I’m back with more sad songs.
For context, I am forgoing food this morning, filling my stomach instead with boiling hot caramel tea – doctor’s orders.
Let that guide your reading experience.
“Make Them Hear You” from Ragtime
Go out and tell our story
Let it echo far and wide
Make them hear you
Make them hear you
How justice was our battle
And how justice was denied
Make them hear you
Make them hear you
And say to those who blame us
For the way we chose to fight,
That sometimes there are battles
That are more than black or white
“Wreak Havoc” by Skylar Grey
I can smell your fear
The only reason that I’m here
Is to wreak havoc
Everybody prayin’ that I’ll change, yeah
Maybe one day but tomorrow I’ll be back at it
“Make Up Your Mind/Catch Me I’m Falling” from Next to Normal
Make up your mind that you’re strong enough
Make up your mind
Let the truth be revealed
Admit what you’ve lost
And live with the cost
At times it does hurt to be healed
Catch me, I’m falling
“Everything is Alright” by Motion City Soundtrack
Give me a reason to end this discussion
To break with tradition, to fall and divide
So let’s not get carried away
With the process of healing relations
I don’t want to waste your time
“Existentialism on Prom Night” by Straylight Run
Sing me anything
We’re glad for what we’ve got
Done with what we’ve lost
Our whole lives laid out right in front of us
“Black and White” by Todrick Hall & Superfruit
And I was so sure
If I gave ’em a little time
Maybe they’d ignore it
Press fast forward
But they simply pressed rewind
“This is Why We Can’t Have Nice Things” by Taylor Swift
It was so nice being friends again
There I was giving you a second chance
But you stabbed my back while shaking my hand
And therein lies the issue
Friends don’t try to trick you
Get you on the phone and mind-twist you
And so I took an axe to a mended fence
“I Go Crazy” by Orla Gartland
You look like you’ve just seen a monster
Is that what I look like to you?
Won’t somebody hold me and tell me
It’ll all work out
Say that there’s nothing
To worry about now
“Revenge Party” from Mean Girls
It’s a revenge party
A party that ends
With somebody crushed and alone
And ugly crying
“Nightmare” by Set It Off
“Let it Be” by Hayley Kiyoko
Giving baby steps a new meaning
Yeah, I’m making such a mess of my feelings
Won’t you just meet me in the middle
Where’s the love, won’t you give a little
Narrative Paradise 
I sang “Daddy’s Son” from Ragtime for a vocal course in high school … it was such an emotional song and so hard to sing because I wanted to cry the entire time.
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I FORGOT SHE BURIED HER SON ALIVE. NOOOOOO.
For some reason, “Sarah Brown Eyes” always gets me. That whole musical must be designed to make people cry.
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I know — wait, didn’t she try to but then her planned failed out? Because I think she’s singing this song to the baby she tried to bury as a confession of sorts. Either way … I was like “woah…”
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From what I remember, she buried her son alive out of desperation, he was rescued, and they were later reunited. And all that happens in the FIRST ACT.
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Man … that’s so intense eh??
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No kidding. And that’s before the police shootings and the bombing!
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