Songs About Frustration, Disappointment, and the Blues

[meyers7]

"Trouble was my only friend"

Only Friend - The Temperance Movement

 

[Scud49]

"Watch out now".....

 

[RockyMTblue2]

The studio version by Cooper and Gaga is very good. This live version at the Oscars, with no time to warm up, well ... not so much. Love the arrangement/lyrics.

 

[Hoops66]

One of his great ballards....

 

[Hoops66]

When it comes down to it....

 

[RoadMaster]

 

[Alydar]

A movie was actually made about using this song to cause people to kill themselves.

 

[Alydar]

 

[Zorro]

 

[Scud49]

A shoutout to Zorro for posting John Prine, one of THE great songwriters. This song has one amazing back story, the seed planted that eventually became this classic is Lennon’s Across the Universe.
Prine was trying to recreate Lennon’s voice reverb from the song and used the phrase Hello In There as he tried to recreate the sound. He had an affection for older people as he had delivered newspapers as a boy and one of his stops was room by room to an old persons home, some of whom he got close to. The phrase eventually grew into an absolute poignant gem of a song about growing old and growing lonely.

So true, such a great, great, poignant song. I didn't know the backstory on it - thanks for all that. I saw him live here in Indianapolis around 1989 or so - he sang this one along with many of his other great songs. A true American treasure, he is missed.

 

[Kaizen]

The studio version by Cooper and Gaga is very good. This live version at the Oscars, with no time to warm up, well ... not so much. Love the arrangement/lyrics.

A great song. Cooper and Gaga just awesome ..

 

[Union2008]

Little different approach but similar end....

 

[Aluminny69]

Early in this thread, I posted Tom Rush's version of Joni Mitchell's The Circle Game. I found new meaning in the lyric "TEARFUL AT THE FALLING OF A STAR." And then the ultimate message of the song in the lyric, " THERE'LL BE NEW DREAMS, MAYBE BETTER DREAMS AND PLENTY."

Here is the story behind arguably Joni Mitchell's best song from the sixties, a wonderful time to be alive.

 

[Zorro]

 

[64Zcode]

Penned by Gregg Allman but I like this version.

 

[64Zcode]

 

[Littlemin]

Amy Correia sings about the joys of living and the sadness of death

 

[Bigboote]

This is a widely done folk song, this version from Eliza Carthy. It’s hard to tell who’s more disappointed and frustrated, the lad or the lass.

 

[Scud49]

Some disappointment, disillusion, and gritty reality:

 

[bantamlaker]

“Daylight is good at arriving at the right time
It's not always going to be this grey
All things must pass”

And before too long Paige, Azzi, Nika and Aubrey will all be healthy and back in the lineup.

 

[Scud49]

That you're the first one
To leave me out here on my own
Cause this ain't gonna be the first time
This ol' cowboy spent the night alone...

 

[luvgiraf]

 

[CL82]