SAD SONG WEDNESDAY

I've been reading some fresh blogs lately, and I like to see a regular feature on a blog.

My totally favourite one is called ROOT SHOOT MARRY and can be found here. I am completely jealous I didn't think of this idea, it's a pearler.

Anyhow, I'd like to do a regular feature on this blog and it shall be hereafter known as:

SAD SONG WEDNESDAY


I love me a sad song. A sad song with a brilliant acid lyric, my favourite.


I'll tell you a little story. When I was about 22 I was in love. He was in love with me too, just not as much as I was with him. It was the kind of love that whenever he was with me, my chemical make-up changed. He made me laugh, there were indoor fireworks, and ultimately it was doomed. The relationship died a slow agonising painful death, not helped at all by my own inability to let go.

But, even when we were on the rocks, we pretended we could be grown up about it. Well I pretended, he probably just didn't give a shit. We went to a Billy Bragg concert at the Coogee Bay Hotel right at the death, with another couple who brought with them a friend. A tall statuesque incredibly beautiful eighteen year old journalism studying friend. Who appeared to be no stranger to my boyfriend.

As the awful truth dawned on me during that concert, I stood listening to Billy Bragg sing about unionism, socialism, sexuality and love gone bad. When he finally got to 'the price I pay' I just stood there, alone among hundreds, with fat warm tears streaming uncontrollably down my face. No sobbing, no hysterics, just deep deep sadness.

Strangely, he noticed (the boyfriend, not Billy Bragg) and stood behind me, with his arms around me. It wasn't symbolic of a future, more a mourning of the past.

Anyhow, I can still feel the pain when I hear that song.

Billy Bragg The Price I Pay lyrics

My friend said she could see no way ahead
And I was probably better off without you
She said to face up to the fact that you weren't coming back
And she could make me happy like you used to
But I'm sorry to say I turned her away
Knowing everything she said was true
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
There's something inside that hurts my foolish pride
To visit the places we used to go together
Not a day goes by that I don't sit and wonder why
Your feelings for me didn't last forever
Girl I love you so much that sometimes it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
So keep that phone out of my way for the things I must say
Are empty if you don't believe they're true
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
That's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do
I love you so much that baby it's such
I'd walk a mile with a stone in my shoe
And that's the price I pay for loving you the way that I do


What's the saddest song you've ever heard? The song that pulled at your heartstrings and made you feel either sorry for yourself, sorry for the songwriter or sorry for the person being writen about? The first song that made you cry?

I invite you to share your sad song on your blog or in the comments here on SAD SONG WEDNESDAY