FabSwingers.com forum: Depressing Songs

By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

And not just sad songs but real downbeat ones that lower your mood.

I love a depressing song

Tiny Tears - Tindersticks

https://youtu.be/OKAslscz0_g

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Coldplay anything

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Coldplay anything

Noooo. I hate Coldplay.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mazzy star - fade into you

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Sade - never thought I'd see the day

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I know it's over by The Smiths.

Brilliant song

Also Atmosphere by Joy Division

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Mazzy star - fade into you"

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Roll the credits - Gerry Cinnamon

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Jeff Buckley ~ 'Lover, you should've come over'. Breaks me every time

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

See, sad songs that are genuinely heartfelt don't depress me, they evoke emotion and even tears sometimes but they make me optimistic for humanity, that we're still able to feel.

What depresses me is Top 40 shite that everybody else likes. Especially anything by Phil Collins.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

End of the world by Skeeter Davis

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Good depressing: 74/75 by The Connells (needs to be accompanied by the video, which is by turns uplifting and heartbreaking, but no further spoilers!)

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

To be fair it's how you perceive it. I can listen to songs one day and be depressed but dance to them the next

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

"See, sad songs that are genuinely heartfelt don't depress me, they evoke emotion and even tears sometimes but they make me optimistic for humanity, that we're still able to feel.

What depresses me is Top 40 shite that everybody else likes. Especially anything by Phil Collins. "

I like songs that make you feel something

Just because a song is sad,doesn't mean its depressing.

Street spirit..fade out. Radiohead

New dawn fades joy division

Yesterday The Beatles

The final cut pink floyd

Roads Radiohead

I want you elvis costello

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Most Radiohead songs lol

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

And tbf against all odds is a great sad song

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

"See, sad songs that are genuinely heartfelt don't depress me, they evoke emotion and even tears sometimes but they make me optimistic for humanity, that we're still able to feel.

What depresses me is Top 40 shite that everybody else likes. Especially anything by Phil Collins.

I like songs that make you feel something

Just because a song is sad,doesn't mean its depressing.

Street spirit..fade out. Radiohead

New dawn fades joy division

Yesterday The Beatles

The final cut pink floyd

Roads Radiohead

I want you elvis costello"

Roads portishead I meant

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By *ocksareoffMan
over a year ago

Out n About

Coldplay the full Yellow album and

Most of Radiohead.

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By *heLaserGuyMan
over a year ago

Coventry

Its Over - Level 42

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Feel So Low - Porcupine Tree

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"See, sad songs that are genuinely heartfelt don't depress me, they evoke emotion and even tears sometimes but they make me optimistic for humanity, that we're still able to feel.

What depresses me is Top 40 shite that everybody else likes. Especially anything by Phil Collins.

I like songs that make you feel something

Just because a song is sad,doesn't mean its depressing.

Street spirit..fade out. Radiohead

New dawn fades joy division

Yesterday The Beatles

The final cut pink floyd

Roads Radiohead

I want you elvis costello

Roads portishead I meant "
I was about to say that

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By *icecouple561Couple
Forum Mod
over a year ago

East Sussex

The most depressing songs for me are the ones where the singer begs their lover to have sex with them one last time before they break up.

I find myself shouting "for God's sake have some dignity"

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By *batMan
over a year ago

Alicante, Spain. (Sometimes in Wales)

I don't remember what it was called, but the strap line was "What if God was one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home."

Pretty dirge like.

Gbat

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Spooky black - your song

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

The king of miserable. The Smiths.

Mic drop.

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By *ynecplCouple
over a year ago

Newcastle upon Tyne

Good Year for the Roses - Elvis Costello

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

"I don't remember what it was called, but the strap line was "What if God was one of us, just a stranger on the bus, trying to make his way home."

Pretty dirge like.

Gbat"

Joan Osbourne one of us

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Or Adele 21

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Dirge - death in Vegas.

A forest - the Cure.

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By *he AmbassadorMan
over a year ago

IRLANDA. / Prague. / Cil Dara

The verve, bittersweet symphony

I had a homesick housemate play it on repeat over and over,, ffs, depressing as ffffk.

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By *om2someCouple
over a year ago

South IOM

Depressing - anything by Coldplay

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By *ex HolesMan
over a year ago

Up North

Any Manic Street Preachers song - Jesus

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By *itvclaireTV/TS
over a year ago

Birmingham

"Its Over - Level 42"

Such an underatted Level 42 track.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

REM everybody hurts

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By *UGGYBEAR2015Man
over a year ago

BRIDPORT

Anything sung by Morrissey

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The Carpenters - Rainy days and Mondays

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I like lots of what others see as depressive songs

I like them as they are a vital reminder of the bad things iv witnessed and over came

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The Carpenters - Rainy days and Mondays "

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"REM everybody hurts

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

How to save a life is up there

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

Fields of Athenry - heartbreaking. Had it played at my Dad's funeral.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"REM everybody hurts

Chokes me up!

