Happy Birthday Billie Holiday-- Gloomy Sunday for a Thursday

Just because I happen to like the song. It was originally written in 1933 Hungary by Rezső Seress and titled Vége a Világnak which translates to End of the World. The speaker of the lyrics mourns a lost love and vows to end it all in order that they may be together again. Urban legends sprang up around the song alleging that it inspired hundreds of suicides, though these are probably just stories told for the amusement of the overly suggestible. The composer, Seress, did eventually commit suicide, but not until 1969. In the Holiday version a third verse was added to the song in which the suicidal speaker wakes to find it was all just a dream. This is possibly the most lame ending ever, whether for a song, a movie or a book. It's a cheat.