Sad Songs
Even a Fool Would Let Go. Written by Dolly Parton. I've got a version by Gregson & Collister
She's Your lover Now - Written by Dylan
Alexandra Leaving - Written by Leonard Cohen
Sara - Written by Dylan
She's Your lover Now - Written by Dylan
Alexandra Leaving - Written by Leonard Cohen
Sara - Written by Dylan
Comments
How's about -
Blue Valentines - T Waites
If you see her say hello - Dylan
Beeswing - Richard Thompson.
Excellent choice that man. Haven't heard the Richard Thompson but I shall.
Richard Strauss: Vier Letzte Lieder
Barenaked Ladies - The Old Apartment
Bob Dylan - Not Dark Yet
Bobby Bland - Cry, Cry, Cry
A few others.
Garden - Pearl Jam
The Last Time I Saw Richard - Joni Mitchell
After the Flood - Talk Talk
Heron Blue - Sun Kil Moon (Mark Kozelek)
Stop Swimming - Porcupine Tree
But Peter Hammill writes my favourite sad, indeed miserable and wretched songs, some would say lugubrious. Here is one that stands out for me.
The Lie (Bernini's St. Theresa)
Genuflection, erection in church.
Sacristy cloth, moth-eaten shroud.
Secret silence, sacred secrets
accumulate dust, aggravate the eye.
Incautious laughter after confession.
Benediction, fictional fear.
Hidden faces...Grace is a name,
like Chastity, like Lucifer, like mine.
You took me through the window-stain,
drowned in image, incense,
choir-refrain and slow ecstasy.
I'd embrace you if I only knew your name.
The silent corner haunts my shadow prayers.
ice-cold statue, rapture divine,
unconscious eyes, the open mouth,
the wound of love,
the Lie.
You took me, gave me reasons for
saints and missals, vigils,
all the more holy martyrs.
I'd embrace you and walk through
the one-way door.
I'd embrace you, but it would be
just another lie.