Lately this one's been striking me as particularly sad:

Oh all the money that in my whole life I did spend,
Be it mine right or wrongfully,
I let it slip gladly past the hands of my friends
To tie up the time most forcefully.
But the bottles are done,
We've killed each one
And the table's full and overflowed.
And the corner sign
Says it's closing time,
So I'll bid farewell and be down the road.

Oh ev'ry girl that ever I've touched,
I did not do it harmfully.
And ev'ry girl that ever I've hurt,
I did not do it knowin'ly.
But to remain as friends and make amends
You need the time and stay behind.
And since my feet are now fast
And point away from the past,
I'll bid farewell and be down the line.

Oh ev'ry foe that ever I faced,
The cause was there before we came.
And ev'ry cause that ever I fought,
I fought it full without regret or shame.
But the dark does die
As the curtain is drawn and somebody's eyes
Must meet the dawn.
And if I see the day
I'd only have to stay,
So I'll bid farewell in the night and be gone.

Oh, ev'ry thought that's strung a knot in my mind,
I might go insane if it couldn't be sprung.
But it's not to stand naked under unknowin' eyes,
It's for myself and my friends my stories are sung.
But the time ain't tall,
Yet on time you depend and no word is possessed
By no special friend.
And though the line is cut,
It ain't quite the end,
I'll just bid farewell till we meet again.

Oh a false clock tries to tick out my time
To disgrace, distract, and bother me.
And the dirt of gossip blows into my face,
And the dust of rumors covers me.
But if the arrow is straight
And the point is slick,
It can pierce through dust no matter how thick.
So I'll make my stand
And remain as I am
And bid farewell and not give a damn.


Restless Farewell, Bob Dylan

The Beatles- For No One, and Eleanor Rigby

Although not the saddest song... the lyric "I don't wanna die, I sometimes wish I'd never been born at all" from Bohemian Rhapsody always sends shivers down my spine (how clever am I?) especially since Mercury's death.

That's just the theme, the lyrics and music aren't actually sad, with a few exceptions.

Jeff Buckley-Lover You Should've Come Over and Forget Her
Coldplay-The Scientist
Elliot Smith-The Morning After
Paul McCartney-performing "Something" for George Harrison.

I'm assuming by Morning after you mean Say Yes.
These always makes my heart ache:
Your mind is racing like a pro, now
oh my god it doesn’t mean a lot to you
one time you were a glowing young ruffian
oh my god it was a million years ago


What does it matter, a dream of love
Or a dream of lies
We're all gonna be in the same place
When we die
Your spirit don't leave knowing
Your face or your name
And the wind through your bones
Is all that remains
And we're all gonna be
We're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

The quill from a buzzard
The blood writes the word
I want to know am I the sky
Or a bird
'Cause hell is boiling over
And heaven is full
We're chained to the world
And we all gotta pull
And we're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

Now the killer was smiling
With nerves made of stone
He climbed the stairs
And the gallows groaned
And the people's hearts were pounding
They were throbbing, they were red
As he swung out ofver the crowd
I heard the hangman said
We're all gonna be
Just dirt in the ground

Now Cain slew Abel
He killed him with a stone
The sky cracked open
And the thunder groaned
Along a river of flesh
Can these dry bones live?
Ask a king or a beggar
And the answer they'll give
Is we're all gonna be
Yea yeah
We're all gonna be just
Dirt in the ground

Joy Division - New Dawn Fades, Ceremony, and the majority of everything else they'd recorded.
Tim Buckley - Song to the Siren
Eric Clapton - Promises, Tears in Heaven
Leonard Cohen - Stories of the Street, Teachers, One of Us Cannot be Wrong, Seems So Long Ago Nancy, Avalanche, Famous Blue Raincoat, Dress Rehearsal Rag
Neil Young - Down by the River, I Believe in You, Needle and the Damage Done, Tired Eyes
Dax Riggs - Waking Up Insane
Alice In Chains - Down In A Hole, Man in the Box, Heaven Beside You, Junkhead, Dirt, almost everything else
Stooges - Dirt
Eyehategod - Ruptured Heart Theory, Left To Starve, Man is Too Ignorant to Exist, Bland, Who Gave Her the Roses
Velvet Underground - Candy Says, Sunday Morning, Heroine
Guided by Voices - Drinker's Peace, Surgical Focus
Rolling Stones - Wild Horses
Nick Drake - River Man, Black Eyed Dog, most of his other songs, too....
Mudhoney - Don't Fade !V, If I Think, Thousand Forms of Mind
Jimi Hendrix - Angel, Little Wing
Magazine - Cut-Out Shapes, Parade, A Song From Under the Floorboards
"Strange Fruit", "Nights in White Satin", "Gloomy Sunday", the Radiohead songs, and the Pink Floyd songs up there are all bloody miserable, too . . . And Elliot Smith.
Oh yeah, and Toadies - Dollskin
Mad Season - Wake Up

I have a real soft spot for Fix You by Coldplay. :o:

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