Loreena McKennitt: The Highwayman

A to Z Challenge 2015: Universal Concepts: S is for Sad Songs

Sad songs: we love them, but we hope we never have to live them.

I'm one of the lucky few who have had a romance that has lasted since my teen years up into my middle years and is still going strong. Most early romances lead to heartbreak, and that's the sad truth.

Listening to and singing sad songs can be cathartic. Sing and cry, if that's what you need to do. Write a sad song or poem of your own. Don't be ashamed! Let your feelings show.

~DJ Sadie~

Linkin Park: She Coudn't

Beautiful deep cut from Linkin Park with this melancholy power  ballad.

~DJ Spectra~

Ron Pope: A Drop In the Ocean

Hello friends, DJ Helena suggested this beautiful and sad song for inspiring my NaNo writing here in the wee hours. I chose the version with the scene from the good ole Vampire Diaries, which is a favorite among our Undead in the Netherworld/KHEL 666 Krew!

In one of my previous posts I mentioned that I was contemplating creating a romantic relationship or proto-romance between two of my characters. As I wrote, I decided to challenge myself by creating a romance between two of the female characters who seemed to be drawing close.

It's easy for me as a straight person to write a straight romance, and I also find it relatively easy to write an authentic romance between two male characters. I wanted to write a romance between two female characters which seemed true and respectful and did not become some sort of lurid lezsploitation scene for the straight male gaze as such scenarios unfortunately so often seem to.

Given the challenges that homosexuals, both male and female, still face even in modern times, I thought it seemed realistic that at some point one or both of the characters would face difficulty acknowledging her true feelings. This song expresses that. Will they be able to resolve their problems? I'll admit that I'm a soft touch, but sometimes it seems more in keeping with the personalities of the characters for heartache to be the end result. We shall see!

XOXO,

DJ Tempest

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Rainbow Eyes

This is kind of an unorthodox use of the Blue Monday prompt. Blue is a color of the rainbow, and this is a melancholy (hence, blue) song.

~DJ Petra~

The Pierces: It Will Not Be Forgotten

A to Z Blogging Challenge: S is for Sad Songs

 

A to Z Blogging Challenge:

S is for Sad Songs

by

DJ Tempest

 

Sad songs: pretty much without exception we've all hummed them. We've sung them in the shower as tears ran down our face (well, at least I have.) We've belted 'em out while driving along a back road, half thinking of running over the one who made us feel this way and half wishing we could be back with them no matter how horrible they were to us.

This song by Portuguese musician David Fonseca is the quintessential sad song. He sings about wasting love on someone who can't love him back, advises himself not to waste his tears. And yet it can't be helped. The song must be sung--sometimes many times over--before the healing can begin.

 

If you must sing a sad song, may it help you heal.

 

Peace,

DJ Tempest

Beck: Guess I'm Doing Fine

 

There's a blue bird at the window
I can't hear the songs he sings
All the jewels in heaven
They don't look the same to me

I just wade the tides that turned
'Till I learn to leave the past behind

It's only lies that I'm living
It's only tears that I'm crying
It's only you that I'm losing...
Guess I'm doing fine

All the battlements are empty
And the moon is laying low
Yellow roses in the graveyard
Got no time to watch them grow

Now I bade a friend farewell
I can do whatever pleases me

It's only lies that I'm living
It's only tears that I'm crying
It's only you that I'm losing...
Guess I'm doing fine

Press my face up to the window
To see how warm it is inside
See the things that Ive been missing...
Missing all this time

It's only lies that I'm living
It's only tears that I'm crying
It's only you that I'm losing...
Guess I'm doing fine

Guess I'm doing fine.

Pink: Family Portrait

Rainbow Eyes

Love my man Ronnie and love this song. Now I'm gonna get all weepy.