I know most of you have probably heard Dust in the Wind - but if you didn't look for it or stumble across it, I think the Dutchman is a little more obscure. If you haven't heard it before - tell me your impressions, and if you can think of a song that saddens you more than this one. (thought I would bring everyone right down today lol)
Ahh - another just hit me - Elenore Rigby....why is she picking up that rice ? but such a sad image...
So much easier to name songs that are "Angry", "Rebellious", tell stories, love songs. Actually, sad love songs is extremely common - I suppose it's harder to find sad non-love songs, which is what I meant initially. I wonder if anyone has ever analyzed the most common themes in songwriting - How would you order them ? Sad ones have to be on the bottom. And if you write - which themes would you say most run through your songs - do you think that says anything about you ? ; )
We had an apartment in the city Me and Loretta liked living there Well, it'd been years since the kids had grown A life of their own left us alone John and Linda live in Omaha And Joe is somewhere on the road We lost Davy in the Korean war And I still don't know what for, don't matter anymore
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
Me and Loretta, we don't talk much more She sits and stares through the back door screen And all the news just repeats itself Like some forgotten dream that we've both seen Someday I'll go and call up Rudy We worked together at the factory But what could I say if asks "What's new?" "Nothing, what's with you? Nothing much to do"
Ya' know that old trees just grow stronger And old rivers grow wilder ev'ry day Old people just grow lonesome Waiting for someone to say, "Hello in there, hello"
So if you're walking down the street sometime And spot some hollow ancient eyes Please don't just pass 'em by and stare As if you didn't care, say, "Hello in there, hello"
I never heard that before so thanx for listing it.
I Drive Your Truck and Hello in There are two other good ones. There are a couple more on John Prine's first album that you could have included, such as Sam Stone.
Sam Stone hit home here as a some of my friends came back from that war with issues.
Me, it's not about how many times you fail, it's about how many times you get back up. Cop, that's not how field sobriety tests work.
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i've been here since ten this morning there's no end in sight just my luck, i get stuck with all the drunks tonight when it comes to talking troubles i might raise my voice i'm working as a waitress cause i've got no choice my feet hurt so badly i can barely stand that busboy's so damn lazy he won't lend a hand another dollar tip another pack of kents i'd quit right now if i knew how else to pay my rent
sometimes i wonder what it's all for life's just a b-movie with no back door is this someone's idea of a clever joke since i was seventeen i've been choking
my old man past away seven years it's been a heart attack at fifty-two his job did him in you bust your [*****] all your life but it never pays he left me here with nothing but three kids to raise i'm forty-six tommorow you think my children care it gets to where you count on them not being there they say to set your sights on the highest star that's just to keep you from seeing where you really are
sometimes i wonder what it's all for life's just a b-movie with no back door is this someone's idea of a clever joke since i was seventeen i've been choking
Lyrics Sam Stone came home, To the wife and family After serving in the conflict overseas. And the time that he served, Had shattered all his nerves, And left a little shrapnel in his knees. But the morhpine eased the pain, And the grass grew round his brain, And gave him all the confidence he lacked, With a purple heart and a monkey on his back.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years, Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Sam Stone's welcome home Didn't last too long. He went to work when he'd spent his last dime And soon he took to stealing When he got that empty feeling For a hundred dollar habit without overtime. And the gold roared through his veins Like a thousand railroad trains, And eased his mind in the hours that he chose, While the kids ran around wearin' other peoples' clothes...
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years, Sweet songs never last too long on broken radios.
Sam Stone was alone When he popped his last balloon, Climbing walls while sitting in a chair. Well, he played his last request, While the room smelled just like death, With an overdose hovering in the air. But life had lost it's fun, There was nothing to be done, But trade his house that he bought on the GI bill, For a flag-draped casket on a local hero's hill.
There's a hole in daddy's arm where all the money goes, Jesus Christ died for nothin I suppose. Little pitchers have big ears, Don't stop to count the years,
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For me it's "Mr Bojangles". As a pet lover hearing the following lyric sung gets me every time, knowing that, that animal was all he had for companionship!
"He spoke with tears of fifteen years how his dog and him Traveled about The dog up and died He up and died After twenty years he still grieves"
Something about Piano Man by Billy Joel always gets to me - and someone else mentioned it, but Johnny Cash's rendition of Hurt is another contender.
On a more obscure note, Karissa by Sun Kil Moon always gets me. It's an ode to a distant relative of his who passed away. It captures a really unique melancholic feeling, for me at least. It addresses how you feel when you lose someone close enough to you that it jars you, but doesn't destroy you. It's a unique mood I think most of us can relate to, but the way it's presented on this song is melancholic, haunting, and beautiful.
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