Most Heart-breaking lyric

[~Aoife~]

I apologise if this thread already exists, but thought it would be interesting.

(Just in this kinda mood today smileys/smiley19.gif )

Any ideas? I've got a few in mind but two that stick out from Damien:

'Girl That Does Yoga'~

"The day it ends
And there's no need for me"


And, 'Lonelily'~

"...then you let me down" smileys/smiley19.gif smileys/smiley19.gif

Edited by: ~Aoife~

[unexplainedmuse]

even though i cannot stand avril lavigne..

her one song just hits me everytime i hear it



'im standing on a bridge... im waiting in the dark, i thought that youd
be here by now, theres nothin but the rain, no footsteps on the ground,
im listening, but theres no sound..isnt anyone trying to find me?

wont somebody come take me home?"



sometimes at like 3 in the morning ill walk to the bridge over the
creek by my house if im depressed, or just in a complicated mood,

and just stare at the water..

makes me feel like that song

[~Aoife~]

Radiohead- 'Creep'

"I want you to notice when I’m not around. I wish I were special, yea so very special..."

[Livo]

all of "Revelate" by The Frames. i don't know why, it kind of gets to me. i suppose the lyrics are like glen's life story, my number eight, my revelate</span>
(when glen was about 18 he took a trip on his own to new york to try
and get a record deal, and the only friend he made was a homeless guy
who gave him half a black number eight billiard ball as a present)



also:



and i'm gonna wait for you, i've got to send this tape to you - </span>"Your Face" (The Frames)

you're all i'll ever want, headlong, i'm falling in headlong</span> -"Headlong" (The Frames)

I'm just a dancer, an innocent fiction, more like a dream than none</span> "An Innocent Fiction" (Erin McKeown)

we were a picture of love, and love doesn't think of forever</span> "Picture Of Love" (The Frames)

i tell her i wanna be friends with you, will you be friendly to me? </span>"Kids Song" (Mic Christopher)

love will come through, it's just waiting for you</span> "Love Will Come Through" (Travis)

i can't call you a friend, cos when
you left me here, you left me here to die. don't worry, i won't call
you again, cos when i take a hint i take it pretty hard, and when you
broke my heart you broke it into shards of glass</span> "Your Sweet Voice" (The Reindeer Section)

[~Aoife~]

The Killers- 'Mr. Brightside'

"I just cant look, its killing me..."

[#Ian#]

"I die when you mention his name."

I agree with the Creep one. Pablo Honey has loads of them. "Please forget the words that I just bluted out, it wasn't me...", also the entire Fake Plastic Trees lyric from the bends.

[Mojo_Pin1980]

Anything by Bright Eyes!smileys/smiley19.gif

[Jarv]

"Hear you me" by Jimmy eat world has amazing lyrics.........


........"and if you were with me right now, i'd sing to you, just one last time. A song for a heart so big...............God wouldnt let it live"


the whole song is heartbreaking, i love it.


the Stereophonics "she takes her clothes off"............


.........."She longs to be another teenage dream, the problem is she's turning forty-three, she still takes her clothes off...............they found her dead, dead as nails at home"

[mestonf]

jimmy eat world great band and great lyrics
my favourite would have to be most radiohead and damo stuff.

Radiohead -But I'm a creep, I'm a weirdo.
What the hell am I doing here?
I don't belong here.

I don't care if it hurts,
I want to have control.
I want a perfect body,
I want a perfect soul.
I want you to notice,
when I'm not around.
You're so f**king special,
I wish I was special.



Damien Rice - all of his lyrics!!!!!

[Patricia]

Kent - Stop me June (little ego)


" I´ve been waiting for my brilliance to
shine through
like waiting would do
I´ve been called a little coward more
than once
It hurts when it´s true
I´ve been following your footprints in
the snow
Trying to return the excuses that I stole


(...)


I gather all the courage and the hate
Little ego goes wild
And my voice broke I finally reached
that age
I was cruel as a child
If this feeling that remains is not mine
then it´s something new
Maybe my brilliance shining through

It´s noisy, can´t think I can´t speak
I´m tired of handshakes so please
Get rid of this crowd I can´t breathe here
anymore
You just have to let me go, you just have to
let me go "

[unexplainedmuse]

this isnt all too much heartbreaking, but it sends chills down my spine when i hear it


'1st day of sunday school...the teacher walked in
and a sad little girl stares at a picture of him
she said
'i know that man up there on the cross...i dont know his name...but i know he got off
cuz he was there in my old house, he held me close to his side,
as i hid there behind our couch.....the night that my parents died'


its a country song....based on a true story as well...which just sends even more chills





ah...and 'have i still got you to keep me warm?'Edited by: unexplainedmuse

[~Aoife~]

Another one of my favs is Coldplay's 'Shiver'


So I look in your direction,
But you pay me no attention,
And you know how much I need you,
But you never even see me.

I'll always be waiting for you...Edited by: ~Aoife~

[mestonf]

these are all fekin excellent lyrics!

[Patricia]

Another Kent song: Stay with me. "were you the only one that made it feel right being me?"


Unbelievable Truth, I can't wait: "and I can't wait to have you near again, and talk about the things that we both went through"


Tom Mcrae: "every brigde we build we burn, and we never learn to swim"


Jewel: "this is my heart, bleeding before you, this is me down on my knees (...) I've mistaken you for somebody else, somebosy who gave a damn, somebody more like myself"

[~Aoife~]

Bell x1- 'Eve, the Apple of my Eye'

You left, I died


Bell x1- 'Slowset'

Her friend comes along,
And you know shes been rescued.
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Slowset is definitely one of Bell x1's saddest songs

[greenlee2]

This is from Prince "Adore"


Until the end of time, ill be there for you. Your are my honey bun, i truely adore you. If God one day struck me blind, your beauty I'd still see. Loves tooweak to define, just what you mean to me.

[Patricia]

"Juliet, when we made love you used to cry. You said Ilove you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die. There's a place for us - you know the movie song... When are you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong?" Dire Strait

[WeeAngel]

If you leave me now
It's not that I can't take it
It's just that somehow
I think you'd break it
So much beyond repair
Like pulling out my hair
And poisoning the roots





Turn and walk away
I've overspoken
Now what more can I say?
I know that I can kneel
And I can cry
I know, I know
That I can show you how I died
Now what good would it do
Give the world another fool
Just sitting on this stool
I'm close to giving up on you



fool-damo


And I hate when you say
That I never fight for you
Sometimes you breathe
All over my skin
And you always end up
Closer than close
That's where I give in



You're taking
You're taking
You're taking me down
You're taking
You're taking
You're taking me down
And you always end up
Closer than close
That's where I give in
That's where I give in
That's where I give


insane


I would've lied for you
I would've cried for you
I crossed the line for you
I would've died for you...


then go...sung by lisa

[-oli]

biffy clyro


"every once in a while i see your face, im feeling half the man...then you shut your eyes youclose me away, im under...i want to feel your breath here with me, and kiss you"


"i just wish we all could betray"

[mestonf]

i know this sounds silly but the new song by britney i think is one of her best (don't worry i'm not really into comercialised stuff) but this is a good song:

Britney Spears - Everytime

"At night I pray
That soon your face
Will fade away

And everytime I try to fly
I fall without my wings
I feel so small
I guess I need you baby
And everytime I see you in my dreams
I see your face, you're haunting me
I guess I need you baby"


and Motion picture soundtrack by radiohead. Great lyrics.

Motion Picture Soundtrack
Red wine and sleeping pills
Help me get back to your arms
Cheap sex and sad films
Help me get back where I belong

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

Stop sending letters
Letters always get burned
It's not like the movies
They fed us on little white lies

I think you're crazy, maybe
I think you're crazy, maybe

I will see you in the next life

Beautiful angel
Pulled apart at birth
Limbless and helpless
I can't even recognize you

I think you're crazy, maybe (x6)

I will see you in the next life

[Sionna]

Pearl Jam - Last kiss


..........When I woke up the rain was pourin down. there were people standin all around.
Something warm flowing through my eyes. but somehow I found my baby that night.
I lifted her head, she looked at me and said. hold me darling, just a little
While. I held her close, I kissed her our last kiss. I found the love that i
Knew I had missed.

Well now she’s gone. even though I hold her tight. I lost my love, my life,
That night.

Oh where, oh where, can my baby be? the lord took her away from me. she’s gone
To heaven, so I’ve got to be good. so I can see my baby when I leave this
World.


Radiohead - Exit music(for a film)


Wake... from your sleep
The drying of your tears
Today.. we escape
We escape.

Pack and get dressed
Before your father hears us
Before.. all hell.. breaks loose.

Breathe... keep breathing
Don’t lose.. your nerve.
Breathe... keep breathing
I can’t do this.. alone.

Sing us a song
A song to keep us warm
There’s such a chill
Such a chill.

You can laugh
A spineless laugh
We hope that your rules and wisdom choke you
Now we are one
In everlasting peace

[Krystian]

Angie Aparo "Wonderland"


Take a piece of the sky
Make it rain cherry wine
Give her love give her life
Give her mine


She's a child young and willing
In a world that's unforgiving
That in time takes all the living
From your soul


I stand in the night with a silver sword
Killing her demons beating em off her door
Sleep baby don't you cry
Daddy's got a worn-out lullaby
And I live forever dark and damned
To see you spend one minute
In Wonderland


She can run free forever
Still our blood runs us together
I'll be there if she runs home
For worse or better
I know you like Adam knew Eve
Every tear you cry is a tear that I will bleed
Sleep baby don't you cry
Daddy's got a worn-out lullaby
And I live forever dark and damned
To see you spend one minute
In Wonderland



"Hush"- A. Aparo


She got it all
The boys they would crawl
Away from her door then they come back again
But don't let'em in
Smoking their grin
Leaving their best foot out in the cold
I'm waste of a momma's boy
It's a shame they say
There's so much you know he'll never enjoy
All the love you come to destroy


There's a moment lost in time
When she says hush
I'm on your side
It's just the two of us
You know that I
You know I'll never say goodbye


She smiles for me
It don't mean a thing
It don't take away the way it was before
I'm foolish and grown
I should've known
Her's was a world made for just one throne
I'm a waste of a momma's boy
It's a shame they say
There's so much you know he'll never enjoy
All the love you come to destroy


How many days can you waste it boy
It's a shame they say
There's so much you know he'll never enjoy
All the love we come to destroy


There's a moment lost in time
When she says hush
I'm on your side
It's just the two of us
Though they might try

[Krystian]

ohh i forgot one other very important one..


"These tears I've cried, I've cried a thousand oceans.
And if it seems I'm flo...o...ating in the darkness, well,
I can't believe that I wouldn't keep, keep you from flying.
So I would cry a thousand more if that's what it takes to sail you home.
Sail you home. Sail you home. Sail... Sail you home... "


-Tori Amos "1000 oceans"

[Mojo_Pin1980]

Bell x1- 'Eve, the Apple of my Eye'

You left, I died


Bell x1- 'Slowset'

Her friend comes along,
And you know shes been rescued.
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Slowset is definitely one of Bell x1's saddest songs



My 2 favourite Bell X1 songs!smileys/smiley4.gif


The most excruciatingly sad song I know is this one (works better if you hear his voice though):



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<H3>Bright Eyes -It's Cool, We Can Still Be Friends </H3>Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek
Yeah, you still kiss me, but it's just on the cheek
Yeah, you still kiss me sometimes, but it's just on the cheek
You pull away so easily

And I still call you, but I get your machine
And I still call you, but I get your machine
And if I'm lucky I guess, I get your roommate answering
But you're at the bar, or at Gene's

And we go to dinner, but you won't hold my hand
We sit at the same table, but we don't play with our feet
Yeah, we still go to dinner sometimes, but we don't sneak a kiss
When the waitress turns around

And we still watch movies, but we don't share the couch
And we still rent movies, but we don't share the couch
Yeah, we still watch movies sometimes, but you don't lay in my lap
The plot is slow, take a nap

And you even stay over, but now we stay in our clothes
Yeah, you'll even sleep over, but now we stay in our clothes
Yeah, you even sleep over sometimes, but we stay in our clothes
I'm only there so that you're not alone

And you say that I hurt you, in a voice like a prayer
Yeah, you say that I've hurt you, and your voice is like a prayer
Yeah, well maybe I hurt you sometimes, but let's contrast and compare
Lift up your shirt, the wound isn't there

I guess that your truth, is just the ghost of your lies
I guess your kind of truth, is just the ghost of your lies
Yeah, your kind of truth, darling, is just the ghost of your lies
I see through them all the time
So I'm pouring some whiskey, I'm gonna get drunk
Yeah, I'm pouring myself some whiskey, I'm going to get really f**king drunk
I'm pouring some whiskey right now, I'm going to get so, so drunk
That I pass out, forget your face, by the time I wake up</TD></TR></T></TABLE>

[rudy]

I know it´s over by The Smiths. http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/IKNOWITSOVER(548 ).asp (http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/IKNOWITSOVER548.asp)

Heart-breaking indeed.

[Mojo_Pin1980]

I know it´s over by The Smiths


Good call! Or how about There Is A Light That Never Goes Out?

[Uno- X]

snow patrol-run

to think I might not see those eyes
it makes it so hard not to cry
and aswe say our long good byes
I nearly do

[samuelle]

ben folds - "fred jones pt. 2," particularly this stanza:


"Yeah, and all of these b*stards
Have taken his place
He's forgotten but not yet gone.
And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time."


and this line: "no one is left here who knows his first name"

[Livo]

I know it´s over by The Smiths


Good call! Or how about There Is A Light That Never Goes Out?



love</span> that song!



take me out

tonight

where there's music and there's people and they're young and alive

driving in your car

i never never want to go home

because i haven't got one

anymore

[#Ian#]

I know it´s over by The Smiths. http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/IKNOWITSOVER(548 ).asp (http://www.davemcnally.com/lyrics/TheSmiths/IKNOWITSOVER548.asp)Heart-breaking indeed.

We have a winner folks.

Love that song, also known as the first part of Ian's medley of songs in C that he doesn't know the whole way through.

[Martini]

the entire song..


Hoobastank - The Reason..
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[GlttrGrrl]

sorry but The Reason makes me want to puke, not cry

[Martini]

aww.. i think it's so sweet! makes me want to cry.


it's probablyjust me! smileys/smiley9.gif

[Mojo_Pin1980]

Some of the most depressing lyrics ever:


Bright Eyes - The City Has Sex


the city has sex with itself i suppose
as the concrete collides, the scenery grows
and the lonely once bandaged lay fully exposed
having exposed their wounds for each other
and there is a boy in a basement with a four track machine
he's been strumming and screaming all night, down there
the tape hiss will cover the words that he sings
but then they say it's better to bury your sadness
in a graveyard or garden that waits for the spring to awake from its sleep
and burst into green
and i've cried and you would think i would better for it
but the sadness just sleeps and it stays in your spine
for the rest of your life
and i've learned and you'd think i'd be something more now,
but it just goes to show it is not what you know
its what you were thinking at the time.
this feeling's familiar, i've been here before
in a kitchen this quiet i waited for a sign or just something
that might reassure me of anything close to meaning or motion
(with a reason to move)
i need something i want to be close to
and i scream, but i still don't know why i do it
because the sound never stays it just swells and decays
so what is the point?
why try to fight what is now so certain?
the truth is all that i am is a passing event that will be forgotten.Edited by: Mojo_Pin1980

[marina]

"Juliet, when we made love you used to cry. You said Ilove you like the stars above, I'll love you till I die. There's a place for us - you know the movie song... When are you gonna realise, it was just that the time was wrong?" Dire Strait











smileys/smiley32.gif....well said Tricia


'i feel unsteady now....where's my love' - lilac wine (jeff buckleys version)

[Patricia]

Thanks Marina. "when we made love you used to cry" is just perfect. Perfect, it could make me cry just on its own!

