"I've been sad for most the year, quit two jobs, quit drinking beer. Grew tomatoes in the yard, forgot to pick them, they went bad," laments Melanie Baker in the opening lines of 'Sad Clown'. "Got a nosebleed on the bus, I didn't wanna cause a scene, so I got off and I walked, blood dripping into my socks."
"I thought these things happened to everyone, that everyone was having a terrible time, but someone came up to me at a gig recently and gifted me a necklace to give me some good luck, because it seems like 'I've got a lot of bad luck in my life'," laughs Melanie. "Is that the energy that I give off? That I'm cursed?"
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