The saddest song of all time

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I Wish You Love, Chrissie Hynde version
from "Eye of the Beholder" (Film with Ewan McGregor and Ashley Judd)

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"100 Years" by Five for Fighting

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One Moment More by Mindy Smith, written about her mother's death from cancer. Kills me.

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Anonymous wrote:The House that Built Me, Miranda Lambert. I cry every time. I think about all the time spent at my grandparents' house and the memories we made there.

+1

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Jolene-- Dolly Parton
When I Get Where I'm Going- Brad Paisley
About Today- The National
Basically any song from the 10,000 Maniacs album "Blind Man's Zoo"

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Jewell-"You Were Meant for Me" or maybe it's so sad for me because it came out just when I was really missing my first love and realizing that we wouldn't ever end up together after all. Played that song again and again.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Detachable Penis.

haha. I find this song absolutely hilarious....and am glad I'm not the only person in the world who knows it exists


There's three of us! And I used to own the vinyl. I knew the lead singer's mom at one point. She never went north of 14th street.

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The House that Built Me, Miranda Lambert. I cry every time. I think about all the time spent at my grandparents' house and the memories we made there.

+1

YES! Every. Time. I cry during this song.

And...random alert...The Best Gift by Barbara Streisand (on her Christmas album) about having a baby before xmas. My mom sang it to me because I was her newborn under the tree and now that I have my own kids, I cry every Christmas when we play the album.

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Anonymous wrote:can't listen to Harry Chapin's "Cats in the Cradle" about a dad being blown off by his son, because that's what dad did while the kid was growing up. TOO SAD and I change the channel every time!

I was going to post the exact same song! It freaks my DH out - scariest saddest song for him. He is a great hands-on dad, BTW!

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Joni Mitchell's The Magdalene Laundries. My mom was a victim of an institution like the one described in the song, so it hits home for me.

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Everything I Own by Bread. He wrote it for his dead father. Saddest song ever.

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Anonymous wrote:Everything I Own by Bread. He wrote it for his dead father. Saddest song ever.

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Just heard "don't take the girl" by Tim McGraw and started ugly crying in the car.

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"Tonight" by Elton John/Bernie Taupin, as sung by George Michael. But I never hear of anyone else who has heard it; you had to have had that Two Rooms CD, which was covers of the John/Taupin songs.

It's heartbreaking, partly because of the way George Michael sings it, just beautiful.

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How has no one mentioned Tim McGraw's "Live Like You Were Dying"? It's about his dad (former Phillies player Tug McGraw) becoming diagnosed with the cancer that eventually killed him.