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Category: Ken Grimwood

Sometimes isolation can be shared.

alone, aloneness, isolation, loneliness, solitude

He went out with a variety of women, slept with some of them, hated the whole meaningless process. Drinks, dinners, plays and concerts and gallery openings … He grew to despise the rigid formality of dating, missed the easy familiarity of simply being with someone, sharing friendly silences and unforced laughter.

You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won’t come back no more. Ain’t no sufferin’ in this world worse than that; and that’s the blue we call ‘I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.

blues, depths-of-despair, despair, loss, music, music-lyrics, r-and-b, sadness

You see, there’s some blues for folks ain’t never had a thing, and that’s a sad blues … but the saddest kind of blues is for them that’s had everything they ever wanted and has lost it, and knows it won’t come back no more. Ain’t no sufferin’ in this world worse than that; and that’s the blue we call ‘I Had It But It’s All Gone Now.

blues, depths-of-despair, despair, loss, music, music-lyrics, r-and-b, sadness