Emilie Autumn – Gloomy Sunday – Rezso Seress Cover
The song Gloomy Sunday, as sung by the lovely Emilie Autumn. This song can be found on the bonus disk of her album Opheliac Deluxe Edition. Today is not particularly gloomy, but it is Sunday, and I was in the mood for some EA, so it seemed appropriate. Listen as she does amazing things with her voice, and her violin.
Emilie Autumn – Gloomy Sunday – Rezso Seress Cover
Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless
Dearest the shadows
I live with are numberless
Little white flowers
Will never awaken you
Not where the black coach of
sorrow has taken you
Angels have no thoughts
Of ever returning you
Wouldn’t they be angry
If I thought of joining you?
…Gloomy… sunday…
Gloomy is sunday,
With shadows I spend it all
My heart and i
Have decided to end it all
Soon there’ll be flowers
And prayers that are sad I know
let them not weep
Let them know that I’m glad to go
Death is no dream
For in death I’m caressing you
With the last breath of my soul
I’ll be blessing you
…Gloomy… sunday…
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Did you know that Emilie was a guest artist on Metalocalypse (the Adult Swim cartoon) in 2006, and that she was also included on their 2007 album “The Dethalbum”?
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From Wikipedia:
“Gloomy Sunday” is a song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress in 1933 to a Hungarian poem written by László Jávor (original Hungarian title of both song and poem “Szomorú vasárnap” (Hungarian pronunciation: [ˈsomoruː ˈvɒʃaːrnɒp]), in which the singer reflects on the horrors of modern culture.
Though recorded and performed by many singers, “Gloomy Sunday” is closely associated with Billie Holiday, who scored a hit version of the song in 1941. Owing to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, “Gloomy Sunday” was dubbed the “Hungarian suicide song” in the United States. Seress did commit suicide in 1968, but most other rumors of the song being banned from radio, or sparking suicides, are unsubstantiated, and were partly propagated as a deliberate marketing campaign. Possibly due to the context of the Second World War, though, Billie Holiday’s version was banned by the BBC until the turn of the century.
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