[marina]

im actually going to get the ablum out now and listen to it....haven't heard it in agessmileys/smiley1.gif

[Gary]

Syd Barrett - Dark Globe


"My head touched the ground, I was half the way down,
Strumming the sand
Please lift a hand, I'm only a person
With Eskimo chain, you tattered my brain all the way

Won't you miss me? Wouldn't you miss me at all?"

rem did an amazing cover as well

[marina]

smileys/smiley19.gif....awww that sounds so sad

[Gary]

How about: Message Personnel - Dot Allison


"I'm inside, I'm outside
I'm with you, without you
Don't love me, don't leave me
Don't trust me, believe me

Embrace me, release me
Deny me, then feed me
I'll own you, then lose you
So distant, so near me"

[Gatsby]

Donovan - little tin solider


Once in a town in the black forest a little white toy-shop stood.
And the little tin soldier with only one leg lived in a castle of wood.
And across the room on another shelf stood a little glass case,
And a tiny ballerina lived in there all in her dress of lace.
And from where the little tin soldier stood they could see each other so clear
And the little tin soldier watched over her with a love that was so dear.
Then one day sadness came: the tiny ballerina was sold.
The little tin soldier was thrown away and into the gutter he rolled.
The water carried him to the sea and many far-off lands.
He made many children happy as he passed through their tiny hands.
And then one day they met again in a house in the land of Eire
And when the clocks on the wall struck the midnight hour
They jumped into a fire
And in that fire they shall stay
Forever in the day.
For the fire, Lord, is the fire of love,
Just like the peaceful dove.

[hazey]

Tons I could name and even more I'd forget to mention, but the first that comes to mind is the chorus from 'Reservations' by Wilco. Especially the last time Tweedy repeats it and stresses the last line five times in a row...it actually HURTS, it physically hurts. smileys/smiley28.gifsmileys/smiley28.gifsmileys/smiley28.gifsmileys/smiley19.gif





I've got reservations
About so many things
But not about you

Not about you
Not about you
Not about you
Not about you
Not about you





And then the song dissolves into 'abstract noise'... *sigh*

[marina]

How about: Message Personnel - Dot Allison


"I'm inside, I'm outside
I'm with you, without you
Don't love me, don't leave me
Don't trust me, believe me

Embrace me, release me
Deny me, then feed me
I'll own you, then lose you
So distant, so near me"


makes me wannacry bucketssmileys/smiley19.gif

[marina]

snow patrol-run

to think I might not see those eyes
it makes it so hard not to cry
and aswe say our long good byes
I nearly do





definately

[mestonf]

yep me agrees to

[marina]

i cant help falling in love with you - ub40


(although im not sure if thatsahappy or a sadlyric!)

[Patricia]

"now the drugs don't work, they just make me worse but I know I'll see your face again" smileys/smiley18.gif

[Tink]

king where are your people now- king ub40 (just the fact who it signifys.)


"if happy little blue birds fly above the rainbow why can't i?"- Eva Cassidys over the rainbow.


"I know why a caged bird sings only joy comes from song."- Alicia Keyes caged bird

[Tink]

ooooh "everytime you say goodbye i cry a little."


And


"i would rather i would rather go blind


then to see you walk away from me child.


So you see i love you so much that i don't want to watch you


leave me babe,


Most of all I just don't want to be free.


I was just, i was just, i was just


Sitting here thinking


Of your kiss and warm embrace.


When the reflection in the glass that i held to my lips baby


Revealed the tears that were on my face."-Etta JamesEdited by: Tink

[Mojo_Pin1980]

Such an incredibly sad songsmileys/smiley19.gif


Radiohead - Gagging Order


I know what you're thinking
But I'm not your property
No matter what you say
No matter what you say

Move along, there's nothing left to see
Just a body, nothing left to see

A couple more for breakfast
A little more for tea
Just to take the edge off
Just to take the edge off

Move along, there's nothing left to see
Just a body, pouring down the street

Move along, there's nothing left to see
Just a body, nothing left to see

Move along

[Tatevik]

Jeff buckley - lover you should have come over......


"she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever"

[Mojo_Pin1980]

Good call, Tatevik!smileys/smiley32.gif

[#Ian#]

More Jeff, Morning theft "I miss my beautiful friend"

[Mojo_Pin1980]

More Jeff, Morning theft "I miss my beautiful friend"


Ouch!smileys/smiley19.gifOr how about Opened Once:


I am a railroad track abandoned
With the sunset forgetting I ever happened
Did I ever happen?

[Tatevik]

Good call, Tatevik!smileys/smiley32.gif


Cheers mojo_pin..... that lyric always upsets me when i hear it, actually the whole verse does...


It's never over, all my riches for her smiles
when I slept so soft against her...
It's never over,
All my blood for the sweetness of her laughter
It's never over, she's the tear
That hangs inside my soul forever

[Mojo_Pin1980]

It's never over, my kingdom for a kiss upon her shoulder..

[cneill]

more Tom Mcrae - Walking To Hawaii


Falling feels like flying
Until you hit the ground
And everything is beautiful
'Till you take a look around
So let it go...


...Lead me to the edge and watch
See how far we both can drop
Let it all just slip away Let it fade


We'll walk to Hawaii
A final sunset on the waves
The perfect girl the perfect place
To watch the world go down in flames
Wouldn't that be a shame
So let it go

Lead me to the edge don't stop
Beauty always had a cost
And as the air slips from our lungs
We'll sing songs of love
Oh love, oh love...



"Ghost of A Shark"

Tell me now is there difference
Between a shark and the ghost of a shark
'Cause all I have are secrets and memories of the dark


Oh rip away the skin burn my heart...Edited by: cneill

[cneill]

ok I can't help myself


Ahem...Mr. Ben Harper


"Please Bleed"


...Is this really living sometimes it's hard to tell
Or is this a kinder gentler hell
Turn out the lights
And let me stare into your soul
I was born and bled for you to hold...


...Never said thank you
Never said please
Never gave reason to believe
So as it stands
I remain on my knees
Good lovers make great enemies

Please bleed
So I know that you are real
So I know that you can feel
The damage that you've done
Who have I become
To myself I am num
I am num
I am num


"Another Lonely Day"


Yes indeed, I'm alone again.
And here comes emptiness crashing in.
It's either love or hate,
I can't find in between,
'cause I've been with witches and I've been with a queen...


...Yesterday seems like a life ago,
'cause the one I love today, I hardly know,
You I held so close in my heart, Oh dear,
Grow further from me with every fallen tear.

It wouldn't have worked out anyway.
So now it's just another lonely day.
Further along we just may.
But for now it's just another lonely day.
For now it's just another lonely day.
For now it's just another lonely day.


"Breakin' Down"


...One day you said everything was just right
I don't see how it changed overnight
One day you said everything was so strong
The next day you turn to me and say
It' s been wrong all along

Oh and now you won't even look at me
You pass me by in the street and you won't even speak
I never meant to cause you any harm
How could two people start so close
And end up so far
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down
I'm breakin' down


"Walk Away"


Oh no- here comes that sun again.
And (that) means another day without you my friend.
And it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself.
And it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else...


...We've tried the goodbye so many days.
We walk in the same direction so that we could never stray.
They say if you love somebody then you have got to set them free,
but I would rather be locked to you than live in this pain and misery.
They say time will make all this go away,
but it's time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them into yesterdays.
And once again that rising sun is droppin' on down
And once again, you my friend, are nowhere to be found.

And it's so hard to do and so easy to say.
But sometimes, sometimes you just have to walk away


SOMEBODY STOP ME!!!!!!!!!!Edited by: cneill

[Volcano]

Whiping BOy



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is not a good day for me, for today I found out I was mad, as I have
discovered this in the last 45 minutes my madness isstill new, fresh
in my mind so to say, so I can understand itmore. It has come to my
attention that over the past year and ahalf I have acquired a
condition known as acute paranoidschizophrenia in relation to everyone
and everything I did. Itgradually worsened through the year to this
point of realisationthat I have a twin mind.

And in the
intervening time I consumed with a passion variousthings to keep the
main side happy, and as the main side grewhungrier quicker, and if it
wasn't fed each time, it began toeat the other

Distrust of
everything, it ran in the family, at least on mymothers side. There
was too much trust in the other. I am it'seldest offspring and I too
have distrust too much. That's why Idon't want children. Each person
has their own tragedy, mine asI found out was this fear of my old lady
turning into the verysame old lady that I despised when I grew up

But
you fall in love and is it possible to fall in love withevery woman
you meet, you just stand there with your mouth open,thinking wishing I
never existed. But this is my time and thegirl I just met should be
here 'cause here was a woman who heldme and did not copy my every
move, she just let it happen, neverasked, but I answered for I myself
am heaven and hell

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[indigoangel]

as referred to on my other post this is from Hurt


"what have i become my sweetest friend


everyone i know leaves in the end


and you could have it all, my empire of dirt


i will let you down, i will make you hurt"


someone sent it to me in a text once, made my heart bleed! smileys/smiley36.gif

[loucha]

ok I can't help myself


Ahem...Mr. Ben Harper


"





how could you forget waiting on an angel (if thats its proper name)


"waiting on an angel, one to carry me home, hope you come to see me soon cause i dont wanna go alone, i dont wana go home alone"


and then one of my ultimate favourites has to be joseph arthur:honey and the moon


"if you weren't real i would make you up".Edited by: loucha

[cneill]

how could you forget waiting on an angel (if thats its proper name)


"waiting on an angel, one to carry me home, hope you come to see me soon cause i dont wanna go alone, i dont wana go home alone"


Doh! knew i forgot something

[-oli]

Dry Your Eyes


In one single moment your whole life can turn 'round
I stand there for a minute starin' straight into the ground
Lookin' to the left slightly, then lookin' back down
World feels like it's caved in - proper sorry frown
Please let me show you where we could only just be, for us
I can change and I can grow or we could adjust
The wicked thing about us is we always have trust
We can even have an open relationship, if you must
I look at her she stares almost straight back at me
But her eyes glaze over like she's lookin' straight through me
Then her eyes must have closed for what seems an eternity
When they open up she's lookin' down at her feet

Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you've got to walk away now
It's over

So then I move my hand up from down by my side
It's shakin', my life is crashin' before my eyes
Turn the palm of my hand up to face the skies
Touch the bottom of her chin and let out a sigh
'Cause I can't imagine my life without you and me
There's things I can't imagine doin', things I can't imagine seein'
It weren't supposed to be easy, surely
Please, please, I beg you please
She brings her hands up towards where my hands rested
She wraps her fingers round mine with the softness she's blessed with
She peels away my fingers, looks at me and then gestures
By pushin' my hand away to my chest, from hers

Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you've got to walk away now
It's over

And I'm just standin' there, I can't say a word
'Cause everythin's just gone
I've got nothin'
Absolutely nothin'

Tryin' to pull her close out of bare desperation
Put my arms around her tryin' to change what she's sayin'
Pull my head level with hers so she might engage in
Look into her eyes to make her listen again
I'm not gonna f**kin', just f**kin' leave it all now
'Cause you said it'd be forever and that was your vow
And you're gonna let our things simply crash and fall down
You're well out of order now, this is well out of town
She pulls away, my arms are tightly clamped round her waist
Gently pushes me back and she looks at me straight
Turns around so she's now got her back to my face
Takes one step forward, looks back, and then walks away

Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you've got to walk away now
It's over

I know in the past I've found it hard to say
Tellin' you things, but not tellin' straight
But the more I pull on your hand and say
The more you pull away

Dry your eyes mate
I know it's hard to take but her mind has been made up
There's plenty more fish in the sea
Dry your eyes mate
I know you want to make her see how much this pain hurts
But you've got to walk away now.

[Tink]

Awwwwwhttp://www.eskimofriends.com/forum/smileys/smiley19.gifthat is my friends song. She is relating to that situation at the mo so it is very heart breaking to me to see her upset.

[Petra]

i know someone mentioned this already but ive gotta say cheers darlin - rips my heart in two when i listen to the lyrics

[deeferdog]

The lyrics from 'Ghost' by the Indigo Girls get me everytime.


and there's not enough room
in this world for my pain
signals cross and love gets lost
and time passed makes it plain
of all my demon spirits
i need you the most
i'm in love with your ghost
i'm in love with your ghost


and i feel it like a sickness
how this love is killing me
i'd walk into the fingers
of your fire willingly
and dance the edge of sanity
i've never been this close
i'm in love with your ghost


this bitter pill i swallow
is the silence that i keep
it poisons me i can't swim free
the river is too deep
though i'm baptized by your touch
i am no worse than most
in love with your ghost

[loucha]

someone said more tom mcrae and i agree!!!!


human remains


"soon enough this will fade like a photograph of you and me"


The whole of streetlight gets me, Ive highlighted the lines i love most!!!!!( just to be helpfull!!!!!)


"She's a street light in the evening rain,
An empty seat on the rush hour train.
She's a polaroid lying on the street,
She's the lover I may never meet.

Every night I breathe her in,
Feel her sink into my skin.
Still I feel,
That I am envious and obvious and desperate for your love,
I am shouted by and criticised,
Still I crave your touch.
And I know the time you're killing is mine,
But I... I don't mind.

She's a phone call in the dead of night,
A stranger's voice I recognize.
She's a radio playing in the dark,
She's the name you'll find written on my heart.

Every night I breathe her in,
Feel her sink into my skin.
Still I feel
That I am envious and obvious and desperate for your love,
I am shouted by and criticised,
Still I crave your touch.
And I know the time you're killing is mine,
But I... I don't mind"

[Beevers_uk]

Has to be....

"And I hate when you say
That I never fight for you
Sometimes you breathe
All over my skin
And you always end up
Closer than close
That's where I give in"

:smiley12:

[insane_lorraine]

"Well I know I make you cry
And I know sometimes you wanna die
But do you really feel alive
without me?
If so: be free
If not: leave him for me
Before one of us has accidental babies.

We aren't free."

have to gulp back tears during this song :smiley19:

[Cali]

"Well I wish I had given you more time
To say thank you
My beautiful friend
But sometimes you gotta send it away
To bring it
To bring it back again
But oh what a way to go
So peaceful
He's smiling
Oh what a way to go
I'm with you
I'm singing
You'll always
Have open eyes
You'll always
Have a special place
In Memphis
On Valentine's day
Die suddenly
At a wonderful age
We're ready
We're ready to go
When you still got so much to say"

MEMPHIS - PJ HARVEY dedicated to jeff buckley

i was with some friends and i just started to sob :smiley13: i was kind of drunk too :smiley9: but this song is so sad

[cille]

did they know one another, pj and jeff, or is she being metaphorical?

[Cali]

i dunno

[audity]

And there she goes, past that old window/
Casting her elegant shadow/
And there he goes, so afraid that she knows/
Seeing her elegant shadow/
So alone/
-Joseph Caimbéal


As weeks went by
It showed that she was not fine
They told me son it’s time
To tell the truth
And she broke down and I broke
Down
’cause I was tired of lying
Driving back to her apartment
For the moment we’re alone
She’s alone
And I’m alone
Now I know it
-Ben Folds Five, from "Brick"

[Himself]

"now the drugs don't work, they just make me worse but I know I'll see your face again" smileys/smiley18.gif
:smiley32: :smiley32: good call, good call :smiley32: :smiley32:

Colour Blind by the counting crows is heart-wrenching i think :smiley19:

[Mr Benn.]

Some Ryan Adams stuff can really get to me.

Cry on demand

"Cry on demand. Teach me if you want to. No you don't have to, I'll just close my eyes and think of you."

And the whole of She Wants To Play A Game Of Hearts.

"I'm just a rogdoll boy
For a lonley girl
Use once and destroy...."

Yeah counting crows stuff can get to me aswell.

[PenguinBoy]

The Final Push To the Sum, by Grandaddy, is probably one of the saddest songs i've ever heard... save perhaps fields of gold.

If u haven't heard this song, i reccomend u get hold of it to actually hear what makes it so heart-breaking.... it's about getting old.

I never know their names, But i smile just the same
New faces...Strange places, Most everything i see, Becomes a blur to me
And i'm wasted because, The fast pace is too much
Here at the final push to the sum
If my old life is done, Then, what have i become? What have i become?

Every now and then, The memories creep in
A breeze and blue skies, The trees and you and i
But if my old life is done, i guess that i've moved on
To new faces and strange places, Here at the final push to the sum
If my old life is done, then, What have i become?

