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Kill.kenada:
Sigur ros - Untitled #1

*weeps*

Valrus:

--- Quote from: KharBevNor ---This is just a general point, but do people really believe that just lyrics can make a song sad?
--- End quote ---


Many of They Might Be Giants' songs prove that this is not so, although "The End Of The Tour" really is pretty sad overall.

Also - it's cliche, but I think The Cure's "Pictures of You" is really sad. So is Bjork's "Sonnets/Unrealities XI," although I'm not sure if that counts since the lyrics are just an e.e. cummings poem. Also "When I Was A Boy," by Dar Williams, and "Each Coming Night," by Iron and Wine.

All those songs are kind of happy and sad at the same time, which appeals to me for some reason.

Fragmentsofme:
As far as so beautiful it makes you want to cry, Given to Fly by Pearl Jam and Closer by Better than Ezra.

The first time I ever heard One Tin Soldier I cried.

"Listen, children, to a story
That was written long ago,
'Bout a kingdom on a mountain
And the valley-folk below.

On the mountain was a treasure
Buried deep beneath the stone,
And the valley-people swore
They'd have it for their very own.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

So the people of the valley
Sent a message up the hill,
Asking for the buried treasure,
Tons of gold for which they'd kill.

Came an answer from the kingdom,
"With our brothers we will share
All the secrets of our mountain,
All the riches buried there."

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away.

Now the valley cried with anger,
"Mount your horses! Draw your sword!"
And they killed the mountain-people,
So they won their just reward.

Now they stood beside the treasure,
On the mountain, dark and red.
Turned the stone and looked beneath it...
"Peace on Earth" was all it said.

Go ahead and hate your neighbor,
Go ahead and cheat a friend.
Do it in the name of Heaven,
You can justify it in the end.
There won't be any trumpets blowing
Come the judgement day,
On the bloody morning after....
One tin soldier rides away."

Also, Lifetime by BTE is a gusher.

unknowner:
I'm gonna have to vote for Elanor Rigby here. It's more the "wasteful, depressing" sort of sad, not the "emo-tearjerker" sort of sad, but it has the former in spades.

boeuf:
*agrees with Eleanor Rigby."

Eight hours of Silence by Against Me! Is pretty sorrowful.
Cocoon by the Decemberists.
Jack of All Trades, or Wayfarer by Hot Water Music
Lorrydrivers Son by Leatherface

and whats it called?
Lightening Crashes by Live.

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