Everything's blue

My singing teacher said something funny the other day - she had been showing Nebraskatak's single to a few people during the week between lessons, and raising her carefully-painted on eyebrows at me, she said the resounding opinion was that 'the girl who's singing, she's singing about such a sad thing!' 

I am certainly what you would call highly strung. I think I write and sing joyously and manically about sad things because I don't know how else to cope with being hyper-senstive to everything. I like being this way, because there's nothing quite like crying over a series of notes, only because they are just the right amount of tragic and beautiful, or being brought to your knees in the midnight-dark, in a small room lit by a computer screen where Joni Mitchell is playing and, for once, finally, her voice isn't just weaving into my body on its own. 

I do like being this way, and I think a lot of people are like this too. I just like to feel things!  And I think that if things go wrong, if you can write a song about it, then you should. I'm in love with the idea of tragedy that's danceable, or complete devastation at 120BPM, joyous heartbreak...! I think it has something to do with my being so happy to fall into situations that are emotionally risky, always with that security belt of knowing that if things go badly, I can write about it and feel better and try to make other people feel better too.