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Any Manic Street Preachers song - Jesus

There version of 'Suicide Is Painless' is a favourite of mine

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By *argaryen starkCouple
over a year ago

pinxton

In the ghetto . Elvis

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By *ausage1970Man
over a year ago

Shrewsbury

Heaven knows I am miserable now

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By *om and JennieCouple
over a year ago

Chams or Socials

Anything by adele

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By *ibi_curiousCouple
over a year ago

Shepperton

"Momma" by ELO

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Hold on - tom waits

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Runaway Train - soul asylum

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Runaway Train - soul asylum "

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Hold on - tom waits"

Love a bit of Tom

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

One is bitter sweet for me, it makes me smile and it makes me cry... Lauren daigle, you say.

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By *issAphroditeWoman
over a year ago

Norwich

I want you elvis costello"

I ADORE that song. So bittersweet

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Chasing Cars

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By *unandgamegeekMan
over a year ago

Bolton

One depressing song I know is Mad World.

Definitely not the kind of song you want to hear on a Christmas Album.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Coldplay anything

Same with Adelle

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By *indergirlWoman
over a year ago

somewhere, someplace

Billy porter singing for all we know

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tell me something girl

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Tell me something boy

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By *ionelhutzMan
over a year ago

liverpool

"Chasing Cars

Great song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I need more

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Longing for change

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Lorde - Liability

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Marti Webb version of Ben.

The story behind it

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

Marillion - the entire Brave album

James Blunt - Monsters

Kings of Leon - Walls

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By *aria_dreamgirlTV/TS
over a year ago

stockport

The living years by Mike and the mechanics.

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By *atnip make me purrWoman
over a year ago

Reading

Long live the queen by Frank turner about his friend dying of breast cancer

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

"Marillion - the entire Brave album

James Blunt - Monsters

Kings of Leon - Walls "

Is monsters the one with his dad? If so, wholeheartedly agree

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

Everything by REM.

Literally everything.

Sade - everything.

Sting, but i like the Police.

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Everything by REM.

Literally everything.

Sade - everything.

Sting, but i like the Police.

Surely not Shiny Happy People?

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By *hunky GentMan
over a year ago

Maldon and Peterborough

"Everything by REM.

Literally everything.

Sade - everything.

Sting, but i like the Police.

Surely not Shiny Happy People?"

Even that. It's his voice.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

The man who can't be moved

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By *rincess peachWoman
over a year ago

shits creek

Behind the wall - Tracy Chapman

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By *dam_TinaCouple
over a year ago

Hampshire

Muse - Song of a dying atheist.

Great song but it used to properly disturb me

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By *ed VoluptaWoman
over a year ago

Wirral.

https://youtu.be/sFvOly7RsZs

Suicide..?By Barclay James Harvest.

I was moved by this song as a 10yr old, before I even knew what it meant.

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By *orksRockerMan
over a year ago

Bradford

"Marillion - the entire Brave album

James Blunt - Monsters

Kings of Leon - Walls

Is monsters the one with his dad? If so, wholeheartedly agree "

Yes it is... And there's genuine tears as he's singing it.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

All Alice In Chains songs.

-But they're great.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Drops of jupiter

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

You see her when you close your eyes

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Death is the easy way - my morning jacket.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"The living years by Mike and the mechanics. "

Love this one

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Goodnight, Travel Well - The Killers

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By *ce WingerMan
over a year ago

P.O. Box DE1 0NQ

Suicide is Painless - Johnny Mandel

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ODV6mxVVRZk

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

Adele x

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By *ora the explorerWoman
over a year ago

Paradise, Herts

"Adele x"

Agree. Anything by her. Can’t stand her music. She’s ok though, just her music.

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By * and R cple4Couple
over a year ago

swansea

The scientist- Cold play

James Arthur-Say you won’t let go

The script-The man who can’t be moved

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

One more light by Linkin Park

Zombie by Bad Wolves

Knowing the background to those songs breaks me up every time

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By *ollycouple71Couple
over a year ago

manchester

"Adele x

Agree. Anything by her. Can’t stand her music. She’s ok though, just her music. "
really is depressing xx

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Anthony and the Johnsons;

Hope there's someone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Mad world

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

Gram Parsons - $1000 Wedding

Neil Young - Needle and the Damage Done

Kathleen Emery - Sometimes I Feel Like a Motherless Child

All very sad. I love them all, though.

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By *rMojoRisinMan
over a year ago

Sheffield

Anything by Nick Drake.

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By *iman2100Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

To really get sad I find you need country music. If you don't know these check out ...

"He stopped loving her today" -George Jones.

"Whiskey lullaby" - Alison Krauss and Brad Paisley

On lighter note for those over 55

"Yesterday when I was young" Charles Aznavour

have the tissues nearby.

