Sad Song

Sing a sad song in a lonely place,

try to put a word in for me.

It's been so long since I found this place,

you better put in two or three.

We as people are just walkin' 'round,

our heads are firmly fixed in the ground.

What we don't see, well it can't be real.

What we don't touch we cannot feel.

Where we're living in this town,

the Sun is coming up and it's going down,

but it's all just the same at the end of the day.

And we cheat, and we lie.

Nobody says it's wrong and we don't ask why.

And it's all just the same at the end of the day.

We're throwing it all away,

at the end of the day.

Questions

They say you should never trust anyone. They say you walk the path of life alone. They say no one is truly your well wisher. But then they say you should always have a confidante, a best friend. They say you should share your feelings and not be bottled up inside.

How is one supposed to reconcile the two? People blame me for being cagey, for not spitting out what I’m thinking, for not talking about my “feelings”. But how am I supposed to do that when every time I do, someone lets me down? That’s the thing about people isn’t it? People. They will always let you down.

Let’s be logical here. Once you have something called a best friend, you start having certain expectations of them. And then, inevitably, a time comes, when they’re tested. Tested on the threshold of friendship. And they let you down. Always.

And once that happens, people say you should have known. They say you acted foolishly. They say you’re naive, and immature, and have no knowledge of how the world works.

So is this what the world has come down to? Really, is it?

People. They will always let you down.