As CV puts it:
As an aficionado, I’m curious to know others’ choices.
Oy, what a tough, tough question. There are so many it might even be easier to list one saddest song in each genre...but I have faith in everyone...we can do it..and limit it to one song.
As soon as I saw the question suggestion my first thoughts, as a gay guy growing up in the 80s, turned to The Smiths. Their whole catalog, almost could be said to be made up of such songs
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But for me, the saddest of their songs is….
Take me out tonight
Where theres music and theres people
Who are young and alive
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I havent got one anymore
Take me out tonight
Because I want to see people
And I want to see light
Driving in your car
Oh, please dont drop me home
Because its not my home, its their home
And Im welcome no more
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere
I dont care, I dont care, I dont care
And in the darkened underpass
I thought, oh God, my chance has come at last
But then a strange fear gripped me and I just couldnt ask
Take me out tonight
Oh, take me anywhere
I dont care, I dont care, I dont care
Driving in your car
I never, never want to go home
Because I havent got one
I havent got one
Oh, oh, oh, oh, oh
And if a double-decker bus
Crashes into us
To die by your side
Is such a heavenly way to die
And if a ten-ton truck
Kills the both of us, so what
To die by your side
Well, the pleasure, the privilege is mine
Oh, there is a light, never goes out
There is a light, never goes out
So.. what song is in your view the saddest song in the world?