Here's a thread where you can put songs that you shouldn't listen to while you have laces in your shoes.

Bon Iver - I Can't Make You Love Me

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vp-bPAKLfx4

"I Can't Make You Love Me" lyrics are truly excellent, but i'm not too fond of the vocals.

here is an oldie-moldy. A good write but music is so-so early 70's
Ted End - John Entwistle
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pPsdZicMAzE

lyrics:
http://www.lyrics007.com/John%20Entwistle%20Lyrics/Ted%20End%20Lyrics.html

Forgive PP, it is not a song....................... or is it? :)

Pablo Neruda, "Always"


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekBwDDSZrxg

Ah, Neruda... so damned depressing. Everything he ever wrote. He must have signed his name in tears and wine.

I actually dig that song by John Entwistle. I hadn't heard of him before, but you're right - the lyrics are quite good. And very fitting to this thread.

Let depression reign!

I would hide all sleeping pills for this next one.

Elliott Smith - I Didn't Understand

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sExlr1F2PQs

Lyrics - http://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/elliottsmith/ididntunderstand.html

Pablo Neruda - thank you Leigh, you've given me something of great import to explore.

PP: Elliott Smith - I Didn't Understand great sound and lyrics. I really connected with it. Had not heard of him either. I'm afraid of what might happen if i collect too many of these links. Potent stuff.

New Order - Doubts Even Here
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SvAt4CKfj_o

Chris Issak ~ Wicked Game

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WtfHk2hSlqA

I really like that Chris Isaak song. A classic. The Classics must be mentioned on this thread.

Jethro Tull - Aqualung
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v43LNBDNBIk

"Country Death Song" - Violent Femmes

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lwj5_SNWYc8

I love the Violent Femmes so much. It's doubly depressing because my ex stole my Violent Femmes shirt.

Harry Nilsson - Without You

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vAX1rkdzUH4

So depressing that it's actually been used in a suicide scene in a film (The Rules of Attraction).

Poignant. That "can't live without you" feeling is often damaging. And in the aftermath...

Simon and Garfunkel - Bookends
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5S5V-Y53ad4

I'm not sure why, but...

"Superman's Song" - Crash Test Dummies

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ihUIPlLw2ZE

Torgo - even by my standards, that's really goddamned depressing. I mean... I kinda figured that every Crash Test Dummies song has some element of the "not being able to fit in" feeling... but that was awesome, actually.

Damn.

APC - 3 Libras

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9MAg9E5K3w

I'll see your depression and raise you intolerable sorrow.

"The Ballad of Hollis Brown" Bob Dylan

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=htEaLr08dBY

sylvia's mother ~ dr. hook and the medicine show...

http://youtu.be/Dc6EWYws_X4

and then there's this...

at seventeen ~ janis ian

http://youtu.be/KCp-ymJpRP4

"Sounds of Silence" Simon & Garfunkel

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6YSh1-XuUKE

leigh, here is my neruda (not a song, just me doing a neruda poem)

http://youtu.be/wFKew2wU5dI

Well done, a beautiful rendition!...TY for sharing with me

And being what the song is about it easily could have been corny.


"Superman, the world will never see another man like him."

"Whiskey Lullaby"/lyrics..... Brad Paisley.....Thought this thread could use a sad country song...Don't hit me!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7gV3g9LCvPc