The saddest f***ing song ever

[chcr]

Sorry,
1. Keep Me in Your Heart for a While by Warren Zevon. For me, nothing else is even close.

2. Tears in Heaven by Eric Clapton

Shadows are falling and I'm running out of breath
Keep me in your heart for awhile

If I leave you it doesn't mean I love you any less
Keep me in your heart for awhile

When you get up in the morning and you see that crazy sun
Keep me in your heart for while

There's a train leaving nightly called when all is said and done
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sometimes when you're doing simple things around the house
Maybe you'll think of me and smile

You know I'm tied to you like the buttons on your blouse
Keep me in your heart for while

Hold me in your thoughts, take me to your dreams
Touch me as I fall into view
When the winter comes keep the fires lit
And I will be right next to you

Engine driver's headed north to Pleasant Stream
Keep me in your heart for while

These wheels keep turning but they're running out of steam
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Sha-la-la-la-la-la-la-li-li-lo
Keep me in your heart for while

Keep me in your heart for while

As you listen you can actually hear him running out of breath a couple of times. The CD is "The Wind" and it's certainly one of the jewels of my collection.

 

[BeardofPants]

What does it say about me that I've never yet met a song that made me cry? Closest is "All things must pass" but only since George Harrison's death, and that only makes me feel sad because of the great loss to the music industry.

 

[Starya]

There are a couple songs that might get me a bit choked up, but none of the lyrics posted here qualify.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

The one that'll choke me up faster than any other...

Mama Don't You Cry as recorded by Steelheart

I fight the tears since you've been gone
And I stand in fear, can I make it on my own
Without your love to guide me thru my life
It's so cold at night without you here
And those gentle arms that held me close and dear
Oh we're all the same, we all live and die

You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry

Every night when I close my eyes
I see a light and shadows of your face
It's always there like an angel over me
So many frozen years hangin' on my wall
A thousand words, I can hear them call
Oh I tried so hard but I could never say goodbye

You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry

No one can kiss away the pain like you
No one like Mama, no one like you
(Solo)
You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry
You'll always live in my dreams, oh Mama don't you cry
(You'll always be in my heart, oh Mama don't you cry - don't you cry)
(You'll always live in my dreams) in my dreams (Oh Mama don't you cry)
Oh Mama don't you cry

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

That's the song I want played at my funeral!

And here's mine. It's a capella, by a bluegrass group called Blue Highway. The grandmother of one of the band members wrote it for them to perform at her funeral. It's breath taking.


Some Day

Some day when my last line is written
Some day when I've drawn my last breath
When my last words on earth have been spoken
And my lips are sealed in death
Don't look on my cold form in pity
Don't think of me as one dead
It'll just be the house I once lived in
My spirit, by then, will have fled

I'll have finished my time here alotted
But I won't be in darkness alone
I will have heard from heaven
The summons to come on home
And when my body is in the grave
Don't think that I'll be there
I won't be dead, but living
In the place Jesus went to prepare

And after all is said and done
Know that my last earnest prayer
Is that my loved ones be ready
Someday to meet me...there

 

[rrfield]

#41, Dave Matthews Band

Come and see
I swear by now I'm playing time
I against my troubles
I'm coming slow but speeding
Do you wish a dance and while I'm
in the front
the play on time is won
but the difficulty is coming here

I will go in this way
And find my own way out
I wont tell you to stay
But I'm coming to much more
Me
All at once the ghosts come back
Reeling in you now
What if they came down crushing
Remember when I used to play for
all of the loneliness that nobody
notice now
I'm begging slow I'm coming here
Only waiting I wanted to stay
I wanted to play
I wanted to love you

I'm only this far
And only tomorrow leads my way

I'm coming waltzing back and moving into your head
Please, I wouldn't pass this by
I would take any more than
What sort of man goes by
I will bring water
Why wont you ever be glad
It melts into wonder
I came in praying for you
why wont you run
in the rain and play
let the tears splash all over you

 

[levana]

Cat's in the Cradle always gets me...

 

[Winky]

Ouch.

*Hands Slim a fresh crack pipe* There's more in the cooler, dude. Take what you need.

 

[Professur]

Cat's in the Cradle always gets me...

Yup, that one's got an edge on my soul too.

 

[Starya]

Just though of one that gets me a bit choked up: You have been loved, by George Michael.

 

[simplyred]

'I'm already there' gets me because I know how hard it is for Peanut to be away from her Dad. But what really gets me is Silent Night. I know that sounds silly. When Slim and Tonks first got together and left me roommateless I moved into an apartment with 3 other girls. One of the girls and I got very very close. She and I sang Silent Night year round. Our voices harmonized really well together.

She was in a car accident with her boyfriend a few years later and they did not survive the crash...to this day I can not sing that song at Christmas.

 

[tonksy]

Damn...Alyssa.

 

[MrBishop]

Christmas Shoes

It was almost Christmas time, there I stood in another line
Tryin' to buy that last gift or two, not really in the Christmas mood
Standing right in front of me was a little boy waiting anxiously
Pacing 'round like little boys do
And in his hands he held a pair of shoes

His clothes were worn and old, he was dirty from head to toe
And when it came his time to pay
I couldn't believe what I heard him say

Chorus:
Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

He counted pennies for what seemed like years
Then the cashier said, "Son, there's not enough here"
He searched his pockets frantically
Then he turned and he looked at me
He said Mama made Christmas good at our house
Though most years she just did without
Tell me Sir, what am I going to do,
Somehow I've got to buy her these Christmas shoes

So I laid the money down, I just had to help him out
I'll never forget the look on his face when he said
Mama's gonna look so great

Sir, I want to buy these shoes for my Mama, please
It's Christmas Eve and these shoes are just her size
Could you hurry, sir, Daddy says there's not much time
You see she's been sick for quite a while
And I know these shoes would make her smile
And I want her to look beautiful if Mama meets Jesus tonight

Bridge:
I knew I'd caught a glimpse of heaven's love
As he thanked me and ran out
I knew that God had sent that little boy
To remind me just what Christmas is all about

Repeat Chorus

Fucks up my Christmas every time.

 

[MrBishop]

There's another one... can't remember the title exactly, so I can't find the damn thing.

I think that its Teddy Pendergrass.

A guy singing about how he wishes that he could have one last dance with his father, like he did when he was a kid. The father is obviously passed on, and the singer and his mother miss him.

Must've blocked it.

**I'll second the vote for chcr's Tears in Heaven.

 

[simplyred]

Damn...Alyssa.

Yes, and as this small world would have it, she and baby daddy were roomies when he was first stationed here. So, hence...Nut's middle name

 

[tonksy]

I miss Ed...Ed's are great everyone should have one

 

[simplyred]

I miss him too. We used to go out to this peir every Tuesday night and eat Taco Bell just to get away from everyone in the apartment. That was after Slim moved out and the "peace" was gone.

DId you know he moved out to California and turned completely cowboy. Hat, boots and everything? Weird huh?

 

[Nixy]

DId you know he moved out to California and turned completely cowboy. Hat, boots and everything? Weird huh?

There are cowboys in California?

 

[Winky]

Think places like Bakersfield.

 

[SouthernN'Proud]

There are cowboys in California?

Yeah, and Indians, and cops, and construction workers, and...