Play me a sad song

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Practically ANY song written and sung by Leonard Cohen will do. And if one is happy, listening to Cohen’s repertoire for a while will surely change that feeling.
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Sometimes I’ll listen to Alice in Chains just for a pick-me-up after Leonard.
 
meltzerboy2 said:
Practically ANY song written and sung by Leonard Cohen will do. And if one is happy, listening to Cohen’s repertoire for a while will surely change that feeling.
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I hate to say this but I really don’t like Leonard Cohen.

The last straw was when he passed away and I was stuck on a pilgrimage bus going through Europe full of 60-something Catholic women sadly singing a cappella “Hallelujah”.
I did not join in.

I generally dislike the genre of soppy emotional singer-songwriters like Cohen, Jeff Buckley, Elliott Smith, Rufus Wainwright, etc.
They all just make me want to crank up the Benny Hill theme.
 
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Oh, I don’t like all his work or his later singing when his voice became more of a growl. But some of his songs are, I think, great poetry, which they were at the start. Admittedly, he is not to everyone’s taste and can be a downer at times. Little known fact: there was a time he was thinking of being a country singer. Hard to imagine.

That bus ride sounds like a nightmare! LOL
 
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New user here, not trusted yet to post links. Boo!! but i can appreciate why.
Anyway, please search youtube using this text string
Lady Vengeance OST - Mareta, mareta no’m faces plorar
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It’s a catalan lullaby and it’s beautiful, sad, beautifully sad, sadly beautiful
 

On the way to your brother’s house in the valley, dear,
By the river bridge a cradle floating beside me.
In the whitest water on the banks against the stone
You will lift his body from the shore and bring him home

Oliver James washed in the rain no longer
Oliver James washed in the rain no longer

On the kitchen table that your grandfather did make
You and your delicate way will slowly clean his fate
And you will remember when you rehearsed the actions of
A innocent and anxious mother full of anxious love

Oliver James washed in the rain no longer
Oliver James washed in the rain no longer

Walk with me down the beach and through the valley floor
Love for the one you know more
Love for the one you know more

Back we go to your brother’s house emptier my dear
The sound of ancient voices ringing soft upon your ear

Oliver James washed in the rain no longer
Oliver James washed in the rain no longer
I cannot get through this without tears…
 
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“Tears in Heaven?”
Eric Clapton
It always brings a tear to my eye.
 
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