Still desperately looking for that one definitive anti-depression cure? The one that will act like a life belt, that will keep you afloat on the cold merciless waves of this shoreless, bottomless depression ocean? Worry no longer! I’ve finally found it for you!
The solution is simple, cheap and tasty. And compared with other antidepressants, it’s perfectly safe too. It’s called Bovril:
Well, I guess we should be grateful that apparently, this brilliant way to “prevent that sinking feeling” was not known to the British band The Cure. If they had been happy Bovril users when recording their 1985 album The Head on the Door, they might not have been able to describe that same feeling in the song Sinking:
i am slowing down
as the years go by
i am sinking
so i trick myself
like everybody else
the secrets i hide
twist me inside
they make me weaker
so i trick myself
like everybody else
i crouch in fear and wait
i’ll never feel again
if only i could remember
anything at all
(click the “Play” button – if it does not work, install Flash)
For more music by The Cure, please go to the official The Cure website. The 2006 re-release of the Head on the Door album with this Sinking song can be ordered from Amazon.
• footnote: Of course Bovril is not an antidepressant. It is just a typically English meat extract, a bit like Marmite. Produced since 1870, it was originally meant as “fluid beef” for use by soldiers in the field. Today, it is still used as base for hot drinks, as toast spread, and as flavoring in soups and stews.
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