Gloomy Sunday The Suicide Song

"Gloomy Sunday", also known as the "Hungarian Suicide Song", is a popular song composed by Hungarian pianist and composer Rezső Seress and published in 1933.

The original lyrics were titled Vége a világnak (The world is ending) and were about despair caused by war, ending in a quiet prayer about people's sins. Poet László Jávorwrote his own lyrics to the song, titled Szomorú vasárnap (Sad Sunday), in which the protagonist wants to commit suicide following his lover's death. The latter lyrics ended up becoming more popular while the former were essentially forgotten. The song was first recorded in Hungarian by Pál Kalmár in 1935.

"Gloomy Sunday" was first recorded in English by Hal Kemp in 1936, with lyrics by Sam M. Lewis, and was recorded the same year by Paul Robeson, with lyrics by Desmond Carter. It became well-known throughout much of the English-speaking world after the release of a version by Billie Holiday in 1941. Lewis's lyrics referred to suicide, and the record label described it as the "Hungarian Suicide Song". There is a recurring urban legend which claims that many people have committed suicide while listening to this song.

Sunday is gloomy, 

My hours are slumberless.

Dearest, the shadows

I live with are numberless.

Little white flowers

Will never awaken you.

Not where the black coach

Of sorrow has taken you.

Angels have no thought

Of ever returning you.

Would they be angry

If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday, 

With shadows I spend it all.

My heart and I, have

Decided to end it all.

Soon there'll be candles

And prayers that are said, I know.

Let them not weep, 

Let them know that I'm glad to go.

Death is no dream, 

For in death I'm caressing you.

With the last breath of my soul, 

I'll be blessin' you.

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming.

I wake and I find you asleep

In the deep of my heart, dear.

Darling, I hope that

My dream never haunted you.

My heart is telling you, 

How much I wanted you.

Gloomy Sunday

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