Melancholy Music Lover Gifts

"Perhaps a dirge would lift your spirits?"

There's a tear in my beer.

I've decided to shift down a few gears.'

"I've got those 'Don't worry about me, I'll just be here, all alone' blues."

"Events seem to be headed in the right direction. Unfortunately, it's not taking me with it."

"The artist-in-residence is struggling a bit, but other than that we're fine."

"In closing, I'd just like to say you've been a great crowd, folks. Don't forget to tip your waitress, and I hope this final number breaks your heart the way show business broke mine."

"These brisk fall afternoons remind me of Chekhov, which reminds me of Putin, then Trump, the alt-right, facism, nuclear weapons ... let's go home."

'I hate my life.

"Half-full. Those were the days."

'Dreams of how it might have been.'

"Woke up this mornin', Found myself trapped in the Blues genre..."

"Our flavors of the day are Prodigal, Importune, and Mal de Siècle."

Books: Success stories & Sob stories.

"I asked Bill to accompany this presentation with something in a haunting minor key."

"I never got a chance to say 'Shut up.' "

'I think our marriage would make a great country song.'

Man has storm cloud umbrella.

Picasso's Blues Period

Tears

Bored couple.

Items from the Fall 2018 Melancholia Catalogue.

"Fall makes him sad."

Sad Songs.

"I like sad songs."

Where the boulevard of broken dreams crosses the avenue of broken appliances...

Tailpiece to E Dowson's 'The Pierrot of the Minute'

"I'm full of an unspeakable sadness and it goes a little something like this..."

'Boy...usually it just gently weeps.'

Philip Larkin.

'Your work is so bleak, so despairing, your angst so wrenching. I've never read a party invitation quite like it before.'

"This drink? It's called loneliness. Care to join me?"

"I'd like to dedicate my next song to that delightful little table in the corner."