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sad songs

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This is a song by singer-songwriter Jim Croce. He wrote the lyrics after his wife Ingrid told him she was pregnant in December 1970. It appeared on Croce's 1972 ABC debut album You Don't Mess Around with Jim
Noah Kahan’s folk tunes can make anyone feel like they grew up on the grey, slushy roads of a New England town. This one’s for those who’ve left home and may be afraid to look back.
Bowie's final album often plays like a self-written obituary, and it breakout single's haunting horn jabs and slow tempo suggest a death march. ‘Look up here, I'm in heaven,’ he entones on the eerie track released less than a month before his untimely death.
This Jack Frank and the Cavaliers was covered dramatically years later by Pearl Jam.
Ray Charles recorded his first two country albums since the second Modern Sounds, and in March of 1985 Willie of this gave him his first Number One since 1966
Mike + The Mechanics This ‘80s ballad once again picks apart the question of life and death, and summarizes the conundrum in 6 short words: “It’s too late when we die.”
This song by Gilbert O Sullivan is sometimes called "Naturally" rather then its true name.
John Prine hit us all hard with the line "There is a hole in daddy's arm where the money goes" from this song about an American Vet.
Johnny Cash covered this song original by Nine Inch Nails.
This haunting song by Warren Hayes and Gov't Mule, tells of a love gone wrong with a tragic end.
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The lyrics of this Passenger song are poetic and melancholic, describing the regrets associated with ending a relationship. The chorus describes situations in which one does not appreciate what he or she has until it is gone, and relates this to love.
“This is the first serious song I ever wrote,” Van Zandt told the audience before introducing this somber tune on his 1973 record Live at the Old Quarter. Originally released on 1968’s For the Sake of the Song, it’s the solemn story of a boozy rambler struggling to see the point of a fruitless existence that precedes eternal silence, ending with this tragic couplet:
Sometimes, when the day is long and you’ve simply had enough, r.e.m knows exactly how to put that feeling into words. It’s a classic crying song for a reason.
The ballad hits particularly hard for anyone who’s lost a loved one too soon; Clapton wrote it in honor of his son who passed away.
The song is about the late singer's (Amy Winehouse) rough patch with then-boyfriend (and later husband) Blake Fielder-Civil. He went back to an ex, and she went back to "a very black few months, doing silly things", as she said in an interview.
This song sung by Lewis Capaldi only mentions the title of the song once. Mistaken by many as "Something in the Water"
Though she’s also remembered for her version of the harrowing ‘Gloomy Sunday’ (AKA ‘The Hungarian Suicide Song’), the incredible Ms Holiday left an indelible mark on the culture with this song.
Florence + The Machine's newest album, High as Hope. features this song that sum's up all that is wrong with the world.
Paul Simon condenses the Great American Novel into a folk song. The central story’s a familiar one – Dick Whittington finds out the streets of NYC aren’t paved with gold after all
Nearly every song recorded by Joy Divison before Ian Curtis’s suicide in 1980 deserves a place on a playlist like this. Ducking the obvious (‘Love Will Tear Us Apart’) and the totally harrowing (‘New Dawn Fades’), I have picked this song for its chilly synths, peppy bassline and urgent sense of desperation: ‘Mother, please try to believe me/I’m doing the best that I can/I’m ashamed of the things I’ve been put through/I’m ashamed of the person I am.’ Doom and despair with a disco beat.