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TorchHeart -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/11/2008 4:53:01 PM)

"Broken Heart Tattoo" by Suicide Cowboy

"If You Could Read My Mind" by Gordon Lightfoot

"Is it All Ready Time" by George Strait

"Some Fools Never Learn" by Steve Wariner

"Shilo" by Neil Diamond



humbleinspirit -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/12/2008 1:20:07 AM)

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ORIGINAL: whisper

Humbleinspirit - your answers are spot on! You stole my answer - Ben Folds' "Brick". Very sad when you know the story. "Another Day in Paradise" was another haunter.

I love sad songs, sadly. There's also Eleanor Rigby (Beatles) , Gone Away (The Offspring), Acoustic #3 (Goo Goo Dolls), Adam's Song (Blink 182). Twilight (Elliot Smith). Dead Man's Will (Iron & Wine), Best I Ever Had (Vertical Horizon), He Stopped Loving Her Today (George Jones), Freshmen (The Verve Pipe).

Hmm... drawing a blank.

Oh - and James Blunt's "No Bravery" - there's just no hope in his voice!


Thanks Whisper, and oh, I had been meaning to post Eleanor Rigby also, but kept on forgetting! BTW, perhaps the Beattles A Day In The Life can be quite sad too!



humbleinspirit -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/13/2008 8:16:05 AM)

The Last Kiss-J. Frank Wilson & the Cavaliers

I Want My Baby Back-Jimmy Cross

Lonely Boy-Andrew Gold

Sloope John B.-The Beach Boys

One-Three Dog Night

Mama Told Me Not To Come-Three Dog Night

Run Joey Run-David Geddes

When Doves Cry-Prince



raspberry331 -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/13/2008 10:13:12 AM)

Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You



chemdude77 -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/13/2008 3:16:26 PM)

Runaway Train from Soul Asylum -- About Runaways
Give My Love to Rose from Johnny Cash - a dying man's last words for his family

Rainy Night in Georgia from Brook Benton

So I find me a place in a boxcar,
And I take my guitar
Just to pass some time.
Late at night, it's hard to rest
I hold your picture to my chest, and I feel fine



ConstantReader -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/13/2008 4:33:24 PM)

39 by Queen. It's about a bunch of astronauts who leave earth and use the principle of time dilation to seek out a new world for the human race. They return a hundred years later, having only aged a year in the interim. All their loved ones have died, and they have to go on living without them. :(



humbleinspirit -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/13/2008 6:31:58 PM)

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ORIGINAL: raspberry331

Michael Bolton - How Am I Supposed To Live Without You


Now, I meant to post that one too! [:D]



lightbeamrider -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/19/2008 7:35:18 PM)

There was a song yrs ago about a man dying called "Seasons in the Sun"...dont remember who sang it.

Another is "White Rabbit" by Jefferson Airplane as it applies to the movie "Go Ask Alice" and the children's book "Alice's Adventure in Wonderland" by Lewis Carroll. It is to me both sad and at the same time brilliant.

One pill makes you larger and one pill makes you small
and the one that mother gives you, don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice, when she's ten feet tall

And if you go chasing rabbits, and you know your going to fall
Tell 'em Hooklah, smoking caterpillar, has given you the call
Call Alice, when she's ten feet tall

When the men on the chessboard get up and tell you where to go
And you just had some kind of mushroom and your mind is moving low
Go ask Alice, I think she'll know

When logic and proportion has fallen sloppy dead
And the White Knight is talking backwards
And the Red Queen's ''off with their head''
Remember, what the doormouse said..
feed your head
feed your head
feed your head



humbleinspirit -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/19/2008 10:17:53 PM)

WOW, never thought about White Rabbit being a sad song at all, now I know!

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There was a song yrs ago about a man dying called "Seasons in the Sun"...dont remember who sang it.


Now, that would be by Terry Jacks.



lightbeamrider -> RE: Saddest lyrics in a secular song (7/20/2008 9:54:51 AM)

Terry Jacks. Thank u Humble.

Actually, i screwed up on the lyrics in White Rabbit. It's not doormouse, it is Dormouse. The other is Call Alice, when she was just small, not call Alice when she's ten feet tall. The 1973 movie, "Go Ask Alice" involves a teen girl who dies as a result of her drug addiction. I have always associated this song with death from drug addiction. Gracie Slick, on the other hand had different reasons for writing it. In children's stories, substance usage sometimes involve changes in reality. So she wrote about it.



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