I wrote this song thinking of the line from Gotye’s Somebody That I Used to Know that goes “You can get addicted to a certain kind of sadness,” and how even so, we seek out love and connection with others.
“Like resignation to the end, always the end”
Gotye’s song is, of course, beautiful and sad, and poignant, about endings and final words to lovers beyond our reach.
As Rosalie once said of Bottle of the Blues, “This is a kind of mood.”
Perhaps the addiction is to a darker shade of sadness, one with brittle cracks, and jagged edges.
It’s about beginnings, and connection even in the midst of pain and suffering.
This is a kind of mood, and not everyone will understand.
For those who do, I’m sorry.
Lyrics here
