I'm looking over all the lists of sad songs people are writing about, and I came to the startling conclusion: I've never had a song make me cry. I've had them make me happy, nervous, concerned, fulfilled, dreamy, and well, even romantic shall we say, but I've never had a song make me cry. maybe it's just me because I'm sort of a callous in that area anyway, but then I realize that movies and even stupid tv ads brought in the tears. Even the Disney movie with the 2 dogs and a cat trying to make their way home made me sad and I didn't even like the movie that much, but bizarrely, I can sit and listen to well crafted songs about lost love with deep images within the lyrics, but I just sit there. Then, I think maybe it's the words and lack of images, but I can cry at books. But I'm also a musician and I wonder if that has anything to do with it. To me, I cry (figuratively) through my instrument and not through any other medium. Shouldn't I be empathetic towards a sad violin, instead? I don't know. It;'s weird. The point of my missive is not the make everyone think they are freaks for doing so, but I'm trying to figure out how I can go about experiencing deep sadness with a song and fully apprecitae music to its fullest? Do you relate the words to your life? Does the music recall memories? ----------------------------------------------------------------------- . This message was brought to you by the Sinister mailing list. . To send to the list please mail "sinister@majordomo.net". . For subscribing, unsubscribing and other list information please see . http://www.majordomo.net/sinister . For questions about how the list works mail owner-sinister@majordomo.net . Listen, this is pish, I think I'll leave -----------------------------------------------------------------------