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Besides Christmas and other holidays,what song have you heard,what songs have you ever heard throughout the rest of the year that you find to be the most depressing,by who and why?For example-my choice would be 'Cats in the cradle' by Harry Chapin,circa mid 1970s.
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| Pop | 3 | |
| Country/Western | 7 | |
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Anything by Justin Bieber. Makes me sad that people actually think that he(she?) is cool.
Charlene's Never Been to Me is definitely one of the most depressing songs I've ever heard. At the same time I've always found it absolutely hilarious! Especially when it gets to the part where she starts sort of pep talking to herself... :D
♫Hey lady, you lady
Cursing at your life
You're a discontented mother
And a regimented wife
I've no doubt you dream about♪
The things you'll never do
But, I wish someone had talked to me
Like I wanna talk to you
♪Whoooa, I've been to Georgia
And California and anywhere I could run
Took the hand of a preacher man
And we made love in the sun
But I ran out of places
And friendly faces
Because I had to be free
I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me
♪Please lady, please, lady
Don't just walk away
'Cause I have this need to tell you
Why I'm all alone today
I can see so much of me♫
Still living in your eyes
Won't you share a part
Of a weary heart
that has lived million lies
♫Whoooa, I've been to Nice
And the Isle of Greece
While I've sipped champagne on a yacht
I've moved like Harlow in Monte Carlo
And showed 'em what I've got
I've been undressed by kings
And I've seen some things
That a woman ain't supposed to see
I've been to paradise
But I've never been to me♫
Hey, you know what paradise is
It's a lie
A fantasy we create about people
And places as we'd like them to be
But you know what truth is
It's that little baby you're holding
And it's that man you fought with this morning
The same one you're going to make love with tonight
That's truth, that's love
Sometimes I've been to crying
For unborn children
That might have made me complete
But I, I took the sweet life
I never knew
I'd be bitter from the sweet
I've spent my life exploring
The subtle whoring
That costs too much to be free
Hey lady, I've been to paradise
But I've never been to meeeeeee♪♪♪
I've been to paradise
♫(Never been to me)...
Ha! I was going to say this too. It's a shame it's so cheesy because it could have actually been really touching (when sober).
Who sings this? I think I've might of heard this before and for some reason this reminds me of the song where the singer tells her life story to someone in a grocery store.
That songs about co-dependent, reptilian drug abusers. Very, very depressing.
"Last Kiss" by Wayne Cohran. Pearl Jam did a cover.
"Let's Not Shit Ourselves" by Bright Eyes
Cat's Cradle is a very depressing song too, but those were the first two to come to mind. I'd rather not search my brain for others.
But truthfully, the way most people sing "Happy Birthday" is very depressing.
Hurt by Nine Inch Nails will always be my favourite depressing song. NIN has a few really incredible depressing songs in my opinion.
I'm suprised no one listed "Rock bottom" by eminem. That shit WILL make you depressed.
Swimming Home by Evanescence.
Way down, I've been way down
underneath this skin
waiting to hear my name again
I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore you still
but I hear them calling
and nothing can hold me
Way down, all the way down
I will hear your voice
but I'll no longer understand
I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore you still
but I hear them calling
I was looking to the sky
when I knew I'd be swimming home
and I cannot betray my kind
They are here
it's my time
I'm sorry
nothing can hold me
I adore still
but I hear them calling
and nothing can hold me
I really think this song is about suicide while others think it's about a mermaid. The majority of Evanescence's songs are very depressing. Some others are: "Going Under", "Like You", "My Immortal", "My Last Breathe", "Tourniquet", "Whisper", etc.
Moby- Pale Horses (I might be getting the song wrong)
Daft Punk (Tron Legacy soundtrack)- Adagio for Tron
Within Temptation- Memories
Cats (Broadway Musical)- Memory
The Phantom of the Opera- Past the Point of No Return
Enigma- "The Child In Us"
Enigma- "La Puerta Del Cielo"
Good Charlotte- "Seasons"
Good Charlotte (The Chronicles of Life and Death)- Most of the songs from that album are depressing.
