Possibly the saddest song I've ever heard

[SD Fixed]

I was watching Donnie Darko for the 3rd time (I was half asleep through the first half cat napping before a trip, second time I was occupied cleaning my bike.. so then #3)

I guess since it popped up on HBO, now some of the local radio stations are playing it.. and it's a good song, but @#$ if it doesn't bring you down...

Lyrics:

"Mad World"

All around me are familiar faces
Worn out places, worn out faces
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
And their tears are filling up their glasses
No expression, no expression
Hide my head I want to drown my sorrow
No tommorow, no tommorow
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I'm dying
Are the best I've ever had
I find it hard to tell you
'Cos I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It's a very, very
Mad World
Children waiting for the day they feel good
Happy Birthday, Happy Birthday
Made to feel the way that every child should
Sit and listen, sit and listen
Went to school and I was very nervous
No one knew me, no one knew me
Hello teacher tell me what's my lesson
Look right through me, look right through me

Can there be a sadder song than that? Even the Smiths couldn't make it more doomed.

[stewartp]

Can there be a sadder song than that? Even the Smiths couldn't make it more doomed.

If the Darko version was the unplugged/slower version then yes, it is very dismal. The original version by a UK band (I think - someone will tell us who) was more up tempo and had some electric keybard thrown in.

There is a sad song playing on an ad on French telly ate the moment. Its for some make of car. A clapped-out rust bucket transforms itself into a modern car as a young couple walk by. They only play the first few lines of the song it goes:-

Love me, pleas love me
Je m'en fou . . .

Anyone know what the song is or who by?

Stew

[RegularGuy]

Tears for Fears did Mad World back in 1982 or so. Michael Andrews does the Donnie Darko soundtrack version, and yeah, it's sad.

Weird movie. I liked it.

The French car ad song...is it "Lolita" sung by Celine Dion?

[RegularGuy]

Or maybe "Love Me, Please Love Me" by Michel Polnareff?

[temp1]

My vote for saddest song goes to John Lennen's Mother, its all in the wail.

[SD Fixed]

My vote for saddest song goes to John Lennen's Mother, its all in the wail.

I wasn't aware there was a vote going.

[spazegun2213]

mad world is a good song, and the movie fits the song perfectly. Good movie and song... and yes both are dismal

[wabbit]

That was one of the only songs I liked from Tears for Fears.

[chewa]

Danny Jules had a no 1 here with it I think just before Christmas.

Saddest song for me is "Summer of '42"

[Gordon P]

Here is my vote for most depresing song.

Swans
» Failure

I, I've been lonely
And I, I've been blind
And I,. I've learned nothing
So my hands are firmly tied
To the sinking leadweight
of failure
I've worked hard all my life
Money slips through my hands
My face in the mirror tells me
It's no surprise that I'm
Pushing the stone up the hill
of failure
They tempt me with violence
They punish me with ideals
And they crush me with an image of my
life that's nothing but unreal
Except on the goddamned slaveship
of failure
I'll drown here trying
to get up for some air
But each time I think I breathe
I'm laid on with a double share
of the punishing burden
of failure
I don't deserve to be down here
But I'll never leave
And I've learned one thing
You can't escape the beast
In the null and void pit
of failure
When I get my hands on some money
I'll kiss it's green skin
And I'll ask it's dirty face
"Where the hell have you been?"
"I am the fuel that fires the engine
of failure."
I'll be old and broken down
I'll forget who and where I am
I'll be senile or forgotten
But I'll remember and understand
You can bank your hard-earned money
on failure
I saw my father crying
I saw my mother break her hand
On a wall that wouldn't weep
But that certainly held in
The mechanical moans of a dying man
Who was a failure
My back hurts me when I bend
Because I carry a load
My brain hurts me like a knife-hole
Because I've yet to be shown
How to pull myself out from
The sucking quicksand
of failure
Some people live in hell
Many bastards succeed
But I. I've learned nothing
I can't even elegantly bleed
Out the poison blood
of failure

[ZebraGonzo]

Danny Jules had a no 1 here with it I think just before Christmas.

Yeah, he (it was gary jules ) had it, it well deserved. I bought the CD single and the other two tracks on there are actually better than the main song. One is called 'no poetry' and the other is the main song bt with a drum beat in the back ground.