A SAD SONG

A SUICIDAL SONG : GLOOMY SUNDAY

            Gloomy Sunday is a sad song that written by Hungarian composer Rezso Seress. He dedicated this song to his lover, but she committed to suicide few days after publishing this song. So it turned out a legend and song was banned from many radio programs. Most people believe that this song has some black magic and make people kill theirselves.  The more interesting, some researches and music specialist made a research about this song and the lyrics. They found out that melody has a special sctucture. Notes has spesific rises and falls. In some parts song gives hope, shows a optimistic vision of life, after a while, notes suddenly falls and song shows the reality of life. At first, it describes life, hope and beautiful days but it finishes with death. This is what music specialist says in technical terms. Here is the lyrics:

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   sunday is gloomy
my hours are slumberless
dearest the shadows
i live with are numberless
little white flowers
will never awaken you
not where the black coach
of sorrow has taken you
angels have no thoughts
of ever returning you
would they be angry
if i thought of joining you? 

gloomy sunday 

gloomy is sunday
with shadows i spend it all
my heart and i
have decided to end it all
soon there'll be candles
and prayers that are said i know
but let them not weep
let them know that i'm glad to go
death is no dream
for in death i'm caressing you
with the last breath of my soul
i'll be blessing you 

gloomy sunday 

dreaming, i was only dreaming
i wake and i find you asleep
in the deep of my heart here
darling i hope
that my dream never haunted you
my heart is telling you
how much i wanted you 

gloomy Sunday

When I listen the song, I became really sad but I don’t even think about suicide. I guess this is just a fellow traveler for suicidal people. To finish, we should accept that Gloomy Sunday is a perfect, sad song.