30 Day Song Challenge -- Day 4

Do I really need to keep introducing this "30 Day Song Challenge" thing? You know what's up by now, I think.

Day 4: A song that makes you sad.

Personally, I can't really see listening to a song that could truly make me sad -- take me from a happy place and put me in a funk. But there are a few songs that remind me of a sad moment, or take an already-existing feeling of melancholy and deepen it.

The song that bubbled right to the top of my mind was "Breathe Me" by Sia.



I briefly considered that this might not be an entirely appropriate choice in this category, as the "sad memory" it invokes isn't really a personal one. Any fan of Six Feet Under will recall this song's prominent use in the final minutes of the series finale. But it was such a potent and sweeping sequence that it was all too easy to get caught up in emotion of it and completely ignore the fact that you were blubbering like a baby over fictional characters. I can't hear the song without being taken straight toward that place emotionally.

If I were to try and make a more "legitimate" choice, I suppose it might be "You Run Away" by Barenaked Ladies. I have no specific sad memory associated with the song. In fact, I think it the most sweetly beautiful song from them in over a decade, since "Call and Answer" off their breakthrough album Stunt. But it is a rather sorrowful song. I listen to it because I love the instrumentation and interplay between multiple vocal parts. I don't listen to it looking to feel good, because it won't do that.