Which song is most melancholic ever?

@CSKA_Moscou said in #24:

because of the theory, singing in a key with more flats or sharps requires a certain effort to remember the accidentals (that's by learning by heart) and the accuracy of the note in relation to the sound spectrum - a natural shift of a quarter tone is quite imperceptible, but imagine that this shift occurs during a phrase, and it can have a bad effect. This is why keys with a lot of flats or sharps are particularly feared by singers, wind instrumentalists, and even bowed string instruments.

Thanks, I didn't know that.

how about the portuguese ' fado '
which is more than a music category but a mentality and lifestyle...
...is it really 'melancholic' or isn't it too dark, dreadful, whining, sorrowful, morbid(??), - all in all fully lacking the moderate sweetness, that faint smile, that lies in 'melancholy' ?
idk, is it a candidate?

Off the top of my head, probably this one. It's "can't you see" by the Marshall tucker band.

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=dlc6xCPx60U

I swear there is this edit song in Russian that looks like “Kamin” in English

This is the only one I can think of at the moment https://youtu.be/WR8C7qwmurA?si=bGLuLy0oeqk9KPqM

I remembered another one https://youtu.be/pY8oa8XS3ko?si=zyxWmYERyard-Avi

An old man, scarred by life, looks back.

This song was originally by the band "Nine Inch Nails," whose frontman Trent Reznor wrote the lyrics.
Cash reinterpreted the song a year before his death in 2003. Reznor was so honored that Cash, one of the greatest singers and songwriters of all time, covered one of his songs that this fact meant more to him than all the Grammys.

Johnny Cash - Hurt
https://youtu.be/8AHCfZTRGiI

There are naturally lots of melancholy blues songs:

https://youtu.be/XQ2AuLaClmk?feature=shared

How abt let me down slowly by Alec Benjamin

This song defines melancholy.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kHJUj7UBIuo&pp=ygUVdGhlIHJlbmVnYWRlcyBtYXRlbG90