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Gloomy Sunday


The original title: End of the World
The original lyrics depicted a war-stricken Hungary and a silent prayer to god. Jávor's lyrics are a mourning to a lost lover and a pledge to commit suicide to meet said lover again in the afterlife.
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The original by Rezso Seress (1933) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8Kkxbw3s2pM
Billie Holiday (1941) - http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=giIViiO9a-A


Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coaches
Sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be candles
And prayers that are said I know
But let them not weep
Let them know that I’m glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I’m caressin’ you
With the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessin’ you

Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart here
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is tellin’ you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy sunday
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gloomy_Sunday
Though recorded and performed by many singers, "Gloomy Sunday" is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Owing to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the United States. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, likely due to depression and trauma caused by his imprisonment and his mother's death in a Nazi concentration camp during the Second World War rather than a song, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign. Possibly due to the context of the Second World War, though, Billie Holiday's version was banned by the BBC until the turn of the century.
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Still by Hurt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kwr1DP9pHlg

It's in German:
A music as beautiful and blue as her eyes
Full of pain in his beliefs
Came from this small room
That meant the world to him, being his escape from reality

He played and listened
His mind spoke better through his hands
His feelings in three minutes
Gave her insight to his life

In his life he needed two things only
Her and his guitar
But that he wasn't strong enough to carry
A river of joy and grief
Then she left the room of life and he was alone

He cried for her
His voice echoed in that empty room
And he was alone
Just him and his guitar without strings

And the music was silent...

His thoughts were so bright when he played
So pretty and colorful
Nothing in the world could provoke him
He was perfect as anyone else

Music was his resort, a medicine for his disease
He had everything under control, everything was fine
Day in, day out he thanked God for his hands
Music was his sanity

He played louder and louder
But time wasn't on his side
He could hardly sense his fingers, but he could feel them
It got very quiet

And the music was silent...
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Most depressing
and most underrated Floyd/Waters solo
album EVER, no contest.

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Skiptastic said:
Metallica - Fade to Black
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Fade to Black makes you sad? I LOVE that song. I LOVE it. But it's almost proto-emo in the message. It's such a kick-ass song with the insane double bass blast at the end. Hmm. Never made me sad, I've listened to that song about 1000 times. Trying to figure you out on this one...
 
Epitaph by Antimatter
A Pale Horse Named Death - Die Alone
Sentenced - The Rain Comes Falling Down
Type O Negative - Bloody Kisses (A Death in the Family)
Sentenced - No One There

The Rain Comes Falling Down is such a powerful sad song. Made me cry a few times when I was in trouble. :(

Lyrics:

Now every single cloud becomes a raging storm
as I go seeking for the one I used to live for…

since your love was taken away
my heart's been beating empty beats
well, it will end tonight…
-the blade shall set me free

a steady hand with this sharpened cold steel
will help me wipe away this pain that I feel

the rain comes falling down
my life flows to the ground
no longer feeling the pain
my flame now fading away
the rain comes falling down
my life flows to the ground
no longer feeling the pain
my flame now fading away

so here I'm lying on these dead and bloody autumn leaves
waiting for death to take me where I want to be…
a steady hand with this sharpened hard steel
will help me wipe away this agony I feel

the rain comes falling down
my life flows to the ground
no longer feeling the pain
my flame now fading away
the rain comes falling down
my life flows to the ground
no longer feeling the pain
these leaves now becoming my grave

no longer feeling the flame
no longer feeling the rain
 
Joy Division - Twenty Four Hours , most Joy Division songs but that is my favourite gloomy one.

And this entire album.

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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. 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).
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EELS - Dead of Winter is about his mothers radiation treatment and slow death. (And being in the family home with everyone else gone).
 
Puddles said:
LOL at nothing by The Cure so far. They have so many songs about lost love that are absolutely devastating.

The Cure - Pictures of You

The Cure - To Wish Impossible Things

The Cure - Apart

The Cure - Bloodflowers

These songs can annihilate you if you have an ex who you still have feelings for.

This is probably the best all time lost-love song:

Elliot Smith - Everything Reminds Me of Her
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I adore, To Wish Impossible Things. Just playing it on my guitar makes me sad.
 
Wilco - Shot in the Arm

The ashtray says
You were up all night
When you went to bed
With your darkest mind

Your pillow wept
You covered your eyes
And you finally slept
While the sun caught fire

You've changed

We fell in love
In the key of C
We walked along
Down by the sea

You followed me down
The neck to D
We fell again
Into the sea

You've changed
Oh, you've changed

Maybe all I need is a shot in the arm x 7

Something in my veins, bloodier than blood x 4

The ashtray says
You were up all night
When you went to bed
With your darkest mind

You've changed
Oh, you've changed

What you once were isn't what you want to be anymore x 5
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I love Summerteeth; so dark lyrically (and some songs musically) but it's also upbeat in places.
 
 
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