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Today prompt, "A song that breaks your heart", is the last of the difficult ones - I already know what my responses for days 28, 29 and 30 are. I think my answer for this is going to be a copout, because the my best answer, Tall Ships (which I've already mentioned once, I think), is a medley of several songs and therefore probably disallowed.

So what I'm going for here is a song that mostly breaks my heart because of its associations:



In Evita, Another Suitcase in Another Hall is sung by Juan Peron's previous mistress, upon being displaced ("unemployed", according to the libretto) by the title character. It's a song of rejection, and that's the role it plays for me as well; it gets added to my mental playlist when something has just gone horribly wrong. So since I'm sort of used to listening to it when I'm desperately unhappy anyway, listening to it the rest of the time tends to make me feel down (I'm going to stop now). The song I really ought to find heartbreaking from Evita is A Waltz for Eva and Che, especially since I can't really disagree with its depressing fatalism, but for some reason it's never really resonated with me, possibly because the use of Ché Guevara in framing just seems weird.

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