Sadness
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Songs that mention sadness as a lyrical or thematic element.
Central theme[edit]
- 9 Secret Steps
- All Time What
- Applause Applause Applause
- Best Regrets
- Brontosaurus
- Caroline, No
- Don't Cry
- Fall Means Sadness
- Hopeless Bleak Despair
- Hovering Sombrero
- I Broke My Own Rule
- I Can't Remember The Dream
- I Haven't Seen You In Forever
- It Could Be Worse
- I'll Sink Manhattan
- Last Wave
- Maybe I Know
- Mr. Me
- Once A Year
- Plain As The Lie On Your Lips
- Sometimes A Lonely Way
- There Will Be Sad
- Why Must I Be Sad?
- Withered Hope
Briefly mentioned[edit]
- (She Was A) Hotel Detective In The Future - "I weep, alone in my wormhole, forevermore, forevermore"
- Alienation's For The Rich - "Well, I ain't feelin' happy"
- Answer - "Though every dream of a pony would end in tears"
- The Army's Tired Now - "And it's so sad / All its defenders have moved along"
- The Big Big Whoredom - "No, no, don't be sad"
- Black Ops - "Don't look so sad"
- Bread Hair - "You're drivin' all my hope away"
- Burnice - "Oh woe is I"
- Clowntown - "Sad clown"
- Crushed By Dust - "We're despondent", "Everybody listen to the sad, sad sound of the parlor organ"
- Don't Let's Start - "Everybody dies frustrated and sad and that is beautiful"
- Drink! - "But you'd be sad if they did, but you'll be sad"
- Exploding Invitation - "She saw to my left-behind and understood my sorrow"
- Free Bird's Rebirth - "To a story so sad"
- I Can't Hide From My Mind - "Kisses make you cry"
- I'm Gettin' Sentimental Over You - "Once I wondered why I'd sit at home and sigh"
- An Insult To The Fact Checkers - "From the sad strange notions that just all seem wrong"
- Let Your Hair Hang Down - "When your hair's so long / When you look so sad"
- Letterbox - "There's no time for sorrow"
- My Name Is Kingof Socks - "Some might come to tears / But I'm no crybaby / No crybaby, mister"
- Narrow Your Eyes - "Now let's toast the sad cold fact"
- No Stopping A Unicorn - "Times can just seem hopeless / Life can be just complications"
- Number Two - "Too long I've been blue", "I used to be sad"
- On The Drag - "You're only happy when you're sad"
- Out Of A Tree - "And what's sadder he's still in that tree"
- Pour Poor Me More Please - "I'll give you a shoulder to cry on"
- Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head - "Yes, it's sad to say you would romanticize all the things you've known before", "And we wouldn't have to cry"
- Red Red Intro - "A-minor: secretly sad, secretly sad and sophisticated"
- Save Your Life - "Now you think you're sad but you never have been sad"
- Sleep - "Each, time, I, sleep, I'm, sad"
- Spines - "They're gonna make you cry"
- Taking It To The Bridge (We Reinvented The Remix) - "I should be saving up tears"
- Tele-Tele-Telephone - "To wait for you and cry"
- Tiny Doctors - "I'm never sad anymore"
- They'll Need A Crane - "Love sees love's happiness, but happiness can't see that love is sad...sadness is hanging there"
- Tubthumping - "Don't cry for me"
- Underwater Woman - "No one can tell when she cries"
- Valentine - "It's a sad indication"
- Walking My Cat Named Dog - "Happy, sad, and crazy wonder"
- The World's Address - "A sad pun that reflects a sadder mess"
- You'll Miss Me - "As tears roll down", "It must be raining 'cause a man ain't supposed to cry"
