Give sorrow words
The grief that does not speak
whispers the o'er-fraught heart
and bids it break
Anyway, I am listening to Perkins' It's a Sad World After All, and it's helping.
Stay if you want, there is enough
sadness for the both of us
Follow the sound to the table underground
there will be plenty tears goin' round
And I would be happy for you to stay
with me till tomorrow can be called today
In a sad world, in a sad world.
But when you leave
my powders and my teas
will speak their heads off to me
Here everyone knows their own name
in a sad world no two are the same.
"Real soon," assures the spoon,
"Watch out" says the twine
"Water, give me water,
Remember me," begs the rain
of a sad world, of a sad world.
Laugh and the world laughs with you. Cry, and iTunes has got your back. :)
For good measure, here I am crying at my sister's wedding:
4 comments:
You may be sad, but gosh-durn you're good looking!
You know, I don't think there's necessarily anything wrong with suffering. The lies depression tells us about ourselves, that's something to fight. But suffering, sadness...Jesus wept, you know, over the evil of death in the world. Why should we be happy all the time? There are, I believe, tremendous graces to be found in suffering pain patiently and with love.
So, anyway, listen to sad music. But if it lies to you, if it speaks of things that aren't true, or tells you there is no hope and no redemption, then turn it off.
in Love (and Hope)
Kate
(and Faith too, why leave the trifecta incomplete?)
"For the great gaels of Ireland
are the men that God made mad.
For all their wars are merry,
and all their songs are sad."
Did you ever learn "Grace"?
That's the clearest picture of yourself you've ever posted (I think).......and you clearly are pretty.
Glad to have you back writing, cracks and all. Says I who am currently doing a pretty good job of appearing seamless at my summer job and then get little questions like "what do you do the rest of the year?" Uh, look for work/ not much/ what the hell is the socially acceptable answer to this question?
Anyhoo glad you can engage with this stuff, instead of just running on denial like most of us try to, my more classically oriented cathartic music picks are Mozart's requiem, and Gorecki's Third symphony. Basically Gorecki tried to put 20th century Polish history into a piece of music. It's beautiful, but sad. Sorry I won't see you at Yearly, keep fighting the good fight.
I love myself some Elvis Perkins. Are you familiar with The Innocence Mission? I think you'd really enjoy them.
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