I shall go and seek a sad song and post the lyrics ...yes I know ..anything for you though

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A sad song that WONT make it better...

This anthemic track by The Red House Painters is to the Sadcore genre what "Stairway to Heaven" and "Freebird" are to Classic and Southern Rock respectively.

Medicine Bottle
giving into love and sharing my time
letting someone into my misery
i told it all step by step
how i landed on the island
and how i swam across the sea
and it crosses my mind
that i may wake to a knife in me
no more breath in my hair
or ladies' underwear
tossed up over the alarm clock
blood dripping from the bed
to a neatly written poem
a heartfelt last line reading
there is no more mystery
it it going to happen my love

it's all in your head she said
morning after nightmare
you're building a wall she said
higher than the both of us
so try living life
instead of hiding in the bedroom
show me a smile
and i'll promise not to leave you

it happened under a rainy cloud
passing through the dark south
we went into a big house
and slept in a small bed
i didn't know you then
as well as you of me
we talked of our sad lives
and we went off separately
i found your overseas souvenirs
holiday greeting cards
and some long forgotten high school fears
it's all in my head i said
banging a piano
i've not been so alone i thought
since kicking in the womb
i drank so much tea
i wrote my letters in kanji
around the block i walked and walked
pretending you were with me
not wanting to die out here
without you

the hurting never ends
like birthdays and old friends
we forget what is flesh blood and bone is human
turning phone lines to airlines
unwilling to face
the love is found on the inside not the outside
and like a medicine bottle
in the cabinet i'll keep you
and like a medicine bottle
in my hand i will hold you
and swallow you slowly
as to last me a lifetime
without holding too tight
i do not want to lose
the thrill that it gives me
to look out from my window
and scowl at the houses
from my world in the bedroom
it's all in my head she read
in her girlfriend's self-help book
it's all his own making
a war with himself
like two sides of a wall
that separates two countries
he shuts out the world
and wants only to love you

not wanting to die out here
without you




Download "Medicine Bottle" Here.
 
Re: A sad song that WONT make it better...

Perhaps, my favorite Red House Painters verse would have to be the last one from "Katy Song":

a chance for calm
a hope for freedom
outlet from my cold solitary kingdom
by the forest of our spring stay
where you walked away
and left a bleeding part of me
empty and bothered
watching the water
quiet in the corner
numb and falling through
without you what does my life amount to?

And then there is the song "Evil":

Evil
sad reminders of
what seems years ago
warm southern sun shines through
station wagon windows
like solar energy
and when in the night
your brother turned to me and said,
"god, do you look evil in the dark"

that made me feel good

sad reminders of
midwest winter snow
cold catholic church
heaven in stained glass windows
like rock candy
and when on sunday
their daughter turned at me and said,
"mom and dad, is it a boy or a girl"
"mom and dad, is it a he or a she"

that made me feel good
 
Re: A sad song that WONT make it better...

>Problem here is.
I don't know the tune.
Nothing makes sense without a tune to bring the lyrics alive.
Sorry Cod, my posting will be much more frivolous, you know, one of those sad old songs that everyone can sing along too..

Mums, Dads, Grandmas and Grandads....

Haven'e found one sad enough yet though.

Perhaps, my favorite Red House Painters verse would have to be the last
> one from "Katy Song":

> a chance for calm
> a hope for freedom
> outlet from my cold solitary kingdom
> by the forest of our spring stay
> where you walked away
> and left a bleeding part of me
> empty and bothered
> watching the water
> quiet in the corner
> numb and falling through
> without you what does my life amount to?

> And then there is the song "Evil":

> Evil
> sad reminders of
> what seems years ago
> warm southern sun shines through
> station wagon windows
> like solar energy
> and when in the night
> your brother turned to me and said,
> "god, do you look evil in the dark"

> that made me feel good

> sad reminders of
> midwest winter snow
> cold catholic church
> heaven in stained glass windows
> like rock candy
> and when on sunday
> their daughter turned at me and said,
> "mom and dad, is it a boy or a girl"
> "mom and dad, is it a he or a she"

> that made me feel good
 
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