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#26

re: saddest songs

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!!)

I can finally afford to see a Broadway show! -Norbert Leo Butz

#27

re: saddest songs

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!!!

"I believe that art does not exist only to entertain, but also to challenge one to think, to provoke, even to disturb, to engage in a constant search for the truth." - Barbra Streisand

#28

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

Tenme por lo que soy, por lo que puedo ser, y si te importo hoy, tenme nena, o vete!

#29

re: saddest songs

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

What the puck?!

#30

re: saddest songs

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

#31

re: saddest songs

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

Many from William Finn's Elegies.

What's pink and green and flies all over?

#32

re: saddest songs

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.

Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree" ~Related~

#33

re: saddest songs

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

Empty Chairs at Empty Tables

#34

re: saddest songs

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

thankd guys,this is gonna be an awesome cd.

"While some feel it is a film related question, I seem to think it may be a 'I am thinking of losing my winkie' sort of question."
-cheezedoodle

#35

re: saddest songs

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..."

"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

#36

re: saddest songs

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

"Somethings Are Meant To Be"

"You never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view - until you climb into his skin and walk around in it."
To Kill A Mockingbird

#37

re: saddest songs

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.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

#38

re: saddest songs

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

See Me from Bare is just... heartbreaking.

#39

re: saddest songs

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.

#40

re: saddest songs

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.

#41

re: saddest songs

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.

Like a firework unexploded
Wanting life but never knowing how

#42

re: saddest songs

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.

#43

re: saddest songs

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

A little swash, a bit of buckle - you'll love it more than bread.

#44

re: saddest songs

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.

#45

re: saddest songs

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.

#46

re: saddest songs

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?

***It is not in the stars to hold our destiny but in ourselves. -- William Shakespeare***

#47

re: saddest songs

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.

I have my books and my poetry to protect me...

#48

re: saddest songs

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

Anything by Tori Amos is sad.

B2B

#49

re: saddest songs

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

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

"forget regret <3, I love your post.....you give me hope for the next generation!" -Elphaba

#50

re: saddest songs

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.

Bob: "there is a chance, albeit a microscopic one, that our baby at some point in his or her formative years will get lodged in a tree" ~Related~

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