30 Days Of Music - Day 4
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s2309Day 04 - A song that makes you sad
I know a LOT of sad songs. Most of my music library is sad songs (or used to be, my hard drive crashed, DAMN YOU HARD DRIVE). I'm not going to go into the sad songs that can always make me sad right now, I'm saving those for a later day of this meme, so I'll just pick a couple of random sad songs that I've been listening to lately.
one
Bittersweet Tragedy by Melanie Martinez is almost eerie in its melancholy. Melanie Martinez does this thing where she uses childlike images to convey mature themes - a carousel as a simile/metaphor for a relationship, children's toy sounds in the background of a song in which she describes mentally "killing" her ex. I am completely in love with it. Some of the lines, because of/despite the images she uses, are so wonderfully evocative. I think my favourite lines of this entire song have to be One kiss was supposed to be so sweet/But I found grapefruit in your teeth.
Sweet, boy, straight out of the movie screen
Candy hearts and chocolate dreams
I, met, my prince upon a popcorn bowl
He held my heart and let it go
Ice cream, upon a summer's day
Beginning sweetness never stays
Melting through the cracks in my hands
I guess I held on for too long
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me)
You, speak, sour lemonade to me
The bitter taste won't let me be
One, kiss, was supposed to be so sweet
But I found grapefruit in your teeth
Old, gum, is all you'll ever be to me
I spit you out and brush my teeth
Melting through the cracks in my hands
I guess I held on for too long
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me)
Enough of your bittersweet
Your sugar rots my teeth
Clogs up my arteries
Your bittersweet shares a tragedy
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with you bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me, you're right in front of me)
two
I've been going back to Christina Perri's music quite a lot lately. The Lonely is, has been, will always be the most beautiful, most elegant sad song ever (to me, at least). It has a piano accompaniment (MAJOR selling point, I love the piano so much that I'm learning how to play it), and it has Christina Perri's raw, rough, lovely voice. (sorry about all the adjectives :P).
But seriously. I love this song.
Two a.m., where do I begin?
Crying off my face again.
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed.
I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.
Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
Too afraid to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night.
But the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep.
I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.
Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
Broken pieces of
A barely breathing story
Where there once was love
Now there's only me and the lonely.
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
I know a LOT of sad songs. Most of my music library is sad songs (or used to be, my hard drive crashed, DAMN YOU HARD DRIVE). I'm not going to go into the sad songs that can always make me sad right now, I'm saving those for a later day of this meme, so I'll just pick a couple of random sad songs that I've been listening to lately.
one
Bittersweet Tragedy by Melanie Martinez is almost eerie in its melancholy. Melanie Martinez does this thing where she uses childlike images to convey mature themes - a carousel as a simile/metaphor for a relationship, children's toy sounds in the background of a song in which she describes mentally "killing" her ex. I am completely in love with it. Some of the lines, because of/despite the images she uses, are so wonderfully evocative. I think my favourite lines of this entire song have to be One kiss was supposed to be so sweet/But I found grapefruit in your teeth.
Sweet, boy, straight out of the movie screen
Candy hearts and chocolate dreams
I, met, my prince upon a popcorn bowl
He held my heart and let it go
Ice cream, upon a summer's day
Beginning sweetness never stays
Melting through the cracks in my hands
I guess I held on for too long
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me)
You, speak, sour lemonade to me
The bitter taste won't let me be
One, kiss, was supposed to be so sweet
But I found grapefruit in your teeth
Old, gum, is all you'll ever be to me
I spit you out and brush my teeth
Melting through the cracks in my hands
I guess I held on for too long
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me)
Enough of your bittersweet
Your sugar rots my teeth
Clogs up my arteries
Your bittersweet shares a tragedy
I'm done with your bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun, when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me
And I'm done with you bittersweet, bittersweet tragedy
It's no fun when I'm sitting all alone
You're right in front of me (you're right in front of me, you're right in front of me)
two
I've been going back to Christina Perri's music quite a lot lately. The Lonely is, has been, will always be the most beautiful, most elegant sad song ever (to me, at least). It has a piano accompaniment (MAJOR selling point, I love the piano so much that I'm learning how to play it), and it has Christina Perri's raw, rough, lovely voice. (sorry about all the adjectives :P).
But seriously. I love this song.
Two a.m., where do I begin?
Crying off my face again.
The silent sound of loneliness
Wants to follow me to bed.
I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.
Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
Too afraid to go inside
For the pain of one more loveless night.
But the loneliness will stay with me
And hold me till I fall asleep.
I'm a ghost of a girl that I want to be most.
I'm the shell of a girl that I used to know well.
Dancing slowly in an empty room,
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby.
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
Broken pieces of
A barely breathing story
Where there once was love
Now there's only me and the lonely.
Dancing slowly in an empty room
Can the lonely take the place of you?
I sing myself a quiet lullaby
Let you go and let the lonely in
To take my heart again.