Linkin Park- Numb
Linkin Park- Somewhere I Belong
Linkin Park- Given Up
Portishead- Roads
Portisehead- Mysterons
Bjork- Joga
"?" - Nocturne (It's a classical piece but I can't for the life of me remember who wrote it)
Mozart- Requiem
Mozart- Hostias
The Who- Behind Blue Eyes
Soundgarden- Black Hole Sun
Pearl Jam- Jeremy
There's more but I can't remember them right now.
Sonicboom - help me please
Mad Season - river of deceit
Pink Floyd - if
The Verve - history
Nirvana - jesus dont want me for a sunbeam
These songs never fail me.
Well I don't know how to vote because that's a very limited list of genres and wouldn't really fit the songs I'm about to list.
Eva - Nightwish
Lula - Bright Eyes (I don't even know why this song gets me so much but DAMN)
Hero of War - Rise Against
The Green Fields of France -Dropkick Murphys
One of the ones that gets me the worst is Danny Boy though. Them feels.
Hmm. There's two off the top of my head. No one will have heard them, and they ain't on youtube, cos a lot of shit I like isn't. Hmm.
TAKING MYSELF AWAY - Eddie Perfect
Every day that I'm alive
And living on this rocky earth
Every day I live and breathe
I only make things worse
Thought the truth was mine if I
Just took things with a grain of salt
But everything wrong in this world's
A little bit my fault
Have mercy on the man who understands
However much he scrubs and scrubs
There's still blood on his hands
The strongest army's pwoerless
To stop the evil inside me
Scared one day I'll just break down
And buy Starbucks coffee
I hope to God that awful day
Is one I'll never see
So
I'm
Taking myself away
Where I can't do anymore harm
Breathe my last breath
And embracing my death
I feel nothing but calm
Beautiful calm
Taking myself to a place
Where I'll do no damage at last
Perhaps I could drain
All the blood from my veins
In a beautiful porcelain bath
Just how many childhoods lost
To make these clothes upon my back?
I paid for all the bombs that dropped
Each time I paid my tax
How to clear this debt my soul's accrued
As on and on life drags
Digging holes and filling them
With my old plastic bags
I thought I'd see the walls come tumbling down
However much I scream and yell
It seems they love the sound
And which of these realities
Is easier for my soul to bear?
The fact that I cause suffering?
Or the fact that I dont care?
I hope when morning comes to wake me up
That I'm not there
I'm taking myself away
I could just do with a rest
Say farewell to the sun
And my beautiful mum
Tell her I tried my best
I did my best
Taking myself to a place
Where cab drivers don't want to go
There is no atonement
I can't waste a moment
When knowing the things
That I know
Don't say you'll miss me.
SKIN - Eddie Perfect
Lord, look at these things
If I only had wings
Am I destined to always be trapped in this skin?
I obeyed gravity
I'm my own enemy
Could I rise up, floating on God's own breath
Taste that weightlessness before my death
Free my mind
Leave the dishes behind.
I'd rather burn on the sun
Have my wings come undone
Than be stuck with the person I'm scared I've become
Did it wrong this time round
Never got off the ground
There's nothing ahead
Nothing behind
Only sky
And I can't fly...
Both so fucking depressing. But transfixingly beautiful.
Hmm, maybe Street Spirit by Radiohead. I listen to quite a lot of music which is considered depressing, but most of it doesn't actually depress me. If I'm sad though, this song tends to make me even more sad. To be honest, I have songs which are much more depressing than that in my music "library". Street Spirit just matches my bad mood a lot of the time. I could listen to it now and not be sad, though. Aside from that, music which I dislike usually has a negative effect on my mood.
And I'm listen to that Cats In The Cradle song on Youtube. It doesn't sound that depressing to me so far. Aww, actually, I can kind of see what you mean now.:P