You know you're right - Nirvana (two months or so later Kurt Cobain topped himself) Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton The End - The Doors Mad World - Tears for Fears The entire Nebraska album - Bruce Springsteen
Truly great song and the Johny Cash video is great, but here's the cheerful lyrics:
I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
Chizz, have you actually listened to Gloomy Sunday, or are you just going by what was on QI the other day?
Mad World - Gary Jules (the Tears for Fears version is just too upbeat)
Grey Day - Madness
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Tears in Heaven - Eric Clapton
The End - The Doors
Mad World - Tears for Fears
The entire Nebraska album - Bruce Springsteen
numb,U2
Truly great song and the Johny Cash video is great, but here's the cheerful lyrics:
I hurt myself today
to see if I still feel
I focus on the pain
the only thing that's real
the needle tears a hole
the old familiar sting
try to kill it all away
but I remember everything
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
I wear this crown of thorns
upon my liar's chair
full of broken thoughts
I cannot repair
beneath the stains of time
the feelings disappear
you are someone else
I am still right here
what have I become?
my sweetest friend
everyone I know
goes away in the end
and you could have it all
my empire of dirt
I will let you down
I will make you hurt
if I could start again
a million miles away
I would keep myself
I would find a way
good shout. When the children are crying at the end oh my god pass that scalpel.
Mad World - Gary Jules (the Tears for Fears version is just too upbeat)
Grey Day - Madness
Acute Schizophrenia Paranoia blues - The Kinks
Paint it Black - The Roling Stones
Misery is a Butterfly - Blonde Redhead
In Particular - Blonde Redhead
And according to my mum the whole of Tubular Bells by Mike Oldfield
my fleeting house - tim buckley
I see a darkness - bonnie prince billy
Paint it black - Stones
Get's you angry as well, just what we need today!
Fail! Hubby thought the lyrics were 'The trucks don't work'. Always cheers me up.
But as now I dread the word 'tomorrow' I'll nominate 'There's always tomorrow' from Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer.