Saddest songs.

[Two Gun Bob]

Mans inhumanity to man encapsulated in this orchestral movement by the brilliant John Williams.

The story behind this video: Davida Scheffers has lived her dream in winning a contest and the opportunity to play with the dutch Orchestra. Davida suffers from an extremely painful neuromuscular condition that derailed her career, and she thought she would never get to play in a professional orchestra again... The young blond lady is her daughter and was 18 years old that day.

 

[mancity2012_eamo]

A couple from Lisa Hannigan.

 

[journolud]

 

[Gelsons Dad]

I don't want to be crippled cracked
Shoulders, wrists, knees and back
Ground to dust and ash
Crawling on all fours

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

Now I can't climb the stairs
Pieces missing everywhere
Prozak painkillers

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones
And I used to fly like peter pan
All the children flew when I touched their hands

When you've got to feel it in your bones
When you've got to feel it in your bones

Nothing sadder than growing old and tired either physically or mentally.

"I used to fly like Peter Pan" genius.

 

[roman totale]

Deeply moving,deeply emotional and unbearably sad

Add that to Decades and Leave Me Alone and you’ve got three sad songs that are also three of the best album closers ever. All by Manc bands and recorded in a timespan of just a few years.

 

[Stelea]

Robert Wyatt - Ship Building (Written by Elvis Costello)

 

[moggymoz]

 

[Dr Jacoby]

 

[Saxmundham Blue]

For anyone who has lost their father

Billy Bragg -Tank Park Salute

Kiss me goodnight and say my prayers
Leave the light on at the top of the stairs
Tell me the names of the stars up in the sky
A tree taps on the window pane
That feeling smothers me again
Daddy, is it true that we all have to die?
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
At the top of the stairs
Is darkness
I closed my eyes and when I looked
Your name was in the memorial book
And what had become of all the things we planned?
I accept the commiserations
Of all your friends and your relations
But there's some things I still don't understand
You were so tall
How could you fall?
Some photographs of a summer's day
A little boy's lifetime away
Is all I've left of everything we've done
Like a pale moon in a sunny sky
Death gazes down as I pass by
To remind me that I'm but my father's son
I offer up to you
This tribute
I offer up to you
This tank park salute

 

[FogBlueInSanFran]

Add that to Decades and Leave Me Alone and you’ve got three sad songs that are also three of the best album closers ever. All by Manc bands and recorded in a timespan of just a few years.

Totally agree on Decades. It's funny, I don't find Leave Me Alone sad. I think it's one of my very favo(u)rite of theirs -- along with Age of Consent and Your Silent Face, I think it might be near the three strongest songs on any one record I can think of (which is saying an awful lot).

I'd say this one is sadder, although as is often the case with them, there's that hock-spit at the end that always makes you wonder if they're kidding . . .