What have i become? What have i become? What have i become? What have i become? What have i become?


American Pie by Don Mclean always makes me cry, when u think about it, the tragic could-have-been etc. And vincent of course makes me cry.

[philbo]

where to start...

The Guggenheim Grotto
Who has more beauty, finch or black jackdaw?
Who is more precious, fleece or red tiger claw?
Does joy or sorrow lie closer to god?
Do angels and devils deal from one deck of cards?

You must sing more sad.
You must sing more sad.
You know the world wouldn’t feel so bad if you would sing more sad.

Does love lie in madness, madness in truth?
Is wisdom in knowing, knowing can never prove?
If being can be but being right now,
How can tomorrow weigh anything more than cloud?

Tom Baxter
Oh...So here I sit and I reminisce,
Of that afternoon when our lips first kissed,
Drinking Italian wines
In that sweet hot summertime,
When you said you'd be mine forever

The Shades
I gave you the impression I was something I’m not
I was trying too hard
I kept on thinking I couldn’t be what you thought of me
I’m sorry
I gave you the impression I was more than I am
I just had to have you
I kept on thinking I couldn’t be all that you need
I’m so sorry

Anna Lee
And I know that loving you is forbidden
It’s sweeter on the other side
And I don’t mind if you have me driven
Out of my mind waiting


Bill Coleman
And when you were shy you got drunk
When you got drunk you were a fool
When you were a fool you fell apart
When you fell apart you picked yourself up again,
didn’t you?

When you were sold you wouldn’t buy it
When you are old you will regret it
When you were bad you tried to hide it
When you were mad you just broke it

And when you were laughing you were dry
When you were crying you were high
And every escape is just a lie
Every escape is just a lie
Every escape is just a lie
Every escape is just a lie

Tom Waits
I admit that I ain't no angel
I admit that I ain't no saint
I'm selfish and I'm cruel and I'm blind
If I exorcise my devils
Well my angels may leave too
When they leave they're so hard to find

So please call me, baby
Wherever you are
It's too cold to be out walking in the streets
We do crazy things when we're wounded
Everyone's a bit insane
I don't want you catching your death of cold
Out walking in the rain

Mick Flannery
I have lost every ring,
I have broken every chain,
And I've burned every bridge on my way.
I have worn out all my welcome,
I have scorned each fond approach,
And I've torn up every song I ever played.

I have one heart,
One head,
And one bundle
Of one's regret.

I have placed myself in races
That raced through lonely places,
But I never could escape my own parole.

I have chased it and I have caught it,
I have faced it and I have fought it,
But I've wasted every chance to lose control.

I have one heart,
One head,
And one bundle
Of one's regret.

[alik1986]

black by pearl jam

Hey...oooh...
Sheets of empty canvas, untouched sheets of clay
Were laid spread out before me as her body once did.
All five horizons revolved around her soul
As the earth to the sun
Now the air I tasted and breathed has taken a turn
Ooh, and all I taught her was everything
Ooh, I know she gave me all that she wore
And now my bitter hands chafe beneath the clouds
Of what was everything?
Oh, the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...

I take a walk outside
I'm surrounded by some kids at play
I can feel their laughter, so why do I sear
Oh, and twisted thoughts that spin round my head
I'm spinning, oh, I'm spinning
How quick the sun can, drop away
And now my bitter hands cradle broken glass
Of what was everything?
All the pictures have all been washed in black, tattooed everything...
All the love gone bad turned my world to black
Tattooed all I see, all that I am, all I'll ever be...yeah...

Uh huh...uh huh...ooh...
I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a sun
In somebody else's sky, but why
Why, why can't it be, why can't it be mine

[Cali]

there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to feel you deep in my heart
there was nothing in the world that i ever
wanted more than to never feel the breaking
apart all my pictures of you

the cure - pictures of you

[allquixotic]

Next door, there's an old man
who lived to his nineties
Then one day, passed away
in his sleep

And his wife,
she stayed for a couple of days
Then passed away

I'm sorry, I know that's a
Strange way to tell you that I know
We belong

But I know that I am
I am
The luckiest

~Ben Folds, "The Luckiest"

[Fitzcarraldo]

I didn't say it from my heart, I said it from my most instinctive, defensive part

nina hynes

[PenguinBoy]

Though I am old with wondering
through hollow lands and hilly lands
i will find out where she has gone
and kiss her lips and hold her hand
and walk allong long dappled grass
and pluck till time and times are done
the silver apples of the moon
the golden apples of the sun

christy moore - the song of wandering aongus

[Lazy Life]

Taken from Ryan Adams' "Hard Way To Fall"

"...See her smiling at him?
That used to be me
I could find her in a thunderstorm
Just by the way that the rain would fall
And we used to be something
But somethin' happened to me
Oh, my God, when I was free..."

[~Aoife~]

'The first time I saw you,
I knew it would never last-
I'm not half what I wish I was'

Elliott Smith - Pitseleh

[kiwi sara]

definatelt "black" by pearl jam

.... i know someday your gonna be the star in somebody elses sky.... why why cant it be mine?.......

[Cali]

"It's never over, she's the tear that hangs inside my soul forever." http://users.pandora.be/eforum/emoticons4u/sad/494.gif

Jeff Buckley - Lover, you should have come over

[sahika]

for sure the smiths and the lyrics of there is a light that never goes out..
it is the song of the cities, of the wish for long trips which let you disappear somewhere with the one..
most heart breaking lyrics but,
there is a light that never goes out!

[philbo]

Recovery Room, from The Jealous Sound. this song is just one of those that captures that time when you dont know whether to cry or scream yer lungs out...


It's been a month since the Fourth of July
Stood there and stared at the grief in my eyes
Leave it to me to live out a lie

So I sat on the curb and I cried like a child
Catching my breath just walk for awhile
And I thought of what could go wrong

I'm already gone
Don't say a word
I can't hear you
Don't hold me close
I can't feel you

So I stopped at the store to grab cigarettes
Couldn't say it out loud couldn't fathom it yet
You finally feel and we feel like this

I'm sorry just wasn't enough destroying your faith
Preserving your trust we couldn't choose
And neither could I

I know that I left you for dead
Don't give up so soon
Because you know that we all have a bed
It's waiting for you in the recovery room

Just forget everything that I said
Washed out the wounds
Walls painted red
Waiting for you in the recovery room

She stood there in her summer dress
Wind caught her hair and failed to confess
I smiled as we raced through the night
My hand caught her wings then nothing felt right

I know that I left you for dead
Don't give up so soon
Because you know that we all have a bed
It's waiting for you in the recovery room

Just forget everything that I said
Washed out the wounds
Walls painted red
Waiting for you in the recovery room

[Beevers_uk]

Well it didn't take you long, did it babe?
To learn to sing my song, and get yourself laid,
No it didn't take you long, did it babe?
Only when I was gone, you are the last of the slaves
And it didn't take me long, to realise
All of your songs were just lies, lies lies
And it didn't take me long, did it babe?
When you find a new boy whose face you could change

Ok, I'm sorry, I'm just a little angry at you
Cause I do it like a quarry,
When you were angry with me
Maybe its not right yeah,
But hell I'm angry with you
It's not another lie but you just not see what you do
It's what you hated in me,
And I was never free enough to

Yeah but didn't take you long, did it babe?
More or less to the rave
Yeah but didn't take you long, did it babe?
The moment I was gone, the masters parade
And it didn't take you long, to tell your friends
How I had done you wrong and just left you in the air
Yeah but didn't take you long, did it babe?
To find a new boy whose dick you could crave

Ok, I'm sorry, I'm just a little angry at you
Cause I dug like a quarry,
When you were angry with me
Maybe it's not right yeah,
But hell I'm angry with you
It's not another lie but you just not see what you do
It's what you hated in me,
And I was never free enough to
-------------------------
I've been waiting for your blood
To appear on my hands
And there it was
Under very different circumstances

I've been walking you
Into those lamposts again
I'd rather do that than
Let go of your hand

[haitoku]

Living alone..
I think of all the friends I know.
But when I dial the telephone..
nobody's home..


.
..
Alll Byyyy Myyyselffffff...Don't want to be..

[eskimoiowa]

I apologise if this thread already exists, but thought it would be interesting.

(Just in this kinda mood today smileys/smiley19.gif )

Any ideas? I've got a few in mind but two that stick out from Damien:

'Girl That Does Yoga'~

"The day it ends
And there's no need for me"


And, 'Lonelily'~

"...then you let me down" smileys/smiley19.gif smileys/smiley19.gif

Edited by: ~Aoife~
I was going to say Lonelily as well... "It was one thing you cheated but you took him all the way through your bed... You let me down"

Love Song by The Cure " However far away... I will always love you, however long I stay, I will always love you, whatever words I say, I will always love you..."

And of course (I believe it's part of my signature!), Creep: " I wanna perfect body, I wanna a perfect soul... I want you to notice when I'm not around... I wish I was special... You're so F***ing special"

[Cali]

Love Song by The Cure " However far away... I will always love you, however long I stay, I will always love you, whatever words I say, I will always love you..."
^ :smiley20:

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girl
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful woman
One day I’ll grow up, I’ll be a beautiful girl

But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

One day I’ll grow up, I’ll feel the power in me
One day I’ll grow up, of this I’m sure
One day I’ll grow up, I know a womb within me
One day I’ll grow up, feel it full and pure

But for today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy
For today I am a child, for today I am a boy

Antony and the Johnsons - For Today I Am A Boy

[Spyne]

something for kate - back to you
and i defy gravity just to get myself, back to you.

something for kate - old pictures
, i build you out of nothing to have you near, i remembered you on trains, so now you're on every train i hear, i turned you in, i turned you into whispers, i turned you in, i turned you into old pictures, i wished that you were gone, so you're gone

[sahika]

something for kate - back to you
and i defy gravity just to get myself, back to you.

something for kate - old pictures
, i build you out of nothing to have you near, i remembered you on trains, so now you're on every train i hear, i turned you in, i turned you into whispers, i turned you in, i turned you into old pictures, i wished that you were gone, so you're gone

:smiley20:
exactly.

[sahika]

skunk anansie only you..so so beautiful..one of the best in stoosh for me..

here are the lyrics;

lost infidelity,
we never said a word
so black and white to see
it's all the lies we've heard

in my mind nothing makes sense
i'm nothing you can't have
cracked up to disagree,
that's all we've ever had

you, only you, only you can't be the one

your secret smile so quaint
in memories foretold
laughing so viciously,
your conscience has been sold

in my face there's no more joy
i'm all that i should be
cracked infidelity,
is all you are to me

you, only you, only you cant be the one

we don't talk anymore
we don't care anymore

[sahika]

placebo 20 years..
you are the truth not I..

There are twenty years to go
and twenty ways to know
who will wear
who will wear the hat

There are twenty years to go
the best of all i hope
enjoy the ride
the medicine show

And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye

There are twenty years to go
the faithful and the low
the best of starts
the broken heart,the stone

There are twenty years to go
the punch drunk and the blow
the worst of starts
the mercy part,the phone

And thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
we need to concentrate on more than meets the eye

Thems the breaks
for we designer fakes
but it`s you i take it's you´re the truth,not i

There are twenty years to go
a golden age i know
but all will pass
will end too fast,you know

There are twenty years to go
and many friends i hope
though some may hold the rose
some hold the rope

and that´s the end and that´s the start of it
that´s the whole and that´s the part of it
that´s the high and that´s the heart of it
that´s the long and that´s the short of it
that´s the best and that´s the test in it
that´s the doubt,the doubt,the trust in it
that´s the sight and that´s the sound of it
that´s the gift and that´s the trick in it

you´re the truth,not i
you´re the truth,not i

you´re the truth,not i
you´re the truth,not i

[Cali]

i never thought of 20 years as a sad song, to me is more of a cautionary but hopeful song. either way it's a great one

i've always been traumatized by eleonor rigby :smiley9:


Ah, look at all the lonely people
Ah, look at all the lonely people

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has
been
Lives in a dream
Waits at the window, wearing the face that she keeps in a jar by the
door
Who is it for?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from ?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong ?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will
hear
No one comes near.
Look at him working. Darning his socks in the night when there's
nobody there
What does he care?

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her
name
Nobody came
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from
the grave
No one was saved

All the lonely people
Where do they all come from?
All the lonely people
Where do they all belong?

[waldorf]

probably a well-known song but maybe you never remarked this sentse
: look at the stars look how they shine for you
(coldplay - yellow)

or just nearly everything from Bruce Springsteen

for exemple : the Ghost of Tom Joad

Men walking along the railroad tracks
Going someplace there's no going back
Highway patrol choppers coming up over the ridge
Hot soup on a campfire under the bridge
Shelter line stretching round the corner
Welcome to the new world order
Families sleeping in their cars in the southwest
No home no job no peace no rest

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kiddin' nobody about where it goes
I'm sittin' down here in the campfire light
Searching for the ghost of Tom Joad

He pulls prayer book out of his sleeping bag
Preacher lights up a butt and takes a drag
Waiting for when the last shall be first and the first shall be last
In a cardboard box neath the underpass
Got a one-way ticket to the promised land
You got a hole in your belly and gun in your hand
Sleeping on a pillow of solid rock
Bathing in the city aqueduct

The highway is alive tonight
But where it's headed everybody knows
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
Waiting on the ghost of Tom Joad

Tom said "Mom, wherever there's a cop beating a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there's a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me Mom I'll be there
Wherever there's somebody fighting for a place to stand
Or decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody's struggling to be free
Look in their eyes Mom you'll see me."

The highway is alive tonight
But nobody's kidding nobody about where it goes
I'm sitting down here in the campfire light
With the ghost of old Tom Joad


or I want you - Elvis Costelo


Oh my baby baby I love you more than I can tell
I don't think I can live without you
And I know that I never will
Oh my baby baby I want you so it scares me to death
I can't say anymore than "I love you"
Everything else is a waste of breath

I want you
You've had your fun you don't get well no more
I want you
Your fingernails go dragging down the wall
Be careful darling you might fall

I want you
I woke up and one of us was crying
I want you
You said "Young man I do believe you're dying"
I want you
If you need a second opinion as you seem to do these days
I want you
You can look in my eyes and you can count the ways

I want you
Did you mean to tell me but seem to forget
I want you
Since when were you so generous and inarticulate
I want you
It's the stupid details that my heart is breaking for
It's the way your shoulders shake and what they're shaking for
I want you
It's knowing that he knows you now after only guessing
It's the thought of him undressing you or you undressing

I want you
He tossed some tatty compliment your way
I want you
And you were fool enough to love it when he said
"I want you"

I want you
The truth can't hurt you it's just like the dark
It scares you witless
But in time you see things clear and stark
I want you
Go on and hurt me then we'll let it drop
I want you
I'm afraid I won't know where to stop
I want you
I'm not ashamed to say I cried for you
I want you
I want to know the things you did that we do too
I want you
I want to hear he pleases you more than I do
I want you
I might as well be useless for all it means to you
I want you
Did you call his name out as he held you down
I want you
Oh no my darling not with that clown
I want you

I want you
You've had your fun you don't get well no more
I want you
No-one who wants you could want you more
I want you
I want you

I want you
Every night when I go off to bed and when I wake up
I want you

I'm going to say it once again 'til I instill it
I know I'm going to feel this way until you kill it
I want you
I want you
I want you

[The Pink Girly]

"...Juliet, when we made love you used to cry,
you said "I love you like the stars above and I'll love you 'til I die"
and I forget, I forget..."
~Dire Straits, "Romeo and Juliet"

"I'm almost drowning in her sea,
she's nearly falling on her knees,
it's almost everything I need"
~Counting Crows, "Sullivan Street"




Hey, kid - good morning
You look like an angel
I don't remember when we fell asleep
We should get up, kid
Cathy is waiting...

Look at us, lying here
Dreaming, pretending
I made a promise and I took a vow
I wrote a story
And we changed the ending
Cathy, just look at me now!

Hold on, facts are facts
Just relax, lay low
All right, the panic recedes:
Nobody needs to know

Put on my armour
I'm off to Ohio
Back into battle 'til
I don't know when
Swearing to her that I
Never was with you
And praying I"ll hold you again

Hold on, clip these wings -
Things get out of hand
All right, it's over, it's done
No one will understand
No one will understand...

