Deer Tick, “The Dream’s in the Ditch” For: The world you can’t escape. The narrator is a person who’s significant other didn’t seem to accept or understand why her “love songs were always the grieving kind.” Gibson sings, “hurry up and lose me, hurry up and find me again” but the song leaves her wandering through a deserted town looking for somebody that might have already left.
Self-described as “Pop Soul Motown Indie,” Empty Houses has a song for the one you can’t quite forget just yet. For a group of people obsessed with immortality, pop stars sure do sing a lot of songs about death. And while we all try to live our lives with as few as possible, here are 10 of the most intense songs to help you deal with different regrets. It's a deliciously rich topic ripe for all kinds of songs: From murder ballads and tender tributes to nihilistic hip-hop jams, there’s a killer canon of timeless tunes inspired by the Grim Reaper. This is a song with defiant bitterness. The song’s saxophone and trumpet add a certain flair, too.
Yet, East’s voice has some blues tones with country inflection and a rock-and-roll swagger, which makes “Find ‘Em, Fool ‘Em and Forget ‘Em” less depressed. Christian Lee Hutson’s twangy voice is full of strained, pained, extended vowels and supported by a guitars, drums, a bass, a tambourine and some lightly harmonized vocals. In it, a playboy father warns his song that the most efficient way to deal with women is, “find them, fool them, forget them” is. It’s a decision you made, but maybe shouldn’t have. What follows are 20 of the finest songs about death, kicking the bucket, biting the dust, buying the farm, and catching the last train for the coast. As chorus rolls on—”I truly understand that you love another man”—the whole song a delightful lament for the one that moved on. May these morbid faves live on forever. Billboard is a subsidiary of Prometheus Global Media, LLC. There are some vague references to a girl, and heavy imagery about passing lights and shadows that “scrape the ceiling.” The smooth drumbeat moves it along with an easy relentlessness in a way that seems to magically represent all of the small, nameless regrets. The Biz premium subscriber content has moved to Billboard.com/business.To simplify subscriber access, we have temporarily disabled the password requirement. Jimi Hendrix, "Hey Joe" Say what you will about Joe, the dude who blasts his cheating lady in this … This is a restless song about a … But it’s James’ passion that makes “Damn Your Eyes” a song about that regret that you sometimes enjoy sometimes.This is a restless song about a person that couldn’t get a good grip on their goals or dreams. She sings things like, “you tell me lies” and “you make it sound so good.” It’s maybe not the healthiest relationship, but it’s not easy to let go of the illusions. Frontman John McCauley hollers lines like, “Get over it kid, you don’t want any part of this” before arriving at the titular line, “the dream’s in the ditch.” But this version, with its simple two guitar acoustic setup and folkier vocals, makes for an easy listening soundtrack to regret. The singer doesn’t take this advice to heart and now he’s left with regrets from getting too emotionally attached. Maybe it's not that surprising. This version of The Heirs’ “Lies” has Savannah Hudson singing and her brother Brandon on guitar and providing supporting vocals. The brass section reinforces the message. Love him or fear him, the dude's coming -- might as well write about him. The chorus repeats, “you don’t want me, I’ll be on my own” as the rest of song laments all the things “we once said.” The protagonist is asking for another shot, but unless that happens, he’ll just stay on his own. Laura Gibson’s vulnerable voice and lightly plucked guitar help encapsulate a song about a relationship that that may have always been a little doomed. Savannah’s voice is breathy, but smooth as she returns to the line “I live for this, I live for you.” This is a song for general and pervasive regret. Adam Mercer and David Mackinder bring a Casio keyboard and a light guitar riff to Ali Shea’s smooth vocals. It talks about a broad and general regret for the life you got stuck in. This acoustic version is an easy-listening song of regret for loss and requests an old lover for another shot. That malleable sentiment takes form in any number of ways. He tries to convince her otherwise, but apparently it didn’t work out so well.Cavemen’s “On My Own,” is a song that regrets “the things that we once had,” that are now gone. This song talks about an attachment to a person that says all the right things, even if they might not be true.