Saddest song ever

Maybe not the saddest but sure gives the feels...powerful

Stugill Simpson - Pan Bowl



I'd give anything to go back
Days I was young.
All the way back to Pan Bowl
I sit down on the lakebed
Stare at the sun.
Then I'd walk out in the water
Let it cleanse my soul.
Spend my days up on quicksand
There I would play.
Wild as a rattlesnake
Right from the start.
I'd push off the August in
Swing all day.
Well she was the first girl that ever broke my heart.

Miss the days when this old life
Free from all the pain and strife.
And all the sorrow it has brung.
I'd give anything to go
All the way back to Pan Bowl.
All the way back to days when I was young.

Spend my summers hearing stories
Bout the one that got away.
On a dock down at Watt's bar
Every 4th of July.
Uncle Everett was the coolest.
Never had a word to say.
When he died was the only time
I ever seen papaw cry.
Every Sunday we'd go visit
My great-grandma Mary Ann.
Lord I cry just thinking
About how good she was to me.
My great-grandad Eli
Was a coal-mining man.
Not a tooth in his head
But his eyes held the sea.

Miss the days when this old life
Was free from my old pain and strife.
And all the sorrow it has brung.
I'd give anything to go
All the way back to Pan Bowl.
All the way back to days when I was young.

I'd climb up on high-tops
Stare as far as I could see.
At the one and only home
My heart has ever known.
 


In the darkness, under the stars, with enough warning,
To pull off to the side, in time

In the end, was there anyone to share in your joy?
I woke up one day...and realized it was already over

Back on the highway, under the moon, my final moments,
Still wondering about you...

In the end, was there anyone to share in your joy?
I woke up for years without you, to realize it was already over, for me

Now making amendments... to the story...
Changing the ending, as I would like it to be

We were together, in a memory
And we live forever, in finality
Holding on... to a dream...
When the end... couldn't come slow enough for me.

Holding on...
 
Actually i made my own cd yesterday full of sad songs. Theres a couple of Nilsson songs, Bee Gees, Shona Laing, amongst others.
 
Can't believe I've never heard this cover. A bittersweet break up song

 



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I always felt like many of the Japanese composers are able to reach me on an emotional level unlike any other. Here's a piece from an anime I watched as a kid off of VHS tapes that always brings out the feels.

To me, the song encompasses the type of sadness exclusive to extreme loneliness, but I'm not sure if that's just me.



Here's another piece from Rambo: First Blood that I enjoy when in a melancholy mood. "It's a long road" by Dan Hill.

 
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The saxophone solo by John Coltrane always hits me hard in the heart. If there's a song that embodies the phrase "beautiful sadness," this would be it.
 
This week I went to a Ennio Morricone concert in Helsinki. I was enjoying myself and eagerly expecting those great songs from The Good, The Bad and The Ugly to come. I had totally forgot that Morricone composed the music for Cinema Paradiso also.

When this song started playing, I had tears in my eyes, it was so beautiful.

 
Sufjan's got plenty. Some brightly sad ones, some a purge or catharsis. some are just absolute despondency, misery.





and no 'saddest' list is complete without...
 
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