mark Hollis wrote this song to his brother who died of heroin overdose. Yeah, it's fucked up.
As a busy dad who also just had their own dad pass...this is a gut punch.
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Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin
Cats In The Cradle-Harry Chapin My child arrived just the other day He came to the world in the usual way But there were planes to catch and bills to pay He ...
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Imperfect but ours by The Saddest Landscape
Inner Silence by Anathema - The version from Hindsight is somehow even sadder. Most of pre-2010 Anathema stuff is sad as fuck
My Twin by Katatonia - This used to be my breakup song during my teens
Inner Silence by Anathema - The version from Hindsight is somehow even sadder. Most of pre-2010 Anathema stuff is sad as fuck
My Twin by Katatonia - This used to be my breakup song during my teens
Oh, how could I forget this one?
And him singing the song when he was still alive:
And him singing the song when he was still alive:
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Very popular song. Very terrible story.
My mother and I didn't have the best relationship due to her demons. But I loved her so much. This song actually Resonated to me more when she passed away at 49.
The last verse is so heartfelt. Pimp C says things most men would think about God.
Very popular song. Very terrible story.
My mother and I didn't have the best relationship due to her demons. But I loved her so much. This song actually Resonated to me more when she passed away at 49.
The last verse is so heartfelt. Pimp C says things most men would think about God.
I LOVE Sarah Mclachlin!!! My favorite sad song of hers is I will not Forget You.
Johnette Napolitano wrote it about her relationship to Marc Moreland (Wall of Voodoo) and his struggles with alcoholism.
Another favorite of mine. Even if you don't understand the lyrics (which are also sad, I'll post them further down in English), you can feel the sadness.
Lyrics:
Eyes pulled towards the holy peak
Clearly defined on the horizon
Each wind from there
Carries a memory of you
Certainty of your wit and nearness
Cures my lonely sorrow
Doubly sting the wounds
That nobody else can see
Guest in Dáinn's hall
Until you were reborn
To song of Norns, in weave of Norns
The thread strengthened by fortune
From former fathers, former mothers
You continue the lineage
Guest in Dáinn's hall
Until Norns spin you a new thread
From wind you were brought forth
By wind you will be brought back
From wind you were brought forth
By wind you will be brought back
Lyrics:
Eyes pulled towards the holy peak
Clearly defined on the horizon
Each wind from there
Carries a memory of you
Certainty of your wit and nearness
Cures my lonely sorrow
Doubly sting the wounds
That nobody else can see
Guest in Dáinn's hall
Until you were reborn
To song of Norns, in weave of Norns
The thread strengthened by fortune
From former fathers, former mothers
You continue the lineage
Guest in Dáinn's hall
Until Norns spin you a new thread
From wind you were brought forth
By wind you will be brought back
From wind you were brought forth
By wind you will be brought back
I'd never expected to see VNV posted on Era. I like 'Beloved', but I guess it's more melancholic than sad.
For some reason I always found these two kinda melancholic too.
Adam Crossley - Prisoner
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Blink 182 - Adam's Song
VNV Nation - From My Hands
Ben Folds Five - Brick
Blink 182 - Adam's Song
VNV Nation - From My Hands
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Where's my friend who also likes Backfield!!
Cloudy Now
Seriously any song from Backfield will do.
Porcupine Tree - Buying new soul
Sleep Party People - I'm not human at all
Cloudy Now
Seriously any song from Backfield will do.
Porcupine Tree - Buying new soul
Sleep Party People - I'm not human at all
Really? It didn't happen until post 98?
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Elton John - Sad Songs (Say So Much)
“Sad Songs (Say So Much)" is the first single from Elton's 1984 album Breaking Hearts. The video was filmed at Rushcutters Bay in Sydney, Australia and direc...
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