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The second movement of Rachmaninoff’s piano concerto no. 2 is sad. Maybe it’s dramatic more than sad. It’s emotional. RACHMANINOV - Piano concerto No. 2 - 2nd mvt - Gimse/Lindberg/APO - YouTube
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All I wanted was to sing the saddest song
And if you would sing along
Oh if you would sing along
If you’d only sing along
I will be happier
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I was thinking about you and your mom today…after helping my mom up and down the stairs…this is a new development …
Anyway, I don’t know why but while doing so you and your situation and this song suddenly popped into my head…
I will soon be traveling the same path you have been on…
We are both blessed though T…
Cheers,
M
Anyway, I don’t know why but while doing so you and your situation and this song suddenly popped into my head…
I will soon be traveling the same path you have been on…
We are both blessed though T…
Cheers,
M
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Beryllos
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Gillian Welch has sung a great many other sad songs. One More Dollar just about breaks my heart.I had a real good mother and father
And they surely stood the test
And now are in bright glory
And sleeping on the Savior’s breast
They set a good example for me
And they taught me how to pray
Now I’ve truly converted
And I’m walking on the narrow way
I know that if I can not meet them on high
How lonely I would be
For what good is my journey
If I miss out on eternity
I had a real good mother and father …
Her closest approach to cheerful, as near as I can tell, is One Little Song. Highly recommended.
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tad
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Much of the time during my mother’s illness and subsequent death I felt forsaken. Though all of us have mothers and they all pass on eventually, I would grumble to Heaven that nothing in my life experience has prepared me for this.I was thinking about you and your mom today…after helping my mom up and down the stairs…this is a new development …
Anyway, I don’t know why but while doing so you and your situation and this song suddenly popped into my head…
I will soon be traveling the same path you have been on…
We are both blessed though T…
Cheers,
M
I’ve come to find out, however, that God has put people in our lives who have been through this before and it’s those people who have carried me through this.
I spent my last days with my mom during Easter weekend. She hadn’t drank or eaten or gotten out of bed for several days. There wasn’t much I could do except hold her hand and watch her breathe. A few deep breathes were followed by 25 seconds or so of silence. Then a few more deep breathes.
As sad as it was to watch cancer take this beautiful soul away, it was a time of grace. It taught me a lot about the dignity of life and it also afforded my mother to teach me one last lesson, how to die. She went down with a lot of grace.
I’ll be around, my friend, if you need me.
God bless!
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tad
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Thanks for the sad songs everyone. I was at first over whelmed by the response, but I guess I shouldn’t be because we’ve all gone through or are going through something very sad.
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NeedANap
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Gorecki’s 3rd Symphony is called the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs. Each movement is a poem based on separation of mother and child.
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Irishmom2
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Heard this again the other night and the tears started flowing.
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Phemie
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BlueMaxx
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Tad…been thinking about it, and the most sad and beautiful album that to me really addresses death and life and love and family has to be:
The Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Heart breaking and beautiful, it just stays with you…I urge you to purchase it and when your alone in the studio just let it seep into you…
one example
Standing in the dark outside the house
Breathing in the cold and sterile air
Well I was thinking how it must feel
To see that little light
And watch it as it disappears
And fades into
And fades into the night
So I know you’re going pretty soon
Radiation sore throat got your tune
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it where to aim
And strangers break their promises
You won’t feel any
You won’t feel any pain
And the streets are jammed with cars
Rockin’ their horns
To race to the wire
Of the unfinished line
Thought that I’d forget all about the past
But it doesn’t let me run too fast
And I just want to stand outside
And know that this is right
And this is true
And I will not
Fade into
Fade into the night
Standing here in the dark
A bit about it:
Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman [Mark Oliver Everett’s (more commonly known as E) sister’s suicide and his mother’s terminal lung cancer. The title refers to the electroconvulsive therapy received by Elizabeth Everett when she was institutionalized .
Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a [heart attack] in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body)
Though much of the album is, on its surface, bleak, its underlying message is that of coping with some of life’s most difficult occurrences. The record begins with “Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor”, a sparse piece composed of one of his deceased sister’s final diary entries. Later, the album’s emotional climax is reached in two tracks: “Climbing to the Moon”, which draws upon E’s experiences visiting his sister at a mental health facility shortly before her death; and “Dead of Winter”, a song about his mother’s painful and slow succumbing. The album’s last song, entitled “P.S. You Rock My World”, is a hopeful bookend to “Elizabeth”, containing subtly humorous lyrics that describe, among other things, an elderly woman at a gas station honking her car at E, incorrectly assuming he is the attendant, and E’s decision that
"maybe it’s time to live".
The Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Heart breaking and beautiful, it just stays with you…I urge you to purchase it and when your alone in the studio just let it seep into you…
one example
Standing in the dark outside the house
Breathing in the cold and sterile air
Well I was thinking how it must feel
To see that little light
And watch it as it disappears
And fades into
And fades into the night
So I know you’re going pretty soon
Radiation sore throat got your tune
Magic markers tattoo you
And show it where to aim
And strangers break their promises
You won’t feel any
You won’t feel any pain
And the streets are jammed with cars
Rockin’ their horns
To race to the wire
Of the unfinished line
Thought that I’d forget all about the past
But it doesn’t let me run too fast
And I just want to stand outside
And know that this is right
And this is true
And I will not
Fade into
Fade into the night
Standing here in the dark
A bit about it:
Electro-Shock Blues was written largely in response to frontman [Mark Oliver Everett’s (more commonly known as E) sister’s suicide and his mother’s terminal lung cancer. The title refers to the electroconvulsive therapy received by Elizabeth Everett when she was institutionalized .
Many of the songs deal with their decline, his response to loss and coming to terms with suddenly becoming the only living member of his family (his father having died of a [heart attack] in 1982; Everett, then 19 years old, was the first to discover his body)
Though much of the album is, on its surface, bleak, its underlying message is that of coping with some of life’s most difficult occurrences. The record begins with “Elizabeth on the Bathroom Floor”, a sparse piece composed of one of his deceased sister’s final diary entries. Later, the album’s emotional climax is reached in two tracks: “Climbing to the Moon”, which draws upon E’s experiences visiting his sister at a mental health facility shortly before her death; and “Dead of Winter”, a song about his mother’s painful and slow succumbing. The album’s last song, entitled “P.S. You Rock My World”, is a hopeful bookend to “Elizabeth”, containing subtly humorous lyrics that describe, among other things, an elderly woman at a gas station honking her car at E, incorrectly assuming he is the attendant, and E’s decision that
"maybe it’s time to live".
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tad
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I finally got a chance to listen to this at work this morning.Tad…been thinking about it, and the most sad and beautiful album that to me really addresses death and life and love and family has to be:
The Eels Electro-Shock Blues
Heart breaking and beautiful, it just stays with you…I urge you to purchase it and when your alone in the studio just let it seep into you…
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