The saddest song

[Macfan4life]

Originally Posted by DownOnRodeo

I agree with MrScarrott's pick for a very sad Chris song: Over and Over. You get the sense that it's never gone right for the song's hapless protagonist and never will. Chris's voice and lyrics are gut-wrenching and haunting. The coda is like a descent into madness. The live version even gears toward angry.

Never Make Me Cry has sad music and aching vocals but as Macfan says it's there in the title: she ain't crying. (Unless the lyric is meant to be ironic?)

Saddest Stevie FM album song for me would be Illume (the latter with a big dose of scared along with the sad). (Goodbye Baby is a good option but has a bit too much optimism.)
Hard to choose the saddest Lindsey one because he is often defending that emotion with layers of irony and aggression (and, depending on the version, jauntiness) instead. Say Goodbye, NGBA, and GYOW should be sad but are instead triumphant and angry. Solo Lindsey exposes his hurt more vulnerably; Go Insane and Street of Dreams would have to be his saddest, though he gets worked up into an angry frenzy in some parts or versions of both, and the former's album music is a jaunty affair that obscures the slit-your-wrists situation being conveyed in the lyrics.

Pre-Rumours:
"Why" is a tear-jerker but it's full of hope. It's all there spelled out in the lyrics and backed by the upswelling, confident music.
"Man of the World" is a great contender but it's also hard to feel too sorry for this guy who is humble-bragging about his globe-trotting material successes. "Albatross" to me is very sad (I think of it as a good song for a funeral service), but it is also transcending and uplifting in its way.

Yes. I think Never Make Me Cry is a pure love anthem in very typical McVie style professing her love for a man but she knows he has infidelity issues or some other issue that hurts her. She is far more direct in this song telling the man "go and do what you want, I know that you have the need" "I may not mean everything but I'm happy to have your love"
She is so direct. She is in such love she's willing to look the other way. Its not a Say You Love me song "if you use me again it will be the end of me" She's telling him, its ok, I love you so much. It wont make me cry and guess what? I wont hound you and make you cry about it either.
I am guessing this song is about Dennis who was a complete psycho. She also wrote Only Over You and Ask Anybody about him. Those songs also have this thread of you are such a bad guy but I love you so much I dont care what anyone says or what you do. I am loyal to you. One More Lonely Night is another such song. In any other woman, the lyrics would be a metaphor. But Chris wrote like this her entire career. She always seemed to fall for a bad guy or someone that did not treat her right all the time. She apparently made peace about it with herself. She ends the song, "Don't worry baby, I'll me alright You'll never make me cry"
I cant imagine a love so strong that she loves him so much that no matter what he does, she will never cry about it.