Wrist Slashing Songs

[mossy]

Who Knows Where the Time Goes by Sandy Denny (the solo version by Sandy)

(Just thinking about this song puts a lump on my throat. I have listened to it on wrist slashing occasions and gotten good and morose. In and of itself it's just sheer beauty in music)

Across the purple sky, all the birds are leaving
But how can they know it's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire, I will still be dreaming
I have no thought of time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad, deserted shore, your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know it's time for them to go
But I will still be here, I have no thought of leaving
I do not count the time

For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone while my love is near me
I know it will be so until it's time to go
So come the storms of winter and then the birds in spring again
I do not fear the time

For who knows how my love grows?
And who knows where the time goes?

[Rick and Roll]

There are so many....

I know I'm forgetting a bunch, but anything by the Smiths...of course it's mitigated by that light-hearted delivery.

Canto IV by Discipline always gets me..."How could there possibly be no room up there for me".

Been listening to Roine's "Wall Street Voodoo". That will depress you for days. Coincidentally, I've been listening to Joni Mitchell's Turbulent Indigo. Roine does a version of "Sex Kills", which is on that record, and a hard-hitting depressing number. The first song on TI is "Sunny Sunday", which is about a woman to tries to shoot a street light out and misses every day. Her idea is to leave when she finally hits it. It's a metaphor for futility and hopelessness. Mossy hit the nail on the head with her post. I've always felt that wasting time and just letting your life fly by is the most depressing thing of all. That and feeling trapped. Those are the songs that really hit me.

Something like Ambrosia's "Holdin' On to Yesterday"......

Now where's Terry Jacks or the "Shannon" song when you need it?

GREAT thread Joe.