Sometimes it can be hard to distinguish between depression and despair.

[commodorified]

I'm doing a fairly good job of avoiding either, but man has it ever been a hard month for the planet and many who sail in her.

This song has been a potent medicine against all kinds of darkness for me since benet introduced me to it back in, oh, I don't know, 1996 or so.

So here it is, in case it can be that for you.

"10. You Can Come From Here - Superior Cackling Hen - Bourbon Tabernacle Choir" (Watch on YouTube)

If there's a song you feel that way about, and you wanted to post it on your own journal and link to it, or just post it in the comments, I would like that. Perhaps we can get a whole playlist going. Can't hurt to try. Permission to link happily granted.

ETA: I cannot get youtube to disgorge the embed code. If you can, and will paste it to me, I'll swop it for the present link. Note that I know how to do this thing, I am just not being given the option either because I decline to sign in, because embed is disabled, or because I'm on the iPad; attempts at tech support are not solicited at this time.

ETA2: dine got me embed code, yay, which prompts me to link Blue Rodeo's Rose Coloured Glasses, which I think of as "that song we take turns singing to/about each other", and:

lexin contributes Something Inside So Strong, a song I did not know and am delighted to have heard now.

ETA3: white_hart: gives us Indigo Girls, Let It Be Me and angevin2 has embedded Tom Waits, Never Let Go over on LJ.

Comments

[dine]

YouTube let me have the embed code - just close up the beginning/end brackets and remove the space between allowfullscreen and /iframe brackets and it should work *crosses fingers*

< iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/VWieyTHSCi8" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> < /iframe >

after allowfullscreen> there should be < / iframe > (close all spaces)

I like the song lots!

[commodorified]

UR BEST. And you get another Cheering song, just for you:

http://youtu.be/W4l32kl4wnI

[dine]

thanks! that's another song I'd never come across, so I appreciate your sharing

[white_hart]

I have no idea how to embed, but the Indigo Girls' "Let It Be Me" does much the same for me: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4qS9KZGvxhA.

[watervole]

This song -https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fT-aEcPgkuA had seen me though many low points in my life. It says that you CAN do it, that with your friends helping you can beat the bastards.