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Sadcore Sundays: “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)” by The Raconteurs

Posted by strange on July 22, 2019
Sadcore Sundays: "Somedays (I Don't Feel Like Trying)" by The Raconteurs

My boyfriend played me The Raconteurs’ new song “Somedays (I Don’t Feel Like Trying)” in the car and he said it reminded him of me lol. ACCURATE. I feel like this so much, too much throughout my life. It’s so easily relatable. My favorite lines are:

“But somedays I just feel like crying
And somedays I don’t feel like trying”

And

“I’m here right now
I’m not dead yet.”

Those last two lines really get me. It reminds me of pushing through all the bullshit life throws at me, pushing through the pain that my own body gives me, and pushing through any challenges and obstacles to remember that hell, I’m fucking alive. I’m ALIVE. I’m still here, I exist, and that’s something to celebrate. Yeah it’s hard for me to get out of bed sometimes, yeah I sometimes cry and give up on everything, but I’m not dead yet, so that means I can’t give up. I have to keep trying. Thank you The Raconteurs for accurately singing my feels. I hope they comfort you tonight and give you the strength to just be, to just live in this present moment, no matter how shitty it is right now, because you’re not dead yet, and you shouldn’t die yet because the universe still needs you and loves you.

Posted in: Sadcore Sundays, Sadcore Sundays Features | Tagged: depression music, jack white, raconteurs, sad songs, sadcore sundays, songs for depression, the strange is beautiful

Sadcore Sundays – Missing Pieces by Jack White

Posted by strange on September 28, 2014
Sadcore Sundays - Missing Pieces by Jack White

Today’s Sadcore Sunday music pick is “Missing Pieces” from Blunderbuss by Jack White.

“I was in the shower so I could not tell my nose was bleeding,
Dripped down my body to the floor right below my feet and,
I looked in the mirror at my face, I thought I had a disease.”

The drums and raunchy guitar were always the main attractions of Blunderbuss for me, until I noticed last night that the whole album is a heart wrenching romantic’s tale of trying to avoid codependence while in a relationship with a very independent woman.

 

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That’s google’s definition. I’m classifying sadcore as anything you can relate to that makes you sad, or that you listen to when you are sad, or both.

Send in your sad core song or playlist to strangeisbeauty@gmail.com <333

 

Lyrics:

“Missing Pieces”

I was in the shower so I could not tell my nose was bleeding
Dripped down my body to the floor right below my feet and
I looked in the mirror at my face, I thought I had a disease

Posted in: Sadcore Sundays, Sadcore Sundays Features, Uncategorized | Tagged: blunderbuss, jack white, music, sad girl, sadcore sundays

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