30 Day Song Callenge - Day 10 - A Song That Makes You Sad

[autographedcat]

Day 10 of the song challenge invites us to share a song that makes us sad. Just as with happy songs, there’s a nearly infinite list. Like any great art, music is all about evoking an emotional response, and sad songs are a genre all their own. My pick for today is one that completely wrecked me when i first heard it, and even today, it hits me like a truck. One of his last recordings, Glen Campbell wrote “I’m Not Going To Miss You” for his wife, as he begin his ultimately fatal struggle with Alzheimer’s Disease.

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[kshandra]

I still haven't listened to it yet. My grandmother died of Alzheimer's, her mother had dementia (different mechanism, same end result) - way too close to home. (gridlore has told me more than once that he's almost embarrassingly grateful that murphymom is an adoptee, so I'm not genetically linked to that...)

[autographedcat]

I can totally understand. This song is brutally, painfully candid, and it may be more than you want to process. *hugs offered*