We build a treehouse
I keep it from shaking
Little more glue every time that it breaks
Perfectly balanced
And then I start making
Conscious, deliberate mistakes

All that I ask for
Is one little corner
One private room
At the back of my heart
Tell her I found one
She sends out battalions
To claim it and blow it apart

I grip and she grips
And faster we're sliding
Sliding and spilling
And what can I do?
Come back to bed, kid
Take me inside you
I promise I won't lie to you

Hold on, don't cry yet
I won't let you go
All right - the panic recedes
All right - everyone bleeds
All right - I get what I need
And nobody needs to know
Nobody needs to know

And since I have to be in love with someone
Since I need to be in love with someone
Maybe I could be in love with someone
Like you...

~Jason Robert-Brown from the musical Last 5 Years the song is called
"Nobody needs to know"

i love this thread!

[The Pink Girly]

also, pretty much the whole of the new snow patrol album breaks my heart. especially "set the fire to the third bar".


I find the map and draw a straight line
Over rivers, farms, and state lines
The distance from here to where you'd be
It's only finger-lengths that I see
I touch the place where I'd find your face
My finger in creases of distant dark places

I hang my coat up in the first bar
There is no peace that I've found so far
The laughter penetrates my silence
As drunken men find flaws in science

Their words mostly noises
Ghosts with just voices
Your words in my memory
Are like music to me

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
I, I pray that something picks me up
And sets me down in your warm arms

After I have travelled so far
We'd set the fire to the third bar
We'd share each other like an island
Until exhausted, close our eyelids
And dreaming, pick up from
The last place we left off
Your soft skin is weeping
A joy you can't keep in

I'm miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
And I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms

And miles from where you are,
I lay down on the cold gound
and I, I pray that something picks me up
and sets me down in your warm arms


love it love it love it

[carvinC980t_kid]

when my gf and i broke up for a few months, she dumped me : (, i really wanted her bad, but i started thinking the best thing/way for her to find out what she really wants and needs it to just walk away and let her be and at the same time i had a huge ben harper fetish. the song that made me cry...yes i cried is

Ben Harper
"walk away"

Oooo no
here comes that sun again
that means another day without you my friend
and it hurts me to look into the mirror at myself
and it hurts even more to have to be with somebody else
and its so hard to do
and so easy to say
but sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away

so many people to love in my life
why do i worry about one
but you put the happy in my ness
you put the good times into my fun

and its so hard to do
and so easy to say
sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door

we've tried the goodbyes
so many days
we walk in the same direction
so that we could never stray
they say if you love somebody
then you have got to set them free
but i would rather be locked to you than live in this pain andmisery
they say that time, will make all this go away
but its time that has taken my tomorrows and turned them intoyesterday
and once again that rising sun is a droppin on down
and once again you my friend are no where to be found

and its so hard to do, and so easy to say
but sometimes
sometimes
you just have to walk away
walk away
and head for the door
you just walk away
walk away
walk away.....
just walk on
walk on
turn and head for the door....
walk away

it completely described everything i needed to do and everything i didn't want to do. luckly i cared about her too much to walk away and she figured out whatever had been troubling her and we are together now!!!!!!!!! and she is happier then she has ever been according to her mother!

[Volcano]

Some lines from Nick Cave
"Today she took a train to the West"
(black hair)

"Said something I did not mean to say
It all came out the wrong way"
(Love Letter)

"and if the Thames weren’t so filthy
I would jump in the river and drown"
(the grief came riding)

[Beevers_uk]

I don't know what I'm doing
I don't know what I'm saying
I don't know why I'm watching all these white people dancing

I don't know where I'm going
But I do know that I'm walking
Where?
I don't know
Just away from this love affair

I can't say that I'm cruisin'
Not that I don't like cruisin'
Just that I'm bruisin from you

I can't say that I'm waltzin'
Not that I don't like waltzing
Would rather be waltzin' with you

So I guess that I'm going
I guess that I am walking
Where?
I don't know
Just away from this love affair

[Anja]

:smiley1: that was from Rufus Wainwright "love affair"

Here is a text i like very much:
So hold me when I’m here,
Love me when I’m wrong,
Hold me when I’m scared,
And love me when I’m gone.

Everything I am,
And everything in me,
Wants to be the one you wanted me to be.
I’ll never let you down,
Even if I could,
Give up everything,
If only for your good,

So hold me when I’m here,
Love me when I’m wrong,
Hold me when I’m scared,
You won’t always be there,
So love me when I’m gone.
So love me when I’m gone
(3 Doors Down)

[The Pink Girly]

maybe there's a God above, but all I ever learnt from love was how to shoot at someone who outdrew you,
it's not a cry you can hear at night, it's not somebody who's seen the light...
it's a cold and it's a broken hallelujah...

[Pirlo]

i'm on the outside of love
always under or above
must be a different view
to be a me with a you

[Falling Slowly]

Bright Eyes- Perfect Sonnet


But autumn came, she disappeared, you can't remember
Where she said she was going to
But you know that she's gone
Cause she left you a song
That you don't want to sing....

But as for me I'm coming to my final failure
I've killed myself with changes trying to make things better
And ended up becoming something other
than what I had planned to be

[MacrossGirl]

From "Aime"
"You know when you've found it,
There's something I've learned
'Cause you feel it when they take it away"



Johnny Cash remake of NIN "Hurt"
I cant watch the video without crying. Johnny rules!



Nick Cave "Where Do We Go Now But Nowhere"

"I remember a girl so bold and so bright
Loose-limbed and laughing and brazen and bare
Sits gnawing her knuckles in the chemical light
O where do we go now but nowhere"

[Jen de mighty]

Loving this thread!! Hafta agree with whoever said "Romeo and Juliet"...gets me everytime.

Mundy - Gin and Tonic Sky

On a lonesome evening,
When rain turns pavement black,
I put you on a train - I'd never see your back again.

And you were leaving, I couldn't fathom why.
And the moon was a slice of lemon in a gin and tonic sky, gin and tonic sky.

Well I put you on a train
You should have heard the engine's laughter,
saying "I'm taking her away - don't come running after"

You gave me one last cold kiss, colder than steel..
And this is be the last time..
And my tears were like vinegar, burning in my eyes, burning in my eyes..

And you were leaving, I couldn't fathom why.
And the moon was a slice of lemon in a gin and tonic sky, gin and tonic sky.

Please swear you won't take her from me..
And I always said train stations gave me a lonesome feeling
Cos from someone, somewhere, they were stealing, stealing...

Particularly these lines:

And I see the train's arms are violently pumping and my little ruby heart inside me a-thumping..
I was my own man now - a soldier on a battlefield
A grain of sand on a cold dust beach
A one man band with an empty open hand
A one man band with an empty open hand....

Nice thread!

[Cali]

"Jugband Blues"
(From Saucerful of Secrets - Syd Barrett)

It's awfully considerate of you to think of me here
And I'm much obliged to you for making it clear
That I'm not here.
And I never knew we could be so thick
And I never knew we could be so blue
And I'm grateful that you threw away my old shoes
And brought me here instead dressed in red
And I'm wondering who could be writing this song.
I don't care if the sun don't shine
And I don't care if nothing is mine
And I don't care if I'm nervous with you
I'll do my loving in the winter.
And the sea isn't green
And I love the queen
And what exactly is a dream
And what exactly is a joke.

One of my favorite Pink Floyd songs. It's too sad :smiley28: , specially today.

[Irisheskimo]

Cool thread! So many cool lyrics to choose from.... no song gets me like an Avenged Sevenfold song.

From: Avenged Sevenfold - I Won't See You Tonight Part 1

"Cry alone, I've gone away, no more nights, no more pain.
I've gone alone, took all my strength, I've made the change,
I won't see you tonight.

Sorrow sank deep inside my blood,
All the ones around me I cared for and loved.

Building up inside of me, a place of dark so cold I had to set me free.
Don't mourn for me, you're not the one to place the blame,
As bottles call my name, I won't see you tonight.

Sorrow sank deep inside my blood,
All the ones around me I cared for, and most of all I loved.
But I can't see myself that way, please don't forget me,
Or cry when I'm away.

No more breath inside, essence left my heart tonight.
No more breath inside, essence left my heart tonight."

From: Avenged Sevenfold - Warmness On The Soul

"Your hazel green-tint eyes watching every move I make,
And that feeling of doubt, it's erased.
I'll never feel alone again with you by my side,
You're the one and in you I confide.

And we have gone through good and bad times,
But your unconditional love was always on my mind.
You've been there from the start for me,
And your love's always been true as can be.

I give my heart to you.
I give my heart, 'cause nothing can compare in this world to you."

From: Avenged Sevenfold - Seize The Day

"Seize the day, or die regretting the time you lost,
It's empty and cold without you here, too many people to ache over.
Trials in life, questions of us existing here,
Don't wanna die alone without you here, please tell me what we have is real."

From: Avenged Sevenfold - Turn The Other Way

"I've been the wrong one time and time again.
Now, I'm on my knees.... forgive me please"

From: Evanescence - Hello

"Suddenly I know I'm not sleeping,
Hello, I'm still here, all that's left of yesterday."

From: The Frames - What Happens When The Heart Just Stops

"Well we've got no-one to meet, no love we would beseech,
We only have ourselves to blame for everything.
There was no answer in the dust and I'm missing you so much,
And now you're sleeping, and I'm leaving."

From: My Chemical Romance - Helena

"Came a time when every starfall brought you to tears again,
We are the very hurt you sold.
And what's the worst to take from every heart you break?
And like a blade you'll stain, well I've been holding on tonight.

What's the worst that I can say? Things are better if I stay.
So long and goodnight, so long and goodnight."

From: Snow Patrol - Run

"To think I might not see those eyes makes it so hard not to cry.
And as we say our long goodbye, I nearly do."

Damien Rice - Delicate

"So why do you fill my sorrow with the words you've borrowed
From the only place you've known?
And why do you sing Hallelujah if it means nothing to you,
Why do you sing with me at all?"

[Cali]

Remember The Tinman
Tracy Chapman


There are locks on the doors
And chains stretched across all the entries to the inside
There's a gate and a fence
And bars to protect from only God knows what lurks outside
Who stole your heart left you with a space
That no one and nothing can fill
Who stole your heart who took it away
Knowing that without it you can't live
Who took away the part so essential to the whole
Left you a hollow body
Skin and bone
What robber what thief who stole your heart and the key
Who stole your heart
The smile from your face
The innocence the light from your eyes
Who stole your heart or did you give it away
And if so then when and why
Who took away the part so essential to the whole
Left you a hollow body
Skin and bone
What robber what thief
Who stole your heart and the key
Now all sentiment is gone
Now you have no trust in no one
Who stole your heart
Did you know but forget the method and moment in time
Was it a trickster using mirrors and sleight of hand
A strong elixir or a potion that you drank
Who hurt your heart
Bruised it in a place
That no one and nothing can heal
You've gone to wizards, princes and magic men
You've gone to witches, the good the bad the indifferent
But still all sentiment is gone
But still you have no trust in no one
If you can tear down the walls
Throw your armor away remove all roadblocks barricades
If you can forget there are bandits and dragons to slay
And don't forget that you defend an empty space
And remember the tinman
Found he had what he thought he lacked
Remember the tinman
Go find your hear and take it back
Who stole your heart
Maybe no one can say
One day you will find it I pray

:crybaby2:

[dandylittledreamer]

Each morning I get up, I die a little - Queen, somebody to love

One by one, only the good die young, they're only flying too close to the sun - Queen, no one but you

the makers make - Rufus Wainwright - just the whole song

He was a friend of mine - Willy Nelson - the whole song

I think Im gona be sad, I think it's today, yeah, the boy thats driving me mad, is going away - Ticket to Ride (carpenters version - the lyrics are so simple, it really gets me!)

[gbs3769]

These are just some of the lyrics that bring back some of my heart breaks...

The August Project - Bittersweet
I made the worst mistake to think that everything is easy and all you do is say the words
And sometimes mean them
Burn, I'm burning here inside in hopes that someone sees the smoke and maybe comes to
put me out or add to the fire
Fall, it's falling out we face and I can see it in your eye you don't claim to be the best
Tears don't have to mean goodbye

Dashboard Confessional - A Plain Morning
It's colder than it ought to be in March
and I still got a day or two ahead of me
till I'll be heading home,
into your arms again.
And the people here are asking after you.
It doesn't make it easier. (easier)
It doesn't make it easier to be away.(to be away)

Dave Matthews - Stay or Leave
Remember we used to dance
And everyone wanted to be
You and me
I want to be too
What day is this
Besides the day you left me?
What day is this
Besides the day you went?

Dave Matthews Band - Pay For What You Get
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Is she really all she says...
Everybody asks me how she's doing
Since she went away
I said I couldn't tell you
I'm OK I'm OK (I'm OK)

Jack Johnson - Sitting, Waiting, Wishing
Must I always be waiting waiting on you?
Must I always be playing playing your fool?

Jeffrey Gaines - Love Disappears
'Cause when you're away
I've not much to say at all
'Cause when you're not here
Love disappears

Missy Higgins - Ten Days
So we've put an end to it this time.
I'm no longer yours and you're no longer mine.
You said this hill looks far too steep
if I'm not even sure it's me you wanna keep.
And it's been ten days without you in my reach,
and the only time I've touched you is in my sleep.

Rachael Yamagata - Letter Read
But all I have is your letter read
And I cannot get it out of my head
And I'm afraid, and I can't breathe,
And I'm in love with you
But you are not with me
And I have put so much into a life
I made too much about you now to lie

Ray LaMontagne - Burn
Oh so kiss him again
just to prove to me that you can
I will stand here and burn in my skin
Yes I will stand here and burn in my skin

Roger Clyne & The Peacemakers
I haunt her house from the outside
I watch her bake cornbread and talk on the phone
And the wireless on the inside plays a sad sweet song
A mute moonlit statue am I, she waltzes alone

But baby, baby, I could call you baby
If I weren’t so empty in the head and tied up in the tongue
And baby, baby, I could call you baby
If I weren’t so green and dumb

- Matt

[Lemmy]

"man you can lie between her legs
what you looking for?
tell her your searching for her soul"

dont know why thats so heartbreaking but it seems so desperate it just makes me sad

ooh and pretty much the whole of accidental babies

[Greenmeanie]

"If we died right now,
this fool you love, somehow,
is here with you."

Smashing Pumpkins, Galapogos

Dunno why, but it chokes me up everytime.

[buddy]

Oh my lord I pray for just one day
Love or loathe I need to feel again.

The Magic Numbers - Hymn For Her

[verenita]

at this moment, i have to say:
simple together (alanis morrissette)

you've been my golden best friend
now with post-demise at hand
I can't go to you for consolation
cause we're off limits during this transition
this grief overwhelms me
it burns in my stomach
and i can't stop bumping into things
i thought we'd be simple together
i thought we'd be happy together
thought we'd be limitless together
i thought we'd be precious together
but i was sadly mistaken
you've been my soulmate and then some
i remembered you the moment i met you
with you i knew god's face was handsome
with you i saw fun and expansion
this loss is numbing me
it pierces my chest
and i can't stop dropping everything
i thought we'd be sexy together
thought we'd be evolving together
i thought we'd have children together
i thought we'd be family together
but i was sadly mistaken
if i had a bill for all the philosophies i shared
if i had a penny for all the possibilities i presented
if i had a dime for every hand thrown up in the air
my wealth would render this no less severe
i thought we'd be genius together
i thought we'd be healing together
i thought we'd be growing together
thought we'd be adventurous togheter
but i was sadly mistaken
thought we'd be exploring together
thought we'd be inspired together
i thought we'd be flying together
thought we'd be on fire together
but i was sadly mistaken

verenita

[Adelaide]

What Happens When The Heart Just Stops ++ the Frames
So what happens when the heart gives up
But the body goes on living

[...]

It's so late, till you're gone


Thief ++ Our Lady Peace
I can't see that thief that lives inside of your head
But I can be some courage at the side of your bed
I don't know what's happening and I can't pretend
But I can be your....

