>no matter how dark the storm gets overhead, they say someone's watchin' from the calm at the edge
>what about us when we're down here in it?
>we gotta watch our own backs
depressive lyricism thread
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h7atSiA7nB0
>this entire song
Jane fakes a hug
She throws herself down on the rug
What's wrong
My dragging days are whipping long
I can't go on
Time chained friendless
Oh Jane let's end this
I'd tell her more my thinking
But she'd just stare back blinking
Can't find attraction hate our new house
She don't get, don't get my work
Jane's made me flirt
In fact I've met this girl, Annette
I made a pass my life's a crumbled mess
I took the girl's address
She just broke up with Paul and I think Jane knows her
Boredom crept up and found me
Temptation follows, mounts me
Our oaths our realty a good job a husband
A husband or what
Christ, Jane, I'm not, I never was
She turns spits out
We're done get out
I wanna say good luck
But I don't wanna hold you up
You bastard son of dirt
Can't picture our house without you
Two Aprils go
I'd offer all to God on high
Tell why I got this far with none for wife
This charming life I can't un-Jane me
She married Paul that fall
Aprils ago
No I won't get heavy
No don't get heavy
Keep it light and
Keep it moving
I am doing
No harm
As my world
Comes crashing down
I'll be dancing
Freaking out
Deaf, dumb, and blind
There's banging on the wall
It's 5am – I've got no sleep at all
Just thoughts of how I might
Struggle through tomorrow
Too much time in one day
Too much time to occupy
With boring thoughts
And boring moods
And boring bedtimes
Won't tell a single soul that my soul's gone
It's hard to write this song
It's all a joke
It's all been wrote down by someone who's probably dead
I might be leaving soon
I might be leaving soon
There's laughter from below
It's 1am – how could you have known?
The thoughts of silence
That had me
From going back to sleep that night
Wish I could call someone I love
To stop thinking of myself
Long look in the mirror
Just.. looks so blankly
You were right: I can't do this
I'm going crazy; it's fine by me
Now you can see
How much I've become empty
I might be leaving soon
>>74181166
you will come face to face
with that darkness and desolation
and the endless
endless
endless
endless
depression
but you are not helpless
and you are not helpless
try to beat it
try to beat it
and live through space's loneliness
>>74181619
Why does no one ever talk about Jason Molina on mu? I only ever heard about him because I decided I was going to listen to the top country albums on rym and I love his music so much.
>>74181661
I will talk to you about him endlessly
what's your favorite album? what songs cuts your deepest?
I started with Magnolia Electric Company and I never stopped loving it by I've gotten really int Didn't It Rain, Ghost Tropic, Impala, and Pyramid Electric Company too
He's a top-5 musician all time in my personal sad i don't care what you think book
>>74181768
sorry for all the typos here, I'm drunk, which is the best way to hear molina
your back ain't strong enough
for burdens doublefold
they'd crush you down
down into nothin'
being born is going blind
and buying down a thousand times
to echoes strung
on pure temptation
sorrow and solitude
these are the precious things
and the only words
that are worth rememberin'
Well you're my friend
(It's what you told me)
And can you see
(What's inside of me)
Many times
We've been out drinking
And many times
We've shared our thoughts
But did you ever, ever notice
The kind of thoughts I got
Well you know I have a love
A love for everyone I know
And you know I have a drive
To live I won't let go
But can you see it's opposition
Comes a-rising up sometimes
That it's dreadful and position
Comes blacking in my mind
And that I see a darkness
And that I see a darkness
And that I see a darkness
And that I see a darkness
And did you know how much I love you
Is a hope that somehow you you
Can save me from this darkness
Well I hope that someday, buddy
We have peace in our lives
Together or apart
Alone or with our wives
That we can stop our whoring
And pull the smiles inside
And light it up forever
And never go to sleep
My best unbeaten brother
This isn't all I see
Oh no I see a darkness
Oh no I see a darkness
Oh no I see a darkness
Oh no I see a darkness
And did you know how much I love you
Is a hope that somehow you you
Can save me from this darkness
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAriDxTeed8
>>74181835
holy shit that was an incredible song thank you
>>74181847
wow this too, I love it, thank you
>>74181768
Didn't it rain is my favorite. Blue Chicago moon is amazing to me. The quote where he repeats endless gets me every time.
>>74181980
this is a true story, on my mother's life
I was sleeping with a girl I didn't care about recently, and she stayed over a week or so ago. She asked me to play some music and I played Blue Chicago Moon, and when he repeated "endless" over and over again she burst out laughing and said she found his southern accent hilarious. It genuinely bothered me and I haven't spoken to her since.
>>74182005
I don't know if that's funny or sad... :/
>>74182005
This might just me being crazy up late, but things like that make me question if people see the entire world differently from each other. I understand that everyone has their own opinions, but I cannot comprehend how something so meaningful to me can seem stupid to someone else. Do they just not feel empathy to when they feel like they want to kill themselves, or do they not feel those feelings at all and not understand them?
>>74182085
speaking anecdotally for this particular person, she definitely understands the feeling of what it's like to want to kill yourself, but she's selfish insofar as her version of that is the only context imaginable, and she lacks empathy. It's possible she sees "the world" differently, I would argue most people do on some level, but I think mostly she lacks to ability to look outside of herself in a caring, objective way.