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No telling where this is going, my goal is songs about death, dying, drug abuse, but I'm sure we get some aggie fight song references. 

 

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He Went to Paris may be the saddest song ever.

They played this live at the two shows I saw in 2023 and you could hear a pin drop. 

2 hours ago, Litig8r said:

No telling where this is going, my goal is songs about death, dying, drug abuse, but I'm sure we get some aggie fight song references. 

 

Love that song. I don't think of it as particularly sad though. One of those where the lyrics are sad but the music isn't (which could be its own thread lol).

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Every time we say goodbye, I die a little
Every time we say goodbye, I wonder why a little
Why the Gods above me, who must be in the know
Think so little of me, they allow you to go
When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer
But how strange the change from major to minor
Every time we say goodbye
When you're near, there's such an air of spring about it
I can hear a lark somewhere begin to sing about it
There's no love song finer
But how strange the change from major to minor
Every time we say goodbye

Mr. Haggard would like a word 

Mr. Jones says "hold my beer"

 

Paul Westerberg is the greatest American songwriter of the rock era.

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14 hours ago, Pato del Muerto said:


 


 

 

Love that Todd song.  

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Nico, These Days.."Jackson Browne in a movie theater hearing it, "damn, I remember a song like that" 

When you're old and lonely
You will wish you'd married me
I could build a fire for you
And bring you cakes and tea
When you're cold and hungry
I'll be waiting by the phone
You can call me up and
Tell me how you're all alone...
All alone...
When you're old and lonely
And the rush of life is past
Days go by too slowly and
The years go by too fast

When your golden loneliness is
Heavier than stone
You can call me up and say
"My God, I'm all alone...
All alone..."

 

I know that it is freezing but I think we have to walk
I keep waving at the taxis; they keep turning their lights off
But Julie knows a party at some actor's west side loft
Supplies are endless in the evening; by the morning they'll be gone.

When everything is lonely I can be my own best friend
I get a coffee and the paper; have my own conversations
With the sidewalk and the pigeons and my window reflection
The mask I polish in the evening, by the morning looks like shit.

And I know you have a heavy heart; I can feel it when we kiss
So many men stronger than me have thrown their backs out trying to lift it
But me I'm not a gamble you can count on me to split
The love I sell you in the evening, by the morning won't exist.


You're looking skinny like a model with your eyes all painted black
You just keep going to the bathroom always say you'll be right back
Well it takes one to know one, kid, I think you've got it bad
But what's so easy in the evening, by the morning is such a drag.

I've got a flask inside my pocket we can share it on the train
If you promise to stay conscious I will try and do the same
We might die from medication, but we sure killed all the pain
But what was normal in the evening, by the morning seems insane.

And I'm not sure what the trouble was that started all of this
The reasons all have run away but the feeling never did
It's not something I would recommend, but it is one way to live
Cause what is simple in the moonlight, by the morning never is
It was so simple in the moonlight, now it's so complicated
It was so simple in the moonlight, so simple in the moonlight
So simple in the moonlight

 

15 hours ago, ztejas said:

Love that song. I don't think of it as particularly sad though. One of those where the lyrics are sad but the music isn't (which could be its own thread lol).

I have a cousin that worked at the Time Out on 155 as a bouncer/dj...he said people would request that song.

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3 minutes ago, Earl Haffler said:

 

Cool I haven't heard that song in decades and when I heard it those decades ago, I didn't pay attention. Worthy Choice..I will allow it. 

It's a cover, but the way Stapleton arranged it...

Also a cover, but like the slowed down version better

 

Both of these would hit me pretty hard before I got Sober.

 

 

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I went to see American Aquarium’s lead singer, BJ Barham, do a solo show at The Bluebird in Nashville. He has a song that includes the lyric “pecan pie.” Before playing it, he introduced the song by saying:

“Now, before I play this, I know some of y’all are going to say I mispronounced ‘pecan pie.’ But let me explain. When a pecan is on a tree, it’s pronounced pah-cahn. When it’s on the ground, it’s pah-cahn. When it’s sold in a store, it’s still pah-cahn. But the minute you put it in a pie, it becomes a pee-can.”

He said he once told that story at a club in northeast Tennessee, and a drunk woman shouted that he was wrong. Her man had her back and said, “Sir, my wife is correct. I’m a professor of English literature at East Tennessee State University, and I can attest—it’s still pah-cahn.”

BJ said, “I knew I had one shot, and I took it. I looked at him and said, ‘You don’t have tenure, do you?’”

He said the man just sat down.

Then he added, “Here’s that super sad song.”

 

 

58 minutes ago, DallasHorn26 said:

It's a cover, but the way Stapleton arranged it...

Point of order. Chris Stapleton wrote that song.  So not a classic cover.  And that’s probably what his demo sounded like that they gave to Tim McGraw to work from. 

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1 minute ago, Pato del Muerto said:

Point of order. Chris Stapleton wrote that song.  So not a classic cover. 

Ah You're right...... I had it in my head it was an older song.. I mixed it up with old versions of Tennessee Whiskey..

Anything by Lord Huron really but this one always gets me.

This one from Spoon always hits me in the feels as well.

 

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Alone Again Naturally  another song I didn't pay attention to the lyrics.  Thanks

 

@mdmostAbout Today might be the saddest dad song of all the sad dad songs.

This is overall one of the saddest albums I've heard, but this is the beautiful, heart-wrenching nadir:



I'll add this too, although the video isn't what I got out of the song:

 

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