re: Post Depressing songs

Beatles-She’s Leaving Home

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How many Elliott Smith songs am I allowed to post?

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Needle in the Hay

Wonderful song, love the electric violin, but man, the lyrics and music hit hard on this one. And, surprise, Rush didn’t only do songs about wizards and sci-fi.

I don't know how there can be a more tortured artist than Sufjan. He had previous songs about being abandoned by his mother, but this one just hits hard. He finally came out of the closet by dedicating Javelin to his husband who died. This one was clearly written while he was withering away.

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So you are tired of us
So rest your head
Turning back 14 years
Of what I did and said

So you are breathing disaster
I did what I was told
But I was a man born invisible
Was it something I said or some kind of joke?

So you are tired as the sun
Are you with or without a friend?
Bring me back everything caught in your shield
Let everything else descend

So you are seething with laughter
Was it really all just a joke?
I was a man indivisible
When everything else was broke

So, you are tired of even my kiss
So go back to your den
Throwing out everything left in your field
When there was nothing left to defend

So you are dreaming of after
Was it really all just for fun?
I was the man still in love with you
When I already knew it was done

So you are tired of me
So rest your head
Turning back all that we had in our life
While I return to death

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the entire pink floyd catalogue?