What’s The Saddest Song Ever?

I was browsing through the answers channel and I saw a question: What is the saddest song ever? Now that got me to think as to what I believed to be the saddest song I’ve ever heard. When I say “ever heard” that means that the selection spans a whole gamut of musical genres, so I had to think really hard.

To give me an idea I checked the answers that had been given….

The top answer in Yahoo is One Last Cry by Brian McKnight. One Last Cry is a love song about a man who saw his love with someone else so he says he’s down to his one last cry before he ends the relationship.

I can swear by The Blue Nile’s Wish Me Well. As Paul Buchanan explains, “I suppose that song is about a couple splitting up; and one or both speaking sense but not wanting it to be true and knowing it is.” The likes of Phil Collins, Ricki Lee Jones and Annie Lennox to name a few are fans of this band. I can swear my life to their music. It is indeed, life changing.

Members of Answerbag.com claim it to be Hurt by Johnny Cash. This is about a man who has lost his way and who has changed into somebody else in the process of living life.

Yes, I could just describe the stories of the song but the combination of the lyrics, the story and the melody contribute to the sadness of the song. I will leave it up to you to google it, maybe except for the song I chose to be the saddest.

In an online competition site, Ibeatyou.com, this question was asked as well and the top saddest song is Hallelujah by Jeff Buckley but following close behind is Eric Clapton’s Tears from Heaven. I’d go for Hallelujah because I dig Buckley despite his tragic death I would rather call a freak accident. He is one amazing artist and I still — up to present — have not found anyone who could write songs nor sing like him. That is probably why he is dead. Justified Posthumous Fame.

So far we have One Last Cry, a love song, Little Fall of Rain, another love song, Hurt, a song about life, and Tears in Heaven, a song about loss. There is no doubt that there a million sad songs out there and for every person the saddest song is different.

Normally, what we choose to be the saddest song is the one that we can most relate to. Your choice maybe a reflection of the saddest moment of your life but it doesn’t really matter. Everybody has a story to tell on the toughest time in their lives. Its pretty hard to explain, but then again, its something we already know, much like an open secret.

To me it is most definitely Let it Be Love by Craig Armstrong feat. Steven Lindsay. I heard this song from Craig Armstrong’s As If To Nothing CD and I literally stopped working. DO find the time to get this song. It is tricky. It is so sad you sometimes wish you never heard it. This was all I could find though, there are two songs in this one. The second song is also of Craig Armstrong’s works with Cocteau Twins’ Liz Fraizer.

So, what’s the saddest song YOU’VE ever heard?

~ by eltentwelve on April 16, 2008.