So dramatic but . . .

I have seen grown men and women cry when listening to this song and at first when I was a kid I found the song boring, oh so boring. It was mass self-destruction from the beginning with no hope getting past the pain without suffering. She knew her emotions and could make anybody with a sound mind and body, just fall to pieces.

Death is part of life as I have been told many times and already at a tender age, have experienced some personal loss. It was the summer that Elvis Presley died and many tears were shed across the many states filled with loyal fans who could not make it to Graceland. I was one of those fans and Patsy's song just fnished playing, again for the thrid time this week at a local radio station when the announcement came on that Elvis was found dead in his bathroom.

The irony came in me thinking this song was dramatic, kind of dumb that it made people reach so far into pain but then miraculously how I immediately understood, 'falling to pieces'. The news hit me pretty hard, I cried down to mom and spent the rest of the afternoon and night up in my room with the radio playing Elvis memories all weekend. I was curled up in fetal position wondering why someone so famous with so much money who neglected their own health, want to be dead rather than alive? Was it a suicide? Was he unhappy? What of his daughter, she is a little girl without her daddy !

Oh my gosh . . . what a way to learn how to fall to pieces and why you would when an emotion came over you so profoundly. What a new perspective of once a 'dumb song', now becoming more clear. Therapy with a dramatic twist !