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Melancholy songs

Amelia

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This song was sweet when I was in my 20's, still a pleasure in my 30's ... but in my 50's ... it's a bit chilling. :) Actually, I'll still hum it to myself around the house, but I'm a bit shy of singing it when my husband is at home. I'm afraid he'll get depressed about disappeared dreams.


 
Another favorite which gets a little colder with age ....


 
Another that gets to me every time that I hear it...

 


A song that gets me about realizing that your way of life is gone and never coming back.
 
This song turns me into a blubbering idiot.

Chorus:

Every pill I took in vain
Every meal for you I made
Every penny I put away
Asking for flowers
Is like asking you to be nice
Don't tell me you're too tired
Ten years I've been working nights

 
No doubt, there are countless songs about the affects of losing the love of one's life...





 
You want melancholy?
Can't beat this ...

 
All the years combine, they melt into a dream,
A broken angel sings from a guitar.
In the end there's just a song comes cryin' up the night
Thru all the broken dreams and vanished years.
Stella blue. Stella blue.

When all the cards are down, there's nothing left to see,
There's just the pavement left and broken dreams.

In the end there's still that song comes cryin' like the wind.
Down every lonely street that's ever been
Stella blue. Stella blue.

I've stayed in every blue-light cheap hotel, can't win for trying.
Dust off those rusty strings just one more time,
Gonna make them shine, shine

It all rolls into one and nothing comes for free,
There's nothing you can hold, for very long.
And when you hear that song come crying like the wind,
It seems like all this life was just a dream.
Stella blue. Stella blue.

If that opening verse don't suck you right in, I don't know what to say!


 
Nilsson is so damn good!

(so I'll seque with this)


 


“.......from the moment I could talk, I was ordered to listen.”

Family lore has it that my maternal grandfather, a veteran of both world wars, told me, “Now that you can talk, shut the hell up!” I was too young to remember.......:mrgreen:
 


Johnny Cash doing a Nine Inch Nails song seems to hit the spot for me.
 
Assorted ....








 
Songs that start that way but describe ending it...





 
Bookends with tttwt’s “Stay”

 


‘Dance Me To The End Of Love’ … it’s curious how songs begin because the origin of the song, every song, has a kind of grain or seed that somebody hands you or the world hands you and that’s why the process is so mysterious about writing a song. But that came from just hearing or reading or knowing that in the death camps, beside the crematoria, in certain of the death camps, a string quartet was pressed into performance while this horror was going on, those were the people whose fate was this horror also. And they would be playing classical music while their fellow prisoners were being killed and burnt. So, that music, ‘Dance me to your beauty with a burning violin,’ meaning the beauty there of being the consummation of life, the end of this existence and of the passionate element in that consummation. But, it is the same language that we use for surrender to the beloved, so that the song — it’s not important that anybody knows the genesis of it, because if the language comes from that passionate resource, it will be able to embrace all passionate activity. -- Leonard Cohen
 


 
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