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sometimes I get so sad
sometimes you just make me mad
it's a sad and beautiful world
it's a sad and beautiful world
sometimes I just won't go
sometimes I can't say 'no'
it's a sad and beautiful world
it's a sad and beautiful world
sometimes days go speeding past
sometimes this one seems like the last
it's a sad and beautiful world
it's a sad and beautiful world
sometimes you just make me mad
it's a sad and beautiful world
sometimes I can't say 'no'
it's a sad and beautiful world
sometimes this one seems like the last
it's a sad and beautiful world
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also a very beautiful song. I think it's about (very simple) how the world can look so beautiful and yet so sad, all at the same (confusing) time. Amazing. I think it holds a lot of truth in it. When your happy, the world seems so beautiful, but yet, there's always something terrible happening at the same time... If you think about that stuff too much you probably get really depressed (just like Mark (singer) was (is?) ) Nice to see how so few lyrics can be so beautiful and never bore you....
The song is about love and that makes the person experiencing it conflicted because he/she feels for the first time the complexity of a love that is beautiful for its purity and yet makes him/her sad because it makes him/her feel vulnerable at the same time. If one has never been the object of pure love then one can always be in control of one's emotions. Control equals safety and that sometimes passes for contentment. Love is chaos and creates conflict. It causes one to feel beautiful (especially if it's the first time one has been the object of unconditional love) and vulnerable because it exposes one to the possiblility that feelings can (and do) flow both ways. It's almost impossible to feel the love of someone and not be conflicted by that emotion.
also a very beautiful song. I think it's about (very simple) how the world can look so beautiful and yet so sad, all at the same (confusing) time. Amazing. I think it holds a lot of truth in it. When your happy, the world seems so beautiful, but yet, there's always something terrible happening at the same time... If you think about that stuff too much you probably get really depressed (just like Mark (singer) was (is?) ) Nice to see how so few lyrics can be so beautiful and never bore you....
Simple lyrics, gorgeous song.
Well, it seems that this song is maybe strongly influenced by The Velvet Underground's "Pale Blue Eyes". At least in the opening of both songs, when Red and Linkous refer to how they feel about a person, Red sings "Sometimes I feel so happy, Sometimes I feel so sad, Sometimes I feel so happy, but mostly you just make me mad..." Then Linkus grabs the spirit of Lou Red's song by singing "sometimes I get so sad sometimes you just make me mad".
Also, the rhythms are quite the same and at a slow pace, and they may talk about a sad guy who is in love with someone but their sad feelings are even bigger than that relationship.
Linkus make his song about that duality between good and bad things and how they're connected up to some point you know. They say behind every beautiful thing there has been some kind of pain as Dylan sang in Not Dark Yet.
I don't know why Linkus committed suicide, and probably the little details are less important than the whole context, in this song we can see how sadness domain his existence even back in 1995 when this precious record came out.