Weepy songs

I love Angel. It's such a beautiful song. Here are two that always get me.

Two Beds and a Coffee Machine - Savage Garden

And she takes another step
Slowly she opens the door
Check that he is sleeping
Pick up all the broken glass and furniture on the floor
Been up half the night screaming now it's time to get away
Pack up the kids in the car
Another bruise to try and hide
Another alibi to write

Another ditch in the road
You keep moving
Another stop sign
You keep moving on
And the years go by so fast
Wonder how I ever made it through

And there are children to think of
Baby's asleep in the back seat
Wonder how they'll ever make it through this living nightmare
But the mind is an amazing thing
Full of candy dreams and new toys and another cheap hotel
Two beds and a coffee machine
But there are groceries to buy
And she knows she'll have to go home

Another ditch in the road
You keep moving
Another stop sign
You keep moving on
And the years go by so fast
Wonder how I ever made it through

Another bruise to try and hide
Another alibi to write
Another lonely highway in the black of the night
But there is hope in the darkness
You know you're going to make it

Another ditch in the road
You keep moving
Another stop sign
You keep moving on
And the years go by so fast
Silent fortress built to last
Wonder how I ever made it



Where You Want To Be - Darren Hayes

Hey there stranger
Do you remember?
You were a part of my life
Early December
Think I remember?
Sentiment cuts like a knife
The seasons are changing
Life's rearranging
Full of could have dones
Would have beens
It's all your fault
And where've you been
And how times goes
And though I don't even know
How to fill in the spaces
of the love you've erased in my life

Are you where you wanted to be?
Did you get there easily?
Did I make you sacrifice?
Did you make a sharp left
When you should have turned right?
Are you where you wanted to be?
Did you sell off all of your gold
Did you trade it in?
Did you wait for love
Or settle for somebody to hold?

And barely symphonic
But strangely ironic
Moments contained in one glance
Oh how I adored you
But now I'm ignored by you.
No evidence of romance
And how it's vaguely familiar
I think I remember sharing every single intimacy
It doesn't seem so strange to me that we barely entertained
Even the politest of phrases
But sometimes at night
I conjure you up in my mind.

Are you where you wanted to be?
Did you get there easily?
Did I make you sacrifice?
Did you make a sharp left
when you should have turned right?
Are you where you wanted to be?
Did you sell off all of your gold
Did you trade it in?
Did you wait for love
Or settle for somebody to hold.

While I was busy
Perfecting the art
Of deflecting compliments
I took it too far
And I let a ripple run right through my heart
Of battle stations we're building
You and I just grew apart
We grew apart

While I decided
To make everyone else happy
I just put aside my foolish pride
I guess I denied my own desire
I was too busy pleasing
To ever be pleased
I forgot how to breathe
Or question anything
Or ask why?
Am I?

Am I where I wanted to be?
Did I get here easily?
Did I make a sacrifice?
Did I take a sharp left
When I should have turned right?
Am I where I wanted to be?
Can I sell off all of my gold?
Can I trade it in?
Will I wait for love
Or settle for somebody to hold.

I'd settle for somebody to hold now

You know that I've been up and I've been down
I've been picked up and spun around
I'd do it all again
If I could just have somebody to hold now
I just need somebody to hold me now
Could somebody hold me now?
I just want somebody to hold me now
I'd do it all again

Beautiful songs, everyone.

This one's a very soft guitar song, by Beck, called 'Sing it again.'

A town of disrespect, the trains are wrecked
The night is younger than us

Nowhere is anywhere else, you keep to yourself
Stirring the dregs where I have laid

The exit signs are flashing
Dead ends they won't come to life anymore

I pledge the rest, I should have guessed
Your love was hanging by threads

Tongues tied under the moon
My love is a room of broken bottles and tangled webs

The misers wind their minds like clocks that grind their gears on and on
And if it's meant, some accident, some coincidence

Crumbs fall out of the sky when you wander by
The dust clouds blow when nobody's home

Oh won't you lay my bags upon the funeral fire and sing it again?
Oh won't you lay my bags upon the funeral fire and sing it again?

Nine Inch Nails
The Fragile

she shines
in a world full of ugliness
she matters when everything is meaningless

fragile
she doesn't see her beauty
she tries to get away
sometimes
it's just that nothing seems worth saving
I can't watch her slip away

I won't let you fall apart

she reads the minds of all the people as they pass her by
hoping someone can see
if I could fix myself I'd - but it's too late for me

I wont let you fall apart

we'll find the perfect place to go where we can run and hide
I'll build a wall and we can keep them on the other side
...but they keep waiting
...and picking...

it's something I have to do
I was there, too
before everything else
I was like you

(Wonderful, Cav.)

Your sorry eyes cut through the bone;
It makes it hard to leave you alone.
Leave you here, wearing your wounds,
Waving your guns at somebody new;
Baby you're a lost;
baby you're a lost;
Baby you're a lost cause.

There's too many people you used to know.
They see you coming; they see you go.
They know your secrets; you know theirs.
This town is crazy, nobody cares.
Baby you're a lost;
baby you're a lost;
baby you're a lost;
Baby you're a lost cause.

There's a place where you are going
You ain't never been before
No one laughing at your back now
No one's standing at your door
That's what you thought love was for.
Baby you're a lost;
baby you're a lost;
Baby you're a lost cause.
I'm tired of fighting,
I'm tired of fighting
Fighting for a lost cause

Where's that song from drom?

