![]() Ironically, it’s what the protagonist admits, but may not accept yet at this time – that the world still goes on even after a relationship has ended. ![]() While a broken heart is nothing to kill yourself over, I admit crying far too many tears during a breakup over this song. ![]() It’s doubly sad that in real life, Murphy herself died in what looks to me as suicide. SPOILER ALERT: Brittany Murphy’s character Daisy Randone commits suicide when she finds she can’t cope being a victim of sexual abuse. No, it wasn’t until the song appeared in probably the saddest scene in the Winona Ryder film Girl, Interrupted that the lyrics knocked me in the stomach. It’s this part sentimentally adorable, part grating annoyance. All I heard – and couldn’t get past – was Skeeter Davis’ country twang, still a kind of sound that bothers me to this day. I was very young when he told me this was his favourite and at the time, being young, I didn’t understand the heart-wrenching nature of the song. But it would have been my father’s birthday this Saturday, so I thought it would be appropriate to examine his favourite song of all time. ![]() This is truly a blast from the past and probably not going to happen often, as it’s only really newer songs’ lyrics that I take the time to really dig through. Where to find it: ‘Skeeter Davis Sings The End of the World’ (1963, RCA) ![]()
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