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[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 hours ago

Me with komm susser todd because it personally relates to me heavily and how I feel about myself.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 9 hours ago)

And when the laaaaast eagle fliiies, over the last crumbling montaaain!

[–] RBWells 3 points 14 hours ago* (last edited 14 hours ago) (1 children)

Red Dirt Girl, Emmylou Harris

"He told her - little sister, gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again. Well, he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come for Lillian."

And "nobody tells you 'bout the blues when you got 'em, you just keep falling cause there ain't no bottom, there ain't no end, least not for Lillian."

AND

"Nobody knows when she started her skid, she was only 27 and she had 5 kids. Might have been the whiskey, might have been the pills, might have been the dream she was trying to kill."

Such a tearjerker, a very cathartic song when you need to cry. Boulder to Birmingham too.

[–] wjrii 1 points 7 hours ago (1 children)

Don’t forget Angel From Montgomery. John Prine sure didn’t sound like Emmylou, but he somehow wrote just as poignant a song about being a woman, even if its tragedy was smaller.

[–] RBWells 2 points 47 minutes ago

Yeah I have a "sad" list for when I need to cry. These and Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams and Road by Nick Drake, because he didn't find a road to take him home, and the stories about how he was so depressed he'd go into the studio and lay flat on the floor to record the songs.

John Prine also has that Sam Stone song, that is less poignant and more aggressively sad but so real sounding too.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 16 hours ago

Mine was Mazzy Star, look on down from the bridge. It was mine long before Rick and Morty existed.

Look on down from the bridge There's still fountains down there Look on down from the bridge It's still raining up here Everybody seems so far away from me Everybody just wants to be free

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

For me it is:

"I know someday you'll have a beautiful life

I hope you'll be a star

In somebody else's sky

But why

Why

Why can't it be

Why can't it be mine"

[–] wjrii 14 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) (3 children)
  1. Sad music when you’re sad is, ironically, a way to feel better, or at least to feel safer. In those moments, feeling like you’re psychically alone is devastating, and music that reminds you that other people have felt like you do is a tether to connect you to people when you’re at your lowest.
  2. Loreena McKennitt is superior to Enya.
  3. Neither of them wrote the world’s saddest song. A redneck from Bandera, Texas wrote the world’s saddest song. Sorry for the Spotify link.
[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 hours ago

Melancholy is a warm blanket.

And being sad is not a crime.

https://youtu.be/scnaicOkXDY

[–] [email protected] 2 points 9 hours ago (1 children)

Loreena McKennitt is not in competition with Enya. Them ladies be chill.

[–] wjrii 1 points 7 hours ago

Fair. She would never. She’s not that guy.

But I am that guy, and I have a favorite ethereal new-agey soprano. 😂

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 day ago (1 children)

Weapons grade sad song: Bookends by Simon & Garfunkel.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 16 hours ago* (last edited 16 hours ago)

The saddest song is 2 Legit 2 Quit if you think about it because Hammer did quit, and if he wasn't legit enough what chance do we have

[–] byrtzr 30 points 1 day ago (1 children)
[–] SirSamuel 15 points 1 day ago

OP, do i have a story for you. I got the original Xbox in 2002. I found that one could copy music from CDs to the hard drive, and so i threw some Enya on there so i could listen to calming music while I studied. Later I put some Linkin Park, Incubus, The Offspring, and some other stuff on, and forgot about the Enya music.

Later I bought the X-Men Official Game, and while playing it, found out one could set the game music to stuff stored on the Xbox. So I'm running around, killing stuff with my big ole wolverine claws, and jamming out to Somewhere I Belong. Imagine my surprise as my killing spree continues and I hear "Who can say where the rain goes…"

NGL, it was pretty funny, but my roommate would not let it slide.

He called me Enya for the rest of the year. Or say "I'm Enya Mom", or "I'm gonna be Enya sister tonight".

Good times

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 day ago

Sometimes it really does have to get worse before it gets better.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 day ago (1 children)

This but watching Scrubs for me, some of those episodes just hit you like a ton of bricks. It's cathartic...

[–] TheOneAndOnly 9 points 1 day ago

"Where do you think we are right now?"

[–] Katana314 2 points 1 day ago

For me it’s Of Countless Stars, the final dungeon theme of Endwalker.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

You are all wrong, the worlds saddest song is this; https://youtu.be/mGtrNZwqpCY

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 day ago (2 children)

Wake ... from your sleep.

The drying of your teeeeeaaaaars.

Today ... we escape.

We escaaaaaape.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Pack... and get dressed

Befooooore your father heeeeaaars us

Before... all hell

Breaks loose

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 day ago

nice.

While I don't think that one is there but they did a psychedelic game experience on Playstation (maybe others) and the way they did some of those songs like pyramid song and how to disappear completely were remarkable.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago (1 children)

the squealing tires, the busting glass..

the painful screams that I....heard last

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 day ago

Last Kiss. Old school choice there!

[–] AtariDump 2 points 1 day ago
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 day ago

Get Better by Alt-J is one of the saddest songs I've ever heard, and it hits in just the way you're talking about. Hurts so good.

Get Better - Alt-J