So I'm sitting here watching a Girlfriends re-run & I hear one of my absolutely favorite sad songs. Sounds like an oxymoron, huh? Well anyway, the sad song I'm speaking of is Donny Hathaway's "Giving Up". Oh my God! Whenever, wherever I hear this song, it's guaranteed to bring tears to my eyes. I think I cry because it takes me back to a few relationships that I truly never got over. Silly me, huh?
Here are a few others that get to me:
So Alone - y'all already know.
Missing You - great song but painful for me.
Better Days - if your granny was anything like mine
& she's gone to glory, you understand.
I can listen to this one all the way thru.
Giving Up - Lawd....I can't even begin to explain it, so I won't even try.
Click here to check out Aaliyah's cover of Giving Up.
(No one compares to Donny but I think she did the song justice.)
It took me 6 years before I could hear the song "A song for Mama" by Boyz II Men without bawling uncontrollably. That was an IMMEDIATE channel change lol. I can listen to it now if I REALLY concentrate on not crying. But amazingly, Dear Mama by Tupac didn't really make me cry.
ReplyDeleteThat would be G.C. Cameron's "It's So Hard to say Goodbye". Need I say more?
ReplyDeleteWe are ---> here <---
ReplyDelete"A Song for Mama" depends on the day for me. "Dear Mama" didn't/doesn't bother me.
"Sadie" also got me after my granny died, but I'm OK with it now.
One of my classmates sang this at graduation. Talk about boo-hooing.
ReplyDeleteIt would be easier to take there than a funeral though.
ReplyDeleteI know I have Been Changed. LaShaun Pace.
ReplyDeleteI Can't Go On by Celine Dion....
ReplyDeleteWind Beneath My Wings...song from the movie Beaches...
Same here on that song. And Sadie by The O'Jays. I can't listen to sad sad songs. What's that other one with Mariah and Boys II Men??? I can't listen to that one either.
ReplyDeleteOne Sweet Day? That is a beautiful song
ReplyDeleteYes that's it. I can't listen to that. Sometimes Home by Stephanie Mills brings me to tears too. Once I heard her dedicate that song to all her friends who'd died it was over.
ReplyDeleteMy granny loved this song & they played it at her homegoing. After a year or so, I was able to listen to it again.
ReplyDeleteThat will always take me to The Wiz.
ReplyDeleteI rmember I was at Governor's school in high school(yes, I am a nerd, WHAT?!?!?!) and they had the choral group sing at the program for the last day. My roommate when I was there was this burly white dude from Texas(that was interesting lol). At the program after they finished the teacher for the chorus(whom everybody knew, he was a cool dude, a little flamboyant but that was his charm lol) and he said "This one is for all you guys that I have had the privilege to work with" and broke out into "Wind Beneath My Wings". The whole chorus (about 40 people) was BAWLING. My big assed country texas roommate with his cowboy hat and boots was crying like a little girl lol. Now that just made everybody else start crying so by the time he finished the whole auditorium crying lol
ReplyDeleteMy favorite sad song is "Why" by Annie Lennox. Explains the frustrations of letting go of a relationship.
ReplyDeleteEverytime I hear this song, its like a slideshow of memories start floating through my mind of back when I was is school, of people of have passed on, high school graduation ...And that was our class song (Class of 96 Ramsay High!!).
ReplyDeleteAs far as relationships, the sad relatonship song for me was "Do What I Gotta Do" by Ralph Tresvant because it pretty much perfectly described a scenario with me and an ex(and just happened to be out at the time)
ReplyDelete"I Miss You" by Aaron Hall...and his video for that song...LAWD ... "raising hand"
ReplyDeleteLawd yes...when that 1st came out, it was the saddest thing ever.
ReplyDeleteI hated that song and that video. People said I was cruel. Oh well. LOL
ReplyDelete**Gasp** .....SHAMEFUL!!
ReplyDeleteA lot of the good ones have already been mentioned. I will have to think on this and come back!
ReplyDeleteOh man.. that song came out after my husband's eldest daughter passed away... that song STILL gives me chills....
ReplyDeleteAnd while it's not a sad song, I STILL can't make it all the way through "Superstar" without crying. It's a bitch being left behind.
Hm.. one more "A Song For You" by Donny Hathaway...
ReplyDeleteI got 2:
ReplyDeleteWhitney Houston- Run to you and Mariah Carey- Never Forget You (From the Music Box Album)
Those 2 songs were favorites of my Grandmother on my Moms side, especially that Whitney song. She used to watch the Bodyguard to DEATH and play that soundtrack OUT. So, I hide both of them (The Mariah CD as well) and only played them when she wasn't home because I already knew once those 2 songs came on, I'd have to put them both on repeat and hear them for at least the next hour.....while SINGING the songs along with them. But I still Cherish those songs to this day and I get flashbacks of me being Lil singing those 2 songs while she was in tears. I can listen to them all the way through, now...even after the funeral, I could.
I like Eddie & Gerald's rendition best.
ReplyDeleteI miss you, Better Days.
ReplyDelete"These Three Words"- Stevie Wonder
ReplyDeleteAlways makes me think about my family and how much they mean to me.
"A Song for You"- Donny Hathaway and "A Song for Momma"- Boyz II Men
Makes me think about my Momma whom I have UNDESCRIBABLE love for.
"Pearls"- Sade
Something about this song just hits me to the core. I think it's the message along with the STRENGTH and POWER of ver voice.
So Alone...that song will have you crying on your birthday...
ReplyDeleteAnother one that kinda touches me is Minnie Riperton Back down Memory Lane
*nodding in agreement*
ReplyDeleteThe lil fat kid gets misty when Ms Patti sings "Somebody Loves You"
ReplyDeleteJust adding when "Sister" sang Giving Up in the movie Sparkle, she was the most pitiful & saddest thing ever.
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