What's the 7 saddest songs on this poll?

What's your picks?


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Gary Jules - Mad World

Adele - Someone Like You

Sinead O'Connor - Nothing Compares 2 U

A Great Big World featuring Christina Aguilera - Say Something

Bruce Springsteen - Streets of Philadelphia
 
Sarah McLachlan - Angel

Mike & The Mechanics - The Living Years

Simon & Garfunkel - The Sounds of Silence

Fleetwood Mac - Landslide

Elton John - Candle In The Wind
 
Eric Clapton - Tears in Heaven

The Verve - The Drugs Don't Work

The Beatles - Yesterday

R.E.M - Everybody Hurts

Cyndi Lauper - Time after Time
 
Righteous Brothers - Unchained Melody

Bette Midler - Wind Beneath My Wings

Johnny Cash - Hurt

Jeff Buckley - Hallelujah

Evanescence - My Immortal
 
It was a tough one between Johnny Cash and Bette Midler. The Johnny Cash one is sad when you consider the lyrics, the music, the video, and the overall timing of its release. The Bette Midler song is sad because it means you would have to listen to Bette Midler.

I chose Cash.
 
Tears in Heaven is a great choice. Probably the saddest situation a person can find himself in is losing a child.

Personally, the saddest song I can think of us "Keep Me In Your Heart For a While" by Warren Zevon. It's a goodbye to his wife (he was in the end stage of cancer and knew he didn't have much time left when he recorded it). It's the final song on his final album.
 
This song always makes me feel sad since I was a kid. Whenever my father plays it.



Now I'm grown up, I realized how the words make sense.
 
My vote goes to Clapton. Though outside of that list my vote would be Elliot Smith, especially when the song is about his partners alcoholism, whom eventually stabbed him to death.
 
Off that list, definitely Tears In Heaven.

I’ll add this one too. He recorded it while he was losing his battle with cancer.
 
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