Rip mom. I'll show them all what you raised.

I made a playlist last weekend out of the songs featured on Rick & Morty and it's prettay good.

Let Down - Karma Police

https://youtu.be/dcnd55tLCv8

and...

2,000 Miles - The Pretenders
Sirens - Pearl Jam

Love that song. These lyrics get me right in the feels...

It’s a fragile thing, this life we lead,
If I think too much, I can’t get over-
-whelmed by the grace, by which we live
Our lives with death over our shoulders

Tuma, you always make me think. Let Down is a stellar pick, not really buying Karma Police though. Is that even sad?

The guy who sang Reflections of My Life just died btw, excellent old sad song by Marmalade.

Yes exactly... the song is so good but it’s tough to listen to sometimes.

It's a curious song at heart. Compare the melody with The Beatles Sexy Sadie: the third chord bellows -- like a string plucked with too much force. A backdrop like an organ begins and holds a curtain over an embroiled guitarist. The lyrics aren't emotional, at least before the coda, but it does reflect on despised people tackling the impossible. ("He buzzes like a fridge; Her Hitler Hairdo).... Not entirely pleasant.

The sadness, as you mentioned, is the Let Down. The Karma Police are there to take you away.

And her struggle to hold it together for a second there, when she's singing that 1st line. Beautiful.

Songs about family in general, but the Father Son/daughter... Mother son/ daughter relationship seem to get me the most

Cats in the Cradle is a given. This is another goodie

This is one of my favorite songs. Is it sad? Isn't it about making love

Lots of great sad songs, but it'd be very hard to convince me there's a sadder, quality song than this:



So many great lines in that song....."We burn these joints in effigy"

Porter that's a pretty heavy song, I love it.


In a similar vein, I almost can't listen to this song anymore, as it reminds me of my best friend who died of ALS way too young.

His voice is sooooo suited to sad songs.

People can theorycraft all they want about Tool and their songs and meanings, and there are actually a couple different theories about what 10,000 Days means, but it matches up pretty well with the length of time the lead singer's mother had a stroke which left her partially paralyzed and the time of her death (27-28 years).

The problem with watching Tool songs with lyrics is that all the idiot fans that post them think they're super smart and that they post 'meaningful images' to go with the music and it's super distracting and lame. Here is the best one I could find for this set of songs that has lyrics (sound quality might be higher in another video but this is good enough for this thread I think):

I literally cry every time that I actually sit down and listen to it by myself

Jenkins has anger and ego...3eb's lyrics aren't as good as their sound. Motorcycle Driveby takes that on at full speed. I personally think it's a song of solitude and happiness, the catalyst isn't Stephen, but the girl whose couch he slept on. She moved on from him, while his conceited ass was discovering this in real time. The second line of the song "...I don't know what I'm doing in this city." is brutally sincere. Ultimately the at-times jazzed up lyrics ARE sincere to the bone, making the band worth remembering.

Ben Folds - Brick

This song and "Losing a Whole Year" didn't mean anything to me when they came out. I recently found these songs again now that I've been hit by life a few times, and they're pretty spot on for me personally. I think daily "why am I living here?". I always tell people "eh, there was a girl involved."

Classic. A mother****ing classic

I will never understand why Tori Amos didn't become absolutely huge.

that chorus.

immortal technique - dance with the devil