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“SAD CLOWN”
Dear Listener,
Often, depression is the constant feeling of sadness, anger and loss of interest which stops you from doing your normal daily activities or even enjoying and appreciating life.
Now, what causes that sadness, anger or loss of interest is a much deeper discussion and often is quite different for everyone. It is absolutely okay that we start making this acceptable to talk about in society without ridicule or judgment.
Whether you find a group or a friend to confide in, it must be addressed! It helps tremendously to address it. The song itself tackles the idea of the “sad clown.” Many people do not have the option to stop life in its tracks and address these issues or even slow down enough to talk to someone. The show must go on and on and on. We have created a society in which we must constantly work to make due, bring bread and simply survive. Our hierarchy of needs has been stripped to its foundation, universally.
A lot of that has to do with day to day interaction with people, co-workers, friends, etc. The facade, or the greatest show on earth, is feeling these emotions but having to wake up every day and stuff them down inside without being able to address them and fix them head on; We are constantly pressing forward to make life work. Life is hard.
That is what I believe we were tackling with this song. The, “sad clown,” is a paradox that is the contradictory association between comedy (in a sense, acting like a clown for the world) and presenting society with that optimistic, dancing smile, while having to deal with great sadness, anger and depression inside (no matter what the cause).
The mental disorders, anxiety and feelings on the inside absolutely must be addressed or it simply becomes a madhouse. I see the world becoming a madhouse, a circus, a rotating, revolving, traveling freak show and not only are we all actors in it, for some reason we all love to be spectators as well.
Since the song has been written (many years ago), I have seen the world fall more and more into the carnival. I’m not even sure I have to write in more detail for all of you readers to know exactly what I mean.
You can obviously hear the themes throughout the song making the connections between what I am describing above and the maddening roadshow that life has become. What has not killed us has only made us more weird and crazy.
If you feel like you have an issue or need to get something out… Please reach out. There are plenty of people out here to listen, including me. Please listen to the song, “Sad Clown,” and appreciate the approach in which it is coming from. It means the world to me and it may be one of the most important songs I have ever had the privelage to write with my boys. Thank you for listening and all of us, let’s talk in peace.
-Andreas Stavropoulos
- Genre
- Alternative Rock