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Sad, but Beautifully Written Songs

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OPBASSMAN1994

Jul 30, 2010
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We all have that one song that just gets us so emotional don't we? We love those songs for how well and beautifully written they are. For me, I have my heart punched a little bit every time I hear "The Pass" by Rush. It just gets to me. Plus I love the chorded bass line.
My only complaint is using Christ's name as profanity, but in the context, I guess swearing of that severity would probably be anybody's reaction to suicide. It is still one of the most beautiful and heartwrenching songs I have. It is, too, relevant for the times, when cyber bullying has led to so many unneccassary deaths and so much pain.



What songs are like that for you?
 
#3
Add another Rush to my list:

Red Sector A. Really paints a picture of the horrors the Jews faced in the Holocaust. It's very sad, and very well done.

Hallelujah by Leonard Cohen also gets me a bit choked up when I play it. Performance or listening.
 
#4
Things Left Unsaid by Disciple. It's about loss of a loved one. Very well written. Came out about the same time my great-grandmother died. Still chokes me up when I hear it.

Permission by Sixx:AM. Again, very well written. It's about recovery from addiction. With all the back problems I've had over the last four years, I've gone through massive opiate withdrawal several times. This song gets me every time. Anyone who has ever gone through a painkiller addiction can relate.
 
#5
tdub0199 said:
Only the Strong By FLAW... especially the acoustic version
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That whole album is pretty depressing, if I remember right.

Deftones - Passanger
Crazy Town - Black Cloud
Jesu - Tired of Me
Godflesh - Anthem
are the only ones I can think of off the top of my head. There are alot more.
I listened to these alot when my vices ruled my life, and I thought I was the biggest piece of crap in existence.
 
#9
Duran Duran's "Save A Prayer"
Lionel Ritchie's "Say You Say Me"
Phil Collin's "Separate Lives"
Poco's "Call It Love"
Winger's "Miles Away"
Kenny Chesney's "Don't Blink"
Rush's "Subdivisions"

Whatever one may think about this list of songs/bands, they always make me sad when I hear them because they all remind me of a family member that passed on, a girlfriend that I dated, a significant event that changed my life, etc.
 
#10
Bonnie Raitt "Love has no pride".
Her version of "Guilty" has one of the saddest statements of a person's self-worth that I've ever heard in a song.
"Got some whiskey from a bottle,
got some cocaine from a friend.
I had to keep on movin darlin,
till I was back in your arms again.
You know how it is with me baby,
you know I just can't stand myself.
It takes a whole lot of medicine darlin,
for me to pretend that I'm somebody else."
 
#11
Rip Topaz said:
Things Left Unsaid by Disciple. It's about loss of a loved one. Very well written. Came out about the same time my great-grandmother died. Still chokes me up when I hear it.

Permission by Sixx:AM. Again, very well written. It's about recovery from addiction.
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+ 1 To this. There are a couple on that CD that really gets to me...
 
#13
The Style Council - Ghosts Of Dachau

Song about Jewish prisoners during WWII

I close my eyes - I reach out my hand
And there you are - beautiful in scabs
Caressing my scalp - under the mounts of the gun towers
I shout your name - I kick out in dreams
And here we are - the searchlight beams
The siren squeals - and hopeless shuffle to certainty

The crab lice bite - the typhoid smells
And I still hear - handsome in rags
A trouserless man - waiting helpless for dignity

Come to me angel, don't go to the showers
Beg, steal or borrow - now there's nothing left to take
Except eternity

And who will come - to flower our graves?
With us still here - covered with dust
Remembered by few but forgotten by the majority

Stay with me angel - don't get lost in history
Don't let all we suffered lose it's meaning in the dark
That we call memory
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#15
A few of my favorite 'sad but beautiful' songs (plus I really dig some of the bass lines/tones) :

The Blue Nile -Headlights On The Parade
Wilco - How To Fight Loneliness
Marketa Irglova and Glen Hansard - If You Want Me
Love and Money - Jocelyn Square
Sigur Ros - Glosoli
Tears For Fears - Advice For The Young Heart
David Bowie & Pat Metheny - This Is Not America
Everything But The Girl - Low Tide Of The Night
Israel Kamakawiwo'ole - Somewhere Over The Rainbow

Ok enough, getting sad. LOL
 

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