Sisters.
No matter how much you hate it, you are still alike in your hearts.
While looking for your mother in the rivers because she was river's daughter, you look and look for that stern but loving gaze she gave you.
You run a hand over the doll your father gave you that you denied at the time, wondering why,why,why, did you dare to dream because when you opened your eyes, those dreams of princes cut down your ever gentle father.
You both wonder what went wrong, you blame others, you blame yourself.
Where are you brothers?
I hate my sister.
Where are you father? I am sorry.
I hate my sister.
Where are you mother? I should have listened.
I am sorry my sister.
While one wolf died in the land where kings die, the other wanders around the rivers, looking for pack.
- both mood boards and this made by me.
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Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919, French) ~ Two Sisters (On the Terrace), 1881
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Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
One of the go to bands if you want to look at something to match a certain genre would have to be The Kinks. The Kinks as a band were notorious for coming up with their character studies and so of course finding a character study which would match the mood would be the perfect sad song.
The Kinks had an abundance of decent character studies, but I felt that the character studies all felt short. Some of the best cases were:
• Two Sisters - A song about jealousy with one's siblings and the different personality they hold, which really described the personalities of Ray and Dave Davies in the band. The song ends with too positive of a conclusion to feel truly sad.
• Death of a Clown - About the pain of touring and how one ends up by being drained from it. It is probably the more classically sad songs but the clown theme adds a certain degree of whimsy which doesn't match that.
• Strangers - A rare case of a Dave track, discussing a friend who died from a drug overdose. This probably is the saddest of The Kinks tracks but I would argue is very heavy and verges on the point of depressing.
• Do You Remember Walter? - The Kinks are the Village Green Preservation Society was an album set out to discuss the changing culture of the UK at the time. Despite how great the album is, I feel it misses its goal of discussing the past and ends up by focussing more on one's childhood and the things they miss from it, as found in the opening track where some topics such as "Donald Duck" and "virginity" does seem to match one's childhood more than a certain level of British identity, with other British themed items being more of the childhood nature such as "Desperate Dan" and "the George Cross and all those who were awarded them", more reminiscent of hearing old war stories from parents at the time. Describing it this way, Do You Remember Walter is perfect for the album, with it reminiscing about an old friend who they've grown apart and wondering what their life is like now. This falls into the heavy theme of nostalgia but I feel that the entire album truly matches that theme and I can't pin this all on a single track.
So why Waterloo Sunset? Waterloo Sunset is not really a particularly sad song in itself, just discussing a couple spending their time around Waterloo in London. I decided to test out the sunset at Waterloo at one point, standing on the bridge waiting for the sun go down. Turns out it isn't quite as magnificent as the song leads you to believe, maybe the times have changed or maybe the fine was not in the sense of "fine dining" but rather say that "I guess it was fine" but that is all dependent on who sees it.
I have heard some artists describe Waterloo Sunset as something which brings them back home to London when they are touring and I get that sense often of this sense that homes me as someone from a Londoner myself and brings in a sense of homesickness. Originally though, the song was going to be Liverpool Sunset and was changed after the release of The Beatles' Penny Lane. I think this is a testament to the fact your Waterloo Sunset can be anywhere you want, to anywhere you hold dear, whether that is Caracas, Helsinki, Washington or Wellington, or just Waterloo, you can always miss home.
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Two Sisters, ca. 1938 - Lê Phổ (Vietnamese, 1907-2001)
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Charles Boom (1858-1938, Belgian) ~ Sisters, 1901
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