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I love sad songs :dancing

 

This may be a stretch, but check out the soundtrack to an old Coppola film, One From the Heart, with Crystal Gayle and Tom Waits. Sad, but funny too. I assume Tweedy stuff doesn't count in Someone Else's Song section of the board.

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I always thought of that as such an uplifting song....

 

I can't necessarily think of any sad songs at the moment, but if you're talking about songs that make me cry, how about: Bright Eyes "Old Soul Song"?

 

yeah, i think brick is much more of a down song.

 

i love to listen to bright eyes when i'm sad. conor is an incredible songwriter.

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"'Cause Cheap Is How I Feel" - Cowboy Junkies

:rock

 

My vote is for "The Trapeze Swinger" by Iron & Wine.

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Chocolate Genius - My Mom

 

 

They got 5 televisions

In a house built for 3

Look up on that fake fireplace

You know the bucktoothed boy's me

See that wood paneled room?

That's where I learned to drink

See that hole in the wall?

That was seagrams I think

 

That tree was a goal post

That bathroom it was a shroud

That closet it was a phone booth

That mirror was a crowd

See that guy with the bad knees

And his heart on his sleeve?

Watch him slip me ten dollar

When it comes time to leave

 

 

It's been five years and some change

And this world is getting so strange

But this house smells just the same

But my mom can't remember my name

 

I sit on her bed and kiss right behind the ear

She calls out for a dog that's been dead for a year

I say how is it going? Like I didn't know

Hold on to both of her hands too afraid to let her go

And five times exactly no more or no less

She says how you been eating boy?

Isa, okay I guess

In this room where she made me each day she grows weak

She flips on the Golden Girls and the first tear hits my cheek

 

It's been five years

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The somber organ and the lyrics from Radiohead's "Motion Picture Soundtrack" puts it right up there.

 

Although, maybe that's just more depressing than sad.

 

 

I'll tell you one that gets me every time I hear it now; It's Joe Strummers rendition of "Redemption Song".

Has nothing to do with the content...I just always relate it with the fact that he's gone.

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