if you want truley heartbreaking lyrics, the best place to look is in korns self titled first album. there is a song called 'daddy' on that album, and it is undoubtably the most powerful, heart breaking song i have ever heard, period. there is screaming in it, but you can still easily make out what he is saying. again, you wont find a more personal or powerful song anywhere.
until recently i thought pod stood for Priests On Demand... i had a friend with an aunt that was part of some cult called catholic or something... and she used to send him christian rock and rap tapes (yes, before cd's.) well anyway one tape he had was actually pid, Priests In Demand... it was rap... it was horrible... but still i never heard a pod song... just a funny story..
but for depressing lyrics of true suffering and pain, rather then whining, try nina simone's strange fruit.... here is a portion of that song...
Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'
now thats depressing in a real way.
Originally posted by happy kine
until recently i thought pod stood for Priests On Demand... i had a friend with an aunt that was part of some cult called catholic or something... and she used to send him christian rock and rap tapes (yes, before cd's.) well anyway one tape he had was actually pid, Priests In Demand... it was rap... it was horrible... but still i never heard a pod song... just a funny story..but for depressing lyrics of true suffering and pain, rather then whining, try nina simone's strange fruit.... here is a portion of that song...
Southern trees
Bear strange fruit
Blood on the leaves
And blood at the roots
Black bodies
Swinging in the southern breeze
Strange fruit hangin'now thats depressing in a real way.
right on!
the so called depressing music of today is trite... you have well off suburb kids complaining about petty stuff. if you listen to the song strange fruit by nina simone you can feel the TRUE pain in her voice.... true suffering. nina simone has many songs that run the gambit of emotion. from joy to pain, from love to suffering, from triumph to loss... truly a thing of beauty! anywho just my two cents.
Petty stuff to you...maybe not for them. And that's a huge generalization. "well off surburban kids" I'm from nyc and not well of and i listen to a bunch of the same music that so called "well off surburban kids" listen to. And also just because someone is from surburbia doens't mean they're "well off"-i've stated this before and will state it again just because someone has money doesn't mean they're void of emotion including pain. And just because someone lives in suburbia doesn't mean they live in a white house with a white picket fence and have a mother and father and a sibling. And even if they did have all these things doesn't mean they don't feel pain. Talk about stereotypes, jesus.
Originally posted by mah
Still, singing things like "I live a life in pain/tormenting my soul" and so forth, isn't suitable if you say you're happy, you're rich, and you've got a beautiful woman.
That's the point, what if they aren't happy. So what if they're rich and they have beautiful women. Sometimes money doens't make a person happy. Whatever happened to money ain't everything. Or do you disagree with that statement to? Sometimes material things don't make a person happy. If they aren't happy, and they want to express that why should they be doubted. Some things that make other people depressed or angry, etc i couldn't care less about. And visa versa. example: people dying in a foriegn land, or in a war, i couldn't give a rats ass about and i don't wanna hear people sing about it. But that's not true for other people. So i don't judge and generalize the people who sing about these things.
Michael Jackson - Little Susie
Somebody killed little susie
The girl with the tune
Who sings in the daytime at noon
She was there screaming
Beating her voice in her doom
But nobody came to her soon...
A fall down the stairs
Her dress torn
Oh the blood in her hair...
A mystery so sullen in air
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care,
Oh the blood in her hair...
Everyone came to see
The girl that now is dead
So blind stare the eyes in her head...
And suddenly a voice from the crowd said
This girl lived in vain
Her face bear such agony, such strain...
But only the man from next door
Knew little susie and how he cried
As he reached down
To close susie's eyes...
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care
Oh the blood in her hair...
It was all for god's sake
For her singing the tune
For someone to feel her despair
To be damned to know hoping is dead and you're doomed
Then to scream out
And nobody's there...
She knew no one cared...
Father left home, poor mother died
Leaving susie alone
Grandfather's soul too had flown...
No one to care
Just to love her
How much can one bear
Rejecting the needs in her prayers...
Neglection can kill
Like a knife in your soul
Oh it will
Little susie fought so hard to live...
She lie there so tenderly
Fashioned so slenderly
Lift her with care
So young and so fair
Metallica -Fade To Black on Ride the lightning album
Life it seems, will fade away
Drifting further every day
Getting lost within myself
Nothing matters no one else
I have lost the will to live
Simply nothing more to give
There is nothing more for me
Need the end to set me free
Things are not what they used to be
Missing one inside of me
Deathly lost, this can't be real
Cannot stand this hell I feel
Emptiness is filing me
To the point of agony
Growing darkness taking dawn
I was me, but now He's gone
No one but me can save myself, but it to late
Now I can't think, think why I should even try
Yesterday seems as though it never existed
Death Greets me warm, now I will just say good-bye