It's a long long getaway, it's a long long getaway
Make it home again, make it home again
It's a long long getaway, it's a long long getaway

[Emelie]

Wow! Just read through this thread and I LIKE IT!
I'm gonna add the first that comes to my mind:

This is from kent's song 747 (the english version): "So shoot me down again
It won´t hurt when the killing is done by a friend"

Pretty much any of their songs would fit, but most are in swedish and translating them doesn't really make any sense.

[mariaoran]

Oh my!!... this song is terribly sad!... and to hear mr. Rice when he sings it is just even more haertbreaking!!!.... Its one of my news fave songs! so much emotion!.

It didn't take you long
Well, it didn’t take you long.
Did it, babe?
To learn to sing my song
and get yourself laid.
No, It didn’t take you long.
Did it, babe?
The moment I was gone
you’re the master of the slaves.
And it didn’t take me long
to realize.
All of your songs
were just lies, lies, lies.
And it didn’t take me long.
Did it, babe?
I want you to find a new boy
whose face you could shave.

Ok, I’m sorry.
I’m just a little angry with you.
'Cause it dug like a quarry
when you were angry with me.
And maybe it’s not right?
Yeah, but hell with it!
I’m angry with you.
Is there not enough light?
Or do you just not see?
What you do
is what you hated in me?
Though I was never free enough to.

Yeah, well, it didn’t take you long.
Did it babe?
I'm all alone
in the last step of the race.
Yeah, and it didn’t take you long.
Did it, babe?
The moment I was gone
you’re in the masters' parade.
And it didn’t take you long
to tell your friends.
How I'd done you wrong
and just left you in the end?
Yeah, but it didn’t take you long.
Did it, babe?
To find a new boy
whose dick you could crave.

It was about five years ago. It's amazing how you hold on...

(got the lyrics from the lyrics page of EF)

[borneoman]

Been listening to The Cure's Wish album today and thought it was sooooooooooooooooooo sad, especially Apart:

The Cure - Apart
he waits for her to understand
but she won't understand at all
she waits all night for him to call
but he won't call anymore
he waits to hear her say forgive
but she just drops her pearl-black eyes
and prays to hear him say I love you
but he tells no more lies

he waits for her to sympathize
but she won't sympathize at all
she waits all night to feel his kiss
but always wakes alone
he waits to hear her say forget
but she just hangs her head in pain
and prays to hear him say no more
i'll never leave again

how did we get this far apart?
we used to be so close together
how did we get this far apart?
i thought this love would last forever


The Cure - Trust
there's no-one left in the world
that i can hold onto
there is really no-one left at all
there is only you
and if you leave me now
you leave all that we were undone
there is really no-one left
you are the only one

and still the hardest part for you
to put your trust in me
i love you more than i can say
why won't you just believe?


The Cure - To Wish Impossible Things
remember how it used to be
when the sun would fill up the sky
remember how we used to feel
those days would never end
those days would never end

remember how it used to be
when the stars would fill the sky
remember how we used to dream
those nights would never end
those nights would never end

it was the sweetness of your skin
it was the hope of all we might have been
that fills me with the hope to wish
impossible things

but now the sun shines cold
and all the sky is grey
the stars are dimmed by clouds and tears
and all i wish
is gone away

[carvinC980t_kid]

sufjan stevens - For The Widows In Paradise; For The Fatherless In Ypsilanti

I have called you children, I have called you son.
What is there to answer if I'm the only one?
Morning comes in Paradise, morning comes in light.
Still I must obey, still I must invite.
If there's anything to say, if there's anything to do,
If there's any other way, I'll do anything for you.

I was dressed embarrassment.
I was dressed in wine.
If you had a part of me, will you take you're time?
Even if I come back, even if I die
Is there some idea to replace my life?
Like a father to impress;
Like a mother's mourning dress,
If you ever make a mess, I'll do anything for you

I have called you preacher; I have called you son.
If you have a father or if you haven't one,
I'll do anything for you. I did everything for you

[carvinC980t_kid]

i think this song is sad. its sort of a sad/optimistic song, but this is one that always gets me. its by..

Murs - A Friends Blues

Now when your young death can make you aware of your mortality,
Yet times we feel invicible, lose site of reality,
until it takes a loved one residing in our circle,
it'll hurt you cuz you miss them,
once were close now you're distant,
and it hurts just to know they could go at any instant,
gotta love them by the minute, now you realize this,
its sad it takes a loss to appreciate the gifts,
so celebrate the occasion,
just breathing is amazing,
to see the sun rise and set at a day's end,
a chance to fix mistakes that we regret making,
find joy in the simple things, no time for complaining,
the sun will shine, it cant always be raining,
I know it hurts deep, but you must maintain,
I see it in my homeboys Terry and Tom,
they lost so many, yet they keep so strong,
to lose a parent or a sibling and have the will to keep living,
takes so much strength, so i admire y'all,
and one day hope to find out what inspires yall,
cuz im still mad askin why it happens at all,
some say that god takes them
and they lean on mythology,
but i choose to believe that its divine lottery,
i cant believe gods lookin down waitin to slaughter me,
i cant live in fear
and i cant live here forever, so i treasure every moment

And its friendship that i value the most,
That kinship, The ones we hold close,
and deal with it the most of losin but keep tru,
the memories blue cuz life keeps moving. (2X)

We came together like family like it was our first death
Unexpected, so quick, so sudden, the worst yet,
Didnt get to know the girl because after the first breath,
still we loved her like a sister, as a ?? first steps,
got the call out of town, so alone i first wept,
deep pain in the same place from where this verse crept,
never slept in that bed again, the memory was too tragic,
looked up and screamed goodbye,
you wouldnt be present at the wake,
in your casket, now you ask if things change since you left, not really.
We still playin games, BSin, actin silly,
see she dont talk to her and she dont like me,
and will we work things out, thats not likely,
i mean where will we start, do we mend friendships,
or let things fall apart, will we still be in touch,
honestly i don't know, but you're in my heart forever.

And its friendship that i value the most,
That kinship, The ones we hold close,
and deal with it the most of losin but keep tru,
the memories blue cuz life keeps moving. (3X)

And its friendship that i value the most,
That kinship, The ones we hold close,
and deal with it the most of losin but keep tru,
well i'm a little bluein, so blow a blunt while you cruisin,
of your friends that you use it? gotta love before you lose it,
stand strong when you do it, tough times live through it,
don't give into em, stay go pursuin, and doin what you doin,
cuz life keeps movin on

[Rai]

Salman Rushdie/(U2): The Ground Beneath Her Feet

All my life, I worshipped her
Her golden voice, her beauty's beat
How she made us feel
How she made me real
And the ground beneath her feet

And now I can't be sure of anything,
Black is white, and cold is heat
For what I worshipped stole my love away
It was the ground beneath her feet

She was my ground, my favorite sound
My country road, my city street
My sky above, my only love
And the ground beneath my feet.

Go lightly down your darkened way
Go lightly underground
I'll be down there in another day
I won't rest until you're found

Let me love you, let me rescue you
Let me bring you where two roads meet
O come back above
Where there is only love
And the ground's beneath your feet

[Nine]

"And I know I make you cry
I know sometimes you wanna die
But do you really feel alive without me?

If so, be free. If not, leave him for me -
Before one of us has accidental babies."

That's just absolutely gut-wrenching

[Emelie]

well i looked my demons in the eyes,
laid bare my chest, said do your best, destroy me.
you see, i've been to hell and back so many times,
i must admit you kind of bore me.
there's a lot of things that can kill a man,
there's a lot of ways to die,
listen, some already did that walked beside me.
there's alot of things i don't understand,
why so many people lie.
its the hurt i hide inside that fuels the fire inside me.
will i always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged

Ray LaMontagne - Empty

It just kills me, everytime

[verenita]

well, i´m not very inspired, but...
"you give me miles and miles of mountains and i´ll ask for the sea"

there´s no chance... this situacion (in general) really breaks my heart!

[Kristi]

i couldnt be bothered to read the whole thread to see if this song was already there, so pardon me if i am repeating something... :P

Postal Service - Nothing Better

(him)Will someone please call a surgeon
Who can crack my ribs and repair this broken heart
That you're deserting for better company?
I can't accept that it's over...
I will block the door like a goalie tending the net
In the third quarter of a tied-game rivalry
So just say how to make it right
And i swear I'll do my best to comply
Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together

(her)I feel I must interject here you're getting carried away feeling sorry for yourself
With these revisions and gaps in history
So let me help you remember.
I've made charts and graphs that should finally make it clear.
I've prepared a lecture on why i have to leave

(her)So please back away and let me go

(him)I can't my darling i love you so...

Oh, oh

(him)Tell me am i right to think that there could be nothing better
Than making you my bride and slowly growing old together

(her)Don't you feed me lines about some idealistic future
Your heart won't heal right if you keep tearing out the sutures

(him)I know that I have made mistakes and i swear
I'll never wrong you again

(her)You've got a lure i can't deny,
But you've had your chance so say goodbye
Say goodbye

[borneoman]

I think the most heartbreaking song ever is Tori Amos' Playboy mommy, which is about a baby girl she lost. There's this line that must be the saddest line ever that goes:

Ill say it loud here by your grave
Those angels cant ever take my place

And in a live version of Juarez from London she ends up screaming 'No angel came for my little girl, no angel came'... heartbreaking too!!! :crybaby2:

[Rai]

Another one: Queen - Mother Love

I don't want to sleep with you
I don't need the passion too
I don't want a stormy affair
To make me feel my life is heading somewhere
All I want is the comfort and care
Just to know that my woman gives me sweet -
Mother love

I've walked too long in this lonely lane
I've had enough of this same old game
I'm a man of the world and they say I'm strong
But my heart is heavy and my hope is gone

Out in the city, in the cold world outside
I don't want pity, just safe place to hide
Mama please, let me back inside

I don't want to make no waves
But you can give me all the love that I crave
I can't take if you see me cry
I long for peace before I die
All I want to know that you're there
You're gonna give me all your sweet -
Mother love

My body's aching, but I can't sleep
My dreams are all the company I keep
Got such a feeling as the sun goes down
I'm coming home to my sweet -
Mother love

Written and recorded a few weeks before Mercury died, he didn't even make it to record the last verse.

[Emelie]

Talking about Queen, how about the entire lyrics for 'Too Much Love Will Kill You'?

[Serendipity]

Gotta love The Cure

Pictures of You

If only I'd thought of the right words
I could have held on to your heart
If only I'd thought of the right words
I wouldn't be breaking apart
All my pictures of you
and

There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to feel you deep in my heart
There was nothing in the world
That I ever wanted more
Than to never feel the breaking apart
All my pictures of you

Tom Waits
I hope i don't fall in love with you

Well I hope that I don't fall in love with you
'Cause falling in love just makes me blue,
Well the music plays and you display your heart for me to see,
I had a beer and now I hear you calling out for me
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

Well the room is crowded, there's people everywhere
And I wonder, should I offer you a chair?
Well if you sit down with this old clown, take that frown and break it,
Before the evening's gone away, I think that we could make it,
And I hope that I don't fall in love with you.

I can see that you are lonesome just like me, and it being late,
You'd like some some company,
Well I've had two, I look at you, and you look back at me,
The guy you're with has up and split, the chair next to you's free,
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.
And I hope that you don't fall in love with me.

Now it's closing time, the music's fading out
Last call for drinks, I'll have another stout.
Turn around to look at you, you're nowhere to be found,
I search the place for your lost face, guess I'll have another round
And I think that I just fell in love with you.

David Ford
Song for the Road

Now I don't like using words like forever
But I will love you til the end of today
And in the morning when I remember everything that you are
I know I'll fall for you over again

Guillemots
My Chosen one

My chosen one,
Why look at me?
Why wake me up,
After bad dreams?
Why lie beside me
Why lovely eyes?
Why lovely sides?
Why you?

My chosen one,
Why so kind?
Why so blind?
Why in your mind,
So I roam around untamed
Unbetrayed
Unafraid
My real home, you give to me alone.

My chosen one

Sung with Fyfes voice just makes me want to cry.

[babyeskimo]

'What about me?' - Damien, Accidental babies

'Do you know, what this is doing to me?' - Tori Amos, Here in my head

'I'm so lonely I don't even want to be with myself anymore' - Dido, Honestly OK

'You don't know what you've done, not here to face the repercussions of your love. You don't know what you've done. You're not my hero anymore' - Kate Earl, Hero

'So throw me a rope, to hold me in place. Show me a clock, for counting my days down. Everythings easier when you're beside me, come back and find me cus i feel alone' - KT Tunstall - Throw me a rope

'Do you ever think you're being thought about' - KT Tunstall - change

'And i am perforated plenty' - Lisa Hannigan, blurry

'Love is like a cloud - holds a lot of rain' - Lisa Hannigan and Paul Noonan, Love hurts

'I believe right now if I could I would swallow you whole. I would leave only bones and teeth, we could see what was underneath, you could be free then' - Suzanne Vega - undertow

'happy for you and I am, sure that i hate you' - TA - doughnut song

The whole of rootless tree.

putting the damage on by tori amos - THE MOST HEARTBREAKING SONG EVER!

OK i'm done now :)

[eamo_rice]

Duke Special "Freewheel" gets me every time, theres just so much joy in that chorus

"I don't wanna stand still
I just wanna Freewheel
I don't wanna lose this"

[Rai]

Spancil Hill, an Irish ballad. Written by a mortally ill 23 year old man, far away from home. And if you check the census data of the area from 1901 (its on the net), you can find some people mentioned in the song, probably even his girlfriend. Amazing.

Last night as I lay dreaming, of the pleasant days gone by,
My mind being bent on rambling and to Erin's Isle I did fly.
I stepped on board a vision and sailed out with a will,
'Till I gladly came to anchor at the Cross of Spancilhill.

Enchanted by the novelty, delighted with the scenes,
Where in my early childhood, I often times have been.
I thought I heard a murmur, I think I hear it still,
'Tis that little stream of water at the Cross of Spancilhill.

And to amuse my fancy, I lay upon the ground,
Where all my school companions, in crowds assembled 'round.
Some have grown to manhood, while more their graves did fill,
Oh I thought we were all young again, at the Cross of Spancilhill.

It being on a Sabbath morning, I thought I heard a bell,
O'er hills and vallies sounded, in notes that seemed to tell,
That Father Dan was coming, his duty to fulfill,
At the parish church of Clooney, just one mile from Spancilhill.

And when our duty did commence, we all knelt down in prayer,
In hopes for to be ready, to climb the Golden Stair.
And when back home returning, we danced with right good will,
To Martin Moilens music, at the Cross of Spancilhill.

It being on the twenty third of June, the day before the fair,
Sure Erin's sons and daughters, they all assembled there.
The young, the old, the stout and the bold, they came to sport and kill,
What a curious combination, at the Fair of Spancilhill.

I went into my old home, as every stone can tell,
The old boreen was just the same, and the apple tree over the well,
I miss my sister Ellen, my brothers Pat and Bill,
Sure I only met my strange faces at my home in Spancilhill.

I called to see my neighbors, to hear what they might say,
The old were getting feeble, and the young ones turning grey.
I met with tailor Quigley, he's as brave as ever still,
Sure he always made my breeches when I lived in Spancilhill.

I paid a flying visit, to my first and only love,
She's as pure as any lilly, and as gentle as a dove.
She threw her arms around me, saying Mike I love you still,
She is Mack the Rangers daughter, the Pride of Spancilhill.

I thought I stooped to kiss her, as I did in days of yore,
Says she Mike you're only joking, as you often were before,
The cock crew on the roost again, he crew both loud and shrill,
And I awoke in California, far far from Spancilhill.

But when my vision faded, the tears came in my eyes,
In hope to see that dear old spot, some day before I die.
May the Joyous King of Angels, His Choicest Blessings spill,
On that Glorious spot of Nature, the Cross of Spancilhill.

