Songs Of A Sad Mind

Welcome to 'Songs Of A Sad Mind'. Come shed a tear with me... 'Songs Of A Sad Mind' is a blog that consists of music of a more melancholy/depressive/introspective nature. I post music from artists and musicians of all different styles and genres, both commercially successful, underground/obscure and everything in between. The opinions on here are all my own. If you don't like them, feel free to unfollow me... Please support the featured artists so that they can continue to make beautiful music. I do not own the rights to anything I post on here. If you're an artist/musician who would like me to take anything down from my blog, please e-mail me at : [email protected] Profile photograph by Eugène Atget.

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Ethereal dark ambient folk music from a little island in Scotland...

''...dark atmospheric folk music with lush sweeping dreamy soundscapes and Celtic-twinged instrumentation. His new album LAND OF EVERGONE strikes a balance that is intimate and soaring, peaceful and haunting, sad and quietly joyful, delicately reverberating with Murray's dreamy voice and guitar playing'' - The Sirens Sound

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Vapour Night - Godless

A weary ghost still haunts this place whispering into the breeze A Godless night we live within Once more we fail to conquer anything Was I not born unto this world? Must I not live to tell the tale? The blood it boils but the heart is weak I see everything but what I came to see... Harness the heart An arrow lodged in No sun and no moon where nothing begins The angels are digging their own graves A living tomb A resting place Harness the heart An arrow lodged in No sun and no moon where nothing begins The angels are digging their own graves A living tomb is where we lay... I see everything but what I came to see The ground is sinking beneath you and me... I see everything but what I came to see The ground is sinking beneath you and me...

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Ali Murray - It Is Too Late (Emily Bronte poem)

It is too late to call thee now, I will not nurse that dream again; For every joy that lit my brow Would bring its after-storm of pain.

Besides the mist is half withdrawn, The barren mountain-side lies bare, And sunshine and awaking morn Paint no more golden visions there.

Yet ever in my grateful breast Thy darling shade shall cherished be; For God alone doth know how blessed My early years have been in thee!

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Ali Murray - Lady of the Dying Moon

O' Lady of the dying moon I woke to hear your distant tune I followed you into the woods and there I think I understood the Lady of the dying moon... O' Lady of the dying moon I never thought you'd fall to ruin You'll swallow fists and razorblades and blood will spill before the day Tomorrow is so far away... O' Lady of the dying moon I know your time is coming soon If I had you there would be no holes I'd share the madness in your soul and sail away to better shores... O' Lady of the dying moon the night is silent as a tomb I'm drinking from an empty glass and counting all the years that pass until I hear you once again...

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Vapour Night - Here And Back Again

Here we are, unable to forget No matter how much we ignore Heaven is a womb full to bursting We could never make it if we tried... I would do anything to see this through your eyes Maybe someday I'll enjoy the ride We only have the one life... I know it's the life we wanted all along It's the love we cradle til it's gone It's the call of a long forgotten friend and it's the thing that takes us here and back again... I know it's the life we wanted all along It's the love we cradle til it's gone It's the eyes that watch as we descend and it's the thing that takes us here and back again...

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Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova - Falling Slowly

I don't know you But I want you All the more for that Words fall through me And always fool me And I can't react And games that never amount To more than they're meant Will play themselves out Take this sinking boat and point it home We've still got time Raise your hopeful voice, you have a choice You'll make it now Falling slowly, eyes that know me And I can't go back Moods that take me and erase me And I'm painted black You have suffered enough And warred with yourself

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PJ Harvey - Catherine

Catherine De Barra You've murdered my thinking Gave you my heart You left the thing stinking I'd shake from your spell If it weren't for my drinking The wind bites more bitter With each light of morning I envy the road The ground you tread under I envy the wind Your hair riding over I envy the pillow Your head rests and slumbers I envy to murderous Envy your lover 'Til the light shines on me I damn to hell every second you breath 'Til the light shines on me I damn to hell every second you breath Oh my Catherine For your eyes smiling For your mouth singing With time I'd have won you With wile I'd have won you For your eyes smiling For your mouth singing With time I'd have won you Oh my Catherine With time I'd have won you With wile I'd have won you

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Vapour Night - House of Water

