#melancholy songs

[timaeuslover001]

House MD character Playlist

Anyone have any song ideas for House that are blues, or modern blues or even melancholic?

[if-you-fan-a-fire]

“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.” - Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs. From a BBC radio interview in 2007.  (via elviskeepsmypictureinhiswallet)

[dramoor]

“Everybody has experienced the defeat of their lives. Nobody has a life that worked out the way they wanted it to work out. We all begin as the hero of our own dramas, in centre stage, and inevitably life moves us out of centre stage, defeats the hero, overturns the plot and the strategy and we’re left on the sidelines, wondering why we no longer have a part, or want a part, in the whole damn thing. So everybody’s experienced this. When it’s presented to us sweetly, the feeling goes from heart to heart and we feel less isolated and we feel part of the great human chain, which is really involved with the recognition of defeat.”

~Leonard Cohen on why people enjoy listening to melancholy songs - From a BBC radio interview in 2007

(Art: Samaritan, by Lladislav Zaborsky, 1976)

[themodernmorpheus]

Can you see? Can you see they tell you lies thus keeping you weak Leave me, my heart is dead for all to see Can you see?

You all say I've crossed a line, But the sad fact is I've lost my mind You all say I've crossed a line, But the sad fact is I've lost my mind

Cause I'm just getting started, let me offend The devil's got nothing on me my friend All I want is to be left alone Tact from me is like blood from a stone

[themodernmorpheus]

They try to comfort me with platitudes They don't know I'm in a real fine mood There's no reason I should shed one tear Can't you see we got a good thing here Don't talk to me of “death do us part” Between us we share one beating heart Candles flicker in the chandelier Can't you see we got a good thing here

[themodernmorpheus]

But Hell hath no fury And death is no jury, Our love's ended before I commenced this. But for one final sin You won't see me again, In the arms of The Lethal Temptress.

[themodernmorpheus]

Maybe I'm meant for the sea We pass it by so passively And all that's said is what we know We’ll watch it come We'll watch it go And underneath Its plain to see That we're not meant for history Maybe I'm meant for the sea

[anintellectualblonde]

Melancholy songs?

I usually try and get out of a melancholy mood by listening to upbeat songs, like "Grass Eater" by The Mellowells, "Rock Star Skinny" by The Real Zebos, "Jena's New Favorite Color" by Noah Nolastname, and "Kill the Sun" by Motherfolk