1. "Why Won't You Stay" - American Music Club
Mark Eitzel, doing what he does best: laying his soul bare and making you feel his pain.
2. "St. Swithin's Day" - Billy Bragg
Thanks all the same
But I just can't bring myself to answer your letters
It's not your fault
But your honesty touches me like a fire
The Polaroids that hold us together
Will surely fade away
Like the love that we spoke of forever
On St. Swithin's Day
3. "If You See Her, Say Hello" - Bob Dylan
And though our separation
It pierced me to the heart
She still lives inside of me
We've never been apart
4. "I Just Don't Think I'll Ever Get Over You" - Colin Hay
The former Men at Work frontman proves he's no '80s has-been with this lovely ballad (props to Zach Braff for including it in Garden State)
5. "Crawling" - Cheri Knight
Knight is a criminally-overlooked country/folk singer from Massachusetts. Her second and final album, 1998's The Northeast Kingdom, is a masterpiece. This track is a duet with the Goddess of Duets, Emmylou Harris, and if you're not crying in your beer by the end, you probably have some emotional blockage.
6. "How to Say Goodbye" - The Magnetic Fields
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you every blessing
I'm overjoyed to hear about your wedding
I'm writing you to wish you every blessing
And I'm so happy I could cry
Oh baby, you know how to say goodbye
7. "River" - Joni Mitchell
I'm so hard to handle
I'm selfish and I'm sad
Now I've gone and lost the best baby
That I ever had
8. "Walking On a Wire" - Richard and Linda Thompson
I wish I could please you tonight
By my medicine just won't come out right
9. "16 Days" - Whiskeytown
I got 16 days
15 and those are nights
Can't sleep when the bedsheet fights
Its way back to your side
10. "One By One" - Wilco
One by one my hair is turning grey
One by one my dreams are fading fast away
One by one I read your letters over
One by one I lay them all away
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What a great list! I should try and do one of my own to see what I come up with. Something by American Music Club will definitely make my list too!
I keep hearing that Joni Mitchell Christmas song that's all sad and woeful, and it's springtime (for Hitler?), people!
I should make one 'a these lists too...
note to sufferin', snifflin' self: avoid thoughtfully crafted blogs about sad songs while at work, Fo Da Man, 37 stories up.
st swithens is such a great song. i even like the dubstar cover version. - bobm
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