Saddest song?

[The_Munchmaster]

In The Ghekko is also a sad one of his.

[CTO]

This is not a love song by PIL

[USVirgin]

Saddest song I can think of is Lou Reed's Street Hassle. It's not pretty, and not about love lost.

 

More like about life being cheap.

 

[color:blue]Hey, that cunt's not breathing

I think she's had too much

of something or other, hey, man, you know what I mean?

I don't mean to scare you

but you're the one who came here

and you're the one who's gotta take her when you leave

I'm not being smart

or trying to be cold on my part

and I'm not gonna wear my heart on my sleeve

But you know people get all emotional

and sometimes, man, they just don't act rational you know,

they think they're just on TV

 

Sha-la-la-la, man

why don't you just slip her away

 

You know, I'm glad that we met man

it really was nice talking

and I really wish that there was a little more time to speak

But you know it could be a hassle

trying to explain this all to a police officer

about how it was that your old lady got herself stiffed

And it's not like we could help

but there wasn't nothing no one could do

and if there was, man, you know I would have been the first

But when someone turns that blue

well, it's a universal truth

and then you just know that bitch will never fuck again

By the way, that's really some bad shit

that you came to our place with

but you ought to be more careful around the little girls

It's either the best or it's the worst

and since I don't have to choose

I guess I won't and I know this ain't no way to treat a guest

But why don't you grab your old lady by the feet

and just lay her out in the darkest street

and by morning, she's just another hit and run.

You know, some people got no choice

and they can never find a voice

to talk with that they can even call their own

So the first thing that they see

that allows them the right to be

why they follow it, you know, it's called bad luck.[/color]

 

[Fiery Jack]

1. 'She Is Mine' Psychedelic Furs.

2. 'Danny Boy' The Seekers.

3. 'Wuthering Heights' Kate Bush.

 

These are, I think, the only songs that can reliably bring me to tears, more reliably if I've had loads to drink.

 

The first two bring back memories of certain times in my life (a f*cked up romance, the death of a close one, respectively), and that's why the waterworks kick off.

 

The Kate Bush song is, I think, simply beautiful (more so when one knows the events of the novel upon which the lyric is closely based). The live version I have on my iPod is so fiercely moving, to me, that I can't listen to the bastard in public. Have to hit the shuffle button fast if it comes round.

 

Yup, I'm a right sad bastard.

 

jack

 

PS. I'd shag Kate Bush too. Like a shot. :hubba:

[Redbaron]

2 x Elvis - Don't cry Daddy and My Boy.. ring home a bit given my current circumstances.

[Torneyboy]

if we're talking of Elvis it would have to be............You Were Always On My Mind.

i cry buckets if i have the misfortune to hear it.

Won't help when painting ..the paint will run... .