Depressing songs

[PieBeast]

 

[HARKER]

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Before The Poison by Marianne Faithfull
(written by P.J. Harvey and Marianne Faithfull)

Before the poison, I wasn't down
If you'd been there, if you'd been around
I couldn't hear, couldn't hear a sound
I was floating above the ground

Before the poison, I had lost my fear
Maybe too happy to even care
Safe in my dream, couldn't see the fog
Comin' on, coming from nowhere, my name to call

No more to say, nothin's comin' my way
No you, no me, no more, how can it be?
Nowhere to run, out of nowhere poison
They sense the end, what's left for you, my friend?

Before the poison, I'd laugh out loud
I'd see your face in any crowd
But speak softly without fear
Hold on to me, hold me near

No more to say, nothin's comin' my way
No you, no me, no more, how can it be?
Nowhere to run, out of nowhere poison
They sense the end, what's left for you, my friend?

What's left for you, my friend?
What's left for you, my friend?
What's left for you?

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Sister Morphine by (originally) Marianne Faithfull
(written by Mick Jagger and Marianne Faithfull)

Here I lie in my hospital bed
Tell me, sister morphine, when are you coming round again?
Oh, I don't think I can wait that long
Oh, you see that I'm not that strong

The scream of the ambulance is sounding in my ears
Tell me, sister morphine, how long have I been lying here?
What am I doing in this place?
Why does the doctor have no face?

Oh, I can't crawl across the floor
Ah, can't you see, sister morphine, I'm trying to score

Well it just goes to show
Things are not what they seem
Please, sister morphine, turn my nightmares into dreams
Oh, can't you see I'm fading fast?
And that this shot will be my last

Sweet cousin cocaine, lay your cool cool hand on my head
Ah, come on, sister morphine, you better make up my bed
Cause you know and I know in the morning I'll be dead
Yeah, and you can sit around, yeah and you can watch all the
Clean white sheets stained red.

 

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[rum ham]

 

[AtomicBlonde]

Emma by Hot Chocolate

We were together since we were five
She was so pretty
Emma was a star in everyone's eyes
And when she said she'd be a movie queen
Nobody laughed
Her face like an angel, she could be anything

Emmalene
Emma, Emmalene
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen
Emmalene
Emma, Emmalene
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen

At seventeen we were wed
And worked day and night to earn our daily bread
And every day Emma would go out searching for that play
That never ever came her way

You know sometimes she'd come home so depressed
I'd hear her crying in the back room feeling so distressed
And I'd remember back when she was five
To the words that used to make Emmalene come alive

It was Emmalene
Emma, Emmalene
I'm gonna write your name high on that silver screen
Emmalene
Emma, Emmalene
I'm gonna make you the biggest star this world has ever seen

It was cold and dark December night
When I opened the bedroom door
To find her lying still and cold up on the bed
A love letter lying on the bedroom floor

It read, "Darling, I love you.
But I just can't keep on living on dreams no more.
I tried so very hard not to leave you alone.
I just can't keep on tryin' no more."

Emmalene
Oh, Emmalene
Emmalene

 

[Marmozet]

 

[4evablues]

 

[Drugs Are Bad Mackay?]

 

[Fossie 32]

The lyrics of Goodbye To Love are very sad in themselves but extremely so in the context of Karen Carpenter dying so young. ['What lies in the future is a mystery to us all....']
The guitar solo is inspired - was just thinking about it today.

 

[Ron The Bear]

 

[mellowyellow]

 

[Hu$tler]

Reilly Craig - Lisa's City

Released last year, made it to 2nd on the Triple J Unearthed Pop Charts....

 

[4evablues]

Originally by Stevie Nicks

 

[4evablues]

 

[Bailey01]

Probably Wake me up when September ends by Green day

 

[4evablues]

 

[Ashton Agar]

CBF reading through the thread so this may have been mentioned but that song called Say Something is depressing. No idea why it is even popular?

 

[J_Moore]

I only paid attention to the lyrics of "Fast Car" by Tracy Chapman while it was playing in a taxi one night. What the * that song is a punch in the guts. Any songs about the disappointment of working life (Springsteen, etc), do it for me.

 

[J_Moore]

Could probably put up most of Blue, to be honest, but a song about the kid she had to give up for adoption as a teenager takes the sad, sad cake.

 

[cortez]

About 75% of Leonard Cohen's catalogue would probably fit the "not necessarily sad songs but rather songs that have a depressing feel about them" criteria.

Johnny Cash had some very dark depressing songs.

Johnny Cash American IV: The Man Comes Around has some dark numbers.. The songs are mainly covers but it's basically Cash saying goodbye and repenting for all his wrongs... His version of bridge over troubled water is fantastic.

 

[two blue tiger]

The Smithereens are one of my all time favourite bands - the piano/voice versions of these songs too that leader of the band (singer/songwriter) Pat Dinizio did decades later are even better than these originals......

 

[William Rocher]

sharing this running thought - bullet for my valentine is ACTUALLY amazing!

 

[the bee sharps]