good mourning
good mourning
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these are some of my favorite sad songs. some of the songs make me cry. some make me want to.
i associate some with tv shows or characters, like homicide: life on the street, band of brothers, reid, or denny.
i really wanted to include patty griffin's "tony," but it just sounded too angry to fit with the rest of the mix.
i recommend you check the song out on youtube though, it's very powerful. you'll notice i also
also, i know this mix is mega huge, i just couldn't stop adding songs.
top of the world
by the dixie chicks
i wished i was smarter
i wished i was stronger
i wished i loved jesus
the way the my wife does
i wished it'd been easier
instead of any longer.
i wished i could've stood
where you would've been proud
that won't happen now
chasing cars
by snow patrol
If I lay here
If I just lay here
would you lie with me and just forget the world?
still fighting it
by ben folds
Everybody knows
It sucks to grow up
And everybody does.
It's so weird to be back here.
Let me tell you what
The years go on and
We're still fighting it, we're still fighting it
milk & honey
by eliza gilkyson
O what fools these mortals be,
so tragic and so funny
Ships of bones that sail the sea,
for lands of milk and honey
best i ever had
by vertical horizon
So you sailed away
Into a grey sky morning
Now I'm here to stay
Love can be so boring
Nothing's quite the same now
I just say your name now
black + blue
by christina perri
This isn't where I'm meant to lay down
But you dug this grave, and it fits me perfectly
And if you're asking if I'm over love
You're a fool to believe that you gave me some
something pretty
by patrick park
Here I am, where I’ve been
I’ve walked a hundred miles in tobacco skin,
And my clothes are worn & gritty.
And I know ugliness,
Now show me something pretty.
open your eyes
by margot & the nuclear so & so's
and thursday was harder to take
with these pills piled high on my plate,
so i swallow each one in a haze.
in a cascade of light, i was saved.
something more besides you
by cowboy junkies
Two are born to cross
their paths, their lives, their hearts
If by chance one turns away
are they forever lost?
the living
by natalie merchant
All the lovers I've gambled and lost
Count my mistakes
Whatever the cost
I'll go off, I'll make myself scarce
Come tomorrow
You won't find me here
Cause I don't care to stay
Among the living
why we fight: string quartet in c-sharp minor opus 131
by london metropolitan orchestra
instrumental
imagine
by eva cassidy
Imagine there's no countries
It isn't hard to do
Nothing to kill or die for
And no religion too
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace...
mad world
by gary jules
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
springfield, or bobby got a shadfly caught in his hair
by sufjan stevens
If my father took his life
for the national plan, I don't care,
I'm not about to stick my grave with an
apron and a bucket of plans, never ever
in the hush before the heartbreak
by the nields
I don't care about your lover
I won't make her go away
I don't care about appearances
Or what my friends will say
(Let them talk all day)
In the hush before the heartbreak
I just want you to stay
into the west
by annie lennox
What can you see,
on the horizon?
Why do the white gulls call?
Across the sea,
a pale moon rises.
The ships have come,
to carry you home.
where's the girl?
by voltaire
Where's the child who used to play there
In her eyes?
Could it be she still resides there
In disguise?
Everyday I look for a sign
It's all in vain, it's a colossal waste of time
between the bars
by elliott smith
Drink up baby, stay up all night
With the things you could do
You won't but you might
The potential you'll be that you'll never see
if it was up to me
by stabilo
if it was up to me, i'd never look both
ways before crossing the street.
if it was up to me, i'd never wear my seatbelt,
and i'd probably still speed.
if it was up to me, i never would have
smiled in any pictures
i'd most likely sleep all day
we are mice
by azure ray
We'll walk this earth somnambulant kin
With broken hearts that cannot mend
Losers first and second men
We'll do our best to blend in
the darkest night of all
by lisa germano
How can you sleep?
How can you sleep through this?
What are your thoughts?
As you turn to dream?
I wouldn't know
I never look.
These things are hard
These things can hurt
no one would riot for less
by bright eyes
Little soldier, little insect
You know war, it has no heart
It will kill you in the sunshine
Or just as happily in the dark
the way it ends
by landon pigg
This is the way it ends
Don't tell me it's meaningless
There'll be no compromise
We fall, and we too, shall rise
You held me and taught me how
I think I am ready now
If this is the way it ends,
Then this is the way it's meant to be
another song about the darkness
by lauren hoffman
Well you don't fit in, thank God
But you don't know what you've got
So you try to be like them, but you're not
And you're almost dead
Almost dead
You're almost dead
spanish doll
by poe
This place feels so unfamiliar
And yet I know it well
I think I used to belong here
But the only way I can tell
Is that I miss you still
And I cannot find you here
You left me tattered and torn
Just like that Spanish doll
upward over the mountain
by iron & wine
Mother, I made it up
From the bruise of a floor of this prison
Mother, I lost it
All of the fear of the Lord I was given
Mother forget me
Now that the creek drank the cradle you sang to
Mother forgive me
I sold your car for the shoes that I gave you
funeral
by band of horses
I'm coming up only to show you down
for I'm coming up only to show you wrong
To the outside, the dead leaves, they all blow
Before they died had trees to hang their hope
Ooh, ooh
lucky
by bif naked
It was a Monday, when my lover told me,
"Never pay the reaper with love only."
What could I say to you, except, "I love you"
and "I'd give my life for yours."
lonely ghosts
by o + s
The devil that you know
Is better than
The one you don't
Like lonely ghosts
At a roadside cross
We stay because
We don't know where else to go
doomsday
by murray gold
instrumental
welcome home
by radical face
All my nightmares escaped my head.
Bar the door, please don't let them in.
You were never supposed to leave.
Now my head's splitting at the seams.
And I don't know if I can...
the churchyard
by voltaire
The earth is a blood-red clay
That cakes to my heels.
And the stain grows heavy as lead,
And my heart it is heavier still.
In a bough there's a raven
And it's eyes fix me with a stare.
Then he turns and screams at the sky.
And it burns like the truth in my ears.
gloomy sunday
by bjork
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the dark coach
Of sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thought
Of ever returning you
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you?
in liverpool
by suzanne vega
the boy in the belfry
he's crazy, he's throwing himself
down from the top of the tower.
like a hunchback in heaven
he's ringing the bells in the church
for the last half an hour.
he sounds like he's missing something
or someone that he knows he can't
have now, and if he isn't
i certainly am
nobody's man
by tina dico
I love the way you set me off
With a stroke of your hand
And your puzzled look when we make love
That you don't understand.
But nothing I've got will make you feel better
At the break of dawn you'll still
Be nobody's man
fall out
by train
Goodnight, my friends.
Goodbye, the dreams that all danced their way into my life.
The horse of forever
We rode in our youth
We walked into heaven through hell in these boots
I feel a great love while I'm here in your arms.
You were all brothers
And fathers and sons,
You were mine.
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