what sad songs get you through?

be well,
the bs

a new great talent (to me ) to listen too

Here's another from the same artist

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long time lurker, infrequent posters - have always enjoyed your pensive and kind posts.
be well.
from family,
the bench scientist

I think you may be the first DUer who has expressed a recognition that there is sadness behind my snark. Most people only see the snark. I am humbled.

be well

peace bonobo

One of the songs played live at my brother Pat's funeral service... Pat had been left a quadriplegic by a drunk driver when he was but 16 years of age... he lived 13 more years only. He was more than my brother, he was my confidant and my best friend, and I miss him as much to this day as to the day he passed. He left us 26 years ago this past December 6th, on my fathers birthday. I had the lyrics published on a memorial card gifted to all who loved him, and I tweaked the lyrics just a bit...

"Fly on fly home, fly home my friend, go on, go home... go home and walk again.."

An eagle is engraved on his headstone with these same lyrics.

I can't begin to tell you how touched I am that you too love this song, and the incomparable SRV. Thank you for posting this.

This song makes me weep every single time.

It is so beautiful and there could be no better song to play at a funeral. I am so very sorry for your loss of your dear brother, Pat, and on your Dad's birthday too.

It is a beautiful thing that this was played at his funeral and good that we are still alive to feel the pain that we feel with this song -and to remember.

That is so sad. Addiction really is a disease and so far, it mostly goes untreated.

Sad songs. This song by Eric Clapton written for his son.



Eta. I just saw that someone else already posted this.

Sorry about that.

peace sabrina 1

I think you will it find comforting at this time. It is one of the most beautiful songs written, I believe, after her fiancee was killed in a boating accident. The monks chorus in the beginning which opens up to the beautiful piano and of course her voice, is simply magnificent. I had it played for my fiancee when he too was killed, in a motor cycle accident. People at the service said it gave them goose bumps.

It is called 'Dante's Prayer'. I hope you like it.

... and heartbreaking. Thank you for introducing me to it.

take care wendylaroux

by Hal Ketcham.

Not exactly a sad song, but very sentimental for me.

So sorry for your loss.

Its sung at the funeral of a friend who died from drugs.

It helped me when my best friends oldest son killed himself with heroin. I wish you peace.

Peace to you and your friend.

dear Mark Knopfler has a way with words
be well
the bs

Here is one of my favorites:



Jason Mraz singing this live.

“Roses at the End of Time”
Words and music Eliza Gilkyson
GilkySongs BMI 2010

Something Beautiful Remains

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Too sad.

By Garnet Rogers:

A Row Of Small Trees

We played this at my dad's funeral. I think of him every time I hear it.

that is beautiful, sorry for your loss.

Not a peep from the audience till the last note. Not one peep.


Alternately, Wish You Were Here...



Sorry for your loss, reminds me of a friend. Same story, sadly.

"Go Tell the Mountain"





Tikki

kind of fitting

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Lots of Earl Klugh's stuff- words cant do it.

sorry for your loss

Keep a fire burning in your eye
Pay attention to the open sky
You never know what will be coming down
I don't remember losing track of you
You were always dancing in and out of view
I must have thought you'd always be around
Always keeping things real by playing the clown
Now you're nowhere to be found

I don't know what happens when people die
Can't seem to grasp it as hard as I try
It's like a song I can hear playing right in my ear
That I can't sing
I can't help listening
And I can't help feeling stupid standing 'round
Crying as they ease you down
'Cause I know that you'd rather we were dancing
Dancing our sorrow away
(Right on dancing)
No matter what fate chooses to play
(There's nothing you can do about it anyway)

Just do the steps that you've been shown
By everyone you've ever known
Until the dance becomes your very own
No matter how close to yours
Another's steps have grown
In the end there is one dance you'll do alone

Keep a fire for the human race
Let your prayers go drifting into space
You never know what will be coming down
Perhaps a better world is drawing near
And just as easily it could all disappear
Along with whatever meaning you might have found
Don't let the uncertainty turn you around
(The world keeps turning around and around)
Go on and make a joyful sound

Into a dancer you have grown
From a seed somebody else has thrown
Go on ahead and throw some seeds of your own
And somewhere between the time you arrive
And the time you go
May lie a reason you were alive
But you'll never know

With your username, I'm not surprised you're a Jackson Browne fan. That album, "Late For The Sky" is probably my favorite.

Yes, big JB fan since way back -- when "Redneck Friend" came out. He always seems to say what I'm thinking, only better than I could. That is so weird, how he does that.

Bridge Over Troubled Waters (a song from our time together) was all I could think of. I quoted the passage "Sail on, silver girl, sail on by...oh, if you need a friend, I'm sailing right behind." at her memorial service.

But I see her grown kids and their kids and I realize that she goes on in them and it gives me comfort.

- I'm sorry for your loss.



He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother. ~ By Donnie Hathaway

The road is long,
with many a winding turn.
That leads us to who - knows where,
who knows where.
But I am strong enough,
to carry him.
He ain’t heavy,
he’s my brother.

So on we go,
his welfare is my concern.
No burden is he - to bear,
we’ll get there.
For I know - he will not,
encumber me.
He ain’t heavy,
he my brother.

If I’m laden at all,
I’m laden with sadness,
That everyone’s heart,
is not filled with gladness,
and love,
for one another.

I said its a long,
I said its a long,
hey, its a long hard road.
From which there is no return,
while we’re on our way - to bear,
why not share?

