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Jul. 29th, 2020 10:52 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
between_time_and_42TW suicide mention.
A long time ago when I was a kid, I went to this park with a little dock overlooking a lake, and I found the following words written on the dock:
"I wish I had a reason. My flaws were open season. For this I gave up trying. One good turn deserves my dying."
And for years- YEARS- ever since I read those words I would think of them from time to time and wonder if the person who wrote them had committed suicide by the lake and that was the note they left behind, and really it was sort of a disturbing childhood memory. But I decided to finally get to the bottom of this and turn to Google. I thought I might pull up some old local news article... instead I pulled up a lyrics website. The "poem" that I thought was a suicide note comes from a song by a band called Stone Sour. So whoever wrote it must have just been a metalhead... I hope, anyway. Anyway, this is kind of blowing my mind that it's literally just lyrics, not anything creepy or sad like I thought.
This is almost like the time I remembered this song I heard as a kid for years and couldn't for the life of me figure out what the song was called or who performed it, and then one day I was listening to an R.E.M. record and THE SONG WAS RIGHT THERE!!
A long time ago when I was a kid, I went to this park with a little dock overlooking a lake, and I found the following words written on the dock:
"I wish I had a reason. My flaws were open season. For this I gave up trying. One good turn deserves my dying."
And for years- YEARS- ever since I read those words I would think of them from time to time and wonder if the person who wrote them had committed suicide by the lake and that was the note they left behind, and really it was sort of a disturbing childhood memory. But I decided to finally get to the bottom of this and turn to Google. I thought I might pull up some old local news article... instead I pulled up a lyrics website. The "poem" that I thought was a suicide note comes from a song by a band called Stone Sour. So whoever wrote it must have just been a metalhead... I hope, anyway. Anyway, this is kind of blowing my mind that it's literally just lyrics, not anything creepy or sad like I thought.
This is almost like the time I remembered this song I heard as a kid for years and couldn't for the life of me figure out what the song was called or who performed it, and then one day I was listening to an R.E.M. record and THE SONG WAS RIGHT THERE!!
