Sad Songs

I was looking over my Top 25 played songs on itunes and it revealed something to me that i think i already knew. I prefer sad, or at least meloncholy, songs. Is anyone else this way? Is there just more artistic beauty in sadness? Do sad movies touch us more than movies with a happy ending? I think it must either be more difficult to write a good, meaningful, happy song...

Or maybe we just feel the need to express sad feelings through art, where as happy feelings can be expressed elsewhere?

I dunno. Im open to ideas. One thing i do know, this is the saddest song of the 17,751 currently nestled in my itunes:

Over The Rhine - Snow Angel

Seriously, i cannot listen to this song without getting teary eyed. If you have not heard it, let me know ill send a copy your way. Its good to get out the tears. Karen does a wonderful job on this one...