Saddest Lyrics

This one is not the saddest, but one of the saddest that I am listening to at the moment.

"my eyes grow darker, can barely see your face , yesturday I tried to belong, you know I wont stay that long, in a time of lust and liars, i learned to trust my own desires, touch me don't be ashamed , i just don't know how to play that game, in pride and grace we rise with the sun, with the morning light we just run and run, the good old days , that imaginary place ."
Covenant

hell, that's no lyric... that's just plain everyday life...

nice to see someone else touting Moz/Smiths

I have a copy of Jeff buckley singing Hallelujah live and he sings "oh mother I can feel.....enough said, I know it's over" in the middle of the song. Perfect.

All right. It's so hard to realize what's sad when you're inundated with mope rock from childhood. But there's been one song nagging my brain. The music itself is a beautiful dirdge and the lyrics go something like this:

Standing firm on this stony ground
The wind blows hard, pulls these clothes around
I harbor all the same worries as most
The temptations to leave
Or to give up the ghost
I wrestle with an outlook on life
That shifts between darkness and shadow and light
I struggle with words
For fear that they'll hear
But Orpheus sleeps on his back still dead to the world...
--Dave Sylvian "Orpheus"

YEah! Def the BHP! how bout, "and if I should ever fall in love again, I'll know that I'm just that much further away from you"

I would have to go with seasions in the sun by the kingston trio. a bit of an odd one and you realy have to hear it to understand why. but none the less one of my favoriets. for some thing so depressing but sung upbeat.

not realy all that sad but fits the tribe
the last dance "do you believe in angles"
www.myspace.com/thelastdance to listen to the song
lyrics

last night I thought I saw you staring
staring at the sky
last night I thought I saw you wishing
for your dreams to die
last night I thought I heard you crying
crying all your tears
last night I thought I saw your shadow
as you disappeared

do you believe in angels
do you believe in blood and wine
do you believe in bitter tears
or is this something
you’ve never heard of
do you believe it’s a better world
do you believe that no one cries
do you believe in bitter tears
or is this something
you’ve never wanted to believe in

last night I thought I saw you staring
staring at the sky
last night I thought I saw you wishing
for your dreams to die
last night I thought I heard you screaming
screaming out your heart
last night I saw your shadow
tear you apart

do you believe in angels
do you believe in god-like eyes
do you believe in thornless roses
or is this something
you’ve never heard of
do you believe in heaven
do you believe you’ll never die
do you believe I’ve never deceived you
or is this something
you’ve always wanted to believe in

be careful what you’re wishing for
upon your falling star
I just might be the angel
that you’re looking for

do you believe in angels?

I Am Stretched On Your Grave

I am stretched on your grave
And will lie there forever
With your hands held in mine
I'd be sure we'd not sever
My apple tree my brightness
'Tis time we were together
For I smell of the earth
And am stained by the weather

When my family thinks
That I'm safe in my bed
From night until morning
I am stretched at your head
Calling out to the air
With tears both hot and wild
Oh I grieve for the girl
That I loved as a child

The priests and the friars
Behold me in dread
Because I still love you
My love and you're dead
I would still be your shelter
From rain and from storm
And with you in your cold grave
I cannot sleep warm

dead can dance

i should post the website that has all his lyrics. i was & remain punkrockerette extraordinaire &, you know, the punkrockers were -wrong- about this guy.

worth looking up if you dont know, elvis as che guevera, completely out of control --COMPLETELY-- (one of my fathers best friends at the time was his producer. my father went thru friends the way i go thru, well, not quite lipsticks, but close) & we used to hear -all- about it.

no, the cia did not kill him. they pestered him, but they pestered a lot of people. really. he killed himself. manic depression will do that to a person.

www.cs.pdx.edu/~trent/ochs/lyrics.html

i recommend, in alpha order:
(oh theres a lot. i will give the short list)

Doesn't Lenny Live Here Anymore (very good for messy divorces & the like)

Jim Dean Of Indiana

No More Songs

One-Way Ticket Home

The Scorpion Departs but Never Returns (the scorpion was a submarine. the title isnt as manic as i once thought. i shall also post these lyrics either above or below)

When In Rome (this one made my mother, a psychoanalyst of rather high insight (at the very least) scream, "turn it off!!" you want sorrow?? you want crack up?? everything from parts of "tape from california" thru the end of his life. & so, so beautiful)

The World Began In Eden And Ended in Los Angeles (just b/c i live there)

&, of course, rehearsals for retirement, which will break yr heart even if it is not broken already, & which i posted around here somewhere.

i am writing this largely as a break from putting together my typical miserable-but-funny new years card, but am writing so much b/c this guy is SOOOO ridiculously underrated-- especially by the "dark hippies" (velvet underground, people like my parents. serious people) & especially the punkrocker types.

FORGET the political commentary, unless it is for what you really search.

this guy is The Genius of Anguish.

people ought to know.

"Too drunk to fuck" -now THAT's sad.
Dead Kennedys.

Joy Division - Twenty-Four Hours

So this is permanent
Love's shattered pride
What once was innocence
Turned on it's side
A cloud hangs over me
Marks every move
Deep in the memory
Of what once was love

Oh how I realised
How I wanted time,
Put into perspective,
I tried so hard to find,
Just for one moment,
I thought I'd found my way.
Destiny unfolded,
I watched it slip away.

Excessive flashpoints,
Beyond all reach,
Solitary demands for
All I'd like to keep.
Let's take a ride out,
See what we can find,
A valueless collection of
Hopes and past desires.

I never realised
The lengths I'd have to go,
All the darkest corners of
A sense I didn't know.
Just for one moment,
I heard somebody call,
Looked beyond the day in hand,
There's nothing there at all.

Now that I've realised
How it's all gone wrong,
Got to find some therapy,
This treatment takes too long.
Deep in the heart of
Where sympathy held sway,
Gotta find my destiny,
Before it gets too late

Names - Cat Power

His name was Perry.
He had a learning difficulty.
His father was a very mean man,
his father burned his skin.
His father sent him to his death.
He was 10 years old.

Her name was Naomi.
Beautiful round face, so ashamed.
Told me how to please a man
after school in the back of the bus.
She was doing it every day.
She was 11 years old.

Her name was Cheryl.
Black hair like electric space.
She would pretty paint my face.
She was a very good friend.
Her father would come to her in the night.
She was 12 years old.

His name was Donavin.
He was a very good friend.
The cards were stacked