We watch those around us who are all genuinely happy and some of us, we wear masks to hide the pains that we've endured in our lives. Some people who are genuinely happy even have this "mask" that they must sometimes wear. It isn't exclusive to any one person or type of person. This is a world built on beauty and ugliness. A world on fire and at times it also sparkles like a serene jewel in the deep black of space as its background. We struggle. All of us. And in the end, some more than others. It's a human condition. We cannot escape that sadness as hard as we try. We can abate it, with varying success dependent on a person to person basis. But nonetheless, we all struggle.
So in this vein, I will give you a track I posted before (I believe) because it is that important in this avenue of the human experience. From the wondrous master of dark electronic music, Lorn, the track "Weigh Me Down" off his first full length album Ask The Dust. Its lyrics ring true to anyone and everyone that has felt this before. I will post the lyrical content as well. Enjoy but in the reflective way you should enjoy this. It is food for the mind and soul as well as the "heart" of all of us. It moves me to try to see things in a better way every day and I listen to this track habitually. It is NEVER out of my daily rotation when I am listening to music which let's face it, is whenever I am not making music myself or sleeping. Even then though, when sleeping, I put on a playlist since I am a great lucid dreamer and a lot of the time in dreams, I can hear songs from that evening's playlist in my dreams and I know where it came from. So this song comes into a lot of dreams that are really more nightmares than dreams. About everything from existential dread and ideas to absolutely physical and mental traumas that I have been through over the years of my life. This song speaks volumes about me in its simple yet lovely and brutally honest lyrics. So again, Lorn, "Weigh Me Down" off the album Ask The Dust.
Below the audio from YouTube is the lyrical content as I promised. As I said, simple but effective to a brutal point.
You weigh me, you weigh me