Has anyone mentioned "Strange Fruit", made famous by Billie Holiday?
I love melancholy music (isn’t melancholia the natural human condition? It’s been mine since watching in horror as my mother slowly, painfully succumbed to brain cancer when I was 14-15), such as "’Til I Die" by Brain Wilson, found on The Beach Boys Surf’s Up album. Quite far removed from his "Fun, Fun, Fun" ;-) . But then those lyrics were written by Mr. Fun himself, Mike Love.