[Sionna]

Reindeer Section's Your Sweet Voice.
.................................
I can't call you a friend
Cause when you left me here
You left me here to die
Don't worry I wont call you again
Cause when I take a hint
I take it pretty hard
And when you broke my heart
you broke it into shards of glass
....................................
....................................
Can I call you my friend?
It's been so long
Since we have talked
and I miss you
Don't worry I'm over you right now
So my feelings wont get in the way of it
Oh, I miss the way we talked
about the little things

[Airofdecember]

well i looked my demons in the eyes,
laid bare my chest, said do your best, destroy me.
you see, i've been to hell and back so many times,
i must admit you kind of bore me.
there's a lot of things that can kill a man,
there's a lot of ways to die,
listen, some already did that walked beside me.
there's alot of things i don't understand,
why so many people lie.
its the hurt i hide inside that fuels the fire inside me.
will i always feel this way?
so empty, so estranged

Ray LaMontagne - Empty

It just kills me, everytime

That kills me too, it's brilliantly heartbreaking, and the orchestration on the whole thing ... I could go on and on ... love it.

"she lifts her skirt up to her knees,
walks through the garden rows with her bare feet, laughing." :smiley2:

[verenita]

"this grief overwhelms me,
burns in my stomach
and i can´t stop bumping into things

i thought we´d be simple together...
but i was sadly mistaken
(...)

this lost is numbing me
it pierces my chest
and i can´t stop dropping everything"

("simple togehter", alanis morissette.)

[Lindsay]

This song never fails to leave me in a heap :) It conveys such a general sentiment, that it carries to so many situations.


Reba McEntire- If I Had Only Known

If I had only known,
It was the last walk in the rain,
I'd keep you out for hours in the storm,
I would hold your hand, like a life line to my heart,
Underneath the thunder, we'd be warm,
If I had only known,
It was our last walk in the rain,

If I had only known,
I'd never hear your voice again,
I'd memorize each thing you ever said,
And on those lonely nights, I could think of them once more,
Keep your words alive inside my head,
If I had only known,
I'd never hear your voice again,

You were the treasure in my head,
You were the one who always stood beside me,
So unaware, I foolishly believed that you would always be there,
But then there came a day, and I turned my head, and you slipped away,

If I had only known,
It was my last night by your side,
I'd pray a miracle would stop the dawn,
And when you'd smile at me, I would look into your eyes,
And make sure you know my love, for you goes on and on,
If I had only known,
If I had only known,
For the love I would've shown,
If I had only known


Trisha Yearwood does a great cover - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm7fshIogS8

[Lindsay]

Another one, and another country song ;). It captures those hard to describe moments when.....when you're so certain that someone is still around.

Faith Hill- You're Still Here

Thought I saw you today
You were standing in the sun then you turned away
And I knew it couldn't be but my heart believed
Oh it seems like there's something everyday
How could you be so far away
When you're still here
When I need you you're not hard to find
You're still here
I can see you in my baby's eyes
And I laugh and cry
You're still here
I had a dream last night
That you came to me on silver wings of light
I flew away with you in the painted sky
And I woke up wondering what was real
Is it what you see and touch or what you feel
Cause you're still here
Oh you're everywhere we've ever been
You're still here
I heard you in a stranger's laugh
And I hung around to hear him laugh again
Just once again
Oh...
Thought I saw you today
You were standing in the sun then you turned away
Away

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtPPtBcUt6k

[Lin@]

Sometimes I feel like I'm drowning
Actually it's more like most of the time
But every now and then when I'm sleeping
I still have a dream that I'm flying

And I wake up crying :crybaby2:

[verenita]

Another one, and another country song ;). It captures those hard to describe moments when.....when you're so certain that someone is still around.

wow!... when i read "another country song", i thought in this song inmediately!...
so sad, but makes me feel kind of redention... it makes me think on my father in some sadness joy way when i listen to it! thanks for mention it!

[Lindsay]

wow!... when i read "another country song", i thought in this song inmediately!...
so sad, but makes me feel kind of redention... it makes me think on my father in some sadness joy way when i listen to it! thanks for mention it!


wow :)....and that's who I think of too when I hear it, my dad :)

[carvinC980t_kid]

i couldnt be bothered to read the whole thread to see if this song was already there, so pardon me if i am repeating something... :P

Postal Service - Nothing Better
oh i agree!! this song is sad : ( so is the song "this place is a prison" that song bums me out

[carvinC980t_kid]

john michael montgomery - letters from home

this song makes me really sad. probably cause this is too common of a sight for me with friends and what not. and knowing that here once i leave in a couple weeks i won't be home but maybe once before i goto iraq and will be gone a year. country music always make me sad when i think about being gone. this song makes my exgirlfriend cry everytime it comes on cause she says she "felt this way" when i would write her. here's a link to listen to it

http://www.hit-country-music-lyrics.com/John-Michael-Montgomery-Letters-From-Home-Lyrics.html


My Dear Son, it is almost June,
I hope this letter catches up to you, and finds you well.
Its been dry but they’re calling for rain,
And everything's the same ol’ same in Johnsonville.
Your stubborn 'ol Daddy ain’t said too much,
But I’m sure you know he sends his love,
And she goes on,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
Like there’s something funny bout’ the way I talk,
When I say: "Mama sends her best y’all."
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

My Dearest Love, its almost dawn.
I’ve been lying here all night long wondering where you might be.
I saw your Mama and I showed her the ring.
Man on the television said something so I couldn’t sleep.
But I’ll be all right, I’m just missing you.
An' this is me kissing you:
XX’s and OO’s,
In a letter from home.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, and they all laugh,
'Cause she calls me "Honey", but they take it hard,
'Cause I don’t read the good parts.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

Dear Son, I know I ain’t written,
But sittin' here tonight, alone in the kitchen, it occurs to me,
I might not have said, so I’ll say it now:
Son, you make me proud.

I hold it up and show my buddies,
Like we ain’t scared and our boots ain’t muddy, but no one laughs,
'Cause there ain’t nothing funny when a soldier cries.
An' I just wipe me eyes.
I fold it up an' put it in my shirt,
Pick up my gun an' get back to work.
An' it keeps me driving me on,
Waiting on letters from home.

[.em.]

Chess piece--Faye Wong (http://www.mediafire.com/?2t2co9y9g4y)

I wish to leave your territory
Yet I enter your war situation
I don't have strong defenses
And don't have an alternate route into which to retreat

I wish to escape from your trap
Yet I find myself trapped in another dilemma
I don't have the courage to determine victory or defeat
And don't have the good fortune of escape

I'm like a chess piece
Attacking and retreating at your will
I am not the only knight in your eyes
Just an ordinary pawn

I'm like a chess piece
Coming and going against my will
Raising of a hand without return; you never wavered
Yet I am under your control

So sad...I think the sound of the song only enhances this...

[carvinC980t_kid]

Chess piece--Faye Wong (http://www.mediafire.com/?2t2co9y9g4y)

I'm like a chess piece
Attacking and retreating at your will
I am not the only knight in your eyes
Just an ordinary pawn

I'm like a chess piece
Coming and going against my will
Raising of a hand without return; you never wavered
Yet I am under your control

aww, that part makes me so sad!!! thanks for sharing Em, but seriously damn this thread to hell... don't read this thread if you're already really sad!!

[Airofdecember]

But I'll see you in the sky above,
In the tall grass, in the ones I love,
Yer gonna make me lonesome when you go.
-bob

All my plans fell thought my hands,
They fell thought my hands on me.
All my dreams it suddenly seems,
It suddenly seems,
Empty
-cranberries

I liked having hurt,
So send the pain below where I need it,
You used to beg me to take care of things,
And smile at the thought of me failing.
But long before, having hurt,
I'd send the pain below,
Much like suffocating.
-chevelle (lol .. yeh it's still sad dammit)

[Rai]

How come this hasn't been mentioned here before:

Pink Floyd - Wish You Were here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys from pain.
Can you tell a green field
From a cold steel rail?
A smile from a veil?
Do you think you can tell?

And did they get you to trade
Your heros for ghosts?
Hot ashes for trees?
Hot air for a cool breeze?
Cold comfort for change?
And did you exchange
A walk on part in the war
For a lead role in a cage?

How I wish, how I wish you were here.
We're just two lost souls
Swimming in a fish bowl,
Year after year,
Running over the same old ground.
What have we found?
The same old fears.
Wish you were here.

[borneoman]

Been listening to Sinead O'Connor all day today. The Last Day of Our Acquitance is so so so sad...

this is the last day of our acquaintance
I will meet you later in somebody's office
I'll talk but you won't listen to me
I know what your answer will be

I know you don't love me anymore
you used to hold my hand when the plane took off
two years ago there just seemed so much more
and I don't know what happened to our love

today's the day
our friendship has been stale
and we will meet later to finalise the details
two years ago the seed was planted
and since then you have taken me for granted

but this is the last day of our acquintance
I will meet you later in somebody's office
I'll talk but you won't listen to me
I know your answer already

[RonjaGirl]

I'm currently listening to Ben Folds alot and I found this song so sad.
Fred Jones Part 2

Fred sits alone at his desk in the dark
There's an awkward young shadow that waits in the hall
He's cleared all his things and he's put them in boxes
Things that remind him: 'Life has been good'
Twenty-five years
He's worked at the paper
A man's here to take him downstairs

And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time

There was no party, there were no songs
'Cause today's just a day like the day that he started
Noone has left here that knows his first name
And life barrels on like a runaway train
Where the passengers change
They don't change anything
You get off; someone else can get on

And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time

Streetlight shines through the shades
Casting lines on the floor, and lines on his face
He reflects on the day
Fred gets his paints out and goes to the basement
Projecting some slides onto a plain white
Canvas and traces it

Fills in the spaces
He turns off the slides, and it doesn't look right
Yeah, and all of these bastards
Have taken his place
He's forgotten but not yet gone

And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
And I'm sorry, Mr. Jones
It's time

[Mikko]

10.000 Days by Tool


This little light of mine, a gift you passed onto me,
I'm gonna let it shine,
to guide you safely on your way

Your way home...

Ohh, what are they gonna do when the lights go down
without you to guide them all to Zion?
What are they gonna do when the rivers overrun
other than tremble incessantly?

High is the way
but all eyes are upon the ground.
You are the light and the way
They'll only read about

I only pray heaven knows
When to lift you out

10000 days in the fire is long enough.
You're going home...

[Kristi]

I'm currently listening to Ben Folds alot and I found this song so sad.
Fred Jones Part 2


oh yeah, ben folds has a lot of depressing/sad songs. But i still love it all!

[verenita]

"i can´t go to you for consolation
cause we´re off limits during this transition"
("simple together, alanis morissette)

[dboyd]

"you know when you've found it
because you feel it when they take it away" -Amie

(ya it's from my sig :P)

[LaVieEnRose]

everytime i hear this song it haunts me all day...

Kate Bush-running up that hill

it doesn't hurt me
do you want to feel how it feels?
do you want to know that it doesnt hurt me?
do you want to hear about the deal that im making?
you, its you and me

and if i only could
id make a deal with God
and id get him to swap our places
be running up that road
be running up that hill
be running up that building
if I only could, oh...

you dont want to hurt me
but see how deep the bullet lies
unaware I'm tearing you asunder
oh there is thunder in our hearts

is there so much hate for the ones we love?
tell me we both matter dont we?
you its you and me
its you and me wont be unhappy

[Lindsay]

wow, that Last Day Of Our Acquaintance by Sinead is so sad :(


The Cinematic Orchestra- To Build A Home

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.......

Cause, I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree as old as me
Branches were sewn by the color of green
Ground had arose and passed it's knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
I held on as tightly as you held onto me
I held on as tightly as you held onto me......

Cause, I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

[Lindsay]

another that I find very sad

Mozella- Light Years Away

It's almost like you had it planned
It's like you smiled and shook my hand and said
"Hey, I'm about to screw you over, big time"
And what was I supposed to do?
I was stuck in between you and a hard place
We won't talk about the hard place

But I don't blame you anymore
That's too much pain to store
It left me half dead
Inside my head
And boy, looking back I see
I'm not the girl I used to be
When I lost my mind
It saved my life

It's how you wanted it to be
It's like you played a joke on me
And I lost a friend
In the end
And I think that I cried for days
But now that seems light years away
And I'm never going back
To who I was
....

[LaVieEnRose]

wow, that Last Day Of Our Acquaintance by Sinead is so sad :(


The Cinematic Orchestra- To Build A Home

There is a house built out of stone
Wooden floors, walls and window sills...
Tables and chairs worn by all of the dust..
This is a place where I don't feel alone
This is a place where I feel at home.......

Cause, I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

Out in the garden where we planted the seeds
There is a tree as old as me
Branches were sewn by the color of green
Ground had arose and passed it's knees

By the cracks of the skin I climbed to the top
I climbed the tree to see the world
When the gusts came around to blow me down
I held on as tightly as you held onto me
I held on as tightly as you held onto me......

Cause, I built a home
for you
for me

Until it disappeared
from me
from you

And now, it's time to leave and turn to dust........

i looovve this song! as soon as i heard it on greys anatomy i found out what it was and have been listening to it nonstop ever since! the lryics kind of reminds me of a divorce...so sad.

[dboyd]

has anyone posted time of your life yet? ya i know it's a greenday song.. but every time i listen to it.. it kills me.

Green Day - Time Of Your Life

"Another turning point;
a fork stuck in the road.

Time grabs you by the wrist;
directs you where to go.

So make the best of this test
and don't ask why.

It's not a question
but a lesson learned in time.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

So take the photographs
and still frames in your mind.

Hang it on a shelf
In good health and good time.

Tattoos of memories
and dead skin on trial.

For what it's worth,
it was worth all the while.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life.

It's something unpredictable
but in the end it's right.
I hope you had the time of your life."

reminds me of just that fact that life isn't something to take for granted.. it ends at one point or another... kinda gets me depressed sometimes.. but it is one of my favs for sure...

[Lindsay]

i looovve this song! as soon as i heard it on greys anatomy i found out what it was and have been listening to it nonstop ever since! the lryics kind of reminds me of a divorce...so sad.

Oh me too, that's how I heard it:)! And I've also been in love with it....it's so gorgeous, and so heart-breaking. So do you enjoy Grey's? There's a Grey's thread if you want to chat about it with the rest of us fans:) :smiley8:

[dboyd]

pretty much the entire song... heh.. yes i know it's a james blunt song.. but i thought that if people can use britney spears and such i can use one james blunt song that most people agreed on.

James Blunt - Goodbye my lover

Did I disappoint you or let you down?
Should I be feeling guilty or let the judges frown?
'Cause I saw the end before we'd begun,
Yes I saw you were blinded and I knew I had won.
So I took what's mine by eternal right.
Took your soul out into the night.
It may be over but it won't stop there,
I am here for you if you'd only care.
You touched my heart you touched my soul.
You changed my life and all my goals.
And love is blind and that I knew when,
My heart was blinded by you.
I've kissed your lips and held your head.
Shared your dreams and shared your bed.
I know you well, I know your smell.
I've been addicted to you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

I am a dreamer but when I wake,
You can't break my spirit - it's my dreams you take.
And as you move on, remember me,
Remember us and all we used to be
I've seen you cry, I've seen you smile.
I've watched you sleeping for a while.
I'd be the father of your child.
I'd spend a lifetime with you.
I know your fears and you know mine.
We've had our doubts but now we're fine,
And I love you, I swear that's true.
I cannot live without you.

Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.

And I still hold your hand in mine.
In mine when I'm asleep.
And I will bear my soul in time,
When I'm kneeling at your feet.
Goodbye my lover.
Goodbye my friend.
You have been the one.
You have been the one for me.
I'm so hollow, baby, I'm so hollow.
I'm so, I'm so, I'm so hollow.

[Caitlin05]

Paul Simon has written some heartbreaking lyrics:
Simon and garfunkel - America
"Kathy I'm lost, I said, though I knew she was sleeping
I'm empty and I'm aching and I don't know why..."

Simon and Garfunkel - I Am A Rock
"I've built walls,
A fortress deep and mighty,
That none may penetrate.
I have no need of friendship; friendship causes pain.
It's laughter and it's loving I disdain.
I am a rock,
I am an island.

