Day 10. A song that makes me sad
The amazing story of Sixto Rodriguez as presented in the movie "Searching For Sugarman" has really touched my heart. What an epic figure!
Such a talented poet and singer, though very underrated at the time, yet he was so full of hope and inner happiness. And even after becoming famous - he's still very humble.
What a man.
This song by him is probably the saddest song I know, brings me to tears every fucking time. Can feel his pain, can literally live it through his beautiful sad lyrics and his clear soft voice.
Oh and also the crazy fact that, just like he wrote, he lost his job two weeks before christmas...
Lyrics
'Cause I lost my job two weeks before Christmas
And I talked to Jesus at the sewer
And the Pope said it was none of his God-damned business
While the rain drank champagne
My Estonian Archangel came and got me wasted
'Cause the sweetest kiss I ever got is the one I've never tasted
Oh but they'll take their bonus pay to Molly McDonald,
Neon ladies, beauty is that which obeys, is bought or borrowed
'Cause my heart's become a crooked hotel full of rumors
But it's I who pays the rent for these fingered-face out-of-tuners
And I make sixteen solid half hour friendships every evening
'Cause your queen of hearts who is half a stone
And likes to laugh alone is always threatening you with leaving
Oh but they play those token games on Willy Thompson
And give a medal to replace the son of Mrs. Annie Johnson
'Cause they told me everybody's got to pay their dues
And I explained that I had overpaid them
So overdued I went to the company store
And the clerk there said that they had just been invaded
So I set sail in a teardrop and escaped beneath the doorsill
'Cause the smell of her perfume echoes in my head still
'Cause I see my people trying to drown the sun
In weekends of whiskey sours
'Cause how many times can you wake up in this comic book and plant flowers?
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