Sad Songs That Make You Happy

[PickelledEggs]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q3djmDFMRQQ
The song that is meant to be in memory of Lane Staley. Extremely sad, but at the same time very peaceful and happy. Perfection.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N_GPxe91hWE

And Nutshell.

[kilodelta]

Alice in Chains... I think this would go into the used to love it topic for me...

[dtq123]

"I bring unto thy, Life!"

Seriously though, let me give you some background into this song. Parsee is a character in the Touhou Game Subterranean Animism. She is a Hashihime, As described below.

After her husband left her and married another woman, the jealous and enraged Hashihime prays to the gods for revenge. A priest tells her a way: She has to dress herself in red and paint her face with the same color, her hair arranged with seven loops and crowned with a burning brazier, then spend 21 days under the Uji bridge while holding a metal rod. So deep was her rage and jealousy, that she actually did the entire process, becoming a vengeful youkai driven by jealousy that only appears in the vicinity of bridges that cross over water. She appears to loving couples, threatening to kill them both unless they break up right there and then.

In the game, Parsee is a guardian of the bridge to the next level, a lowly position. She is stuck there forever, soon to be forgotten.

Oh, and this is a remix of background music, so you might not get the feels.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FEgzd20HHYg
The general hopelessness of the song brings about a moment of reflection, as if my ears were watching my reflection in the water (if that makes sense), and makes me happy once I see what I have. Nobody wants her place, not even me, and I'm glad I don't want it.

[Sal1981]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m3SjCzA71eM

[trdsf]

Mmm, I have to go with Robert Hunter and Jerry Garcia's "Broke-down Palace".  The Dead performed it at their final California show in June, before heading to Chicago for the last three shows, and I got to hear it at the 11 April 88 show at Joe Louis Arena in Detroit.  It's very much a song about parting (and from which the name of the final mini-tour came: 'Fare Thee Well'), but it says goodbye with grace and strength and dignity.

At a show in 1984, not long after his son had died in an auto accident, Ken Kesey was at a Dead show in a seat near the stage, and they played this as a rare second encore, the whole band turning to face him when they played it.  Kesey later said, "All my life I thought art was this [he stuck a fist in the air]. But at that moment I realized that art was really this [he made a hugging motion]."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lNtW3J05AxQ

[AllPurposeAtheist]

https://youtu.be/V1Ar79f8aN8
So sad and yet happy.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

https://youtu.be/00nooOZddY4
A song about death and yet it's a happy song.