Don't talk of love,
Well, I've heard the word before.
It's sleeping in my memory.
I won't disturb the slumber of feelings that have died.
If I never loved I never would have cried.
I am a rock,
I am an island"

Simon And Garfunkel - Kathy's Song
"And so you see I have come to doubt
All that I once held as true
I stand alone without beliefs
The only truth I know is you."

[Lindsay]

This is a scorcher:(

Tori Amos and Damien Rice

The power of orange knickers
The power of orange knickers
The power of orange knickers
Under my petty coat
The power of listening to what
You don't want me to know

Can somebody tell me now who is this terrorist?
Those girls that smile kindly then rip your life to pieces?
Can somebody tell me now
Am I alone with this
This little pill in my hand
And with this secret kiss
Am I alone in this?

A matter of complication
When you become a twist
For their latest drink
As they're transitioning

Can somebody tell me now who is this terrorist?
This little pill in my hand that keeps the pain laughin'
Can somebody tell me now a way out of this?
That sacred pipe of red stone could blow me out of this kiss
Am I alone in this?

The power of orange knickers
Under my petty coat
The power of listening to what
You don't want me to know
Shame shame, time to leave me now
Shame shame, you've had your fun
Shame shame, for letting me think
That I would be the one

Can somebody tell me now who is this terrorist?
This little pill in my hand or this secret kiss
Am I alone in this kiss?
Am I alone in this kiss?

[verenita]

such a sad song!
"that particular time" - alanis morissette
my foundation was rocked my tried and true way to deal was to vanish
my departures were old I stood in the room shaking in my boots
at that particular time love had challenged me to stay
at that particular moment I knew not run away again
that particular month I was ready to investigate with you
at that particular time

we thought a break would be good for four months we sat and vacillated
we thought a small time apart would clear up the doubts that were abounding
at that particular time love encouraged me to wait
at that particular moment it helped me to be patient
that particular month we needed time to marinate in what "us" meant

I've always wanted for you what you've wanted for yourself
and yet I wanted to save us high water or hell
and I kept on ignoring the ambivalence you felt
and in the meantime I lost myself
in the meantime I lost myself
I'm sorry I lost myself... i am

you knew you needed more time time spent alone with no distraction
you felt you needed to fly solo and high to definewhat you wanted
at that particular time love encouraged me to leave
at that particular moment I knew staying with you meant deserting me
that particular month was harder than you'd believe but I still left
at that particular time

and another by tori: "parasol"
(...)Then the Seated Woman with a Parasol
May be the only one you can't betray
If I'm the Seated Woman with a Parasol
I will be safe in my frame
I will be safe
In my frame
In your house
In your frame

[Lindsay]

This is a beautiful song, but lately I find it so sad:(

Me'shell Ndegeocello-Bitter

You push me away bitterly
My apologies fall on your deaf ears
You curse my name bitterly
And now your eyes they look at me bitterly

I stand ashamed amidst my foolish pride
'Cause for us there'll be no more
For us there'll be no more
And now my eyes look at you bitterly
Bitterly bitterly

[Rai]

From Cara Dillon's Falling Like a Star:

And they said that you couldn't sit on a cloud, cause you'd fall right through
Well how is it then, that I managed to?
And how did I say what I just said to you?
Am I thinking out loud, did you even ask me to?

[bearbait]

I agree with whoever said "Romeo & Juliet" by Dire Straits, though I prefer Amy Ray's version.

And Caitlin05, that line from S&G's "America" gets me everytime! And all of "Kathy's Song".


I'd like to add John Denver's "Guess He'd Rather be in Colorado":
Guess he'd rather be out where the sky looks like a pearl after rain.

I don't know why, but that that line always makes my heart ache!

[viv]

"why would I want him
just to lose him again?"

Scarlet Tide - written by elvis costello and henry(T-bone)burnett




"But goodbye's too good a word, babe
So I'll just say fare thee well
I ain't sayin' you treated me unkind
You could have done better but I don't mind
You just kinda wasted my precious time
But don't think twice, it's all right"

Do I really need to identify this song?

[Lindsay]

^gosh, nice choices viv

And bearbait those are all sooo sad

I think especially this from Kathy's song:
My mind's distracted and diffused
My thoughts are many miles away
They lie with you when you're asleep
And kiss you when you start your day

And this from Romeo and Juliet:
the dice were loaded from the start
And I bet
And you exploded into my heart
...
Now how can you look at me as
If I were just another one of your deals?

[Lindsay]

This might be better for the Saddest Songs thread, but it's in the wrong section. So this is a heartbreaking song, though maybe not romantic. I esp. like the highlighted part

Reba McEntire: The Greatest Man I Never Knew

part of the song....
The greatest man I never knew
Came home late every night
He never had too much to say
Too much was on his mind
I never really knew him
And now it seems so sad
Everything he gave to us took all he had

Then the days turned into years
And the memories to black and white
He grew cold like an old winter wind
Blowing across my life

The greatest words I never heard
I guess Ill never hear
The man I thought could never die
Has been dead almost a year
He was good at business
But there was business left to do

[Rai]

I think Rachid Taha's Écoute moi, camarade is a worthy candidate (its originally in french but for the non-francophone eskimos, here's an english version (a bit clumsy, but official with some of my slight corrections):

Listen to me friend
Forget about this girl
Do you understand
She will drive you crazy
And you'll suffer for so long

chorus:
I know you love her
You gave her your soul
I know you love her
You gave her your soul

But she never loved you
Friend
She's just using you
Even her words are so cold and heartless
You should feel them
Though

Look at yourself in the mirror
And just think about it
Unfortunately, you fell in love with a thorn
She's just not a spring rose

chorus

Stop believing her promises
She will never love you
Even in a hundred years
She is cheating on you
She will change her mind all the time

How many times has she treated you like a fool
But for you
It is not that much serious
Don't tell me its nothing
Because for me
You are an idiot

Just have some pride
Leave her
She is making fun of you
Don't you see that
I do understand you
It is not that easy
For whenever you go
You shout her name

It is not because of your pretty eyes
That she takes your arm
In front of others
You wanna play
Romeo and Juliet
But she only thinks
about her lovers

chorus

You have become drunk
because of that little girl
You, who think you are so clever
Sorry to say that
But you are stupid
Its not your fault
You have been done

Please, oh dear friend
You just seem to be away
I know very well this situation
As I have already lived it

chorus

But who is this friend
i'm talking to myself
No-one is here
So its me,the friend
The poor idiot
and me voilá.

[verenita]

these days...
"our love goes deeper than this" - duke special, feat. neil hannon & romeo stodart:
She loved me once
Loved me twice
I broke her heart
And left her reeling

I could not look her
In the eyes
I could not face
Where this was leading

I know that I should lose her now
It's true, I don't deserve her
And though I love her 'til I die
I know that I must leave her

She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."
She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."

Sent a rose
A blackened rose
To atone
for my mistreating

When she pressed it
To her breast, it
Pierced her flesh
And left her bleeding

I know that I should lose her now
It's true, I don't deserve her
And though I love her 'til I die
Now I must desert her

She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."
She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."

Even though
There's poison in each kiss
She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."

I know I can't undo what's done
It's true, I don't deserve her
And though I love her 'til I'm gone
Now I must desert her

She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."
She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."

Even though
There's poison in each kiss
She said "no,
Our love goes deeper than this."

[Devilock]

The Smiths - How Soon Is Now?

"There's a club, if you'd like to go
You could meet somebody who really loves you
So you go, and you stand on your own
And you leave on your own
And you go home, and you cry
And you want to die"

[Lindsay]

I love this Verenita...
Sent a rose
A blackened rose
To atone
for my mistreating

When she pressed it
To her breast, it
Pierced her flesh
And left her bleeding


I like this song because it describes quite well that moment when you wake up, and remember....and it feels like there is a thousand pound weight on your chest

John Mayer: Dreaming With A Broken Heart

When you're dreaming with a broken heart
The waking up is the hardest part
You roll outta bed and down on your knees
And for the moment you can hardly breathe
Wondering was she really here?
Is she standing in my room?
No she's not, 'cause she's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone....

When you're dreaming with a broken heart
The giving up is the hardest part
She takes you in with your crying eyes
Then all at once you have to say goodbye
Wondering could you stay my love?
Will you wake up by my side?
No she can't, 'cause she's gone, gone, gone, gone, gone....

Oooooooooohhhhhhhhh

Now do i have to fall asleep with roses in my hand
Do i have to fall asleep with roses in my hand?
Do i have to fall asleep with roses in my hand?
Do i have to fall asleep with roses in my hand?
Baby won't you get them if i did?
No you won't, 'cause you're gone, gone, gone, gone, gone....

When you're dreaming with a broken heart
The waking up is the hardest part

[heffaface]

the biggest lie

"Oh we're so very precious, you and I
And everything that you do makes me want to die"

[Lindsay]

Me'shell Ndegeocello- A Fool Of Me

I remember when you filled my heart with joy
Was I blind to the truth just there to fill the space
Cause now you have no interest in anything that I have to say
I've allowed you to make me feel, I feel so dumb
What kind of fool am I you so easily set me aside


Glen Hansard- Leave

Leave, leave,
And free yourself at the same time
Leave, leave,
I don't understand, you've already gone

And I hope you feel better
Now that it's out
What took you so long
And the truth has a habit
Of falling out of your mouth

[verenita]

(some times it´s just too hard...)

Day one, day one
Start over again
Step one, step one
I'm barely making sense
For now I'm faking it
'Til I'm psuedo-making it
From scratch, begin again
But this time I as I
And not as we

("not as we" - alanis morissette)

[verenita]

another...

"my guitar lies bleeding in my arms" - bon jovi:
Misery likes company, I like the way that sounds
I've been trying to find the meaning, so I can write it down
Staring out the window, it's such a long way down
I'd like to jump, but I'm afraid to hit the ground

I can't write a love song the way I feel today
I can't sing no song of hope, I got nothing to say
Life is feeling kind of strange, since you went away
I sing this song to you wherever you are
As my guitar lies bleeding in my arms

I'm tired of watching TV, it makes me ant to scream
Outside the world is burning, man it's so hard to belive
Each day you know you're dying from the cradle to the grave
I get so numb sometimes, that I can't feel the pain

I can't write a love song the way I feel today
I can't sing no song of hope I've got nothing to say
Life is feeling kind of strange, it's strange enough these days
I send this song to you, whoever you are
As my guitar lies bleeding in my arms

Staring at the paper, I don't know what to write
I'll have my last cigarette-well, turn out the lights
Maybe tomorrow I'll fell a different way
But here in my delusion, I don't know what to say

I can't write a love song the way I feel today
I can't sing no song of hope I've got nothing to save
And I can't fight the feelings buried in my brains
I send this song to you, whoever you are
As my guitar lies bleeding

[Lin@]

One of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard:

Songs: Ohia - Lioness

...
I will swim to you
whether you save me
whether you savage me
want my last look to be the moon in your eyes
want my heart to break if it must break in your jaws
want you to lick my blood off your paws
it is for me the eventual truth
it is that look of the lioness to her man across the Nile
and you can't get here fast enough
I will swim to you


You can download it (for free!) from here (http://www.secretlycanadian.com/mp3.php), btw.

[Lindsay]

hehe I love this thread :smiley23:

A couple very good songs that I think are classic heartbreaking songs. The first reminds me of my grandparents..they had a love for all time:)

Colin Hay- I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You

I drink good coffee every morning
Comes from a place that's far away
And when I'm done I feel like talking
Without you here there is less to say
I don't want you thinking I'm unhappy
What is closer to the truth
That if I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
I'm no longer moved to drink strong whisky
'Cause I shook the hand of time and I knew
That if I lived till I could no longer climb my stairs
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
Your face it dances and it haunts me
Your laughter's still ringing in my ears
I still find pieces of your presence here
Even after all these years
But I don't want you thinking I don't get asked to dinner
'Cause I'm here to say that I sometimes do
Even though I may soon feel the touch of love
I just don't think I'll ever get over you
If I lived till I was 102
I just don't think I'll ever get over you

[Lindsay]

Bonnie Raitt- I Can't Make You Love Me

Turn down the lights, turn down the bed
Turn down these voices inside my head
Lay down with me, tell me no lies
Just hold me close, don't patronize - don't patronize me

Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

I'll close my eyes, then I won't see
The love you don't feel when you're holding me
Morning will come and I'll do what's right
Just give me till then to give up this fight
And I will give up this fight

Cause I can't make you love me if you don't
You can't make your heart feel something it won't
Here in the dark, in these lonely hours
I will lay down my heart and I'll feel the power
But you won't, no you won't
'cause I can't make you love me, if you don't

[Lindsay]

And a really sad one

Tony Rich Project- Nobody Knows

(spoken intro: Wish I'd told her how I felt, then maybe
she'd be here right now, but
instead...)

I pretended I'm glad you went away
These four walls closing more everyday
And I'm dyin' inside
And nobody knows it but me
Like a clown I put on a show
The pain is real even if nobody knows
And I'm cryin' inside
And nobody knows it but me
Why didn't I say, the things I needed to say
How could I let my angel get away
Now my world is just a tumblin' down
I can say it so clearly, but you're nowhere around

[Rai]

I just got to know the story of this song (I've been singing it for a while now), and it qualifies it: It was originally written by a group of german communists in one of the first concentration camps, then it went over to spain and was sang by the republicans and after, it even got to Ireland from where I know it.

Here are the english lyrics, but the German originals are easy to find:

Peat Bog Soldiers (Die Moorsoldaten)

Far and wide as the eye can wander,
Heath and bog are everywhere.
Not a bird sings out to cheer us.
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare.

We are the peat bog soldiers,
Marching with our spades to the moor.

Up and down the guards are pacing,
No one, no one can get through.
Flight would mean a sure death facing,
Guns and barbed wire block our view.

We are the peat bog soldiers,
Marching with our spades to the moor.

But for us there is no complaining,
Winter will in time be past.
One day we shall rise rejoicing.
Homeland, dear, you're mine at last.

The will the peat bog soldiers
March no more with their spades to the moor

[borneoman]

Usually dance acts don't write deep profound heart-breaking lyrics, but I think this Faithless song is the exception. It's called Last This Day and it's about a just-born-baby fighting to stay in this world:

Lines to the skin
that have seen
neither sun nor sin

tubes to the mouth
cannot laugh or sigh
or even cry

a drop in the ocean
a second and all time
one stop in the endless sky

but you mean
the whole world to me
you're an island of light
so please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day

stay one more
stay one more
stay one more day

just one more
just one more
just one more day

all this madness around us
you are knowing
and so still

you were made in love
grew in hope
were born in pain

you have them running round
trying to make you breathe again

one tiny link
in an endless chain

but you mean
the whole world to me
you're an island of light
so please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day
please last this day
stay one more day

[Cali]

I just got to know the story of this song (I've been singing it for a while now), and it qualifies it: It was originally written by a group of german communists in one of the first concentration camps, then it went over to spain and was sang by the republicans and after, it even got to Ireland from where I know it.

Here are the english lyrics, but the German originals are easy to find:

Peat Bog Soldiers (Die Moorsoldaten)

Far and wide as the eye can wander,
Heath and bog are everywhere.
Not a bird sings out to cheer us.
Oaks are standing gaunt and bare.

We are the peat bog soldiers,
Marching with our spades to the moor.

Up and down the guards are pacing,
No one, no one can get through.
Flight would mean a sure death facing,
Guns and barbed wire block our view.

We are the peat bog soldiers,
Marching with our spades to the moor.

But for us there is no complaining,
Winter will in time be past.
One day we shall rise rejoicing.
Homeland, dear, you're mine at last.

The will the peat bog soldiers
March no more with their spades to the moor

i love this song. a friend of mine made me a mixed tape with an amazing version that i could never find again

[Rai]

i love this song. a friend of mine made me a mixed tape with an amazing version that i could never find again

My favourite version is by Luke Kelly (Dubliners), its so haunting:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nTRpfld45Pw

[Rue Saint-Denis]

Anything by Teitur, really. Great songwriter. I put the parts I find particularly nice in bold for easy viewing, since it's a long post; but please, if you have the time read it all. Sorry it's such a long post, but it's quality work, I promise.

