translation of figlio perduto:
The Lost Son

Walls of wind
Night has fallen
Father and son are together

With a horse
They proceed
Through this intense darkness

But suddenly
The boy trembles
With fear
It gets cold

Father oh father
Haven't you seen
The king of the elfs
There he is

Lost son
Do you want to play?
I bring you joy
Come with me

Father oh father
Did you hear
What he said
And what he will do?

Lost son
If you don't come with me
I will use the power that I have

Father oh father
The king of the elfs
Is touching me
He hurts me

And the boy
Eyes closed
He doesn't move
He's already lost

Son
Lost son
If you don't come with me
I will use my power

Father oh father
The king of the elfs
Is touching me
He hurts me

And the boy
Eyes closed
He doesn't move
He's already lost

... he's already lost

Read more at Translation of "Figlio Perduto" by Sarah Brightman from Italian to English

Song that always brings me down is Roxanne by The Police. To think that a man is begging a woman to not sell her body that night is just truly heartbreaking.

I hate, hate, hate the tearjerker songs. Honey is just loathsome to me -- I have a very nasty habit of making really rude comments when I hear it (like, I'd leave too if you sang that song to me). But I do rather enjoy Last Kiss (listen to the beat between lyrics .. it's "1, 2, 3, 4, tell the people what she wore"). Crack up every time I hear that song.

Okay, call me stupid, but I took Puff the Magic Dragon literally. Poor little lonely dragon...

We have an album by a British (I believe) singer by the name of Summer. She apparently only put out one album, named Summer. Sarah Brightman is good, but Summer is even better. Gorgeous voice.

haha. Cindy, painted rings and dragon wings make way for other toys...very sad. I'll check out Summer. Brightman makes me transcend....so even better?

rats. I meant Cyndy..I have your card. Do you guys keep a card file?
Kitty

Kitty, check here Summer Watson - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Another one that gets to me is Teach Your Children Well. If only litle Jackie Paper had been taught well, h would't have abandoned Puff...:ohdear:

An old Irish song "A mothers love is a blessing. No matter where she roams. Keep her as she's living you'll miss her when she's gone. And as the years go onward thou feeble old and gray. A mothers love is a blessing til she's buried beneath the grave." Also. An old Scottish song Old Danny Boy.

[I]In A Godda da Vida by Iron Butterfly

Ebony Eyes - Everly Bros.

Gonna Take A Sentimental Journey"

You got it DandyGirl. This song was always mentioned as the best country western and saddest song ever.

Whoever finds this-Mac Davis
 

Don't know if this is the saddest but it's the first one that came to mind::

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuDrvibicWE]Whoever finds this, I love you! - Mac Davis - YouTube[/ame]

"Last Kiss" by J. FRANK WILSON AND THE CAVALIERS

Well, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven
So I got to be good
So I can see my baby
When I leave this ol' world


We were out on a date in my Daddy's car
We hadn't driven very far
There in the road, straight ahead
The car was stalled, the engine was dead
I couldn't stop, so I swerved to the right
Never forget the sound that night
The cryin' tires, the bustin' glass
The painful scream that I heard last


Well, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven
So I got to be good
So I can see my baby
When I leave this ol' world

Well, when I woke up
The rain was pourin' down
There were people standing all around
Something warm a-running in my eyes
But I found my baby somehow that night
I raised her head and when she smiled and said
"Hold me darling for a little while"
I held her close
I kissed her our last kiss
I found the love that I knew I would miss
But now she's gone, even though I hold her tight
I lost my love ... my life, that night


Well, where oh where can my baby be
The Lord took her away from me
She's gone to heaven
So I got to be good
So I can see my baby
When I leave this ol' world

Love Will Tear Us Apart - Joy Division

[ame=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qHYOXyy1ToI]Joy Division - Love Will Tear Us Apart (Video) - YouTube[/ame]

Just Another Day by Paul McCartney

Fountain of Sorrow by Jackson Browne

The Wailing of the Willow by Harry Nilsson

Traces by Classics Four

My, My,My
 

as a father-- YOU CAN SAY THAT AGAIN
thanks!

Sarah McLachlan's "Angel"

Some "Oldies" sad songs:

Patches
Tell Laura I love her
Leader of the Pack (vroom-vroom)
Teen Angel

(And Tchaikovsky's Pathetique Symphony #6)

Daddy ,Don't You Walk So Fast-Wayne Newton

Reflections of My Life - Marmalade

Killing Me Softly- Roberta Flack

If I sang karaoke, which I do not, I wouldn't be able to make it through Landslide without crying.

Not to get too religious on ya, but... Handel's Messiah: "If God Be For Us Who Can Be against Us."

Ruby and D-I-V-O-R-C-E by Tammy Wynette

Killing Me Softly is about watching a Don McLean concert and relating to the lyrics in his songs.

That one gets me, too, although it's the Joan Baez version.

County-style sad song - "You picked a Fine Time to Leave me, Lucille"

:sing:You picked a fine time to leave me loose wheel, 400 children and a cop in the field

Ha! Maybe we need a thread for misunderstood song lyrics.

Old Shep-Elvis

Too many memories in this one, humbles and makes one think...but many more too. I hope you dance, LeeAnn Womack

Thanks a lot, the both of you... Now that song will not leave my mind for the three-day drive back to Michigan. The "loose wheel" version.

Just as a bit of trivia. It has been said the song In A Godda Divita, as some mentioned here, was actually supposed to be "In the Garden of Eden". However, he could not pronounce it with his accent properly and the producer liked it better so they kept it. The rest is history. :)

Not so much his accent, he was from Omaha, grew up in the Rocky Mountains and later San Diego, but more how drunk he was and slurring his words.

You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel
With four old bald tires, you were such a good deal
I've had some clunkers, some really bad junkers
But you were just a great steal
You picked a fine time to leave me, loose wheel

Just sayin'...

The song that gets me every time, and is still very special to me even 30 years after my Fathers death is "Leader of the Band" by Dan Fogelberg. Here it is..
YouTube

bwahah! good one Cyndy!
My flowers are fading, but the cheer of your giving them to me shines on.
Kitty

OMG - YES!

WOW, I forgot about that one. I can't even listen to it. My wife would die if she heard it.

[QUOTE=kittygilchrist;678564]bwahah! good one Cyndy!
My flowers are fading, but the cheer of your giving them to me shines on.
Kitty[/QUOTE
Thank you, Kitty! Hopefully the ones you planted will be able to refill soon :coolsmiley:

Your right gatherer47, I forgot about Old Shep.