Time Out is a registered trademark of Time Out Digital Limited. By the time we get to the relentless questioning at the centre of the song – ‘If you’re so clever/Then why are you on your own tonight?’ – we are naked in front of the mirror with no-one to blame for our sorrow but ourselves. George wrote ‘Time’ about his secret love for Culture Club drummer Jon Moss, which only makes it sadder: he’s mourning the end of the affair before it even began. That album was never finished: in November that year Drake died, aged 26, from an overdose of amitriptyline. She retired from music three years later, turning to religion after the sudden death of her friend and Stax labelmate Otis Redding. James Manning, 'This Woman's Work' is Kate Bush's most iconic piano ballad, but 'Moments of Pleasure' is probably even more poignant. Yep, feeling hella unaccomplished right about now. Tom Huddleston, Glen Campbell first took Jimmy Webb’s break-up song ‘By the Time I Get to Phoenix’ for a spin in 1967, and brought it home in under three minutes. All he wants, he replies, is her back safe and sound. . As the DJ drops Culture Club, she turns and kisses the biggest dickhead in the sixth form, and Boy George soundtracks a teenage heart breaking. You may be able to find more information about this and similar content at piano.io, Ariana Grande Gets Presidential in New Music Video, Beabadoobee Is Still Getting Used to the Attention, Blackpink's Lisa Is the Newest Face of MAC, How 'Blackpink: Light Up the Sky' Was Made, Stevie Nicks Wins the "Dreams" Challenge on TikTok, Meena Harris on Her New Book, 'Ambitious Girl', Mariah Carey Teases Collab with Two Fellow Stars, Meet the Women Who Won Nobel Prizes This Year. Yes, 'Young Hearts Run Free' shimmers with disco glitz, but the lyrics detail Staton's struggle to extricate herself from an abusive relationship. The best sad songs will always make you cry. You may be able to find the same content in another format, or you may be able to find more information, at their web site. © 2020 Time Out England Limited and affiliated companies owned by Time Out Group Plc. Rising like a Phoenix from the ashes, Kesha sings of the sexual harassment, emotional distress, and employment discrimination she faced at the hands of her former producer, Dr. Luke. Depressed, feeling generally empty on the inside, and a little hopeless...but make it funk. The business of writing a love song – one that’s not cheesy or clichéd – is a challenge that the greatest songwriters have wrestled with ever since the first caveman grunted a serenade to his beloved. Abel Meeropol’s horrific poem about lynchings in the southern states became the most powerful protest song of the twentieth century thanks to Holiday’s interpretation: understated, tense and as full of sorrow and humanity as righteous rage. A brutally honest 12-minute dissection of the relationship from start to end, set to a throbbing, glammed-up motorik backing, ‘The Past is a Grotesque Animal’ is frazzled and harrowing but also thrillingly audacious. A dream? If I had a dollar for each time Mac forlornly sings the word "alone" on this track, I'd be approximately $15 richer. Two years later it was carjacked by the velvet-voiced Isaac Hayes and driven all the way to Soulsville. There’s not really much to this one, other than a reminder that misery is eternal and inevitable and though you might be happy now, you’ll end up crying later. ‘Past, Present and Future’ is the saddest of the lot, a quietly chilling story set to Beethoven’s ‘Moonlight Sonata’. James Manning, With lyrics in place, this gorgeous song from French singer Tellier embodies all the hope and anticipation of a new love affair. Welp, I guess that's the power of Regina Spektor. Just gonna go ahead an rub this into your big fat wound right about now, but AURORA literally wrote this when she was 12. ‘The River’ is as devastating as it gets, a mournful account of two carefree young lovers forced into a joyless marriage after an unplanned pregnancy. Featured on Grant’s debut album ‘The Queen of Denmark’, this soulful piano ballad may sound like something The Carpenters might have recorded back in the ‘70s. Anyone who thought in 1997 that Radiohead had reached the depths of bleakness with ‘OK Computer’ got a big surprise three years later, when the band released ‘Kid A’ and it turned out there were whole oceans of mumbling electronic melancholy they had yet to plumb.
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