What is the most bittersweet, very sad song you have ever heard?

Question

I would say for me it would be the "Arnhem Knights" song from that medal of honor game (especially if you listen to it slowed down and the tempo down a little). that song is great for encouragement, but is also very very sad. its a classical song.

i also like to listen to that song with the pitch down a little bit.

Answer 1

Can't Live (If Living is Without You) - Harry Nillson
The Rose by Bette Midler
Crossroads by Don McLean
Angel by Sarah MacLachlan

More to come.....have to think and check my CD collection. ;)

Added:
The Green Fields of France (my version is by Golden Bough but there are other versions out there)

This song was written about World War I, but if you change "green fields of France" to "brown desert of Iraq" it takes on a whole new meaning. (World War I, or The Great War, was supposed to be "the war to end all wars", which is what they are talking about at the end. Ironic, huh?)

Lyrics:

Well, how do you do, young Willie McBride?
Do you mind if I sit here down by your graveside?
And rest for a while 'neath the warm summer sun
I've been working all day and I'm nearly done.

I see by your gravestone you were only nineteen
When you joined that great calling in 1916.
I hope you died quick, and I hope you died clean,
Or young Willie McBride, was it slow and obscene?

(chorus)
Did they beat the drum slowly?
Did they play the fifes lowly?
Did they play the Death March as they lowered you down?
Did the band play the Last Post and Chorus?
And did the pipes play the Flowers of the Forest?

Now did you leave a wife or a sweetheart behind?
In that faithful heart is your memory enshrined?
Although you died back in 1916
In that faithful heart are you forever nineteen?

Or are you a stranger without even a name?
Enclosed and forever behind a glass frame
In an old photograph, torn and battered and stained
And faded to yellow in a brown leather frame?

(chorus)

The sun now it shines on the green fields of France
There's warm summer breeze that makes the red poppies dance
And see how the sun shines from under the clouds
There's no gas, no barbed wire, there's no guns firing now.

But here in this graveyard it's still no man's land
The countless white crosses stand mute in the sand
To man's blind indifference to his fellow man,
To a whole generation that was butchered and damned.

(chorus)

Now young Willie McBride, I can't help but wonder why
Do those that lie here know why that they died?
And did they believe when they answered the call
Did they really believe that this war would end wars?

The sorrow, the suffering, the glory, the pain
The killing, the dying it was all done in vain.
For young Willie McBride, it all happened again
And again, and again, and again, and AGAIN.

(chorus)

Answer 2

"Bro Hymn (tribute)" by Pennywise. Not so much the song itself, but for the backstory. The song was originally written by the bass player as a tribute to some friends who had died. It's all about brotherhood and friendship, and how true friends stick by you through thick and thin. In 1996, the bass player (Jason Matthew Thirsk) shot himself while he had been drinking. The band then rerecorded the song as a tribute to him, telling him that even though he was gone, he was still a part of the band and that he will never be forgotten. They even recruited his brother, Justin, drummer for 98 Mute, to sing on part of it. You can hear how choked up he is when he says "Jason, my brother, this one's for you." You can hear him trying to fight off tears. The band plays this song at the end of every show and the audience members all put their arms around each others shoulders and sway back and forth, chanting to the "oooohhhh ohh ohh ohhhh" chorus. They even let a lot of their fans on stage to sing it with them. Usually punk rock songs aren't this moving. Bro Hymn is an encouraging song about brotherhood, unity, and humanity; and at the same time a tragic story about life ending too quickly. It is full of life, as well as death. Now that's bittersweet.

Answer 3

"Mother's Pride" - George Michaels. Pretty crushing especially considering the current state of the world.

Answer 4

Connected by a String by Devics. It's about two sisters in two different countries, whose only connection is the telephone since neither wants to visit the other.

Answer 5

A Bad Goodbye, a country song by Clint Black and Wynona every time I hear it I cry.

Answer 6

The song titled "Lips of an Angel"

Answer 7

New Edition "Hey There Lonely Girl"
Ever since he broke your heart, you seem so lost
Each time you pass my way
How I long to take your hand and say dont cry
Ill kiss your tears away
Hey...lonely girl, my only girl

Answer 8

"Life Without You" By Stevie Ray Vaughn

Answer 9

I can't make you love me by Bonnie Raitt

Answer 10

Don't take the girl ~ Tim McGraw