saddest vs. merriest

the saddest songs:

KING CRIMSON epithaph

VDGG house with no door

PH this side of the looking glass

the merriest songs:

GENESIS all in a mouse's night

YES lighting strikes

SUPERTRAMP dreamer

Harold the barrel - a merry tune with a sad text?

saddest? Yes "turn of the century"

merriest: Jethro Tull "Mayhem Maybe"

Not prog, but very sad:

World I Know - Collective Soul

Saddest:

"Seasons End" - Marillion.

"Comfortably Numb"- Pink Floyd.

"Epitaph" - King Crimson.

Merriest:

"I Know What I Like" -Genesis.

Kansas had a lot of sad songs, including Dust in the Wind which is an ode to pessimism, but I specially remember Closet Chronicles a very sad but extremely beautiful track.

Once carried through the current
And being swept away
The king is in the closet
He's hiding from today
And though he owns all fortunes
This room is where he'll stay
And his world is filled with darkness, turning grey

Gazing out the window
Of the 42nd second floor
He is separate from all others
No one knocks upon his door
And it might as well be raining 'cause the sunlight hurts his eyes
And his ears will never hear the children's cries

Once proud and full of passion
He fought the cause of man
Many people loved his courage
Many followed his command
He changed the old into the new
And the course of things to come
And then one day they noticed he was gone

At first it didn't matter
Nobody seemed to care
They all became too busy
To find him anywhere do no one knew hot even him

The problems he would find
On the day he journeyed deep into his mind

I close my eyes I go far away
Away from this battlefield
In my dreams well here I will enjoy it
Where innocence plays with all the laughing children
The kind who are crying right now
A taste of freedom from the pain
Of everything here I see
Life is sweet but I took it all for granted
And now I don't know if I could even tell you
Just what we permit, we allow

Allow me to forget the life I've made my own
I've held this nation in my hand
And yet it's not my home
Allow me just one answer just one reason why
Why this refugee of the family of man must die
Tell me why

Daydreams filled his nighttimes
And night dreams filled his days
Confusion and uncertainty
A puzzled mind of haze
You thought he was so powerful
And set upon his ways
Well he left us all to travel through this maze

I heard the king was dying
I heard the king was dead
And with him died the chronicles
That no one ever read
The closet's fully empty now
It's occupied by none
I'll draw the drapes now destiny is done.

Iván

Further to my previous post giving my favourite merriest tracks, the saddest have got to be almost the entire album "Lightbulb Sun" by PORCUPINE TREE. Tracks such as "Russia On Ice", "Hatesong", "How Is Your Life Today?", "Shesmovedon", "Where We Would Be" and finally the miserable "Feel So Low" are soooo depressing.