Gloomy Day Tune

This cold overcast weather makes me melancholy...

 

Winter in Joburg can be a little like a mood swinging teenager. Sunny and crisp on one day like the cold doesn't matter and overcast and withdrawn the next like the cold is overwhelming.

 

I heard this song on the radio the other day. It is beautifully played. This song goes out to the remorseful-memory-dregging Frankie, and to any other twenty-something who has lived long enough to have a distinction within their happy and sad memories between these present days and those past days. 

 

Anyway, what goes better with feeling old and pathetic in cold cloudy weather than some mournful piano playing?

 

 

"Someone Like You" (abridged) by Adele

I heard
That you're settled down
That you
Found a girl
And you're
Married now

I heard
That your dreams came true.
Guess she gave you things
I didn't give to you

...

 

Never mind
I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
"Don't forget me," I begged
"I'll remember," you said
"Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead."
Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead,
Yeah.

You know how the time flies
Only yesterday
It was the time of our lives
We were born and raised
In a summer haze
Bound by the surprise
Of our glory days

...

Never mind
I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
"Don't forget me," I begged
"I'll remember," you said
"Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead."

Nothing compares
No worries or cares
Regrets and mistakes
They are memories made.
Who would have known
How bittersweet this would taste?

Never mind
I'll find someone like you
I wish nothing but the best for you too
"Don't forget me," I begged
"I'll remember," you said
"Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead"

Sometimes it lasts in love
But sometimes it hurts instead