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what's the SADDEST line in a song


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I can't pin it down to one single line, but The Replacements' "Here Comes a Regular" is, start-to-finish, the song that makes me saddest:

 

 

Well, a person can work up a mean mean thirst

After a hard day of nothin' much at all

Summer's past, it's too late to cut the grass

There ain't much to rake anyway in the fall

 

Sometimes I just ain't in the mood

To take my place in back with the loudmouths

You're like a picture on a fridge that's never stocked with food,

I used to live at home, now I stay at the house

 

And everybody wants to be special here

They call your name out loud and clear

Here comes a regular, call out your name

Here comes a regular, Am I the only one here today

 

Well a drinking buddy that's bound to another town

Once the police made you go away

And even if you're in the arms of someone's baby now

I drink a great big whiskey to you anyway

And everybody wants to be someone's here

Someone's gonna show up never fear

 

Here comes a regular, call out your name

Here comes a regular, Am I the only one who feels ashamed

 

And even alongside old sad eyes, who says

"Opportunity knocks once then the door slams shut"

All I know is that I'm sick of everything that my money can buy

A fool who wastes his life god rests his guts

 

First the lights, and the collar goes up,and the wind begins to blow

You turn our back on a pay-you-back last call

First the plants, the leaves, the grass and here comes the snow

There ain't much to rake here anyway in the fall

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Doesn't get any sadder... :cry:

 


I'm sitting alone on a Saturday night, watching the late, late show

A bottle of wine, some cigarettes, I got no place to go

Well I saw your other man today, he was wearing my brand new shoes

And I'm down to seeds and stems again too


Well I met my old friend Bob today, from up in Bowling Green

He had the prettiest little gal, that I'd ever seen

But I couldn't hide my tears at all, 'cause she looked just like you

And I'm down to seeds and stems again too


Now everybody tells me, that there's other ways to get high

They don't seem to understand, I'm too far gone to try

Now these lonely memories, there all that I can do

And I'm down to seeds and stems again too


Oh, my dog died just yesterday, left me all alone

The finance company dropped by today, and repossessed my home

That's just a drop in the bucket, compared to losing you

And I'm down to seeds and stems again too

Got the down to seeds and stems again blues

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