Sorrow's Hymn

Earlier last year(how strange it feels to write that), some of my friends and I had a discussion on music in which we agreed the best songs were the sad songs of heartbreak and despair.

Triple Period just posted up James Blunt's Goodbye My Lover which has to be one of the champion heartbreak songs of its time and it reminded me the list we(my friends and I) came up with that night.

Sometimes when life is all screwed up, all you really want to do is listen to some achingly beautiful song to help yourself out of it. And sometimes, even when life isn't screwed up, the poetry of loss helps you remember the things that are precious to you. It's probably the same reason people watch sad films; we need the catharsis. And maybe we need the reminder that we're not alone in our grief, that others too have gone this way and survived it.

Here was one that made it to my personal heartbreak song list and as I recall it, at least one of the other guys had songs by the same singer songwriter on his list too. The line " I'm so tired but I can't sleep/ I'm standing at the edge of something much too deep" always resonated deeply as rhyming couplets often do.


I Will Remember You

By Sarah Mclachlan

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

Remember the good times that we had?
I let them slip away from us when things got bad
How clearly I first saw you smilin' in the sun
Wanna feel your warmth upon me, I wanna be the one

I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so tired but I can't sleep
Standin' on the edge of something much too deep
It's funny how we feel so much but we cannot say a word
We are screaming inside, but we can't be heard

But I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories

I'm so afraid to love you, but more afraid to loose
Clinging to a past that doesn't let me choose
Once there was a darkness, deep and endless night
You gave me everything you had, oh you gave me light


And I will remember you
Will you remember me?
Don't let your life pass you by
Weep not for the memories
Weep not for the memories