Sarah Brightman -- Gloomy Sunday
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 thought
Of ever returning you
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you
Gloomy Sunday
Sunday is gloomy
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 said I know
But 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
Dreaming
I was only dreaming
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart dear
Darling I hope
That my dream never haunted you
My heart is telling you
How much I wanted you
Gloomy Sunday
Gloomy Sunday
music: Seress
lyrics: Javor / Lewis
From: La Luna (2000).
and from: La Luna: non-European version (2000)
Source of the lyrics: the CD-booklet, except for the last six lines: they are
missing from the booklet, but sung by Sarah.
A personal remark
I like this song very much! It is a little jazzy, and Sarah's singing and the
music create the right mood for the song.
One thing is very strange, though. The mood changes between the second and the
third stanza, because she wakes up and realises that the gloomy first two
stanzas were nothing but a dream and the third stanza is then more chearful.
This change of mood is strangely rather abrupt: the pause is less than a second
-- Sarah has barely enough time to catch her breath.
I would have expected the change in mood between stanzas two and three to be
build up a little more gradually, in five to ten seconds or so. After all,
waking up and realising that it was a dream takes time.
Hazan (HKniffin@aol.com) suggested that the last stanza could still be part of
the dream: the singer has lost her lover, continues her mourning in her dream,
and as a reaction to the pain wishes it was all but a dream: "I find you asleep
in the deep of my heart", not next to her in bed.
I do not think this is what is meant here. The change of mood, the use of the
words "I was only dreaming / I wake" and also the lines "I hope / that my dream
never haunted you" make me think that the singer has woken up (though the whole
text is written in the past tense).
Legend associated the songs
Geoffrey Kidd (sehlat@uclink4.berkeley.edu) and Hazan informed me independently
that there is a "lengend" associated with Gloomy Sunday in that the song, which
was writtin in Hungary in the 1930s, was banned because it seemed to have led to
many suicides ....
The original song was written in 1933 by two Hungarians, Rezso Seress (music)
and Laslo Javor (lyrics), and consisted of the first to stanza only. The last
stanza was added later, probably by the "Lewis" mentioned in the credits -- or
perhaps this Lewis is responsible for the translation into English of the
original Hungarion sung.
Anyway, this would explain the different mood of the last stanza: preventing
pleople from committing suicide by letting them know it was all but a dream. And
perhaps because of that intention it had to follow the second stanza almost
immediately, rather than after a more convincing pause of a few seconds.
For some background info on the suicides-legend, see the "Gloomy Sunday" page at
the Urban Legends Reference Pages.
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