"La Tristesse Durera (Scream to a Sigh)" is the second single to be released from the gold selling album Gold Against the Soul by the Welsh rock band Manic Street Preachers. It was released on 26 July 1993 and reached number 22 in UK charts on 31 July 1993. The song's title is taken from the last words of Vincent van Gogh, loosely translated as "the sadness persists". However, the lyrics are written from the perspective of a war veteran, containing the line "wheeled out once a year, a cenotaph souvenir" and tracking the bathetic progress of the former soldier's war medal: "It sells at market stalls/ Parades Milan catwalks".
The B-side, "Patrick Bateman", is a 'tribute' to the American Psycho character. "La Tristesse Durera" also made an appearance as track number four on Forever Delayed (28 October 2002), the Manics' greatest hits album, which entered the UK album chart at number 4 on 9 November 2002