• RoundSparrow @ SJW@sh.itjust.works
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    1 year ago

    The general phrase is pretty well described by Elton John/Bernie Taupin’s song… https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6KYAVn8ons

    He puts emphasis on how “things can only get better”, being at the bottom of life. Separated from long-term desires.

    “In the 19th century the English phrase blue devils referred to the upsetting hallucinations brought on by severe alcohol withdrawal. This was later shortened to the blues, which described states of depression and upset, and it was later adopted as the name for the melancholic songs that the musical genre encapsulates.”