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Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:27pm

sorry guys,I know this has been asked a lot but I really want to make a cd of all the saddest songs I can think of.All the songs that just make you break down and cry.If anyone has any suggestions,I'd really appreiciate it.

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re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:34pm

"the song remembers when" as sung by kristin chenoweth.

"it only hurts when i breathe" by idina menzel, but unfortunately it is unpublished, as is her song "rise up" which is also sad.

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re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:34pm

"it only hurts when i breathe"

I have that song.

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:34pm

"In Buddy's Eyes" from FOLLIES, a fantasy life sung by a devistated, delusional woman trying to convice herself that she hasn't wasted her life. Heartbreaking.

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re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:39pm

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables always gets to me.

Dear One from Spiderwoman is another one.

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:40pm

"Empty Chairs at Empty Tables" from Les Miz.

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:40pm

'I'll Cover You (Reprise)' from RENT.

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re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 1:42pm

"Ill Cover You" reprise from RENT

"Where is Love?" from OLIVER!

"John 19:41" from JESUS CHRIST SUPERSTAR (Doesn't have to have lyrics to be sad)

"Please" from MISS SAIGON

"A Little Fall of Rain" from LES MISERABLES

"My Friend" from "The Life"

Praying Decca Broadway will put "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" on CD!

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 2:44pm

Concrete Angel and God's Will by Martina McBride
Everybody Hurts by REM

I know these arent from musicals or anything, but they get me every time!

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#10

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 2:53pm

"Send In The Clowns" from A Little Night Music
"Memory" from Cats
"Mama, Look Sharp" from 1776
"Where Is Love?" from Oliver
"Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again" from The Phantom of the Opera

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#11

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:03pm

Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I could never rescue you from TL5Y always gets to me.

I don't know if you wanted musical or not...

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#12

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:48pm

JoMarch - yes... I forgot how powerful "Dear One" from Spiderwoman is. Kander and Ebb are great at "lieing to yourself to mask the true pain" songs. "Dear One" especially so.

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#13

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 3:57pm

Lorenz Hart wrote some of the best (aka saddest and bittersweet) ballad lyrics ever...

Check out "Glad to be Unhappy" from On Your Toes, among others.

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#14

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:10pm

Written In The Stars... Aida... Heather would just break your heart with the first line, "I am here to tell you, we can never meet again".

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#15

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Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:48pm

"Little Fall of Rain" and "Om My Own"-Les Miz
"For Good"-Wicked
"I'll Cover You (Reprise)" and "Your Eyes"-Rent

And this one's not from a musical, but that Martina McBride song (sorry YankeesFan, I saw your post, and it reminded me of this), "In My Daughter's Eyes". My mom and I always cry when listening to this.

#16

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:51pm

elphie, no problem, i forgot about that one.

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#17

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:52pm

your daddy's son from ragtime

#18

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 4:58pm

"Bring Him Home" from Les Mis

That song succeeds in choking me up everytime i listen to it, and produces serious weeping with every performance i've seen. It just is such a heartfelt prayer of goodness, i can't help but let it touch my soul.

I also cry every so often when i hear "For Good", just because it is a reflection of that one friendship that touches you more than anythin else.

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#19

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:03pm

The finale in Miss Saigon when Kim kills herself. I balled my eyes out with my mom in the theatre. So sad.

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#20

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:18pm

My list is pretty ecclectic, but these never fail to get to me for a variety of reasons.
I'm Telling You I'm Not Leaving--Dream Girls
What I Did For love---Chorus Line
If Ever I Would Leave You--Camelot
You'll Never Walk Alone-Carousel
The I Love You Song-Spelling Bee

#21

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Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:27pm

"Il Adore", Taboo.

#22

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Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:30pm

Broadway songs that always get me:

The I Love You Song- Spelling Bee
I'll Cover You: Reprise- Rent
A Little Fall of Rain- Les Miserables

Non-Broadway songs:

Brick- Ben Folds Five
Landed- Ben Folds

#23

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:43pm

almost every song in Les Mis

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#24

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:44pm

ummm..
love to me (made me cry)
um, i dunno...

#25

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 5:51pm

i also have it only hurts when i breathe and rise up, but its not a professional recording or course.

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