saddest songs — Page 3

#51

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:21pm

Oh, I also think "Why" from Tick Tick Boom is really sad...but only in the context of the show. And "The Fire Within Me" from Little Women really gets me.

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#52

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:24pm

Broadway:
"Memory"
"My Dogs" from "Elegies"
"Drink With Me" from Les Mis
"Send In The Clowns" from "A Little Night Music"
"Caoneidh Cu Cuchulainne" and "Lift The Wings" from "Riverdance"
"Do You Know What It's Like?" and "I Could Write Books" from "Zanna Don't"
"Mama Look Sharp" from 1776
"I'm Coming Home" from RHS
pretty much anything in TL5Y

Non-Broadway:
"Brick" by Ben Folds Five
"Comfortable" by John Mayer
"Just My Imagination" by the Temptations
"Into The West" by Annie Lennox
"Home Sweet Home" from Lady and the Tramp (the song playing at the start of the pound sequence)
"Baby Mine" from "Dumbo"
"Kathleen Mavourneen" and "The Parting Glass" traditional Irish folk songs
"Saying Goodbye" from The Muppets Take Manhattan

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#53

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:25pm

Sarah Brown Eyes from Ragtime - Especially Audra singing 'Dance' by herself at the end
Bare from BARE - the flute at the end is just killer

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#54

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:47pm

Broadway:

Chavaleh and Chavaleh Ballet- Fiddler.
For Good- Wicked.
Memory- Cats
The Fire Within Me and Somethings Are Meant to Be and Days A Plenty- Little Women
There's Always Me and It Hurts Me- ASU
There's A Fine, Fine Line- Avenue Q.

Non Bway:

"Mother Thats What I Need"- Chimpmunk Adventure.
"Where You Are"- Jessica Simpson and Nick Lachey.

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#55

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 10:48pm

"Anything But Lonely" from Aspects of Love
"Memory" from Cats
"Don't Cry for Me Argentina" from Evita. Not sure why I think that one's so sad, but I do.

Updated On: 8/28/05 at 10:48 PM

#56

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:20pm

The finale from Godspell--2001 revival recording! So sad!! And "No One is Alone" from Into the Woods!

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#57

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:30pm

No Voice from Bare
Elegy from Movin Out (theres no lyrics, but being there in the moment just made it one of the most beautiful and heartbreaking things ive seen)

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#58

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:33pm

"Il Adore" from Taboo
"Do You Know What It's Like" from Zanna, Don't (for personal reasons, I cry every time)
Of course the ICY:R from Rent
"Goodbye, Love" from Rent, but only live.
"From This Day On" from Brigadoon
"Cabaret" from Cabaret, but only if done properly.
"You Must Love Me" from Evita
"Chavelah" from Fiddler

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#59

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/28/05 at 11:49pm

Pretty much any song from "Follies". "Losing My Mind" is devastating.

"If I Loved You" from "Carousel"...also "You'll Never Walk Alone", both could be uplifting depending on the way you perceive them.

The list is endless. And so are the perceptions of each and every song written.

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#60

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:10am

The entire finale of Sweeney Todd

Anatevka from Fiddler

Memory from Cats

Wishing You Were Somehow Here Again from Phantom

Most of Les Miz

Children Will Listen (the one after Rapunzel dies) from Into The woods

Soliloquy from Carousel when you know what's going to happen.

I Am What I Am from La Cage (Bittersweet)

#61

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:15am

It's Hard To Speak My Heart from Parade

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#62

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:43am

i honestly love you (olivia newton john version)

ps. just as a general warning to everyone...if u love someone and u havent told them, tell them. i prolly just lost my opportunity.

random, cheery thought for your enjoyment jeje.

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#63

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:49am

"Under Separate Cover" from A Class Act

#64

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:52am

"Come to Me" from Les Miserables

#65

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 1:57am

"Memory" -Cats
"Slipping Through My Fingers" -Mamma Mia
"The Winner Takes It All" -Mamma Mia
"For Good" -Wicked
"Some Things Are Meant to Be" -Little Women
"Days of Plenty" -Little Women

#66

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 2:01am

come to mee!!! good one!

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#67

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 3:02am

From A Musical:
-Empty Chairs at Empty Tables, Les Mis
-Bring Him Home, Les Mis
-Il Adore, Taboo
-There's Always Me, All Shook Up
-I'll Cover You (Reprise), Rent

From Elsewhere:
-Tears In Heaven, Eric Clapton

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#68

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 9:53am

Les Mis valjean's confession / epilogue, that whole sequence is amazing. And I second the notion to Godspell's finale..and By My Side.

#69

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:14am

"I'm All Alone"-SpamAlot(somewhat)
"Don't Cry Out Loud"-The Boy From Oz
"Love Don't Need A Reason"-The Boy From Oz
"Quiet Please, There's A Lady Onstage"-The Boy From Oz
"I Honestly Love You"-The Boy From Oz
"Tell Her I Love Her"-Urinetown
"Somewhere That's Green"-LSOH
"Somewhere That's Green(reprise)-LSOH
"Fools Fall In Love"-All Shook Up
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#70

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:40am

"Goodbye Until Tomorrow/I Could Never Rescue You" From Last 5 Years made me break down and cry the first few times I heard the CD.

"Written in the Stars" from Aida

"Your Eyes" from RENT

"I Honestly Love You" from BFO

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 11:40 AM

#71

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 11:51am

Non-Broadway:

"I Can't Make You Love Me"--Bonnie Raitt
"Jolene"--Dolly Parton

Broadway:

"If I Didn't Believe in You"--Last 5 Years
"I'm Not That Girl"--Wicked
"I'll Cover You"-Rent

#72

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:04pm

I don't know if this would be as sad on its own, rather than listened to with the whole show, but I always cry for "Finale" of Passion. Thinking about it right now makes me want to cry.

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#73

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:05pm

TheatreBabe,
You didn't say if you are limiting list to certain years---but I can remember my mother always playing cast recordings and I remember a song from Stop The World I Want To Get Off. It became the signature song for its gifted star Anthony(Tony) Newley
What Kind of Fool Am I.
Does anyone else know it?
It was about a man who when taking stock of his so called successful life realized he had nothing because he had discarded the people who cared about him and never really experienced love.
Now that's a sad song!

#74

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:16pm

Love to Me [Light in the Piazza]

and also In Whatever Time We Have

Updated On: 8/29/05 at 12:16 PM

#75

re: saddest songs

Posted: 8/29/05 at 12:38pm

What Would I Do-Falsettos