There’s a hello in this goodbye. Or is it the other way ’round?
Hope, love, and sorrow tangled up in a knot of words.
 
Happy songs sung sad do something special. So do sad songs sung happy.
Words and music pulling the perfect tension.
Some progress from sad to happy; others from happy to sad; some go there and back again.
Then there’s the songs where lyrics and sounds skate back and forth.
Between sweet melancholy and wistful glad.
Tears and triumph.

Happy or sad, this one? I can’t tell.
What’s the mood?
What’s the secret?
Maybe it sounds different on different days.
Maybe it’s both.
 
“Empire,” by Philip Dunne.

Have a listen. What do you hear?