Mercury - Act 1 by Imagine Dragons | Best depressive-happy album

After a week of listening to Imagine Dragons' fifth album: Mercury Act 1, I can finally write about the songs. Coincidentally I discovered the album after listening to 'Enemy', the song they did for the League of Leyends series, the song I listened to repeatedly was 'Lonely', and I was very curious because I had never heard it before, then I played the whole album and I died, but I revived.

If it were up to me I would tell you about all the songs, but I'm only going to tell you about the songs that made me cry the most, and at the same time made me the happiest, because even though they are completely depressive, too much, they have something beautiful to say, something hopeful, that no matter how small or simple it is, it is very strong.

Después de una semana escuchando quinto album de Imagine Dragons: Mercury Act 1, puedo finalmente escribir sobre las canciones. Casualmente descubrí el album después de escuchar 'Enemy', la canción que hicieron para la serie de League of Leyends, la canción que escuchaba repetidamente era 'Lonely', y me daba mucha curiosidad porque nunca la había escuchado antes, entonces pongo todo el album y me morí, pero reviví.

Si fuera por mí les hablaría de todas las canciones, pero solo les voy a hablar de las canciones que más me hicieron llorar, y a la vez que más me hicieron feliz, porque aunque son completamente depresivas, demasiado, tienen algo bonito que decir, algo esperanzador, que sin importar lo pequeño o simple que sea, es muy fuerte.

Can I wish on a star for another life?
'Cause it feels like I'm all on my own tonight
And I find myself in pieces
There are pills on the table and a thought in my head
And I walk through the halls where I used to be led
My heart is filled with reasons

I'm tryin' to be somebody else
I'm findin' it hard to love myself
I've wanted to be somebody new
But that is impossible to do

I'm runnin' out of my mind
Is this really my life?
I'm runnin' out of time
Is this really my life? My life

I could run from it all but I'd only get lost
Oh, I've walked on the bridge that I shouldn't have crossed
And I find myself, a user
Oh, I wake every day with addictions to feed
They all call me a friend but I'll never be freed
From the face of a faithless future

[...]

My Life, the first song on the album and the second song that made me cry. Why do they have to make such good songs? I hate them, I love them, it's horrible. More than once I had too many problems just for existing, having a life that you didn't even know was different from the rest creates more problems than we can imagine, and they always have to do with others instead of oneself.

Many things can make us question not only our life, if it is the one we should have, or if we should really be alive and that is when, as the song says, we can end up in vices that call us friend, with many pills on the table and only one thought in our mind... it is horrible and it is difficult, but everything can get better.

My Life, la primera canción del album y la segunda que me hizo llorar. ¿Por qué tienen que hacer canciones tan buenas? Los odio, los amo, es horrible. Más de una vez tuve demasiados problems simplemente por existir, tender una vida que ni siquiera sabías que era differente del resto crea más problemas de los que podemos llegar a imaginar, y siempre tienen que ver con los demás en vez de uno mismo.

Muchas cosas pueden llegar a hacer que no solo cuestionemos nuestra vida, si es la que deberíamos tener, o si en realidad deberíamos estar vivos y es cuando comod dice la canción, podemos llegar a terminar en vicios que nos llaman amigo, con muchas pastillas sobre la mesa y un solo pensamiento en nuestra menta... es horrible y es difícil, pero todo puede mejorar.

Sometimes, I can get a little
I can get a little lonely
Sometimes, I can get a little
I can get a little lonely

Some nights I get a little lonely
It's even when there's people all around me
Sometimes I get a little anxious
'Cause these pills don't work the way the doctor played it
I'm startin' to spin, needles and pins
Right on the brim, hand on a limb, takin' it in
Sleep it away, life in a day, and day in a life
Mixin' it up, checkin' it twice

Tryin' to breathe, startin' to seize
Lights camera action and scene
Story of my life

[...]

