Gloomy Sunday... My favourite suicide song

Gloomy Sunday" (from Hungarian "Szomorú vasárnap", is a song written by László Jávor and set to music in 1933 by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezso Seres, in which the singer mourns the untimely death of a lover and contemplates suicide

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. Due to unsubstantiated urban legends about its inspiring hundreds of suicides, "Gloomy Sunday" was dubbed the "Hungarian suicide song" in the U.S.. Seress did commit suicide because of writing this song.

Budapest, January 13. Rezsoe Seres, whose dirge-like song hit, "Gloomy Sunday" was blamed for touching off a wave of suicides during the nineteen-thirties, has ended his own life as a suicide it was learned today.
Authorities disclosed today that Mr. Seres jumped from a window of his small apartment here last Sunday, shortly after his 69th birthday.

The decade of the nineteen-thirties was marked by severe economic depression and the political upheaval that was to lead to World War II. The melancholy song written by Seres, with words by his friend, Ladislas Javor, a poet, declares at its climax, "My heart and I have decided to end it all." It was blamed for a sharp increase in suicides, and Hungarian officials finally prohibited it. In America, where Paul Robeson introduced an English version, some radio stations and nightclubs forbade its performance

Here are the lyrics;

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 coaches

Sorrow has taken you

Angels have no thoughts of ever returning you

Wouldnt 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 therell be candles

And prayers that are said I know

But let them not weep

Let them know that Im glad to go

Death is no dream

For in death Im caressin you

With the last breath of my soul Ill be blessin you

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Damn financial crisis caused the market to grow into such uncertainties and fear in all. JJ smsed me mid of nite ytd to say her dad may lose his job as company may unfold. She is very worried and uncomfortable about the future. Guess what ... her brother is in the same company as well! They may be moving into HDB soon from their expensive tanjong rhu condo and selling off other properties in KL...

So familiar... my family went through the same patch in 1997... Dad retired at 45 but shares crisis wiped off half his assets... Have to go back into business again. Worried about his business as well too now that I think of it. Luckily, we are still safe, our condos are all rented to expats and the govt mansionate should be fully paid off... haizzz

Shit Happens, U juz dunno when