Sarah Mclachlan - I will remember you
Garth Brooks - The Dance
The SM song was played at a funeral of a friend in high school. The GB song was played at the funeral of a friend's dad in junior high. I came from a pretty small town so any death was hard on the community but those particular deaths, each coming at the end of a traumatic struggle with cancer, were particularly painful.
Steve Earle is always good for a hurtin' song. Here are a few more:
My Old Friend The Blues
Valentines Day
Goodbye
Ellis Unit One
This live version of "Fort Worth Blues" during a Townes Van Zant tribute has Nanci Griffith in tears.
You're tryin' my patience, try pink carnations, red roses and yellow daffodils Don't forget the flowers Sunday, I know you will Displayers of affection and all good intentions, why don't you just send me the bill Don't forget the flowers someday, I know you will Whether you've been takin' me way too seriously, ewwwewwhoo I can't ever explain why I don't feel the pain, ewwewwhoo I left you behind I know its been along time, but I'm not over you Don't forget the flowers someday, I hope I do You're tryin' my patience, try pink carnations, red roses and yellow daffodils Don't forget the flowers someday I know I will Don't forget the flowers someday, I know I will
I also find this song quite sad but in the only context I really know it (Royal Tenenbaums) I find it quite funny too.
Just after Luke Wilson's character attempts suicide and everyone's rushing to hospital to see him and someone asks 'Dudley' if he's okay and his response is "Who?" takes the sadness 180 degrees.
Everytime I hear that song I think of that scene.
Also the bagpipes they play at funerals of police/firemen/soldiers always chokes me up.
There is a rare b-side from Matthew Good (Band) from the Loser Anthems EP. It is called "Flight Recorder from Viking 7". And it always brings a tear to my eye. Very special performance.
I thought of Squeeze as well, but I would have gone with
"Up the junction"
or
"Last Time Forever"
What's funny is that I was going to go back and edit my list to Up the junction (as that was actually the tune I had in mind), but I thought no one would notice.
"Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground" by Blind Willie Johnson.
One of the best slide guitarists ever, and a powerful song that did not need lyrics; a series of hums and moans accompanied by his guitar playing is enough to make you weep.
This was one of the recordings representing humanity on the Voyager Spacecraft's Golden Phonograph record.
Red House Painters - Drop
So much that i can't say to you
my voice shakes from the hurt that i hide
ashamed of my existence
and of my petty often wounded pride
i'd like to come home to see you
and to catch your sickness by the bedside
but then you'd know how much i really need you
all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop
if only i were blind to your selfish fling
and your desperate cause
and didn't press you for the details
that threaten my physical flaws
i'd like to come home to see you
and embrace your illness under soft light
but then you'd know how much i really need you
all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop
so much that i can say to you
with affection that i burn inside
you're aching from the distance
avoiding strain that's running still alive
if only i could heal you in the sprinkling of the ocean side
but then you'd know how much i really love you
all the love in an instant
makes my life stop
but then my hate for you
makes my feelings altogether drop
Eli the Barrow Boy - The Decemberists
Cat Power's cover of - I Found a Reason
Decemberists have some great dark & sad stuff, Odalisque, Leslie Anne Levine, the Island, Crane Wife 1 & 2, and I can't make it throught that Little Motel video by Modest Mouse without choking up.
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There is a rare b-side from Matthew Good (Band) from the Loser Anthems EP. It is called "Flight Recorder from Viking 7". And it always brings a tear to my eye. Very special performance.
Flight recorder sends shivers down my spine...I love the vocals by Holly McNarland
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I didn't read the entire thread again but I'm pretty sure these two haven't been mentioned and frankly, I can't believe I posted the songs I did before these two!!
The late great Harry Chapin
RIP John Lennon, Elton rocks. This song hurts to listen to.
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Easily the saddest song I've heard is I want you to live by George Canyon. I didn't read every post in the thread so I'm not sure if it's been mentioned or not but its about a woman whos husband dies and how she copes or doesn't, I suppose, with his death.
Also The Dream, by Carrie Underwood. About a girl whos fiance dies overseas and is about her on her way to her wedding which suddenly turns into his funeral.
