#1 Saddest song I've ever heard -
Hollie Smith - "Fallen Flowers"
lyrics:
If I could roll back the years
If I could see
through these tears
If I could face all of my fears
And, if I could live my life again
And, if I could life, again
If I culd call
the world my friend
If I could write
the story's end...I would
I'd live a thousand years of pain
Just to hold you once...again.
Hollie Smith sings in duet with Steve McDonald. An awesome ethereal and gorgeous song. I think it is THE saddest song I've ever heard. I share this one often. It is written about a young fallen soldier and how he wishes to be with his mom again and vice versa. I tear up every time.
The rest aren't necessarily in order...
#2 Alan Parsons Project - "Old and Wise"
lyrics:
And to those I left behind
I wanted you to Know
You've always shared my deepest thoughts
You follow where I go
#3 Kate Bush - "This Woman's Work"
lyrics:
I should be crying
But I just can't let it show
I should be hoping
But I can't stop thinking
All the things I should've said
That I never said
All the things we should of done
That we never did
All the things I should've given
But I didn't
Oh darling make it go
Make it go away
#4 William's Brothers - "Can't Cry Hard Enough"
lyrics:
I'm gonna live my life
like every days' the last
without a simple goodbye it all goes by so fast
and now that you're gone I can't cry heard enough
I can't cry hard enough
for you to hear me now
#5 Pirates of the Mississippi - "Feed Jake"
lyrics:
Now I lay me down to sleep, I pray the Lord my soul to keep.
If I die before I wake, feed Jake, he's been a good dog,
My best friend right through it all,
if I die before I wake,
Feed Jake
#6 Johnny Cash - "Hurt"
Too well-known for lyrics. *sniff*
#7 Chris Isaak - "Pretty Paper" (cover of Roy Orbison's tune)
lyrics:
Crowded street, busy feet hustle by him
Downtown shoppers, Christmas is nigh
There he sits all alone on the sidewalk
He's just hoping he won't pass him by
Should I stop? Better not, much too busy
I'm in a hurry, my how time does fly
And in the distance the ringing of laughter
And in the midst of the laughter he cries
#8 Steve McDonald - "I Will Return"
lyrics:
And I will die in your arms
And all my sorrow, will be gone.
And all the things in my life,
I held so dear, must leave me now.
But I will live on
Long, after the silence,
Ends the song.
#9 Diamond Rio - "You're Gone"
lyrics:
Now I know God has His reasons
But sometimes it's hard to see them
When I awake and find that you're not there
You found hope in hopeless
You made crazy sane
You became the missing link
That helped me break my chains
And I bless the day I met you
And I thank God that He let you
Lay beside me for a moment that lives on
And the good news is I'm better
For the time we spent together
And the bad news is you're gone
The bad news is you're gone
#10 Jeff Carson - "The Car"
lyrics:
Boy I'd love to have that car,
I whispered to my dad.
I always heard a mustang flies.
We could fix it up, and make it new again
all it needs is just a little time
daddy's hardly ever home, since mama passed away
he's always workin over time
i know that he cannot afford to buy that car
even though, he'd love to make it mine
Its not the car that I'm needin
just the chance to be with him
I know once these days roll past us,
they will never come again.
so little time, we spend way to much apart
there will always be a part of us
together in that car
Finally I let go of that dream,
the time we could have shared.
It was a distant memory,
til last fall a call came
sayin dad was gone
could I come quick, he left a note for me.
Buried Dad right next to Ma
up on Coleys ridge
there I said my last "goodbye"
I opened up the note, and found a set a keys
here's your car son, I hope it flies
Its not the car that I'm needin
its the chance to be with you
I hope you'll understand I always did
the best that I could do
so little time, we spent way to much apart
there will always be a part of us....
together in that car
Some instrumentals that make me tear up:
Bruce Rowland - "Hero To A Nation"
Bruce Rowland wrote the score to my all-time favorite movie, Phar Lap about a famous Aussie racehorse. I've loved that movie since I was 7 years old (when the movie came out). This music is gorgeous and always invokes the emotions the end of the film gives. It's a tribute song. Bruce also wrote the score for the movie Man From Snowy River - another horse movie favorite.
Mychael Danna & Jeff Danna - "The Child Deirdre"
A melancholy celtic tune.
ERA - "Sombre Day" & "I Believe"
Here are two somber instrumentals by one of my very favorite artists. Both are gorgeous haunting tunes.
Hans Zimmer and Lisa Gerrard - "Now We Are Free"
Since it's not in English, I put it in the instrumentals. This Epic song from the movie Gladiator moves me every time.