And the load - doesn’t weigh,
doesn’t weigh me down at all.
He ain’t heavy,
he’s my brother,
he’s my brother, yes he is.
He ain’t heavy,
he ain’t heavy, yeah.
He’s my brother.

"Blackbird" by the Beatles (off their White Album)

"Hard Times" by Stephen Foster. (No particular versions but a lot of great covers of it. James Taylor's comes to mind.)

Don't be a stranger.

THE PARTING GLASS

Oh all the money that e'er I spent
I spent it in good company
And all the harm that e'er I've done
alas, it was to none but me
For all I've done for want of wit
to memory now I can't recall
So fill to me the parting glass
good night and joy be with you all

Oh all the comrades that e'er I had
they are sorry for my going away
And all the sweethearts that e'er I had
they would wish me one more day to stay
But since it falls unto my lot
that I should rise and you should not
I'll gently rise and I'll softly call
good night and joy be with you all

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

I am so sorry for your loss.
Hekate

I'm so sorry for the loss of yr friend

"Hey Jude" by the Beatles, and "Key to the Highway" by Little Walter.

Key to the Highway- Little Walter

My favorite of his, always gets to me. I am so sorry, bench scientist. I'm in recovery, so I also know. Someone has to be ready and there's nothing you can do if they aren't. Two of the people I was closest to in the program, looked up to when I first joined and supported me, have gone back out and all I can do is let them know that I'll be waiting to welcome them when and if they decide to come back.

My heart breaks for you. Hang in there. You're not alone.

my sympathies to you in this time.

these usually help me. that and shoegazer rock. but alas, just one artist for this post.

Give yourself time to work up to the last one, his voice tends to steal your breath away.

Suede - "He's Gone" Approachable introspective start.


Suede - "The Living Dead" About addiction. Heartbreaking.


Suede - "High Rising" The worldly desolation first half sets up an imploring agony latter half.


Suede - "The Next Life" Just breathtaking. It's so potent it deserves a warning.

and I had Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on a loop after that for about three weeks.

Also played a lot of Mountain Goats, particularly All Eternals Deck.

Thoughts are with you.

My thoughts are with you as well.
be well

Bonnie Raitt's "Love has no pride" 's line "I'd give anything just to see you again" expressed my desire, my feeling so perfectly.

My late husband, a pain-pill addict committed suicide and I ache for everyone of us whose lives have been touched my addiction.
I love this 'collection' of songs DUers have offered. Gold. Priceless.

Then:

“Long Black Limosine” sung by O. C. Smith on the “Hickory Holler’s Tramp” album which I have and just typed the lyrics up for this post. If you’ve never heard him sing, you must. Reading the lyrics doesn't begin to touch the mournfulness of this song. I read that Elvis did a great version, too.

There’s a long line of mourners
Driving down our little street,
Their fancy cars are such a sight to see.
There are all of your rich friends
Who knew you in the city
And now they finally brought you home to me.

Now when you left you told me
Some day you’d be returning
In a fancy car for all the town to see.
Now everyone is watching you
You finally got your dream
And you’re riding in a long black limosine.

You know the paper told of how you lost your life,
The party and the fatal crash that night;
The race upon the highway, the curve you didn’t see.
Oh! and now you’re in that long black limosine.

Through the tears in my eyes I watch as you ride by,
A chauffeur at the wheel dressed up so fine.
I’ll never love another, my heart and all my dreams
Are with you in that long black limosine.

Honorable mentions:

Kris Kristopherson, "Billy Dee" ("We just called it crucified when Billy he OD'ed" and "Epitaph (Black & Blue)" said to be about Janis.

Maybelle Carter & the Carter Family, "Will the Roses Bloom in Heaven?" and "Hello, Central, Give Me Heaven (for I know My Mother's There)" bring goose bumps and memories of sitting in my grandmother's lap while she sang similar songs to me in her thin, reedy voice - so much like Mama Maybelle's.

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For me, Silent Lucidity by Queensryche got me through a tough time. Such a gorgeous song. (I had to correct post... Got the name wrong - my bad!)

this song came out in the year following my daughter's death. it means her.

"get me through." In fact, they make me more sad.

Maybe listen to something upbeat that you know your friend would have enjoyed dancing/listening to.

For A Dancer - Jackson Browne. Found this great version this morning...

I guess it's just about the greatest vocal performance I've ever heard. And yeah, it makes me tear up every time. But there's something so unshakeably life-affirming to it, somehow.

Best to listen with your eyes closed. Video can only distract, and detract from it.

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Also James McMurtry's "Painting By Numbers" and "I'm Not From Here"




Arcade Fire "Rococo"


and probably more appropriate to your loss
Neal Young "The Needle and the Damage Done"

Pretty soon you'll be able to remember her
Lying in the garden singing
Right where she'll always be
The door is always open

This is the place that I loved her
And these are the friends that she had
Long may the mountain ring
To the sound of her laughter
And she goes on and on

In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
'till we see her once again
In a world without end
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We owe it all to frank sinatra
The song was playing a she walked into the room
After the long weekend
They were a lifetime together

Appearing in the eyes of children
In the clear blue mountain view
The colouring in the sky
And painting ladders to heaven
And she goes on

In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
'till we see her once again
In a world without end

In her soft wind I will whisper
In her warm sun I will glisten
And I always will remember
In a world without end
She goes on
She goes on
She goes on

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Also The Cloudbirds "Ripples"

I think that one of the saddest and most beautiful is the Downeaster Alexa by Billy Joel;

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And Dead Can Dance, The Wind that Shakes the Barley:

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And Bleeding Rivers:

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