Today’s challenge invites us to share a song that breaks our heart. If I’d looked ahead on these challenges, I might have saved the Glen Campbell song I posted on Day 10 for “A Song That Makes You Sad” for this, and chosen a different sad song then. But since that’s under the bridge, here’s another song about heartbreak, and specifically about that moment in a long-term relationship when you realise things maybe aren’t going to work out in the end. I’m happy to say that it’s been a very long time since this song resonated strongly with me, but back when it did, it certainly was a time of tremendous heartache. Here’s Christine Lavin with “Katy Says Today Is The Best Day Of My Whole Entire Life”
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Jim Poltrone
It’s a tossup between this and “If I Could Change Your Mind” — one of the few APP songs featuring a female vocalist (the late Lesley Duncan).
Jim Poltrone
Daniel Reitman
Lee Billings
That’s definitely capable of more than one interpretation. Listening to it now, I hear someone trying to get his hooks back into a woman who finally managed to get out of a really bad relationship. Sylvia has her mother running interference for damn good reason.
Daniel Reitman
I saw a documentary last year in which it turned out the woman who inspired Shel Silverstein thought of him as a friend
Elaine Roberson
https://youtu.be/nPOy7TPjfkE
Bruce Adelsohn
Another no-brainer for me. Can never get through this without requiring a unicorn chaser. https://youtu.be/UI7ZfYabVkg
Patricia Jones
Having children myself, hearing this song about parents attempting to cope with the death of a child breaks my heart everytime I hear it. https://youtu.be/86I9faiiFBI
Laura Gallagher
THIS one so very much.
Neill Mitchell
Tori Amos’s cover of Tom Waits “Time” -- Gets me every time, and I’m not quite sure why.https://youtu.be/gtythil5qwY
Stephanie Riehle Craven
Certainly the first time I heard this, I wept. And even still it shakes me up to hear her sing about the love of a child. Joni Mitchell’s “Little Green.” https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvhdKywbcJ0
T J Burnside Clapp
I almost needed therapy after hearing this one. My oldest brother died at about the same age, and it tears me apart to think about what my parents went through. 🙁
Bruce Adelsohn
Also, this one. I can’t imagine being on either side of this situation. https://youtu.be/FivgslDNqf8
Lori Coulson
I still prefer the film version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=juuhx884ylM
Bruce Adelsohn
Lori: I’m not a fan of the film version. I think they both translated media poorly and made unnecessary changes that weakened the show. That said, this sequence is heart-rending every time.
Lori Coulson
Bruce Adelsohn Agreed — but when I saw the film, I had -never- seen the stage version.
Bruce Adelsohn
I was spoiled, having seen Zero Mostel perform in the round at NY’s Westbury Music Faire (since renamed). Wish I had seen the most recent revival, which was very well reviewed.
Lori Coulson
Bruce Adelsohn OH, I envy you! Must have been fantastic.
Bruce Adelsohn
It was. I was young, though (11?) so didn’t fully appreciate it.
Lauren Cox
yeah… no words needed.
https://youtu.be/TfEkDqP34xo
Paul Kwinn
Yep, I might have swapped this with my “sad” song, too. But still, here’s Pete Grubbs, to depress you: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nu1tsJJ-mK8
Juanita Coulson
“Hills of Ixopo” from ” Cry, The Beloved Country”.
Lori Coulson
This one: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zZwsr2iUgCg
Dell Christy
I still have tears when I listen to this. https://youtu.be/q490NYHBytg
Laura Law
Christine Lavin is one of my faves.
Lee Billings
I can’t listen to this without crying. The destruction wrought by well-meaning friends, and the joy turned to ashes. https://youtu.be/fWqj_tC9jrU
Laura Gallagher
Since I already gave you It’s Quiet Uptown for that earlier one, I give you this one. I so wish I’d had this sort of support through our moves as a kid. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q8-MKOs9meo
Carolyn Fortuna
This song makes me wistful and sad for simpler times with my family long gone. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcnd55tLCv8
Heather Munn
We keeping loosing too many good people, good musicians, good kids, to drug addiction:
https://youtu.be/UAWcs5H-qgQ
Paul Kwinn
Man, when I first heard this song, I loved it and had to learn it. And yes, it is so sad.
Rob Wynne
I was glad to scroll up and see this was in the “sad songs” post. For a moment, I was terrified something awful had happened to Ed Sheeran.
Manny Jacobowitz
That’s a tough one. Could say Sondheim -- Send in the Clowns, or, One Hand, One Heart. Or Sunrise, Sunset from Fiddler, now that I’m a parent. But for sheer pain and need, imma go with one most of your friends won’t know already:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YONAP39jVE