saddest songs- Page 2

[spellingbee_ROCKS007]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:05pm

ummmm...
The I Love You Song from Spelling Bee
For Good from Wicked (when i first heard it i got teary-eyed!!)

[bwayboi4life42]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:09pm

"There Is a Fountain / It Don't Make Sense"
"You Don't Know this Man"
"The Finale"

All from Parade. Major cryfest!!!

[wickedkiwi]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:14pm

broadway:

i'm still hurting - tl5y
i hate the bus - caroline
rose's turn - gypsy (i know im crazy, but i find it a really depressing song)
as long as he needs me - oliver
maybe this time - cabaret
i have to move on - sitpwg
not a day goes by - merrily we roll along
tell me on a sunday - s&d

nonbroadway:

hey jupiter -tori amos (i LOVE this song...listen to it NOW!)
foolish games - jewel
without you -mariah carey version
don't cry out loud - dianna degarmo version
killer in me - smashing pumpkins
with or without you - u2 (there's also a cool version by japanese artist utada hikaru)


i think i'll burn this cd too jejej

[gavrochegirl]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:29pm

Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You from L5Y
Nobody Needs to Know from L5Y
I'll Cover You reprise from RENT
A Little Fall of Rain from Les Miz

[Elizabeth_DeBris]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 6:42pm

Err... as far as ones that haven't been mentioned yet (and some of these may just be strange ones that only I find heartwrenching):

"We Do Not Belong Together" (Sunday in the Park With George)
"Losing My Mind" (Follies)
"Every Day a Little Death" (A Little Night Music)
"Ariadne" (The Frogs)
"Role of a Lifetime" (Bare)
"Are You There?" (Bare)
"The Beauty Is (Reprise)" (The Light in the Piazza)
"Lament" (Into the Woods)
"Somewhere" (West Side Story)
"This Nearly Was Mine" (South Pacific)
"I Still Believe" (Miss Saigon)
"Look Over There" (La Cage aux Folles)
"I Read" (Passion)
"Loving You" (Passion)
"She's a Woman" (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
"What Would You Do?" (Cabaret)



Updated On: 8/28/05 at 06:42 PM

[MrBungee7]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:01pm

Many from William Finn's Elegies.

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:16pm

All Grown Up from Bare. I was amazed/sad when i heard this on the sampler for the first time and to this day its still touching.

[sanda]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:46pm

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

[theatrebabe]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 7:47pm

thankd guys,this is gonna be an awesome cd.

[ashley0139]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:01pm

Also, "Days of Plenty" from Little Women always gets me choked up. At that part, "so believe that she matters..."

[WickedGeek28]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:37pm

"Somethings Are Meant To Be"

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 8:46pm

"Are You Still Holding My Hand" from Bright Lights, Big City

That's not just sad, it's devastating. The first time I heard it was at 5am and I just wanted to go wake up my mom and tell her that I loved her.

[timote316]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:01pm

See Me from Bare is just... heartbreaking.

[Fizz]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:06pm

A lot of the ones I want to say have been suggested already...

I'd like to add "Enchantment Passing Through(Reprise)" (even though its incredibly short) and "Easy As Life" from Aida...

"Finale" from Wicked always gets me... right at the end with the "I have been changed..." "NO ONE MOURNS THE WICKED". I cry there. Also "I'm Not That Girl".


Butterfly Kisses by Bob Carlisle.

[Greg-4now]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:18pm

Pie Jesu - ALW from Requiem - Sara Brightman & Paul Miles Kinston. I can't explain it...I don't even understand half of what they are singing...but its very sad...the music is incredible sad.

[orangeskittles]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:21pm

Is that version of Pie Jesu the same as the hymn? Because the hymn is a beautiful song, I was in a choir and these 2 boys performed it once.

[jwsel]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:26pm

A couple more.

"Bill" from Showboat in the 1994 revival version by Lonette McKee. There's a depth of sadness to it that isn't really as strong imo in Helen Morgan's version.

"Make Them Hear You" from Ragtime. I'm not sure why this song isn't mentioned more, because it truly is amazing on stage. I suspect it might be that the cast recording version is a bit more stylized. I much prefer the version from the 1996 single-CD recording. It routinely brings tears to my eyes.

"Send in the Clowns" from A Little Night Music, but it really depends on the singer. There is a video of Judi Dench singing it that was aired on a Bravo show about her (maybe "The South Bank Show"). She's not much of a singer, but the version was heart-rending.

[little_sally]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:31pm

The 'I Love You' Song from Spelling Bee
Days of Plenty and Some Things Are Meant to Be from Little Women
All the Wasted Time from Parade

[Greg-4now]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:31pm

Is that version of Pie Jesu the same as the hymn? Because the hymn is a beautiful song, I was in a choir and these 2 boys performed it once.

I am sure it is, and it is beautiful, but it never fails to bring tears to my eyes...playing it now in fact.

[Dreamer]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 9:59pm

I can never listen You're There, We Live On Borrowed Time
and I'll Be Here With You (written by David Friedman) without crying.

[way_to_spend_the_day]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:08pm

How about "I Will Never Leave You" from Side Show--there are a lot of sad songs in Side Show. For some reason, I got the most choked up I have ever gotten at a show in Little Women during "Some Things Are Meant To Be". And what about "Far From the Home I Love" from Fiddler, and "I'd Give My Life for You" from Miss Saigon?

[BroadwayDiva]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:12pm

"Petrified" -Taboo
"Do You Know What It's Like" -Zanna, Don't!
"See Her Smile" -TTB

All 3 of them make me cry hysterically, though I don't know why.

[boytobroadway]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:13pm

Anything by Tori Amos is sad.

B2B

[forget regret <3]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:15pm

fizz-- same here! when they sing together... gosh, that part is heart-wrenching!

[YankeesFan175]

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:17pm

i third the wicked finale. that had me going more than for good. theyre singing to each other but theyre not together, they dont know where the other is...oy, too sad. im a freak, shutting up now.