R.E.M.
Automatic For The People

Is it possible to record an album entirely centered on the theme of pain, suffering, the loss of every point of view, every feeling, and the desire to not even think about the reason for things anymore?
Days tasting like dust and that persistent insistence on wanting to suffer for everything because it's only with pain that starts from within that you reach the ultimate limit of closeness to the soul. You drive along long desolate highways while a warm voice serves as an added instrument to a guitar playing only three repeated chords... you enter the gallery from the beginning, my friend... you won't want to know anything else, at least for a few days.
You begin to feel a tremendous weight on your shoulders, it's a black scream that becomes even more substantial as seconds pass, it's painful, yes, but it's so thrilling...

You shouldn't make comparisons with foreign sounds or overly precise references when it comes to this journey: this is a journey on its own and should be left as such. If you've never cried to the notes of something, this is just the right time to start, and no questions are allowed, which, in the end, only serve to prolong the wait for our primordial scream.
Everyone suffers, everyone loses something, time devours everything and it will devour these words too, which tonight in September with the cool air of dusk come out more sincere than ever.

You discover that the beautiful things in life are those small ones that you like, the ones that only you know and that don't interest anyone else. Swimming at night in a pool isolated from the chaos of the city can be solemn within these notes, like a baptism to a new life.

Once the journey is over, you have a rejection, "why so much suffering?", you feel a repulsion towards things, "nobody serves any purpose", yet you are richer in spirit and you realize that you have managed to appreciate some deep feelings thanks to a painful journey.