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In reply to the discussion: what sad songs get you through? [View all]0rganism
(23,938 posts)73. Tom Waits "Waltzing Matilda" is a personal favorite
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"
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In the movie Alice's Restaurant theres a beautiful piece.. ".Songs to Aging Children Come..."
Rowdyboy
Dec 2012
#18
I suck at YouTube videography and what-not, but two songs I'd like to recommend:
coalition_unwilling
Dec 2012
#47
Asleep by the Smiths is the saddest, most haunting and aching song I know of...
Violet_Crumble
Dec 2012
#51
So weird...a good friend of mine, also battling addiction, ended his own life this summer
alcibiades_mystery
Dec 2012
#60