In this grim and spaced-out bonus track, Courtney drops the sad clown act and deals directly with her clinical depression (though she can’t quite resist punning up the title). It captures her mood with just a few lyrics—one of which became the title for album, a line she supposedly found on a poster hanging in her grandmother’s bathroom. It’s a poignant depiction of life at a low, though the voters mostly just seemed to find boring, slapping it with mediocre scores that dropped it to the bottom of the countdown.
Best bit: “I wish I could turn it off/But I guess it never stops/I’m dying inside, but I’m smiling”
Pretentiously spelled in all lower case, this mostly vocal-free opening track from Art Angels relies heavily on real instruments, including a baroque piano line and sweeping violin arrangement. While it establishes the album’s dark tone, a running time of under two minutes doesn’t leave much opportunity for the song to develop into anything more than a throwaway curiosity.
