Woe is me

[sugarmomma]

Feelin' bad? Blue around the edges? Your girlfriend cheated on you with your dog *and* took your truck away?

Need a soundtrack for your pitiful, misery-filled life?

Brits to the rescue!!!

Here's a list of top 25 miserable songs from The Guardian. Honestly, read it

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[sugarmomma]

Um, I realized I can make a whole list just using Ani songs. How sadly folk-lesbian is that of me?

"Welcome to:"
(A song that opens with
"welcome to:
no amount of stoned makes you feel ok
welcome to:
this year's alone - brought to you by christmas day
welcome to:
the darkness into which prayin people pray" kinda has no way to go but up. Or so you'd think.)

"Bodily"
(from that bomb shell moon in yet another lovely dress
to the deep mahogany sheen of a roach
i am trying to take an appreciative approach
to life in your wake
i focus on the quiet now
and occasionally i'll fall asleep somehow
and emptiness has its solace
in that there's nothing left to take)

"I Know This Bar"
(This is an odd one - it's a snapshot of a place, a time - an old familiarity's tug you can't escape, even though you're so glad you're not at that place, that time anymore. Or maybe I just only get to listen to it after I've had that fifth, maudlin beer.
i know this song
with this one really killer line
i don't remember it exactly
but it slays me everytime
it's on the jukebox there
i know it's number 5403
go put that song on for me won't you
and make gracie think of me)

"So What?"
(who's gonna give a shit

who's gonna take the call
when you find out that the road ahead
is painted on a wall
and you're turned up to top volume
and you're just sitting there in pause
with your feral little secret
scratching at you with its claws
and you're trying hard to figure out
just exactly how you feel
before you end up parked and sobbing
forehead on the steering wheel)

"School Night"
(Cheating Ani! Redux!

and she said:
you are a miracle but that is not all
you are also a stiff drink and i am on call
you are a party and i am a school night
and i'm lookin' for my door key
but you are my porch light

and you'll never know, dear
just how much i loved you
you'll probably think this was
just my big excuse
but i stand committed
to a love that came before you
and the fact that i adore you
is but one of my truths
)

"She Says"
(My very first lesbian song (Etheridge don't count)

i feel her eyes watching me
from behind the curtain of her hair
and she says i'm sorry
i didn't mean to stare
i say i think i really have to go now
but oh baby, maybe someday, maybe somehow

"Rock Paper Scissors"
(An angry sad song - gotta love it

i think i could accept all these dark colors
as just part of some bigger color scheme
if it wasn't for that drippy string quartet of sadness
underscoring each smiling scene
desire drags me right out of myself
a gas-soaked rope tied to a piece of coal
and i'm getting pretty good at looking at the bright side
while the flames rip along the sand and swallow me whole

"Grey"
(Honestly, you know, she's not suicidal. At least not successfully so.

regretfully
i guess i've only got three
simple things to say:
why me?
why this now?
why this way?
with overtones ringing
and undertows pulling away
under a sky that is grey
on sand that is grey
by an ocean that's grey)