Songs about Regret/Sacrifce - Page 2

[Dancingthrulife2]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 5:37am

I'd Give My Life for You, The Sacred Bird, Little God of My Heart  -- Miss Saigon

Hello Young Lovers -- The King and I

Rose's Turn -- Gypsy

Charity -- Daddy Long Legs

Updated On: 5/31/16 at 05:37 AM

[Steve C.]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 6:04am

Some of the threads seem like "Jeopardy" fun at times...okay, I'm in.

With One Look from "Sunset Boulevard"

Love Changes Everything (and a few others) from "Love Changes Everything"

 

oh well gang, I'm off to surgery today, play nice!

[promisespromises2]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 6:13am

We Do Not Belong Together and Move On from Sunday In the Park With George. 

[Jayne3]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 6:52am

Regarding regret: The Things I Never Said (First Date)

[DrJekyll]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 12:31pm

"All The Wasted Time" Parade

"Hang The Moon" Bombshell (Smash)

[sarahb22]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 12:59pm

I'd call "Thank Goodness" from 'Wicked' a regret song. It doesn't start out that way, but it sure ends up that way.  Also "No Good Thing" from the same show.

Of course "Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miserables is all about regret and sacrifice, so that also fits well. Also "How Could I Ever Know" from 'The Secret Garden'.

[Charley Kringas Inc]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 1:56pm

"Eve Was Weak" and "Evening Prayers" from Carrie

[loveinnewyorkcity]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 5:40pm

'What I Did For Love'.

[TFMH18]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 6:08pm

"Heartbreaker" from Bright Star really hits on the sacrifice aspects (realizing he can never see the love of his life again, for he can't bear to hurt her). 

[andi1235]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 7:18pm

Inutil (Useless) from In the Heights.

[henrikegerman]

Posted: 5/31/16 at 8:57pm

What Kind of Fool Am I?  STOP THE WORLD...

Funny   CITY OF ANGELS

You Can Always Count on Me  CITY OF ANGELS

All of My Life  DO RE MI

Rose's Turn  GYPSY

The Joker  ROAR OF THE GREASEPAINT...

Nobody Does It Like Me  SEESAW

I Don't Remember You  THE HAPPY TIME

 

[SamIAm]

Posted: 6/4/16 at 2:26pm

Too Many Mornings

[@z5]

Posted: 6/4/16 at 3:44pm

She used to be mine--

 

from Waitress.

[Markie27]

Posted: 6/4/16 at 8:49pm

I can't believe nobody has mentioned "Telephone Wire"!!!!  That was such a painful song of regret.  Specially when she sang 

"Telephone wire,
Stop! Too fast!
Telephone wire,
Make this not the past.
This car ride,
This is where it has to happen!
There must be some other chances.
There's a moment I'm forgetting
Where you tell me you see me....

Say something!
Talk to me!
Say something!
Anything!
At the light,
At the light.

This can't be our last......"

What's more painful also about this song is how she couldn't accept the fact that that was it.   And that she was trying to remember sometHing more than what had actually happened.  But that was it.  No more telephone wires.  They came to the end of the journey and he wasn't able to tell her what she wanted him to say.  Its so hard to regret the things you can never ever change.  

[neffie]

Posted: 6/5/16 at 7:33am

I am surprised no one has mentioned the reprise of If I Loved You from Carousel.

Longing to tell you but afraid and shy,

I let my golden chances pass me by.

Now I've lost you,

Soon I will go in the mist of day,

And you never will know

How I loved you.  How I loved you.

Gets me every time.  Bawl my head off like a baby.

Updated On: 6/5/16 at 07:33 AM