I don't know...being a Cardinals fan is tough. I love 'em to death, but sometimes it gets to me.
One of my favorite songs of all time is Billy Strayhorn's "Lush Life". It's an incredibly sad, but beautiful song about someone who is so distraught over a past love, that they decide to drink themselves to death. Kinda like how we feel after every season.
Here's the lyrics from the chorus:
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"Life is lonely again and only last year everything seemed so sure.
Now life is awful again, a troughful of hearts could only be a bore.
A week in Paris will ease the bite of it;
all I care is to smile in spite of it.
I'll forget you I will, while yet you are still burning inside my brain.
Romance is mush, stifling those who strive.
I'll live a Lush Life in some small dive,
And there I'll be, while I rot with the rest
of those whose lives are lonely too."
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Sums up our feelings about every past season, huh?