Posted on 11/30/2008 12:10:59 AM PST by kik5150
Replace it with my song in post #12. Dolly Parton wrote it and sang it from the heart.
I have “Tell Laura I Love Her” by Johnny Rivers.
Will check out the others.
“The Obama Theme Song”
Whatever it may be, it makes me cry just to think of it...... :^)
Just downloaded it. That’s real music!
Temptations: I Wish it Would Rain.
I’m just a sentimental fool.
bump for later
This might seem wildly out of place on this thread but “She’s Gone” by Black Sabbath is quite a heart wrencher.
I assume that’s “Harry’s Game” on Anam by Clannad?
No, not out of place. It is one of those all time sad songs as well. I also like “You won’t change me” by the same.
That’s why I couldn’t find it. Thank’s!
Sabbath has a number of them... Hand of Doom...
For sheer tearjerking, it’s got to be about a child, for me.
Can’t keep dry eyes even in public if I hear “Butterfly Kisses” or “Tears in Heaven.” But at least I can keep it to one tear or a misty eye. If I hear “Dance With My Father Again” by Luther Vandross, I am afraid I probably will be sobbing. I only hope I’m not in the carpool lane on the freeway driving 80 mph at the time.
For breakups, I think the best heartbreaking line is in Eric Clapton’s “Bellbottom Blues”: “Do you want to see me crawl across the floor to you? Do you want to hear me beg you to take me back...” And for breakups that are your own fault, a good one is Stevie Wonder’s “Who poured the love out?”
“Tell Laura I Love Her” was the first song that popped into my mind. A very pretty song, but the lyrics are really sad.
Another one is “A Dear John Letter”, still not as sad as ‘Tell Laura I love Her’, though
And there’s this one Engelbert Humperdinck sings
“I Never Said Goodbye”
She cried and walked away just yesterday
And like a fool, I let her go
We had a silly fight the night before
I never said “I love you so”
I wept all day and then I got the call
“Would you please come to see your wife”
“Something has happened and it’s very grave”
“We cannot save the lady’s life”
No, I never said goodbye and I never really told her
Just how much she meant to me
No, I never said goodbye, now it’s too late
And she’s just a memory
How can I go on
Now that girl is gone
I will know, until I die
I never said goodbye
Her perfume lingers all around me now
A pair of shoes lie on the floor
The bed unmade, where just last night, she laid
I cannot say I closed the door
A shopping list of things she’ll never buy
An apron lyin’ on the chair
Is that her laugh I hear out in the hall
I turn and call, but she’s not there
listen to the lyrics... melancholy.
Kenny Rogers “Ruby, Don’t take your love to town”
You reminded me of another song..."Juniors Eyes" ...I'm sure DB will agree it's a tearjerker.
How anything by Softcell and Abba made that list is beyond me. I will confess to having had the first Softcell tape but I was a dough headed middle school er. Abba? That was my sisters department - brother, that is one horrible concoction of schmaltzy cotton candy style music.
Yes. That's the one I was going to mention. A heart broken by a faithless lover will heal in a month. A heart broken when a child dies will never heal.
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