‘Husband don’t know what he’s done, kids don’t know what’s wrong with mum’

[Greytodayinnit]

Anyone remember this song by Inspiral carpets? I was only a kid then, but wondered if this is how my mum felt…

I can understand the feelings in this song, being a mother etc…anyone else?

Yes! I often have the lyrics running through my head now I seem to be menopausal!

@3totheright4totheleft Yes 😅think I’m possibly peri and have been remembering it a lot recently, usually when I’m washing dishes and looking out of the window.

I looked it up recently, so,etching must have jogged my memory. Loved this song.

I always thought it was about depression. The next verse is about ‘some man from the top estate’ who commits suicide

I remember it from when I was a teenager. Heard it again recently and it really struck me how depressing the lyrics were.

I always thought it was about depression, and how isolating mental illness can be.

One of my favourite songs. The lyrics to the second verse were changed at the request of Railtrack/Network Rail. Original was: “There’s a funeral in town today, some guy from the top estate, seems they found him under a train and yet he had it all on a plate.”

New version is: “Black car drives through the town/Some guy from the top estate/left a note for a local girl/yet he had it all on a plate.”

It really captures the essence of loneliness and depression.

I loved that song & the album it came from - I was about 18 when it came out.

’this is how it feels to be lonely, this is how it feels to be small …’

i was in to depressing music at that time, more so than now I’m peri.

Yes, I think it’s about depression and loneliness
It is really depressing 🤣🙈

Just looked it up-1990, I was 12/13

Carter USM did a good cover. Inspirals are one of Jimbob's favourite bands iirc

Yes.
Always thought that verse was a description of pnd having gone through it.

I remember it from then and now I can 'understand 'it.