Mad World

I had decided that I am not going to follow this round of American Idol so closely but the opposite happened -- well, knowing me, maybe that was expected. This season’s team has the most excellent singers and performers, with Adam Lambert topping it all. Like all the other Idol fans, we look forward to every week’s performance just to see what is he coming up with next, and so far he has not disappointed us.

My most favourite performance of his was Smokey Robinson’s Track of my Tears, but the most poignant song that kept plaguing me for a few weeks now is Tears For Fear’s Mad World, which was remade by Gary Jules. The music is hauntingly beautiful and the lyrics very dark. The scary thing is that I can’t get it off my mind, these words and the melody:

All around me are familiar faces,
Worn out places, worn out faces,
Bright and early for their daily races
Going nowhere, going nowhere
…
And I find it kind of funny
I find it kind of sad
The dreams in which I’m dying
Are the best I’ve ever had
I find it hard to tell you
I find it hard to take
When people run in circles
It’s a very, very
Mad world, mad world

I even bought the movie of which Gary Jules’ version of the song was used – Donnie Darko, rated more than 80% by http://www.rottentomatoes.com/, a dark dreary movie about a schizophrenic. I have not watched it yet -- not ready to enter into its darkness yet.

I had second thoughts sharing the video here – so watch it at your own peril.



pearlie