It's from a very beautiful album called 'Sea Change' (http://www.rollingstone.com/reviews/album?id=165933&pageid=rs.Artistcage&pageregion=triple1,) which was voted one of the best albums of the 21st century, (although I have to say that I prefer 'Mutations', from which the first song that I posted came.) It shows the break-down of things without being contrived... it's rather purging.

It often has rather sad songs that very slowly develop: like this subtle one, Paper Tiger, whose meaning changes in the last line.

Just like a paper tiger,
Torn apart by idle hands.
Through the helter skelter morning
Fix yourself while you still can

No more ashes-to-ashes,
No more cinders from the sky;
Let all the laws of creation
Tell a dead man how to die.

The deserts down below us,
And the storms up above,
Like a stray dog gone defective,
Like a paper tiger in the sun.

Looking through a broken diamond,
To make the past what should be,
Through the ruins and the weather,
Capsized boats in the sea.

Deserts down below us,
The storms up above,
Like a stray dog gone defective;
Like a paper tiger in the sun.

I just hold on to nothing
And see how long nothing lasts;
The deserts down below us,
And the storms up above,
Like a stray dog gone defective,
Like a paper tiger in the sun.

There's one road to the morning;
There's one road to the truth;
There's one road back to civilization;
But there's no road back to you.

my name is leslie ann levine
my mother birthed me down a dry revine
my mother birthed me far too soon
born at nine and dead at noon

fifteen years gone now
i still wander this parapet
and shake my rattle bone
fifteen years gone now
i still cling to the petticoats
of the girl who died with me

on the roofs above the streets
the only love i've knowns a chimney sweep
lost and lodged inside a flue
back in 1842

fifteen years gone now
i stil wail from these catacombs
and curse my mother's name
fifteen years gone now
still a wastrel mesallied
has brought this fate on me

my name is leslie ann levine
i've got no one left to mourn for me
my body lies inside its grave
in a ditch not far away

fifteen years gone now
i still wander this parapet
and shake my rattle bone
fifteen years gone now
i still cling to the petticoats
of the girl who died with me

Your picture is still on my wall, on my wall
The colors are bright, bright as ever
Red is strong and blue is pure
Some things last a long time
Some things last a long time

It's funny, but it's true
And it's true, but it's not funny
Time comes and goes
All of the while, I still think about you
Some things last a long time

Your picture is still on my wall, on my wall
I think about you often, often
I won't forget all the things we did
Some things last a long time
Some things last a lifetime
Some things last a long time
Some things last a lifetime

THE ROAD TO MANDALAY
Robbie Williams

Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach

What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say

This sombre song would drain the sun
But it won't shine until it's sung

No water running in the stream
The saddest place we've ever been

Everything I touched was golden
Everything I loved got broken
On the road to Mandalay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

There's nothing left for you to give
The truth is all that you're left with
Twenty paces then at dawn
We will die and be reborn

I like to sleep beneath the trees
Have the universe at one with me
Look down the barrel of a gun
And feel the Moon replace the Sun

Everything we've ever stolen
Has been lost returned or broken
No more dragons left to slay
Every mistake I've ever made
Has been rehashed and then replayed
As I got lost along the way

Save me from drowning in the sea
Beat me up on the beach
What a lovely holiday
There's nothing funny left to say

Not strictly a song, but playing the Moonlight Sonata always makes me feel a bit weepy (by playing I mean actually sitting at a piano and placing fingers to keys)

How wonderful, you actually can play it?

Yup, though presently I posess no piano on which to practise.

this post been quiet for a while but im surprised no one did this one
this has been know to get me to shed tears

R.E.M. - Everybody hurts

When the day is long and the night, the night is yours alone,
When you're sure you've had enough of this life, well hang on
Don't let yourself go, everybody cries and everybody hurts sometimes

Sometimes everything is wrong. now it's time to sing along
When your day is night alone, (hold on, hold on)
If you feel like letting go, (hold on)
When you think you've had too much of this life, well hang on

'cause everybody hurts. take comfort in your friends
Everybody hurts. don't throw your hand. oh, no. don't throw your hand
If you feel like you're alone, no, no, no, you are not alone

If you're on your own in this life, the days and nights are long,
When you think you've had too much of this life to hang on

Well, everybody hurts sometimes,
Everybody cries. and everybody hurts sometimes
And everybody hurts sometimes. so, hold on, hold on
Hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on, hold on
Everybody hurts. you are not alone

Forgot about that one Col...when M Stipe sings it it's really melancholy...he's got a fine voice.

I heard a recording of Frank Sinatra singing Ol Man River from Porgy and Bess this week for the first time - wow! the sadness and reality of slavery is all there - it is the best version I've ever heard

Thanks for the tip. I loved Frank's singing for the way it would nuance the lyrics in a whole fresh new way.

Just listened to it twice Vivien...you're spot on

Electronic keyboards are available at small cost and can be stored in a closet when not in use, therefore taking up essentially no space.

For sure, it's not the same thing as a real piano, but it does produce music.

It is better than having a hard learned talent wither for lack of use.

I agree wizard. I was forced to give up my piano and buy a keyboard...it took a while to get used to the action...now I can't play a real piano