Songs about losing a friend

[MisterSnow89]

Songs about losing a friend#1

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:41pm

Hi everyone,

I've recently trying to think of songs that talk about a friendship that has fallen apart. Alas I can't seem to think of any. I did come up with "When I Look At You" from The Scarlet Pimpernal. I know thats about a lost romance but it works for a friendship as well. But yeah I was wondering if anyone else could think of any.

Thanks

[ashley0139]

re: Songs about losing a friend#2

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:45pm

What It Means to be a Friend from 13 is cute and fits the description perfectly.

"This table, he is over one hundred years old. If I could, I would take an old gramophone needle and run it along the surface of the wood. To hear the music of the voices. All that was said." - Doug Wright, I Am My Own Wife

[temms]

re: Songs about losing a friend#2

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:49pm

"Franklin Shepard, Inc." from "Merrily We Roll Along"

[Pippin]

re: Songs about losing a friend#3

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:50pm

Still Hurting - the last 5 years
I miss you old friend - Dreamgirls
How could I lose you? Myths and Hymns
Isn't it better - The world goes round (not sure of the actual kander and ebb show)
empty chairs at empty tables - les mis

"I'm an American, Damnit!!! And if it's three things I don't believe in, it's quitting and math."

[Amalia Balash]

re: Songs about losing a friend#4

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:52pm

Like It Was from Merrily We Roll Along

[Amneris]

re: Songs about losing a friend#5

Posted: 10/1/08 at 7:53pm

perhaps "for good" from wicked could be used?

[jordangirl]

re: Songs about losing a friend#6

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:00pm

Amneris, I was going to say "For Good" as well. It can be taken either as very sweet or very passive aggressive...or both at the same time.

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[crc03772]

re: Songs about losing a friend#7

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:01pm

All 3 pertain to lost loves, but i suppose they could work out of context:

Not A Day Goes By-Merrily We Roll Along

Old Friend-I'm Getting My Act Together and Taking It On the Road

Ever More Without You-The Woman In White

[musikman]

re: Songs about losing a friend#8

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:14pm

I don't know how much this relates to losing a friend, but "You Walk with Me" form the Full Monty came to my head.

-There's the muddle in the middle. There's the puddle where the poodle did the piddle."

[Robert Taylor]

re: Songs about losing a friend#9

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:25pm

I can't believe no one has mentioned "Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from Phantom. Great song, one of Webber's best.

[Robert Taylor]

re: Songs about losing a friend#10

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:25pm

Double post. Whoops. Updated On: 10/1/08 at 08:25 PM

[sally1112]

re: Songs about losing a friend#11

Posted: 10/1/08 at 8:58pm

"For Good" From Wicked is the best in this category, but also
good is "What You Own" from Rent

[CATSNYrevival]

re: Songs about losing a friend#12

Posted: 10/1/08 at 9:05pm

There's nothing more touching than "For Good" being sung at a funeral. Uhh. It brings a tear to the eye...

[ratherbewhaling]

re: Songs about losing a friend#13

Posted: 10/1/08 at 9:10pm

basically any song from Elegies

Nancy Reagan, meanest and thinnest of the first ladies moves into the white house. Yabba dabba! It's the eighties.

[jake6970]

re: Songs about losing a friend#14

Posted: 10/1/08 at 9:14pm

What It Means to be a Friend sounds exactly like what you're looking for.

[Broadwaynerd101]

re: Songs about losing a friend#15

Posted: 10/1/08 at 9:17pm

There's a really nice song I wrote on this subject for a musical I wrote.

[DefyGravity777]

re: Songs about losing a friend#16

Posted: 10/1/08 at 9:33pm

I am gonna say For Good also. When I went through a really bad breakup that song helped me through it.

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[goober1632]

re: Songs about losing a friend#17

Posted: 10/1/08 at 11:47pm

LOSING YOUR FRIEND TO DEATH
"Goodbye My Friend" - Linda Rodstadt
"What Would I Do?" - Falsettos
"Learning to Let Go" - Elegies for Angels, Punks & Raging Queens
"You'll Never Walk Alone" - Carousel
"You Oughtta Be Here With Me" - Big River
"Left Behind" - Spring Awakening

LOSING FRIENDSHIP
"Without You As A Friend" - Martin Guerre
"Leaving's Not the Only Way to Go" - Big River
"When She Loved Me" - Toy Story 2

[sondheimboy2]

re: Songs about losing a friend#18

Posted: 10/1/08 at 11:59pm

It's not exactly about losing a friend, but it sort of describes a similar feeling, "I Remember Sky." I sang it at a friends funeral.

"Good Thing Going" from "Merrily We Roll Along" would fit too.

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[MyLife]

re: Songs about losing a friend#19

Posted: 10/2/08 at 11:06am

I think "Without You" from RENT is a good choice. Life goes one, but I'd die without you. It shows how important a love/friendship is, and without it, a piece of you dies.

I also agree with "For Good" - The only problem I have with that song is the "Who can say if I've been changed for the better," part. As jordangirl said, it can be kind of passive aggressive. The rest of the song is great though.

[MiracleElixir]

re: Songs about losing a friend#20

Posted: 10/2/08 at 12:41pm

"Tell Her I Love Her"

[crc03772]

re: Songs about losing a friend#21

Posted: 10/2/08 at 12:46pm

I just thought of another:

Tell Me It's Not True-Blood Brothers

It could work, although the whole Marilyn Monroe thing is a little strange and makes a bit more sense in the show...

[Michael Bennett]

re: Songs about losing a friend#22

Posted: 10/2/08 at 3:59pm

"You Were a Friend to Me" by Carol Hall is a nice wistful song of rememberence of a fading friendship

[sing_dance_love]

re: Songs about losing a friend#23

Posted: 10/2/08 at 4:22pm

Wouldn't "I Miss the Music" from Curtains, work too? That was the first thing i thought when i read the thread title.

"...and in a bed."

[practically_perfect]

re: Songs about losing a friend#24

Posted: 10/2/08 at 7:28pm

I'm going to third "What it Means to Be a Friend" from 13
it's a really good "losing a friend" song