La music evokes all kinds of feelings. Joy and happiness, well-being, love, emotion and sadness. Almost always due to heartbreak and loneliness, the ease that people have to see ourselves reflected with some "musical tragedies" seems to have no limits. Sad songs are an example of this.
It usually happens that many times we identify sad songs that we haven't heard for a long time, and that we associate them with events in our past.
Some of the sad songs of the last few years
Thursday - Van Gogh's ear
Dedicated to the victims of the Madrid attack on March 11, 2004. The members of the gang stated on several occasions that They wish they didn't have to write this song.
Noise - David Bisbal
Included in "Without looking back" (2009), talks about the loneliness that accompanies an "abandoned heart”, After being sad and heartbroken in the house he shared with his love.
My friend - Alejandro Sanz
One of the emblematic songs in the career of this Spanish singer-songwriter, included in his album “Más” (1997). It is one of the most painful tragedies: being in love with someone for a long time, but not being able to express it in words out of fear.
I always love you - Whitney Houston
Included in the soundtrack of the film "The Bodyguard", that the late singer starred in 1992 alongside Kevin Costner. One of the many songs that express with music that sometimes just love is not enough.
My heart will go on - Celin Dion
Another sample of sad "movie" songs. For fans of "Titanic ”, the remembered James Cameron film released in 1997, listening to this song is remember Leonardo DiCaprio (rather, his character Jack) hopelessly drowning in the icy waters of the Atlantic Ocean.
From my heaven - Wizard of Oz
Included in the album "Gaia II: la voz dormida", which reached Platinum Record in Spain just three weeks after being published. It is demonstrated that the rock and metal have their sad songs too, like this one that goes from love to beyond that "death separates us ..."
If we had little time - Chayanne
Included in the album “Vivo” (2008), the Puerto Rican Chayanne has his place on this list, with a song that talks about the torture that represents the imminence of the end of a relationship.
Sitting on the bench - Auryn
Become the best friend of the girl he is in love with, is one of the saddest things that can happen to a man. This is the teen drama that tells this song by the Spanish pop band Auryn.
The San Blas pier - Mana
Fourth single from the album “Sueños Líquidos” (1998) by the Aztec band Maná. Tells the story of a woman engaged to a man who leaves the day before the wedding, with the promise to return. Of course the gentleman never returns, but the woman sat waiting for him.
Bad habit - Pastora Soler and David Bisbal
“Not appreciating what matters” (…) “wasting time” (…) “half-loving” (…) “looking for false dreams” (…) “there is so much more than enough”. These are some of the many phrases that this song contains, “for the bad habit of looking for excuses ”and“ not caring for love ”.
Everybody hurts - REM
This song makes anyone sad, even if he can't speak English. "Everybody cries, everybody hurts, sometime." Included in the album "Automatic for the people" (1992), according to a survey conducted by RPS Music, this is the song that the more it makes men cry in the United States.
Bad Romance - Lady Gaga
Another topic that talks about how complicated and painful it is be in love with the best friend.
The promise - Melendi
What's really sad about this song is the video clip. Another who falls in love with the best friend, but waited too long to confess.
Forever with you, comrade - Amaia Montero
Painful but necessary goodbyes. Damage assessment, promises to be kept. The impossibility of forgetting. Another sample of sad songs, to remember.
Crystal Kisses (Mommy) - Melody
We still hadn't recovered from the impact of “De pata negra”, when Melody edited this song that he dedicated to his mother.
My sorrow - Dani Martin
Included in Martín's first solo work, after “El Canto del Loco”, this song is a farewell / apology. After "screw it up", many of us can only regret it ...
Do not love me - Marc Anthony and Jennifer López
To love or not to love, there is the dilemma. The lyrics of this song seem more like a sad epilogue of the stormy love affair of the two singers.
I was dying for her - David Busdamente
Included in the album “A contracorriente” (2010), another song that we can include in our list of sad songs. It tells the story of those who kept the desire to kiss and hug "for not having the courage".
Broken heart - Alejandro Sanz
Another song from the famous album “Más” (1997), this song summarizes, amid gypsy and Latin chords, all the stages of a classic spite. The topic was record in practically all of Latin America, remaining for more than 70 weeks in the lists of countries such as Mexico, Argentina, Venezuela ...
saraluna - Melendi
All this Greek tragedy (choruses included), Melendi recreates quite dramatically the myth of twins separated at birth.
Love is a losing game - Amy Winehouse
Bet on love it is a sure loss. That's what the song written by Amy Winehouse is about and that she gave to the world with her powerful contralto voice. What was undoubtedly a loss to humanity was the untimely death of this British artist.
I set out to lose you - Alejandro Fernandez
The Mexican recounts in this ballad (he also has a more “Latin” version) all the clumsiness that may be a man who is overconfident with a woman.
candle in the wind - Elton John
It was originally published in the distant 1973, as a tribute from the British singer to Marilyn Monroe. In 1997 he "reverted" it, now as a tribute to Princess Diana. The success was surprisingly greater, becoming the best-selling single in history with more than 33 million copies.
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