my submission

http://youtu.be/m7r3g4Tjazw

8/16/2011 8:44:10 PM

http://youtu.be/VlE2J9Yj7U4

8/16/2011 8:47:45 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hxleH60hDJY

8/16/2011 8:48:05 PM

They all say so much.

8/16/2011 8:51:55 PM

what about that one where the retard trips in a race and then burns in a fire

8/16/2011 9:40:52 PM

"Brick" - Ben Folds Five (Ben Folds?)
"Don't Take the Girl" - Tim McGraw

8/16/2011 9:42:55 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ti1dAC6r94

8/16/2011 9:44:54 PM

blink 182 - adam's song

8/16/2011 9:49:52 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qgcy-V6YIuI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E_7BV-IuyKI (saudade)

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 10:02 PM. Reason : saudade]

8/16/2011 9:57:09 PM

there is a rascal flatts song called sarah i think that is pretty sad

8/16/2011 9:57:48 PM

"red ragtop" tim mcgraw

8/16/2011 10:33:43 PM

man, these aren't even close to the sadness of Echo Mountain

[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 10:35 PM. Reason : i mean, he killed the innocent, loyal hound]

8/16/2011 10:35:08 PM

umm Brick is about his girlfriend getting an abortion and how it tears them apart

sounds pretty fucking sad to me

8/16/2011 10:39:00 PM

alyssa lies is about a child beaten to death by her parents...

that's a little sad

8/16/2011 10:41:17 PM

idk i have to hold back tears every time i hear echo mountain

8/16/2011 10:42:23 PM

I submit to you the saddest song ever from the saddest album ever. MewithoutYou, album Catch for Us the Foxes, song Son of a Widow. Brutal.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrKCQi8J8EQ


I'll ring your doorbell
Until you let me in
And I can no longer tell
Where 'you' end and 'I' begin

Grape on the vine
We've been alone a long time
Grape on the vine
Why not be crushed to make wine?

Pay no attention to me
Dancing with my girl
We have every intention to be
Failures in this world

Grape on the vine
We've been alone a long time
Grape on the vine
Why not be crushed to make wine?

Six of my closest friends
Will dig up the ground
All my accomplishments
Gently lowered down

Grape on the vine
We've been alone a long time
Grape on the vine
Why not be crushed to make wine?

(All is the same to the souls of those so much resigned)

The son of the widow
You raised from the dead
Where did his soul go
When he died again?


[Edited on August 16, 2011 at 10:48 PM. Reason : Lyrics? You got it!]

8/16/2011 10:42:53 PM

Quote :

"alyssa lies is about a child beaten to death by her parents... that's a little sad"

more like a little hilarious

8/16/2011 10:45:45 PM

Dylan Dray - Pretty Thing:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R59FVou6dWI

Baby Stop Your chasing me
Stop your staring hungry eyes
give up your fantasy
Im not playing games
I mean each word Im saying
Your'e not going to get your hands
On my Pretty Thing
Baby its been 3 long years
take down my picture from the wall
and wipe your tears
you've been pushed aside
your black rose must die
You're Not going to get your hands
on my pretty thing
Im just no good for you
Im just too good for you
Babe its time to close that door
I've told you once, a hundred times
and even more
you're just not my kind
I'll tell you one last time
You're not going to get your hands
on my Pretty Thing

8/16/2011 10:46:09 PM

Midlake - Acts of Man http://youtu.be/fcHVYrcb6As

maybe not the saddest ever but it's certainly melancholy and beautiful

Also "Russian Winter" by Lone Wolf...can't find a youtube vid of it at the moment but it's pretty dark

8/16/2011 11:30:56 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jLntFKtR66g

8/16/2011 11:34:01 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MS91knuzoOA

Not the saddest but I always remember Jeremy- Pearl Jam

8/16/2011 11:58:18 PM

Where were you when they built the Ladder to Heaven?
Did it make you feel like crying?
Or did you think it was kinda gay?
Well I for one believe in the Ladder to Heaven
Ooh yeah yeah yeah, 9-11
I said 9-11 9-11 9-11 9, 9-11

Where were you
When they ran out of stuff to build the Ladder to Heaven?

Where were you
When they saved that Ladder to Heaven?

Where were you
When they decided Heaven was a more intangible idea
And couldn't, you couldn't really...get there?

8/17/2011 10:04:53 AM

Christmas Shoes

8/17/2011 10:05:47 AM

Cat's in the Cradle : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zH46SmVv8SU

Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald : http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgI8bta-7aw
"In a musty old hall in Detroit they prayed,
in the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral."
The church bell chimed 'til it rang twenty-nine times
for each man on the Edmund Fitzgerald.
The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
of the big lake they call "Gitche Gumee."
"Superior," they said, "never gives up her dead
when the gales of November come early!"

8/17/2011 10:45:36 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3Dsz4dB6DuM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y8AWFf7EAc4

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 10:51 AM. Reason : 1 more]

8/17/2011 10:48:43 AM

This is the saddest song ever written. There is no discussion.

8/17/2011 10:52:50 AM

bobby darin - artificial flowers


super sad and whats fucked up is the music is happy

8/17/2011 10:56:07 AM

^^It would be my 3rd.

