A single rose in your garden dwells
Like any rose it's not itself
It is my love in your garden grows
but let's pretend it's just a rose
Well I'm sorry that I love you
It's a phase I'm going through
There is nothing that I can do
and I'm sorry that I love you
Do not listen to my song

Don't remember it, don't sing along

Let's pretend it's a work of art

Let's pretend it's not my heart...

The rose will fade when summer's gone

The song will fade and I'll be gone

because my heart is dying too

and it's all the same to you...

The Magnetic Fields, I'm Sorry I Love You

Art by Morten Bak

Hemingway Cat Attitude

I had lost my mind.

I lost my head for a while

was off my rocker outta line, outta wack.

See I had this tiny crack in my head

That slowly split open and my brain snoozed out,

Lyin' on the sidewalk and I didn't even know it.

I had lost my mind.

Why, i was sitting in the basement

when I first realized it was gone.

Got I my car rushed right over to the lost and found.

I said "pardon me but I seem to have lost my mind."

She said "Well can you identify it please?"

I said "Why sure its a cute little bugger

About yea big a little warped from the rain"

She said "Well then sir this must be your brain"

I said "Thank you ma'am I'm always losin' that dang thing."

I had lost my mind.

Daniel Johnston, I Had Lost My Mind

Art by Gus Fink

The Weird Sisters - Do The Hippogriff

Manic Street Preachers - Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

Sirius Black

Still in the danger zone. Optimistic. Crossing fingers. Nausea. Feeling of loss.

Sans Souci

Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket

Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it

Seem like stars

Ryan Adams, Jacksonville Skyline

There she goes again

She's out on the streets again

She's down on her knees, my friend

But you know she'll never ask you please again

Now take a look, there's no tears in her eyes

She won't take it from just any guy, what can you do

You see her walkin' on down the street

Look at all your friends she's gonna meet

You better hit her(...)

The Velvet Underground, There She Goes Again

Pic by Alberto García Alix

Here comes that shit again
I got a Halloween head

Head full of tricks and treats

It leads me through the nighttime streets

Black cats and fallen trees

Under ladders - always walkin’

Salt shaker spills - just throw it over your shoulder, babe

Ryan Adams, Halloween Head

Art by Elizabeth McGrath

Trade all your heroes in for ghosts

They’re always the one’s who love you most

Manic Street Preachers, Your Love Alone Is Not Enough

"The Love Song must be born into the realm of the irrational, the absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane, for the Love Song is the noise of love itself and love is, of course, a form of madness."

Nick Cave, The Secret Life Of The Love Song

The second great depression

Lasted longer than I figured

It stuck around and lingered

Surrounded me and conquered

Manic Street Preachers, The Second Great Depression