this is the saddest song I’ve got

As my pal Caitlin mentioned over on her page, she and I got into a conversation about depressing music — and her recommendations have been posted for your reading pleasure. Or sorrow, as the case may be. I realize that creating a definitive list would be an exercise in futility that would lead to internet bickering through all the years to come; and I furthermore realize that some of the songs I’d choose aren’t necessarily regarded as Grade A tear-jerkers by all and sundry.

I shall consider it a