I always get unhappy in April, and this year I have more cause than most... so this song has been running through my head, and I was surprised not to see it in the Trad, although I admit that the Search function has been being funky, so I'm not sure if it really is there and I just couldn't find it. I have this on Simple Dreams, which seems to pop up on Google searches for the lyrics, so I'm not sure if Linda Ronstadt recorded this elsewhere, or if anyone else has recorded it. If you don't know it, it has a lovely, haunting melody. The problem with the lyrics is, I don't "get" them, I don't think. Any history out there?

Here are the lyrics, from a Google search:

If you see a friend and he tries to say
A girl we once knew is losing her way
It's true
I may be blue
I've seen the best years of life go through
A man that I love
And another I need
Both men have helped make the sad life I lead

Sorrow lives here in my heart
It haunts me when I sleep
I can't keep the thought of you from my dreams
Everything seems to spin all around
But I can't see
Whether it happens with or without me

Remember how perfume, my gown and silk gloves
Had teased your heart so and brought out your love
It's done
Night's breeze has blown
A chill up my spine
The world was mine
Then haughty and high
To bide my time
'Til all of my hopes
Just wish you were mine

Sorrow lives here in my heart
It haunts me when I sleep
I can't keep the thought of you from my dreams
Everything seems to spin all around
But I can't see
Whether it happens with or without me

So I assume it's a Cry for Help song, starting out with If you hear I'm really depressed, well, I am... do we know who these 2 men are? Or how they made her life, let alone made it so sad? Is it the spinning that she isn't sure happens with or without her, or life itself somehow? And what is with the haughty and high verse? Did she rise "above" something she is now regretting not wallowing in, like sex? All I know is it reverberates with me right now...