Amanda's Dream:

Can you say goodbye without ever leaving
That's some sad soul to keep
Amanda awakes in a moment believing
She's better off staying asleep
So she drives by the station
Imagining somewhere
Sings a slow, slow song

Now she's waiting at the stoplights
With nowhere to go
In our town there's just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There's a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere's Amanda's Dream

She sits late at night by the light of a candle
With wishes that never come true
Her hopes get so high they're too hard to handle
She stares as they fade out of view
All of these somewheres have lead her to nowhere
Except a slow, slow song

Now she's waiting at the stoplights
With nowhere to go
In our town there's just one stoplight
I wish she would know
There's a world outside her window
Anywhere the wind blows
Anywhere's Amanda's Dream

-------------------------------------

Let's Go Dancing:

Our minds run in circles
Racing ‘round the restaurant
Searching for what more to say
To say what we really want

Let’s leave it like it is
Stop staring at these walls
Let’s not go headlong to that distance
Where you can’t come back at all

Let’s go dancing
Waltz around the rumour mill
In your faded dress with the daffodills
Let’s go dancing
Let time stand still

Once your name was but a whisper
A simple wish upon my tongue
Staring at your shadow
Was like staring at the sun

In this dark, dark hour
You still illuminate a room
God give us the power
Gotta keep ourselves in tune

Let’s go dancing
Waltz around the rumour mill
In your faded dress with the daffodills
Let’s go dancing
Let time stand still

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To Meet You: (really lovely)

It's 5 miles 'till I see my lover
Guess you could say that she's more than that
I’ve been sat in this seat now for hours
Reading my book like map
These windows are crying
This train is dying to meet you

This train is filled with emotions
That all make me think about you
When we pass these old desert stations
I wanna go there with you
It's 4 miles and counting
My hands are shouting to meet you

To meet you is fine
For I know you're all mine
Waiting is nice
I can think of her eyes
These tracks can lead just to one place
And your face that I'll kiss and embrace when I meet you

I'm wondering if you'll ever come with me
We could play husband and wife
Or we could waltz around this globe and it's mysteries
And then rest till the end of our lives
It's 2 miles and closing I'm overdosing in you

To meet you...

-------------------------------

You Get Me:

If I say no, if I resist
If I don't give in to this
Would it be a lesson or a loss?

Suddenly I know what it's about
Thoughts come in, and words come out
Suddenly I'm not killing time
It's all over now

You get me
You get me

Like a beautiful song
You heard a million times
Like the rainbow's end
You can never find

You get me
You get me

If I say yes, if I let go
And face the consequence I'll know
Will it lead to living with regret?

Suddenly the walls are coming down
I won't be the same when I come around
Suddenly I am understood
It's all over now

You get me
You get me

Like a crimson sunset
Where the sky meets sea
Like no one alive
But lives in my dreams

You get me
You get me
You get me
You get me

Like a beautiful song
You heard a million times
Like the rainbow's end
You can never find

It's hard to ignore
And undeniable, too
This feeling inside
When I look at you

You get me
You get me

[Lin@]

Anything by Teitur, really. Great songwriter.
Totally agree! :icon_pray

[eRich097]

::....don't it make you mad to know that life

is more than who we are....::

[Serendipity]

Burnt - Guillemots

I am running out of ammunition
For the Soldiers in my head
They only love me with conditions
that None of you will know until I'm dead

and When I wake without her
It's like a sun without a cloud
Beautifully serene and gentle
and Not something of which I'm proud

I have always said that pointless races
Should never be run at all
They should be kept away and chained up
Never mentioned at all

but I can't see the point in
Walking like I do
I get from A to B and back again
but all I'm doing is passing time

I liked it, I liked it, it scared you so...
I loved it I loved, it burnt me so..
I lost it, I'm losing everywhere that I go

or

Tom Waits - I dont wanna Grow Up

When I'm lying in my bed at night
I don't wanna grow up
Nothin' ever seems to turn out right
I don't wanna grow up.
How do you move in a world of fog
That's always changing things
Makes me wish that I could be a dog
When I see the price that you pay
I don't wanna grow up
I don't ever wanna be that way
I don't wanna grow up.

[Lindsay]

^that first one is soo heartbreaking

Here's a really tragic story. The song is kind of vague, but the songwriter revealed that it was based on his experience when he was younger...that his girlfriend was pregnant and had an abortion, and ending up committing suicide

The Verve Pipe - The Freshman

When I was young and knew everything
And she a punk who rarely ever took advice
Now i'm guilt stricken,
Sobbing with my head on the floor
Stop a baby's breath and a shoe full of rice

I can't be held responsible
Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never comprimise
For the life of me cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshman

My best friend took a week's
Vacation to forget her
His girl took a week's worth of
Valium and slept
Now he's guilt stricken sobbing with his
Head on the floor
Think's about her now and how he never really
Wept he says

I can't be held responsible
Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never comprimise
For the life of me cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins
We were merely freshman

We've tried to wash our hands of all of this
We never talk of our lacking relationships
And how we're guilt stricken sobbing with our
Heads on the floor
We fell through the ice when we tried not to
Slip, we'd say

I can't be held responsible
Cause she was touching her face
I won't be held responsible
She fell in love in the first place

For the life of me I cannot remember
What made us think that we were wise and
We'd never comprimise
For the life of me cannot believe
We'd ever die for these sins
We were only freshman

[Cali]

FAIRYTALE
by Songdog





I left home ‘cos there were voices whispering among the bricks,

Sometimes I’d beg outside the abbatoir or sometimes I’d turn tricks,

I found this shack in the woods and I’ve been living there since spring,

I still hear voices in the trees but I know it’s mostly just the wind.

Another john just left and I’m tidying up the mess,

He said “I guess there’s no way you take American Express?”

It’s my martyrdom among rumpled sheets,

Outside it’s not exactly dark, more like daylight in frightened retreat ……




I’m washed up here in Lola’s Lunchbox but I guess I should go home,

‘Cos there’s rat**** on the floorboards of my heart, the coffee tastes like shaving-foam.

I’ve got a cockroach for a landlord, I’m in arrears, I think it’s time I left this town,

And the girls at the next table are talking tit-jobs, it all just brings me down,

So I take the road that leads right by the wood,

And my head hurts so bad I’d tear my brain out if I could,

There’s a woman standing in a field with a bow in her hair,

And her lips are moving like she’s whispering some kind of prayer…….




He started calling every day, at first we’d barely speak at all,

She’d pinned up pictures of medieval saints all around the walls,

I’d pretend I was asleep as I’d hear him stumble in,

She’s like a Renaissance courtesan sleeping off the gin,

And by the hawthorn hedge with the signpost peeping through

With two crooked arms and no names to point you to

And as the rain tinkled in the branches overhead

“How can you stand to let those scumbags touch you?” he said.




I watch the headlights frisk the trees as she tempts them up the lane,

It’s like the gods guide my knife, I doubt they ever feel much pain,

Then we go through their stuff and help ourselves to what we need

Then drag them to the riverbank and lay them down among the reeds.

The wind sings and the rain on the roof beats time,

And he laughed and said we’re like the Sonny & Cher of crime,

Then he smiled like the gargoyle on the graveyard gates

And he pulled on my ponytail

And I’m almost afraid to exhale,

‘Cos a breath can be like a nail-bomb to a fairy tale…………….

[bearbait]

Tracy Chapman's "Fast Car" (the whole song is pretty heart-wrenching, so I'm posting the entire thing):

You got a fast car
I want a ticket to anywhere
Maybe we make a deal
Maybe together we can get somewhere

Anyplace is better
Starting from zero got nothing to lose
Maybe we'll make something
But me myself I got nothing to prove

You got a fast car
And I got a plan to get us out of here
I been working at the convenience store
Managed to save just a little bit of money
We won't have to drive too far
Just 'cross the border and into the city
You and I can both get jobs
And finally see what it means to be living

You see my old man's got a problem
He live with the bottle that's the way it is
He says his body's too old for working
I say his body's too young to look like his
My mama went off and left him
She wanted more from life than he could give
I said somebody's got to take care of him
So I quit school and that's what I did

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so we can fly away
We gotta make a decision
We leave tonight or live and die this way

I remember we were driving driving in your car
The speed so fast I felt like I was drunk
City lights lay out before us
And your arm felt nice wrapped 'round my shoulder
And I had a feeling that I belonged
And I had a feeling I could be someone, be someone, be someone

You got a fast car
And we go cruising to entertain ourselves
You still ain't got a job
And I work in a market as a checkout girl
I know things will get better
You'll find work and I'll get promoted
We'll move out of the shelter
Buy a big house and live in the suburbs
You got a fast car
And I got a job that pays all our bills
You stay out drinking late at the bar
See more of your friends than you do of your kids
I'd always hoped for better
Thought maybe together you and me would find it
I got no plans I ain't going nowhere
So take your fast car and keep on driving

You got a fast car
But is it fast enough so you can fly away
You gotta make a decision
You leave tonight or live and die this way

[Lindsay]

^ yeah, I like that song...and David Usher does a pretty good cover:)

[borneoman]

Radiohead True Love Waits

Just don't leave
Don't leave

I'm not living
I'm just killing time

[verenita]

"visions in my head, talking to my sleep, turning in my bed, life was so complete, her shoes were on the beach... but i was only dreaming"

("i was only dreaming" - bryan adams)

[bearbait]

"Ghost" by The Indigo Girls:
"There's not enough room in this world for my pain"

[misty]

"I will remember you, will you remember me?"

Classic Sarah McLachlan. So simple, yet so painfully heartbreaking

[dawno]

Technically an outtake, but still a song with heartbreaking lyrics....

Smile, by U2

Gravity, is not pulling me
I won't be a picture with no sign
Decaying, I'm praying
You are my air but
I need the ground to kneel upon
And love can't be a song
I don't want to see you smile

I'm breaking it, taking it
I'm breaking it slowly in mind
I'm seeing it, freeing it
I know love is in this soul of mine
It's not in your eyes
I don't want...
I don't want to see you smile

I started, light-hearted
It won't be easy like you said
I'm going, flowing
I'm leaving on the day of the dead
I will live again
You will live again
I don't want to see you smile

God knows it, knows me
Knows me, knows me
You sing, hear me love
Say it again, burnt out blind
The smoke machine is yours not mine
I don't want to see you smile

I will live again
You will live again
I just don't want to see you smile

[IgoTastik]

Aqualung - Strange and Beautiful
i'll put a spell on you
you'll fall asleep
i'll put a spell on you, and when i wake you
i'll be the first thing you see...
and you'll realize that you love me
Imogen Heap - Hide and Seek
Oily marks appear on walls
Where pleasure moments hung before
The takeover, the sweeping insensitivity of this still life
Incubus - Love Hurts
Love hurts.....
But sometimes it's a good hurt
And it feels like I'm alive
Love sings
When it transcends the bad things
Have a heart and try me
'Cause without love I won't survive.
Ingrid Michaelson - The Way I Am
I'd buy you Rogaine, when you start losing all your hair..
James Blunt - Same Mistake
And maybe someday we will meet, and maybe talk and not just speak.
Don't buy the promises 'cause, there are no promises I keep.
James Morrison - The Letter
There must be a name for it
Whatever this is you've done to me
I'm all twisted up inside
Well who's gonna pay for it?
If it's not you I guess it's me
You left with your life
And took mine
Paolo Nutini - Million Faces
Though it feels like all my fire has gone, girl you just turn me on
Can't believe how much I want you

[srahman24]

Ray Lamontagne - Lesson Learned.

One of the most powerful opening lines to a song ever.

Well the truth it fell so heavy
Like a hammer through the room

and then later...

Now you hold me close and hard
But I was like a statue at most
Refusing to acknowledge you'd been hurt
Now you're clawing at my throat
And you're crying all is lost
But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt
But your tears they felt so hot upon my shirt

Definitely one of those songs that stops me dead in my tracks.

[.em.]

rocky votolato-Makers

death keeps calling me, she's gonna set me free / no more
sunshine sidewalk streets or misery / like she did for you
Oh Allen how you suffered / lower east-side apartment
we stayed up late / the bones inside your mind where all
broken / and the keys that opened any answers were all stolen
filling and refilling up the glass with makers / we both agreed
The Final Moment! / the sweetest remedy to ever be delivered!
heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness
so she came for you, well I guess you wanted her to / now in the
safety of a coffin rest you're through / no more debts or memories
no more heart blood or skin on teeth / final dosage to set you free
heaven or heavenless we're all headed for the same sweet darkness

[Rai]

Chris T-T - A Box to Hide in, the whole song. Unfortunately there are no lyrics of it on the net and I have no strength to transcribe the whole. Its "about a man and woman, both widowed by the London bombings but unable to connect with one another and continuing alone".

"I forgot to tell you I have your thick woollen socks on
So it feels like my feet are still touching your feet though you're gone, though you're gone"

[Adelaide]

Lately I've been listening to Bright Eyes.
Poison Oak is a lovely song.


... And me I'm a single cell on the serpent's tongue
There's a muddy field where the garden was
I'm glad you got away but I'm still stuck out here
My clothes are soaking wet from your brother's tears

... At the end of paralysis, I was a statuette
Now I'm drunk as hell on the piano bench
And when I press the keys, it all gets reversed
The sound of loneliness makes me happier

[tremorsinmytree]

This is great thread, most of my initial songs have been posted already so here's one that I'm actually listening to right now.

Nothingman - Pearl Jam

Once divided...nothing left to subtract...
Some words when spoken...cant be taken back...
Walks on his own...with thoughts he cant help thinking...
Futures above...but in the past hes slow and sinking...
Caught a bolt a lightnin...cursed the day he let it go...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isnt it something?
Nothingman...

She once believed...in every story he had to tell...
One day she stiffened...took the other side...
Empty stares...from each corner of a shared prison cell...
One just escapes...ones left inside the well...
And he who forgets...will be destined to remember...oh...oh...oh...

Nothingman... (2x)
Isnt it something?
Nothingman...

Oh, she dont want him...
Oh, she wont feed him...after hes flown away...
Oh, into the sun...ah, into the sun...

Burn...burn...
Nothingman... (2x)
Isnt it something?
Nothingman...
Nothingman... (2x)
Coulda been something...
Nothingman...
Oh...ohh...ohh...

[verenita]

(by listening "elephant")
"what´s the point of this song, or even singing...
you´re already gone..."

[verenita]

"the winner takes it all" - abba.
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this song really breaks my heart every time i listen to.

[Joyful]

"...the bends in your brain, and your elaborate pain, makes me tired..."

Lisa Hannigan-Teeth

[verenita]

"And how in the world did you come to be such a lazy love?
And where did you go?"

sleeping - the swel season.

another:
I could wait for you
Like that hole in your boot
Waiting to be fixed
I could wait for you
What good would that do
But to leave me pricked?

prague (i´ve just listened to it) - damien.
some times it gets harder and sadder than others.

[verenita]

"Now my black lungs are blue
But I'm still singing to you."

black winged bird - hearbreaking son, actually.

[Hendrik]

it's a junkie dream makes you so uptight
yeah it's halloween tonight and every night
see you scratch (see it on) your skin
your sandpaper throat
you're a symphony, man, with one f.ucking note
how they beat you up week after week
and when you grow up you're going to be a freak
want a violent girl who's not scared of anything
help me kill my time
'cause I'll never be fine
help me kill my time
you went down to look at old dallas town
where you must be sick just to hang around
seen it on tv how to kill your man
then like gacy's scene a canvas in your hand
you better call your mom she's out looking for you
in the jail and the army and the hospital too
but those people there couldn't do anything for you
help me kill my time
'cause I'll never be fine
help me kill my time
help me kill my time
help me kill my time
'cause I'll never be fine
help me kill my time

(Elliott Smith - Some song)

Thank god, I can't relate to these lyrics anymore. Now it pulls me down.

[demonhuntress]

Here I come, 5 years later, to ressurect this thread.

The Flaming Lips: Do You Realize
"Do you realize that everyone you know some day will die?
You realize that life goes fast
It's hard to make the good things last"

There are many but this gets me every time.
If only there was anyone who has the recording of Lisa singing this tune with Jerry Fish....