Music meme, day four.

[foxmonkey]

Day 04 - A song that makes you sad

This is cheating a bit because the song itself doesn't make me sad. It's sweet and wistful and pretty much perfect.

I love Pink Moon. Like a ton of other people, I first heard it in the "Milky Way" mini-mini-film for the Volkswagen Cabrio. It's a beautiful commercial, there's no other word for it. No announcers, no dialogue, just four kids on their way to a party under an indigo night sky strewn with stars, the full moon overhead. If you haven't seen it, play it. It's absolutely lovely. Like the song, it's just about perfect.

I was immediately smitten with the tune and wanted to know more about Nick Drake, the artist behind the song. I found his bio and began to read, and I found that he'd died of suspected suicide many years before (1974). Between the video and the song, and how deeply I'd been touched by both, reading about his life and subsequent death triggered something and I cried.



Pink Moon
Nick Drake

I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
None of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get you all
And it's a pink moon
Hey, it's a pink moon
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon.
Pink, pink, pink, pink, pink moon.

I saw it written and I saw it say
Pink moon is on its way
None of you stand so tall
Pink moon gonna get you all
And it's a pink moon
Yeah, it's a pink moon

Comments

[spasticat.livejournal.com]

My path to finding out about that song was very similar and knowing how sad Drake was and how he died and that there would have been so many more beautiful songs if he had lived...yes, made me cry, too.

[foxmonkey.livejournal.com]

knowing how sad Drake was and how he died and that there would have been so many more beautiful songs if he had lived...yes, made me cry, too.

Such a beautiful song and video, and then to discover such sadness in his personal story...it just hit me like a ton of bricks.