8/17/2011 11:02:35 AM

Jacket by Nerf Herder

8/17/2011 11:19:03 AM

8/17/2011 11:19:30 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timothy_(song)

Quote :

""Timothy" is a song written by Rupert Holmes and recorded by the Buoys in 1971, presenting the unnerving story of three men trapped in a collapsed mine, two of whom apparently resort to cannibalism against the third (the titular character Timothy)."

8/17/2011 11:24:16 AM

Quote :

"This is the saddest song ever written. There is no discussion."

i can agree with that

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 11:27 AM. Reason : it's probably THE best country song ever written]

8/17/2011 11:26:49 AM

shame on all of you that this hasnt been posted, song is sad, song+video=

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IZbN_nmxAGk

8/17/2011 11:29:43 AM

Well thats what happens when you rape murder and sell rocks

I'm Krallum and i approved this message.

8/17/2011 11:33:31 AM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NRWUs0KtB-I&feature=relmfu

brenda's got a baby - tupac

8/17/2011 11:36:38 AM

http://youtu.be/UMs0P-e9CsQ

Eyedea - Bottle Dreams

Everyone knew she was a special young girl
From her neighbors to her teachers
Some labeled her a prodigy, others called her a genius
It was amazing the way she could play the violin
It made it hard for people to believe that she only ten
But behind every brilliant mind there lies a monster
This one just so happened to be her father
See daddy was sick, he'd get a rush by playin touchy touch
And tellin her to keep it hush
It was his seceret way of loving that he needed someone he could trust
Fucked her head up, sayin if Momma was alive she'd be so proud of us
So she'd hide the desire to die
But if you paid close attention you could see the sorrow in her eyes
Walking around in the only real hell
No one would ever think she'd have such a story to tell
Afraid to go home, afraid to talk, afraid of cryin
She was too young to even know why

[Chorus]
And everyday she'd go to the river with a message in a bottle sayin
'Please, God help me I don't wanna live to see tommarow'
Each day she'd scrounge for a tiny shread of hope
Just to wish the bottle would stay afloat
But every single solitary day, the bottle seems to sink
I don't know why but the bottle always sinks
She never sees it happen, but the bottle always sinks
Now only the bottom of the river knows what she really thinks

She made that violin sing with so much pain
You could almost hear her scream through the strange vibrations
What was once sweet and innocent
Is now riding with the phsychotic father
Chose to probe the flowers of the pure and sacred
Her instrument was a rolly tongue
To express the infinite abuse in it's depths
At night the footsteps crept to her door and she'd begin to shake and weap
And with tears rolling down her cheeks she's pretend she was asleep
When the nightmare was over, and the sun dawn is light
She'd retreat to the same place she always did
Rip a page from her diary, and write with all her might
Then send it off into the current, determined to find a way to live

[Chorus]

Being a victim of her daddy's hands for so long
She lost the will to move on
Sick of picking up her violin to hide from what's wrong
Exausted, but stayin strong
She tried to play the bright side, but couldn't bring herself to make
nothing but sad songs
Sick of that sick feeling that stays in her stomach
Sick of waiting for a rescue by someone who found one of her bottles
Sick of being daddy's little seceret
She got up at the crack of day and smashed her violin into pieces
Then proceeded to walk towards the river with a plan
Only this time the diary and bottle was in her hand
Just walk with herself, away from the hell
Not knowing at the river bottom lied all the cries for help
It was weeks before they found her dead body
Some fisherman reeled it from the water
like something from a detective novel
Diagonosis: suicide, stemed from desperation
Was near where she drowned they found about 500 messages in sunken bottles

8/17/2011 11:51:03 AM

No serious discussion on sad songs can not mention Elliott Smith.

vinylbandit won the thread already, I won't dispute that.

As far as sad bastard music goes, Elliott Smith knew what was up.

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 12:54 PM. Reason : .]

8/17/2011 12:54:20 PM

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nvWADo6KPzA

8/17/2011 12:58:03 PM

Quote :

"This is the saddest song ever written. There is no discussion."

this is the truth. all you other fucks can fight for second place.

"you are my sunshine" is actually a pretty damn sad song.

8/17/2011 1:03:06 PM

Hard to top George on this one.

How can everyone going with Ben Folds say Brick? That's not even the saddest song on Whatever & Ever Amen. Evaporated is just depressing both musically and lyrically. Both Fred Jones songs are pretty sad as well.

8/17/2011 3:33:24 PM

The saddest song I think I have heard is Long Goodnight by The Get Up Kids.

8/17/2011 3:36:51 PM

Quote :

"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IpE73PvU9bk"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gAv5ZuuSxSI
Life Without You - SRV

[Edited on August 17, 2011 at 3:56 PM. Reason : so there....]

8/17/2011 3:44:23 PM

did you even read the thread or click on any of the links?

8/17/2011 3:51:26 PM

"if you're reading this" is another sad tim mcgraw song. there's a lot of sad songs in country music

8/18/2011 3:09:16 PM

http://youtu.be/IXp4xScvIWo

[Edited on August 18, 2011 at 3:24 PM. Reason : that Alyssa Lies song had me crying a little.]

8/18/2011 3:22:20 PM

http://youtu.be/XZ5TajZYW6Y

8/18/2011 5:05:06 PM

8/18/2011 5:07:18 PM

^The Chairmen's version is better

8/18/2011 5:34:51 PM

^SAY WHAT NOW!?!?!?!

8/18/2011 5:36:15 PM

He stopped loving her today -- hands down.

Long Black Veil is another sad song.

8/18/2011 5:37:13 PM