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saddest non musical song youve ever heard
MasterLcZ
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/12/03
#25re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 4:13am"Puff, The Magic Dragon". It made me cry when I heard it on CAPTAIN KANGAROO 40 years ago. Still does today.
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ZONEACE
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#26re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 6:11amOMG, someone else said "Stole" by kelly rowland. That song is so sad, but i didn't think anyone else would say it.
when ducks grow thumbs then maybe my opinion will change.
SweetQintheLights
Broadway Legend Joined: 6/12/05
#27re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:17am
"The September 11th anniversary remix of "Heaven".
OMG- When I heard that song with the little girl I cried and cried and cried....it was so sad.
If anybody has it, could you link it please?
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#28re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 7:23am
i agree with nztheatreluva on all three of their song choices.
I also want to add "The Wings Beneath my Wings" by Bette Midler, especailly in the movie, Beaches. That is my favorite movie.
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#29re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 8:54am
"To Where You Are" - Josh Groban
"If I Could Reach You" - Marilyn McCoo and the Fifth Dimension
"I Can't Cry Hard Enough" - Victoria Williams
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
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Updated On: 10/14/05 at 08:54 AM
#30re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 8:59amI have to agree with the 9/11 remix of heaven. How could that not be the saddest song ever? That poor little girl talkig to her daddy. I am tearing up just thinking about it.
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#31re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 9:57am
"The Dance" by Garth Brooks (He isn't a favorite, but can he write some damn fine songs!)
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Updated On: 10/14/05 at 09:57 AM
#32re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:22am
"How Can I Help You Say Goodbye" by Patty Loveless
"Lemon Cuts" by Jann Arden
"Fire and Rain" James Taylor
#33re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 10:23am
Leavin on a jetplane
Here without you baby- 3 doors down
"All the while making faces like a baby platypus who forget to take some Beano before eating a chimichanga." FindingNamo in reference to Jessica Simpson's singing.
#34re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 11:59am
I Can't Make You Love Me-Bonnie Raitt
Jolene-Dolly Parton
SorryGrateful
Broadway Legend Joined: 5/10/05
#35re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:20pm"I Grieve" by Peter Gabriel. It's sad to me for very personal reasons, but I think it can be sad for a lot of other people for different reasons.
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#36re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:27pm
still fighting it- ben folds.
wake me up when september ends-green day. I've never even seen the video. but the song is about his dad dying from cancer, and it puts the song in a whole new place when you know what he was actually writing about.
"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."
#37re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 12:59pmThat Green Day video is pretty cool...
"NOT MY DAUGHTER, YOU BITCH!"
#38re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/14/05 at 1:19pm
Theres a song used in Donnie Darko that makes me want to go curl up and cry....I can't remember the name of it.
And I agree with ALL the Tori songs. She may be the master of emotional music...
There's always room for pathos - and jazz hands.
#39re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:30pm"Sand and Water - Beth Nielson Chapman
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion."
-- Author Unknown
#40re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 12:36pm
a country song called "Almost Home" I can 't remember who sings it...but basically the song is a man wakes up a homeless guy to give him money and to give him something warm because the guy is freezing...and the homeless man just says he wished he hadn't woken him up because in his dream, he was back with his family and was warm and happy and he was 'almost home'. It absoloutely kills me.
That, and "There You'll Be" by Faith Hill. It reminds me of my grandmothers illness and death, and I can't listen to that song without breaking down.
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erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#41re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 1:04pm
Radiohead - "No Surprises" and "Morning Bell"
Don McLean - "Vincent"
Taditional spiritual - "All My Trials."
Jeff Buckley - "Hallelujah" (written by Leonard Cohen...but it's Buckley's version that gets to me.)
Link Larkin Wanabe
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/1/04
#42re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 1:19pm
MagictoDo,
That song is called "mad world" and it is amazing.
Akiva
erikaamato
Broadway Legend Joined: 8/12/04
#43re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 1:26pm
I've never seen Donnie Darko....is it the original Tears For Fears version of "Mad World" (from The Hurting) or is that cover I've heard...don't know who it's by. I adore the original. I even have that album on vinyl. (Yep, I'm that old!) 
#44re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 1:50pm
"The Song Remembers When"
"It Only Hurts When I Breathe"
They both make my cry.
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#45re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:18pm
Hurt - Johnny Cash's version. The video really hit me, especially after he died.
Biko - Peter Gabriel. Saw him sing this song during the Nelson Mandela concert festival in Cape Town, South Africa. The whole stadium was quite and raised their fist to the air in respect to this man. It was a very moving site.
#46re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:21pm
"My One True Friend" by Bette Midler
It hits home for me and I lose it every time.
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Jon
Broadway Legend Joined: 2/20/04
#47re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 2:45pm
"A Better Place to Be" by the late great Harry Chapin. It makes me cry every time I hear Chapin sing it.
On the other hand, when a revue of Chapin songs was produced in Chicago, and Off-Broadway about 20 years ago, the song didn't work forme at all. It's a story song, and the performers sort of "acted it out". I had an image in my head of what the characters in the story looked like, and the performers in the revue just didn't match the image. It was disappointing.
boytobroadway
Broadway Star Joined: 8/28/05
#48re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 3:09pm
Pretty good Year-Tori Amos
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1996-07-11_pretty_good_year.mp3
this one is just her and her piano and a guitar, more laid back
http://www.ontoyourshade.com/yessaid/1998-11-28_pretty_good_year.mp3
this one has a band...you here it when she starts to rock out at 3min. 30sec.
YankeesFan175
Broadway Legend Joined: 7/8/05
#49re: saddest non musical song youve ever heard
Posted: 10/16/05 at 4:26pm
nztheatreluva, newsong sings "the christmas shoes." that song made me cry, and then i went and watched the movie. oh man, i was sobbing!
also the song at the end of Ladder 49 called "Shine Your Light." i was already sobbing at the end, but the song made it worse. then i watched the special feature music video, oh man. when it just showed his wife walking, sitting on the bus, and sitting at home alone crying is just SO sad!!
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