In the missing, we find what is left of ourselves. When I feel sad, I like to listen to the songs of Lucinda Williams, especially from her album “West.” What is your favorite sweet sad song?
Why, what could she have done being what she is?
Was there another Troy for her to burn?
Poem by W.B. Yeats, No Second Troy
Tears! tears! tears!
In the night, in solitude, tears;
On the white shore dripping, dripping, suck’d in by the sand;
Tears—not a star shining—all dark and desolate;
Moist tears from the eyes of a muffled head.
Poem from Walt Whitman, Leaves of Grass
I Want You by Elvis Costello
My favourite sweet sad song changes all the time. Right now it is (still) “If I Have to Go” by Tom Waits.
I love your observation, “In the missing, we find what is left of ourselves.”
I love listening to sad songs. I think it’s about all I listen to these days, especially anything by Chantal Kreviazuk.
I can’t think of any sad songs that I listen to … sometimes a song passing on the radio gets me if it catches me in a melancholy mood.
What are you doing in jail??
I like some sad song. Angie, for example. But I have to be sad to listen to them…
I love most all Lucinda Williams’ stuff too, but “Car Wheels on a Gravel Road” album helped me get through my last break-up. I would drive and drive (and cry and cry) listening to it, until I finally got it ALL out.
My favorite sad song is “Here Comes a Regular” by the Replacements off the “Tim” album.
When I’m sad… I eat. Ice cream.
…. well, here i go, dating myself…. Don McLean’s Vincent. …. you know…. starry, starry night…. but i don’t listen to it, i play and sing it on my harp. i did an earth day gig yesterday – when i did that number there followed that heavy, emotionally charged silence that tells you people were listening. or i play Celtic laments on my fiddle, late @ night….
I no longer encourage them but now and then one will catch me by surprise.
The purest most emotional rendering, hauntingly beautiful sad song I ever heard was the shepherd’s “Baïlèro,” – a peasant song of the Auvernge collected by Joseph Canteloube; from the Auvernge region of France. I first heard it sung by Jessie Norman but there is an equally wonderful version on U Tube from the late Anna Moffo. Best wishes
Best wishes
Just one? Never be able to decide so i will go with my most recent. “Canta Per Me”
Written by Kajiura Yuki and performed by Yuriko Kaida.