Spinoff: Songs That Make You Sad

[powellrj]

 

[Adelle Dazeem]

My Immortal by Evanescence - I lose it every time.

Down the River of No Return by Babylon AD.

 

[kimblebee]

I thought of another one..

I don’t know why but I just called by Stevie Wonder always struck me as a super sad song. I get a really uneasy feeling every time I hear it, like it traumatized me in a previous life lol

 

[Tess]

The Way We Were. . .

There are many songs that I hear randomly and listen to lyrics that touch me. May not be a favorite or even a song I have heard often, but the lyrics will bring tears or that thing in the back of your throat. . .

 

[person]

Hymns:
In the Garden
The Old Rugged Cross

Broadway:
For Good
Empty Chairs at Empty Tables
I Dreamed a Dream

Other songs:
Cats in the Cradle
Human to a God
Running to Stand Still

I like The Old Rugged Cross, too...

 

[Turksmom]

Jimmy Buffet- I Wave Bye Bye and several of the others PPs have mentioned

 

[emer95]

At This Moment by Billy Vera. My first love broke up with me in 1990 and I heard that song on my drive home. I had to pull the car over, I was crying so hard.

Amazing Grace makes me think of my aunt who passed tragically. She loved that song.

Say Something by A Great Big World reminds me of my buddy who died in a car accident 4 years ago.

The Prayer by Celine Dion and Andrea Bocelli. I heard it in the car once when I was just starting to go through a terrible time with my daughter (which has not ended). I misheard the lyrics as “I pray you’ll be alright...” and just lost it. Tears now just thinking about it. Still praying for that.

 

[disneychrista]

Too many to list here.

 

[moon]

Peter, Paul & Mary's "Leaving in a Jet Plane"
R.E.M.'s "Man on the Moon"
John Lennon's "(Just Like) Starting Over"
Paul McCartney & Wing's "Let 'em In"

Let 'em in? Why?

 

[person]

Oh Holy Night - that someone linked, above -is really good!

 

[I loveStitchnippyjon]

In the Arms of the Angel

 

[JimMIA]

Amazing Grace with bagpipes -- way too many police funerals

Leader of the Band, by Dan Fogelberg, because it reminds me so much of my Dad

Levels, or anything else by Avicci -- a young musical genius I met briefly without having any idea who he was, or that he was famous...until the news stories about his death.

 

[windcriesamy]

When I need a good cry, I go listen to this song:

 

[L&Lfan]

Weekend in New England by Barry Manilow
Ordinary Fool by Julie McWhirter
The Rainbow Connection by Karen Carpenter
Why Can’t He Be You by Patsy Cline

 

[nicolita3]

The little boy that Santa forgot is THE saddest song ever.

 

[low-key]

 

[nj disney family]

 

[NYCgrrl]

I was reading a book about WW2 battles the summer this song came out and always associate it with the worldwide conflicts:

I accept that only I make that connection, LOL.

 

[Moliphino]

"September" by Earth, Wind, and Fire. It was played at a funeral and now that's all I can think of when I hear it.

 

[fly girl]

I Hope You Dance by Lee Ann Womack. Song played at funeral for a dear friend that was lost too soon at 28 years old. Can never hear that song without eyes welling up.