Cruel Songs

A list from Guardian Newspaper 24 July

Vicious - Lou Reed


Shiver and Shake The Cure

Crow Jane Skip James


Stupid Girl The Rolling Stones
Ether Nas

Ripple The Church

The Cruel Mother Shirley Collins

an unmarried girl who kills her newborn rather than face the community's anger

Blues for Ceausescu Fatima Mansions

Idiot Wind Bob Dylan


Twat John Cooper Clarke
'like the shadow of the guillotine on a dead consumptive's face'

Life

Safe From Harm - Massive Attack

The awareness that parenthood brings responsibilities.

Sour Times - Portishead

'Nobody loves me, it's true/Not like you do' - an exercise in enigmatic misery

Then again....
Feeling Good - Nina Simone


No Surrender - Bruce Springsteen
Stand together throughout all of life's tribulations.


Work - Lou Reed & John Cale
Has to be done.