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By *emini ManMan
over a year ago

There and to the left a bit

The whole of the first Tanita Tikaram album with the exception of the upbeat "Good Tradition" single which prompted me to buy the album...the remaining tracks of which are incredibly downbeat depressing dirges

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I don’t find sad or melancholy songs lower my mood at all ! If I’m down I find listening to them makes me feel less alone, like someone else knows exactly how I feel at that moment.

My go to sad (not depressing) song is I Get Along Without You Very Well by Nina Simone.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

My Chemical Romance - Cancer

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

Death Cab for Cutie: I will Follow you into the Dark.

https://youtu.be/3iV_1ESMHaI

Bruno Mars: When I was your Man

https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

David Grey: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

https://youtu.be/NSXQWj0HEBE

Tracy Chapman: Fast Car

https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M

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By *iman2100Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Death Cab for Cutie: I will Follow you into the Dark.

https://youtu.be/3iV_1ESMHaI

Bruno Mars: When I was your Man

https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

David Grey: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

https://youtu.be/NSXQWj0HEBE

Tracy Chapman: Fast Car

https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M"

You think Fast Car is sad? I always thought it was encouraging an escape from tedium. Not so sad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"One more light by Linkin Park

Zombie by Bad Wolves

Knowing the background to those songs breaks me up every time"

You mean Zombie the cover version of the Cranberries song?

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By *uriousscouserWoman
over a year ago

Wirral

"Death Cab for Cutie: I will Follow you into the Dark.

https://youtu.be/3iV_1ESMHaI

Bruno Mars: When I was your Man

https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

David Grey: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

https://youtu.be/NSXQWj0HEBE

Tracy Chapman: Fast Car

https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M

You think Fast Car is sad? I always thought it was encouraging an escape from tedium. Not so sad. "

But she doesn't escape, she goes from an alcoholic father to an absent partner, working to keep him while he drinks.

You got a fast car

I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bars

See more of your friends than you do of your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me would find it

I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere

So take your fast car and keep on driving.

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By *iman2100Man
over a year ago

Glasgow

"Death Cab for Cutie: I will Follow you into the Dark.

https://youtu.be/3iV_1ESMHaI

Bruno Mars: When I was your Man

https://youtu.be/ekzHIouo8Q4

David Grey: Say Hello, Wave Goodbye

https://youtu.be/NSXQWj0HEBE

Tracy Chapman: Fast Car

https://youtu.be/DwrHwZyFN7M

You think Fast Car is sad? I always thought it was encouraging an escape from tedium. Not so sad.

But she doesn't escape, she goes from an alcoholic father to an absent partner, working to keep him while he drinks.

You got a fast car

I got a job that pays all our bills

You stay out drinking late at the bars

See more of your friends than you do of your kids

I'd always hoped for better

Thought maybe together you and me would find it

I got no plans, I ain't going nowhere

So take your fast car and keep on driving."

True, being a romantic I envisanged they did get away.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

https://youtu.be/nF7yuNg_zWE

King of sorrow by Sade

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By *ensuallover1000Man
over a year ago

Somewhere In The Ether…

Joy Division: Love Will Tear Us Apart Again.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

I was going to say anything and everything from Coldplay and Simply Red, but I realised they're not depressing but just downright boring.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

Finally a thread I can reply to

Lil Peep - No Respect

youtu.be/QbgaRbyWTW8

Lil Tracy - Bad for you

youtu.be/B_Bvggk8vvg

Bangss x Smrtdeath - Jump on 3

youtu.be/kwy5H4HjBVw

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By *phroditeWoman
over a year ago

(She/ her) in Sensualityland

Not a song as such but "theme to Schindler's list" is hauntingly beautiful and sad at the same time.

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By *ost SockMan
over a year ago

West Wales and Cardiff

"Not a song as such but "theme to Schindler's list" is hauntingly beautiful and sad at the same time. "

Beautiful tune that. I actually feel that Itszak Perlman, who it was written for, plays it a bit fast. The slower versions are more haunting and sad.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Not a song as such but "theme to Schindler's list" is hauntingly beautiful and sad at the same time. "

The Pianist soundtrack.

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sade - never thought I'd see the day"

Nice song

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

"Sade - never thought I'd see the day

Nice song"

I will throw in Jezebel too

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By (user no longer on site)
over a year ago

John Denver - Annie’s song

Forever Autumn from war of the worlds too

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By *UCKER56Man
over a year ago

Walsall

James Arthur.... Anything

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By *bsinthe_boyMan
over a year ago

Luton

King Crimson - Starless

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By (user no longer on site) OP
over a year ago

"Finally a thread I can reply to

Lil Peep - No Respect

youtu.be/QbgaRbyWTW8

Lil Tracy - Bad for you

youtu.be/B_Bvggk8vvg

Bangss x Smrtdeath - Jump on 3

youtu.be/kwy5H4HjBVw"

Glad to be of service

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By *bsinthe_boyMan
over a year ago

Luton

King Crimson - Epitaph.

More depressing than Starless

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