girlfriend in a coma?

of listening to those before while i went to sleep, along with "i'm not sorry" or "wonderful woman" etc.
try it it's really relaxing. In fact i should start doing that again.

zzzzzzz

Sure "seasick" is sad, but it ends with a proclomation of strength:

My love is as sharp as a needle in your eye
You must be such a fool
To pass me by

It would be depressing if Morrissey had ended in hopelessness. Still, can't really expect anyone beyond us lot to read the lyrics

Even is from the Smiths, "Well I wonder" is one of the most depressing songs from Moz. Beautiful but sad.

I know it is certainly off-topic and filled with my often mentioned but hoplessly pedantic airs, but I happen to have this picture (the one of the squalid man holding a guitar) hanging on my bedroom wall! Maybe you all know Picasso (the creator of the picture), and that the painter had a blue phase, in which he only did his paintings in shades of blue, but if not, well, not that I want to lecture, just inform and share, if you like this picture, and if you don't mind it is from a painter who could be your great-great grandfather, the others are just as passionate. Very interesting article, thanks. I loved above all the term "artificial Prozac". Yes, definitely, art is a Prozac, without the chemicals, and the scary side-effects.

ten years ago when seriously depressed i made an entire tape of sing me to sleep playing over and over while i cried on my bed. it's strange to me however that many people only think of moz as moping constantly, not at all for his brilliant wit.

Can't a person admire their own back porch without being thought of as a strange?

To me, this is the most bittersweet Moz-penned song, if not the "saddest." It really, really gets under my skin. Although Moz suggests that he would be happy to die if the last thing he saw was someone he cared about, there is something very sad about it. Some have interpreted it as a "suicide swan song," as well. The idea of death as a welcome release from the horrors of life is heavy stuff, indeed.

The first time I saw the film Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me, it reminded me of this song in that the heroine chooses death rather than endure the terrible reality of her life. Good stuff.

Everyone has bad days; being shiny happy people all the time is a cooked-up useless myth. Morrissey has empathy with the undeniable fact that in trying to be authentic in an often ruthless world, people suffer, as someone else did:
“He went down with them and stood at a level place...the people all tried to touch him, because power was coming from him and healing them all. Looking at his disciples, he said: “Blessed are you who are poor, for yours is the kingdom of God. Blessed are you who hunger now, for you will be satisfied. Blessed are you who weep now for you will laugh. Blessed are you when men hate you, when they exclude you and insult you, and reject your name as evil because of the Son of Man...” Luke 6.17

Feel the fear and do it anyway!

Both songs fit nicely -- this article is well-written. But almost any song that Morrissey has written has undertones of sadness that most music does not even approach; it's a central emotion for him. We as fans are so used to his style that sometimes we forget how sad his songs really are. For instance:

Suffer Little Children -- about little kids being murdered.
I Want the One That I Can't Have -- self-explanatory. And sad.
That Joke Isn't Funny Anymore -- being made fun of and humiliated makes one sad!
Well I Wonder -- as sad of a "do-you-think-of-me" song as has ever been written.
I Know It's Over -- lover takes a different spouse. Suicide ensues. Beautiful and ,yes, sad.
I Won't Share You -- this can be transferred to an especially sad moment for all fans- the Smiths breakup.

There are really too many to mention; even recent material like FOTGTD describes the murder of a young Mexican punk. A better list might be "Morrissey's Top Twenty Sad Songs". What arguments could we have about that?

I like it when either of those songs come up in my playlist while driving. So I can sing I pretend to feel sad:)

My favorite sad one. Especially the guitar. It reminds me of a special kind of sadness.

Like, when everything looks grey with a green tone. 70s style. And it's cold outside with alot of sunshine, you woke up too early and nobody is awake yet. So you sit around the house and waste the afternoon doing bong hits and jacking off.

thats the most depressing song ever.