Why
do songs filled with misery rate so highly in popular opinion?
There's
Adam's Song,
Last Kiss (currently in the charts as recorded by
Pearl
Jam) about a fatal car accident, and slightly less recently
Macy Grey's
Still Light Up, a song about domestic violence and a woman's longing to be with her abusive lover.
And people say the
songs are "good." Not the tunes, but the songs themselves.
You know, if I hear
Adam's Song too many more times in the next few days I really might throw my radio out my window.
It's been 10 weeks since my
brother's suicide, and only now is it
beginning to hurt.
Mt brother was listening to this song while he was dying - although I'm not sure whether he was listening to it with his ears or only with his mind - and at that point I had never heard it played. Not once.
In the last two days my radio station has played Adam's Song approximately seven hundred thousand times. Well, more than a dozen times really, but it
feels like so many more.
I don't blame the song for his death any more than I blame the religion he had become involved with, but I
do blame the song for making me unnecessarily unhappy in the aftermath.