Right through the cracks, a tired ancient glow Hear the yawning of the sea in me I’m drowning in a house of water It’s impossible to find your feet when there’s no solid ground... Will we make it through another year on a vessel that was built to fail? The heavy sound of footsteps on the oldest stones And the moon is soft and pale And the wind begins to blow… I’ll wait for you   Frozen blue I'll trust in you To pull me through…

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Ali Murray - Sober Moon

I'm sorry I was never there I was not old enough to care I have nothing left to lose so I'll dream of you beneath the sober moon... --- In the stillness of a photograph In a hazy memory I remember you way back then silently watching over me Long ago in a peaceful place Burning out the hours down to the core I think of you and smile and you remain unknowing, forever more Now time casts a shadow over my body and the machines of age have taken my mind I've worn this mask for so long It's become to hard to remove, I find The years have been harsh and unforgiving I've been blanketed in its cold embrace I'll blow a kiss to the stars above and leave without a trace I watch all the events of my life occur but I comprehend nothing I feel the world shed its skin and brim with tears but I learn nothing at all The moon shines down on the dark and lonely streets Tonight our fears have subsided and our lies remain discreet It's so quiet now I can almost hear your thoughts lost in corridors and ocean depths and there are many cracks in the wall where I solemnly slept These days are comatose and so much has come and gone My throat constricts and my heart swells as time carries on...

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Vapour Night - Ancient Youth

To live under the weight Always alone but never afraid In this sleepy winter's dream These violent winds will carry you to me... Nothing ever happens here Just the lap of the waves and the grinding gears I will choose to stay outside with the sun and the rain and the fading light Will you stay here with me and never succumb to society? All the pressure and the lies we see in everybody's eyes... I will never understand but we'll find our way in the end Come and warm your hands by my fire, my friend You are everything You are everything You are everything that is good to me You are everything to me so don't ever leave... I will never understand but we'll find our way in the end Come and warm your hands by my fire, my friend You are everything You are everything You are everything in this world to me You are everything to me

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Ned OIdham - The One Light

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VAPOUR NIGHT - Blinding White (ft. Sun Devoured Earth)

The smell of rain soaked earth The colours racing by Dead flowers in the sky Somewhere between the lights above and the lights below The only I place I know I can be... After years of blinding white it still falls like sand through these crippled hands So we'll stay until we can't hold on Until all our words fail Until our bitter end... I'm coming home through the mountains I can't move I'm coming home through the blinding white to you I'm coming home

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Ali Murray - Softening of the Light

I'm dreaming in black and white alone with the satellite I cling to the tail of life lagging so far behind... At the top of the hill there's a cross abandoned and covered in frost I wonder how much it will cost to look the other way... It feels like a carousel a coin in a wishing well The stories that fail to write the softening of the light... So where am I to go at the end of the wonder show? The ones who rode with me the woven tapestry... The moonlight on the field The stars that never heal The ticking of the clock I reel from constant shock... It feels like a carousel a coin in a wishing well The stories that fail to write the softening of the light... It feels like a fantasy soaring above the trees The fading world will ride the softening of the light...

https://alimurray.bandcamp.com/album/softening-of-the-light

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Bjork - Unravel

while you are away my heart comes undone slowly unravels in a ball of yarn the devil collects it with a grin our love in a ball of yarn he'll never return it so when you come back we'll have to make new love

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Brand New - Handcuffs  

I'd arrest you if I had handcuffs I'd arrest you if I had the time I'd throw you down in the backseat As if you committed a terrible crime We break into towns worth of houses And rob whole families blind I'd do it to you like you do it to me If I knew you would get away fine I'd drown all these crying babies If I knew that there mothers wouldn't cry I'd hold them down and I'd squeeze real soft And let a piece of myself die It's hard to be the better man When you forget you're trying It's hard to be the better man I'd arrest you if I had handcuffs I'd arrest you if I had the time I'd wait for you outside the courtroom (and taunt you) As all of your appeals were declined I'd drive my car off of the bridge If I knew that you weren't inside Put the pedal to the floor, who could ask for more A fantastic way to kill some time If you could lay on your back and be beaten You could put up your fists and fight (You could try anyway) It's hard to be the better man When you forget you're trying It's hard to be the better man When you're still lying

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Arms And Sleepers- Twentynine Palms

I wanted on my body a legion of your armies. To spread a canvas on me, to bury you upon me. You came without a warning. A message on my body. A message on my body. I saw it on your body. In pink, in porcelain. Ivory. The threads, a canvas awning. I carry you upon me.

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