Sometimes I smile to keep things easy
I hide in corners, hope that no one sees me
So I'm playin' a role, ridin' the boat, stuck in a hole
Taking a bow, lookin' so proud
Look at me now talkin' about pills in my mouth
Under the tongue, isn't it fun?

[...]

I said, "Oh, love" (keep me company, I said, I need the company)
(I said, I need the company) have mercy
(I said, oh love)
Oh, love, can you please have mercy on me?
(Keep me company, I said, I need the company)
(I said, I need the company) can you keep me company?
(I said)
Oh love, any help
Why am I so lonely?

[...]

This is the second song of the album, the first one I listened to and the first one that made me cry, it's fucking perfect. Loneliness is more a feeling than a state caused by the lack of company, because the same song says it, you don't need to be alone to feel lonely, the real feeling of loneliness takes place when there are people around you and still that feeling doesn't disappear from you.

A thousand times we find ourselves smiling and pretending so the rest of the world doesn't notice, and it doesn't matter, because even if they do notice they also have their own problems to deal with and even though many of us by helping others are also helping ourselves, it's hard to start doing it, when it shouldn't be like that.

Esta es la segunda canción del album, la primera que escuché y la primera que me hizo llorar, es jodidamente perfecta. La soledad es más un sentimiento que un estado a causa por la falta de compañia, porque la misma canción lo dice, no hace falta estar solo para sentirse solo, el verdadero sentimiento de soledad tiene lugar cuando hay personas a tu alrededor y aún así esa sensación no desaparece de ti.

Mil veces nos encontramos sonriendo y fingiendo para que el resto del mundo no se de cuenta, y no importa, porque aunque se den cuenta también tienen sus propios problemas con los que lidiar y aunque muchas al ayudar a los demás también nos estamos ayudando, es difícil comenzar a hacerlo, cuando no debería ser así.

She could always hear every word they say
Everybody walks like they just know the way
Every single day, holdin' back the tears
She'd never say a word 'cause there's nobody that hears

[...]

Mine is broken, how is yours?
Sure it helps to hear the news and political discourse
Fear, that is what he felt
Every single day, 'cause all the boys would play
Don't you dare be weak, emasculated freak
Last up on the fence, tell me where's the sense?

[...]

I don't want this body, I don't want this voice
I don't wanna be here but I guess I have no choice
Just let me live my truth, that's all I wanna do
Baby, you're not broken, just a little bit confused

It's okay to be not okay (I need you here with me)
It's just fine to be out of your mind (I can't do it all alone)
Breathe in deep, just a day at a time (just a day at a time)
'Cause it's okay to be out of your mind (it's okay, out of your mind)
It's okay to be not okay (I need you here with me)
It's just fine to be out of your mind (I can't do it all alone)
Breathe in deep, just a day at a time (just a day at a time)
'Cause it's okay to be out of your mind (it's okay, out of your mind)

[...]

Nowadays there are people who are overly positive, so much so, that it becomes harmful, both for themselves and for the people around them, they are that kind of people who always try to look for a bigger problem than anyone I have to tell them to get over it, that they should not be suffering for that when there are bigger problems in the world. What the fuck is wrong with them? Diminishing people's feelings like that is one of the worst things you can do, fuck yourselves, but not others.

It is okay not to be okay, and it is something that is becoming more and more normalized, and not in the sense that we have to look to be bad or victimize ourselves about anything, no, but that our feelings are valid, everyone has a war to face daily, and sometimes we just can not go to battle, then it is okay to be bad, that process of self-care and recovery is a very important step to take into account in order to heal, everyone has their own pace and we must give us our time to do so, to cope with this world full of shitty people.

Actualmente hay gente excesimaente postiva, tanto así, que llega a ser dañino, tanto para ellos mismos como para las personas a su alrededor, son see tipo de personas que intentan siempre buscar un problema mayor al que cualquiera tengo para decirle que lo supere, que no debería estar sufriendo por eso cuando hay mayores problemas en el mundo. ¿Qué mierda las pasa? Disminuir así los sentimientos de las personas es una de las peores cosas que se pueden hacer, jódanse la visda ustedes mismos, pero no a los demás.

