Saddest Song

[Templar 331]

My December by Linkin Park.

[Kyphael]

This was the saddest song I've ever heard, but I'm not sad it ended, I'm glad it happened.

[Stelio Kontos]

Hurt, by Johnny Cash always gets me emotional. He made that song his.



But a few others have stuck around during tough times in my life.





This next two I first heard when the only breakup that ever affected me was going down, they really spoke to the place I was at the time, emotionally.

[Daymanmb]

Last Kiss by Pearl Jam

Is the only one I can think of at the moment. As a firefighter/paramedic I have seen some stuff that is similar to the story in the song.

Pearl Jam has a few. Release and Indifference come to mind as well. But, uh Last Kiss is actually a cover of Wayne Cochrane's 1961 song.

[apeiron1234]

[Daymanmb]

[Torched]

Pearl Jam has a few. Release and Indifference come to mind as well. But, uh Last Kiss is actually a cover of Wayne Cochrane's 1961 song.

I know that it's a cover, need to check out the other songs tho.

[Selastan]

Someone already posted it, so I won't embed it again: Last Kiss

The thing about most sad songs is that they try to create the feeling of loss or heartbreak from the future, as they are often the result of past emotions felt by the writer. But Last Kiss puts you right in the moment, going step by step through the moment of loss like you are there. The pain of sadness can last a long time, even forever, but the pain you feel at the moment is far worse than the memory. It's instinct. The absolute desperation of seeing something you took for granted ripped away. If other sad songs, like Whiskey Lullaby or Snuff are the ache from stubbing a toe, Last Kiss is the moment of impact.

[Sanguinerd]

[Woadnson]

[Izalla]

[video=youtube;uvuMUsLT_bc]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uvuMUsLT_bc[video]

I assumed the music for that video would be:

because that music alone can make me tear up. I guess it's not a good theme for Vash and Meryl though.

Here's one I find pretty sad:

[Nastard]

Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven, especially once you learn it was written for his young child who tragically died when he fell out of his apartment window.

[eschatological]

I think I have to go with Chasing Cars, or How to Save a Life. The latter mostly because of the music video which features kids who've lost someone to suicide.

I'm sure you can tell when I grew up just by those fucking songs, lol.

[Izalla]

I think I have to go with Chasing Cars, or How to Save a Life. The latter mostly because of the music video which features kids who've lost someone to suicide.

I'm sure you can tell when I grew up just by those fucking songs, lol.

A girl at my highschool died of cancer and a student who was going into film making made a tribute video for her that used Chasing Cars for the audio. It was played for us all at a memorial assembly for her and I can never associate it with anything but her death. She was only a couple grades below me and in elementary school she was the "book buddy" I read to as part of a program for the kids in grade 2 to strengthen their reading while entertaining the grade primaries =(

[LemonDemonGirl]

This song made me cry hard the first time I ever heard it

[callipygoustp]

Plenty that came to mind have already been listed, in particular Johnny Cash's cover of Hurt. Here are a couple I didn't see:

[Queen of Hamsters]

Actual personal loss behind it. It gained even more meaning for me once I lost a loved one in a way that left me feeling guilty.

[cuafpr]

first one is howie day - Collide, because its the song for me and my best friend.. who we both admitted feel we are soul mates but she is married... and regrets getting married. Kills me slowly but is what it is (no i don't want to talk about the situation in details)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ca9ub9rpNK4

2nd for the same reason, The Greatest Showman | "Rewrite The Stars"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yO28Z5_Eyls

Lord Huron - The Night We Met
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wGF7PswOENQ

ok one more.. (i could go on and on...)

Sixx A.M. -Skin ~
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MYzT36DA0Rk

[Indigenously Abled]

Since Hurt and Last Kiss have been mentioned.

I find bittersweet far more evocative than pure sadness.



Definitive version of this one.



For those who don't need words to feel things.



Bill Evans. Enough said.

[Daedius]