Music Meme - Day 03
Day 01 - A favorite song
Day 02 - A song that makes you happy
Day 03 - A song that makes you sad
Ouch, you guys. This one literally killed me. Not just the song, but the requirement. Because the problem with listening to songs that make you sad is, duh, you get sad. This song tore my heart out when I first heard it. I fell in love with Our Lady Peace--hard--in college, and Clumsy is still my favorite album of theirs. This song, about only realizing too late that you gave a shit about someone you thought you hated, brings up my every anxiety about death and regret ever. Because I'm a sap. And because I know that if my worst enemy apologized to me post-mortem, I'd totally forgive them for anything up to and including, like, killing my puppy. (THANK GOD I DO NOT HAVE A PUPPY.)
I have never actually seen the video for this song. But it makes it not better with the sad. It looks like the lead singer's smiling to keep from crying. Like his smile is so strained (probably by singing, okay, I acknowledge that much to reality) that it's going to crack. I have always loved how the lead singer's voice can go from smooth to piercing to rough in a second, and it sounds that much more raw on this track. Brilliant, painful stuff.
I almost went with The Cure's "There Is No If," which is a total tear-jerker about a dying man reminiscing about how he first told his lover that he loved her and repeating the same words to her as he's dying. And how she's in so much pain because she, quite literally, said that if he were to die, so would she. GAH, okay, have to stop, gonna cry now. ::takes deep breath::
The other one I considered was Ben Folds' "Brick," which breaks me with its small-scale human tragedy. One bad development spoils a love to which the singer was just fully opening up to. The really touching piece is that he won't let her go even though the abortion is driving a physical and emotional wedge between them. He's trying, but he can't fix it, and he totally breaks down. Breaks me, too.
Day 02 - A song that makes you happy
Day 03 - A song that makes you sad
Click to viewOuch, you guys. This one literally killed me. Not just the song, but the requirement. Because the problem with listening to songs that make you sad is, duh, you get sad. This song tore my heart out when I first heard it. I fell in love with Our Lady Peace--hard--in college, and Clumsy is still my favorite album of theirs. This song, about only realizing too late that you gave a shit about someone you thought you hated, brings up my every anxiety about death and regret ever. Because I'm a sap. And because I know that if my worst enemy apologized to me post-mortem, I'd totally forgive them for anything up to and including, like, killing my puppy. (THANK GOD I DO NOT HAVE A PUPPY.)
I have never actually seen the video for this song. But it makes it not better with the sad. It looks like the lead singer's smiling to keep from crying. Like his smile is so strained (probably by singing, okay, I acknowledge that much to reality) that it's going to crack. I have always loved how the lead singer's voice can go from smooth to piercing to rough in a second, and it sounds that much more raw on this track. Brilliant, painful stuff.
I almost went with The Cure's "There Is No If," which is a total tear-jerker about a dying man reminiscing about how he first told his lover that he loved her and repeating the same words to her as he's dying. And how she's in so much pain because she, quite literally, said that if he were to die, so would she. GAH, okay, have to stop, gonna cry now. ::takes deep breath::
The other one I considered was Ben Folds' "Brick," which breaks me with its small-scale human tragedy. One bad development spoils a love to which the singer was just fully opening up to. The really touching piece is that he won't let her go even though the abortion is driving a physical and emotional wedge between them. He's trying, but he can't fix it, and he totally breaks down. Breaks me, too.