Está bien no estar bien, y es algo que cada vez está más normalizado, y no en el sentido de que hay que buscar estar mal o victimizarse sobre cualquier cosa, no, si no que nuestros sentimientos son válidos, cada quien tiene una guerra a la que se enfrenta diariamente, y a veces simplemente no podemos ir a la batalla, entonces está bien estar mal, ese proceso de autocuidado y recuperación es un paso muy importante que hay que tener en cuenta para poder sanar, cada quien tiene su propio ritmo y hay que darnos nuestro tiempo para poder hacerlo, para poder hacerle frente a este mundo lleno de gente de mierda.

The way they look at me, I know exactly
What they talk about when I'm not around
Got no time for that, as a matter of fact
Every day's my birthday, oh, I hope you heard me

Take a look outside, it's a beautiful day, yeah
Yeah, it's a beautiful day, yeah
I'm gonna keep it that way, that way, ayy
Take a real good look, it's a beautiful day, yeah
Yeah, it's a beautiful day, yeah
I'm gonna keep it that way, that way, ayy

So spend your hours on what you think I've done wrong
I know I'm in your mind, I've been here way too long
I want to spend my life with those who's done me right
Your heart is frozen over, I'm a four-leaf clover

Take a look outside, it's a beautiful day, yeah
Yeah, it's a beautiful day, yeah
I'm gonna keep it that way, that way, ayy
Take a real good look, it's a beautiful day, yeah
Yeah, it's a beautiful day, yeah
I'm gonna keep it that way, that way, ayy

Do-do, do-do-do, no time for toxic people
Do-do, do-do-do, no time for that, I
Do-do, do-do-do, no time for toxic people
I, I've got no time for toxic people

[...]

I am going to finish writing about this song because it is completely refreshing, it is a drink of water after walking for hours under the sun without any shadow to cover us, it is the smile of someone who loves you very much and that motivates you to run to shorten the distance that separates you so you can hug her faster.

You just don't have to have time for toxic people, envious people, people who call themselves friends of someone and talk bad about everyone behind their backs, I hate that kind of people and that's why I avoid them, from the first moment I notice that someone is like that I walk away and I stop contaminating myself with their existence, because as the song says, the days are too beautiful not to look at them and damage them with toxic people who only damage everything they touch.

There are many more songs: Wrecked, which talks about the loss of someone loved; Monday, which talks about how we will always have someone special, and that person will be our Monday, the best day of the week, I loved that song too much; #1, which talks about how one should always be one's priority no matter what, I loved it; and so many more, I loved them all, go listen to them, and suffer and be happy with me.

Voy a terminar escribiendo sobre esta canción porque es completamente refrescante, es un trago de agua después de caminar hora bajo el sol sin sombra alguna que nos cubra, es la sonrisa de alguien que te quiere mucho y que te motiva a correr para acortar la distancia que los separa y así poder abrazarla más rápido.

Simplemente no hay que tener tiempo para personas tóxicas, personas envidiosas, personas que se autodenominan amigos de alguien y se la pasan hablando mal de todo el mundo a sus espaldas, odio ese tipo de personas y por eso las evito, desde el primer momento en el que noto que alguien es así me alejo y dejo de contaminarme con su existencia, porque como dice la canción, los días son demasiados hermosos como para no mirarlos y dañarlos con gente tóxica que solo daña todo lo que toca.

Hay muchas más canciones: Wrecked, que habla sobre la pérdida de alguien amado; Monday, que habla sobre como siempre tendremos a alguien especial, y esa persona será nuestro lunes, el mejor día de la semana, amé demasiado esa canción; #1, que habla sobre que siempre uno debe ser la prioridad de uno mismo sin importar qué, la amé; y así muchas más, las amé todas, vayan a escucharlas, y sufran y sean felices conmigo.