treeguy64
Hari Om, y'all!
- Location
- Austin, TX.
As a kid, the tune, "Ode To Billy Joe," really effected me. The odd revelation about the preacher seeing the tune narrator and Billy Joe "throwing something off the Tallahatchie Bridge," and the implication that it might have been their newly born, illegitimate child, hit me very strongly, along with the follow-up news about Billy Joe committing suicide from the very same bridge. To this day, when I hear that haunting tune, it still gives me the chills. It was masterfully produced, and sung, and that added to the power of the lyrics.
The tune, "Patches," also gave me the chills. The singer leaves the listener with the knowledge that he is going to commit suicide, that very night, to join his dearly departed girlfriend. Very weird and disturbing.
Only about ten years later, I dealt with the first of nine suicides I would know, in my life. That was the suicide of my first, serious girlfriend. We had lost touch for a few years, but then I ran into her, in college. She was very sad, acting like she had done it all, already, at eighteen. Only a few months later, I got a call from another old girlfriend that she was gone. Sad and strange. Then, the suicides kept coming, throughout my life. Weird.
The tune, "Patches," also gave me the chills. The singer leaves the listener with the knowledge that he is going to commit suicide, that very night, to join his dearly departed girlfriend. Very weird and disturbing.
Only about ten years later, I dealt with the first of nine suicides I would know, in my life. That was the suicide of my first, serious girlfriend. We had lost touch for a few years, but then I ran into her, in college. She was very sad, acting like she had done it all, already, at eighteen. Only a few months later, I got a call from another old girlfriend that she was gone. Sad and strange. Then, the suicides kept coming, throughout my life. Weird.
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