The song that takes lives. (I BELIEVE)

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Written in 1933 ,by a Budapest pianist named Rezso Seress, Szomoru Vasarnap (Gloomy Sunday) became infamous throughout Hungary after a spate of suicides was linked to the song. The newspapers of the day began to report stories of lovelorn individuals who had taken their own lives directly after listening to it's haunting melody. Some had died clutching the lyric sheets or left suicide notes quoting lines from the song. A few years later, as it's dark reputation had grown, the lyrics were re-written by the Poet Lszl?Jvor. His take on the song was less despairing and more melancholy, with a third - less pessamistic - stanza. But the suicides continued. Soon after an English version of the song was recorded, as 'Gloomy Sunday', by Sam Lewis. This was followed by recordings in the early forties by, first, Artie Shaw and then most famously by Billie Holiday. Although it's reputation was unknown outside of Hungary soon reports of suicides in America and ,later, the UK began to circulate. The BBC actually banned the song from broadcast - although an orchestral version was a minor hit. The ban remains to this day. Rezs?Seress' girlfriend jumped from a Budapest bridge into the Duna (Danube). She left a suicide note which read simply 'Szomoru Vasarnap'. Rezso himself died by jumping from the window of his flat in 1968. Gloomy Sunday, that strange, haunting song of a broken heart longing to be with it's lost love had finally come for it's creator. More recently, artist such as Sarah McLaughlin , Bjork and The Bronski Quartet have all recorded interpretations of the song. And that's the story of 'Gloomy Sunday' - the Hungarian Suicide song.

Keep in mind, this is one of the many theories and stories on the Legend of the Hungarian Suicide Song AKA The Overture Of Death. Do I believe? well, i belive peices of this legend. I belive for this song to lure one to suicide, that person would most likely need to already be in a suicidle state or at least a depression. I do belive this song has the power to kill. ~Alicia C. Malm

Gloomy Sunday

Reszo Seress

Sunday is gloomy, My hours are slumberless Dearest the shadows I live with are numberless Little white flowers Will never awaken you Not where the black coaches Sorrow has taken you Angels have no thoughts Of ever returning you Wouldnt they be angry If I thought of joining you? Gloomy sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming I wake and I find you asleep In the deep of my heart here Darling I hope That my dream never haunted you My heart is tellin you How much I wanted you Gloomy sunday

Gloomy is sunday, With shadows I spend it all My heart and i Have decided to end it all Soon therell be candles And prayers that are said I know But let them not weep Let them know that Im glad to go Death is no dream For in death Im caressing you With the last breath of my soul I'll be blessing you Gloomy sunday