Music sounds better with you: 10 cheesy, sad, obvious, wistful, yearning or seasonal songs about missing someone

   

"It could rain for a thousand days
Or something i don't know
Look to the sun and we're having fun
Beside the river flow
You're doing this and you're doing that
Workin' all the time
Tonight you'll call me on the phone
You've got a worried mind"

Ween - I'll miss you
 

Where are you and I'm so sorry
I cannot sleep, I cannot dream tonight
I need somebody and always
this sick strange darkness
comes creeping on so haunting every time

  

Blink 182 - I miss you

   

I dreamed of a fever
One that would cure me of this cold, winter set heart
With heat to melt these frozen tears
And burned with reasons as to carry on
Into these twisted months I plunge without a light to follow
But I swear that I would follow anything
If it would just get me out of here

  Bright Eyes - If Winter Ends 
 

 Wait
They don't love you like I love you

 Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Maps
 

 

   I've been hanging out so long
I've been waiting on your call
Lord, I miss you

I've been sleeping all alone
I've been hanging by the phone
Want to kiss you

I've been haunted in my sleep
You've been starring in my dreams
Lord, I miss you

  

The Concretes  -  Miss You

 When life is a loop,
you're in a room
without a door.

Pick up the phone
and answer me at last.
Today I will
step out of your past.

  

The Notwist - Pick up the Phone

 
I send my love to you
I send my hands to you
I send my clothes to you
I send my nose to you
I send my trees to you
I send my pleas to you
won't you send some back to me?

  Palace Brothers - I send my love to you

 

I wish they didn't set mirrors behind the bar
cause I can't stand to look at my face
when I don't know where you are
Then the feeling fades away
but you sort of wish it would of stayed
inside... the golden days of missing you

  Silver Jews - Inside the golden days of missing you

 

Darling won't you please come home

 

Math and Physics Club - Darling, please come home
 

 They're singin' 'Deck the Halls'
But it's not like Christmas at all
I remember when you were here
And all the fun we had last year

The Raveonettes - Christmas (Baby please come home)

In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection

Choosing a favourite Silver Jews lyric is a bit like choosing a favourite jelly bean. When asked, you might reply ‘apple’, or ‘cotton candy’, or even ‘cherry’. Yet, your favourite will change the very next time you eat another.

And you listen to Silver Jews for words.

The music itself is almost incidental to the words contained within. The icing on a cake if you will. Or a dress on a pretty girl.

To say David Berman has a ‘way with words’, well, is a bit like saying the Sun has a way with heat…

I won't even begin to mention the amount of times Silver Jews were the soundtrack of something in my life. Lonely nights and early mornings. Falling in and out of love. Growing up. Dreams. Above all, dreams.

Random Rules (American Water, 1998)

"In 1984 I was hospitalized for approaching perfection"

"I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men's room walls.
Maybe I've crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls."

"I asked the painter why the roads are colored black. He said, "Steve, it's because people leave and no highway will bring them back.""

Horseleg Swastikas (Bright Flight, 2001)

"I'm drunk on a couch in Nashville
In a duplex near the reservoir.

And every single thought is like a punch in the face, I'm like a rabbit freezing on a star.

On the wrong side of Sunday morning, shattered in the terrible light. Working for a bankrupt circus, on the wrong side of Saturday night"

Pet Politics (The Natural Bridge, 1996)

"Guard my bed, while the rain turns the ditches to mirrors. By a vase of carnations from central Ohio where the looking machine can't hear us. Deep in the night we dream of positions, there's a line for the phone in the hall. And in the cold places where Spanish is spoken, most wars end in the fall"

I remember me (Bright Flight, 2001)

"Out the window, in the harbor he saw a little ship The moon was worn just slightly on the right. And they slow danced so the needle wouldn't skip, until the room was filled with light"

Inside the golden days of missing you (The Natural Bridge, 1996)

"The shattered glass cussed, and when it broke it spoke to us, it said "Hey... I know you... what's your name?" I wish they didn't set mirrors behind the bar cause I can't stand to look at my face when I don't know where you are. Then the feeling fades away but you sort of wish it would of stayed, inside...the golden days of missing you"

We are real (American Water, 1998)

"Up the hill past 694, at the stone wall make a left, and I will see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct.
Is the problem that we can't see or is it that the problem is beautiful to me?"

Trains across the Sea (Starlite Walker, 1994) "I just got back from a dream attack, that took me by surprise. And in there I met a lady, her name was Shady Sides and she said: It's been evening all day long, it's been evening all day long and how can something so old be so wrong? Sin and gravity drag me down to sleep to dream of trains across the sea, trains across the sea. Half hours on earth, what are they worth? I don't know. In twenty-seven years I drunk fifty thousand beers. And they just wash against me like the sea into a pier"

Suffering Jukebox (Lookout Mountain, Lookout Sea, 2008)

"While these seconds turn these minutes into hours of the day all these doubles drive the dollars and the light of day away"

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