But we want our music to answer questions and the thing is that sometimes those questions are sad ones.
Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.
Because if you were happy together, then the joyous memories outnumber the sad ones.
He walked around me to deliberately lock his eyes with the huge, sad ones of Melodie.
The funny stories, he said, often get a better response than sad ones.
Orla, a beautiful name, yet the images it brought to him were sad ones.
"So - don't you have the sad ones in Vienna?"
There sometimes seem to be more happy people in Kobe than sad ones.
Then again there were all the ugly things to be done after a victory; and the sad ones too.
"A lot of people don't like the sad ones," she says.