Sad Songs Blogfest, the actual songs post...

I have chosen my songs for the Sad Songs blog list and listed them below. I have added a few lines from the song as some of them are not familiar to many people at all. The first six or seven are related to kids or dads. The last few are loss, death and leaving. Sound of Silence seems to be a good bridge between the kid/dad songs and the others as it always reminds me of the alienation of youth because I associate it with The Graduate, though the song itself is not really about kids or dads.

My favorite sad song is the last one on the list. I think I have this one in about ten different versions.

 I am going to call some of these artists out on Facebook today to see if any of them will come by and comment. If you wrote or performed one of these songs, please comment! Thank you for the great lyrics.

Thank you to Diane at Spunk on a Stick for hosting this Blog hop. If you want to see what others came up with head to her blog and follow the links she has there from  Monday's post.

     Hold My Hand

     Ric Alba

I thought I heard a baby cry

It was the man next door

I thought I heard somebody say

Hey, big boys don’t cry anymore

     America

     Bill Mallonee and the Vigilantes of Love

Brought a new friend home to watch TV
To help you deal with the anxiety
She measured out her love in ounces

     Tears in Heaven

     Eric Clapton

Time can bring you down, time can bend your knees
Time can break your heart, have you begging please, begging please

     The Rub of Love

     Chagal Guevara

Every other week on visiting day

I get tolerated by his new wife.

I swear if he ever really held me

They'd have to pry me off with the 

Jaws of Life.

Old Man Look at My Life

Neil Young

Doesn't mean that much to me

To mean that much to you.
I've been first and last
Look at how the time goes past.
But I'm all alone at last.

Rolling home to you.


     Hurt

     Trent Reznor, but as performed by

     Johnny Cash

Everyone I know

Goes away in the end
You could have it all
My empire of dirt

I will let you down

I will make you hurt

     Youth of the Nation

     P.O.D.

I guess that's the way the story goes
Will it ever make sense
Somebody's got to know
There's got to be more to life than this
There's got to be more to everything
I thought exists 

     The Sound of Silence

     Simon and Garfunkel

 And the people bowed and prayed

To the neon god they made
And the sign flashed out its warning
In the words that it was forming
And the sign said, "The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls
And tenement halls"

     Don’t This Way

     The 77’s

Don't Look This Way, Closed Eyes, Unmoving Lips
Don't Feel This Way, Cold Hands and Fingertips

     Don’t Cry

     Adam Again

Hey, ho

Its time to go

Time to say,

Say good-bye

     Ain’t No Sunshine

     Bill Withers

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

Wonder if she’s gone to stay

Ain’t no sunshine when she’s gone

This house just ain’t no home

Anytime she goes away.