I can't find any new sad songs!

I'm about to post an obnoxiously long list, but I absolutely love each of these songs.

Elliott Smith - No Name No. 5
Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven
Brand New - Jesus Christ
Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Bright Eyes - A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
Bright Eyes - Lua
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
The Magnetic Fields - Epitaph for My Heart
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Placebo - In the Cold Light of Morning
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Also, I was horrified that half of the results for "nobody home pink floyd" were of Avril Lavigne's song of the same name >.<
 
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Tonight I can write the saddest lines.

Write, for example,'The night is shattered
and the blue stars shiver in the distance.'

The night wind revolves in the sky and sings.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
I loved her, and sometimes she loved me too.

Through nights like this one I held her in my arms
I kissed her again and again under the endless sky.

She loved me sometimes, and I loved her too.
How could one not have loved her great still eyes.

Tonight I can write the saddest lines.
To think that I do not have her. To feel that I have lost her.

To hear the immense night, still more immense without her.
And the verse falls to the soul like dew to the pasture.

What does it matter that my love could not keep her.
The night is shattered and she is not with me.

This is all. In the distance someone is singing. In the distance.
My soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

My sight searches for her as though to go to her.
My heart looks for her, and she is not with me.

The same night whitening the same trees.
We, of that time, are no longer the same.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but how I loved her.
My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing.

Another's. She will be another's. Like my kisses before.
Her void. Her bright body. Her infinite eyes.

I no longer love her, that's certain, but maybe I love her.
Love is so short, forgetting is so long.

Because through nights like this one I held her in my arms
my soul is not satisfied that it has lost her.

Though this be the last pain that she makes me suffer
and these the last verses that I write for her.

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I have a list of songs in my head that fit the criterion put forth by the OP. Just can't be arsed to search for them on youtube/link at the moment.
 
Music is a mirror to which my emotions reflect themselves off of. Some people may use certain songs to cheer them up, but I know that, as the saying goes, 'this too shall pass'. Knowing that, whenever I'm feeling blue I listen to music that has a similar vibe to it, something I can tangibly relate to . . .

Radiohead - Exit Music (For a Film)
Cat Power - Werewolf
Nick Drake - Things Behind the Sun
Bright Eyes - On My Way to Work
 
sarcophagus.heels said:
I'm about to post an obnoxiously long list, but I absolutely love each of these songs.

Elliott Smith - No Name No. 5
Elliott Smith - St. Ides Heaven
Brand New - Jesus Christ
Wilco - How to Fight Loneliness
Lou Reed - Perfect Day
Bright Eyes - A Line Allows Progress, A Circle Does Not
Bright Eyes - Lua
Pink Floyd - Nobody Home
The Magnetic Fields - Epitaph for My Heart
Nine Inch Nails - Something I Can Never Have
Placebo - In the Cold Light of Morning
Radiohead - Street Spirit (Fade Out)
The Velvet Underground - Sunday Morning

Also, I was horrified that half of the results for "nobody home pink floyd" were of Avril Lavigne's song of the same name >.<
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Excellent list. Thanks for taking the time to post something up like that with links included! :D

So much Bright Eyes up in this thread lol.
I get oddly uplifted from Oberst's lyrics though I must admit.

And as I see Sigur Ros the same. Slow and dramatic, yet uplifting. But I gotta say, Bill, Vaka is definitely one of the more sad Sigur songs.
And EitS love <3
 
Laika said:
And as I see Sigur Ros the same. Slow and dramatic, yet uplifting. But I gotta say, Bill, Vaka is definitely one of the more sad Sigur songs.
And EitS love <3
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Yeah that's how I kind of view a lot of Radiohead songs. Most people are always like that's depressing or it sounds like he's whining.
But yeah some of it is a bit sad but most of the time they are uplifting and give you that good feeling of hope, don't know how else to describe it, so yeah /ramble.
 
CBf reading whole thread.

But Dashboard Confessional is pretty damn Emo.

Imogen Heap-Hide and Seek

Billy Corgan's cover of Iron Maiden's Number of the Beast.

Smashing Pumpkins-1979 and Disarm.
 
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