So, if sad music makes you sad, nowhere, why do you listen to it? Is there something healing in feeling sad, something that "matches" the depression and balances one?

I had (it was on a 33-1/3rd record I owned and the record/song was never recorded on any other "newer" technology) a song that always, always cheered me up. I thought to myself (in the 1970's) that I had it made if my world felt like it was coming to an end, it could always cheer me.

If I had to come up with a song that could do the opposite, bring me "down" (sober me? that's not always a bad thing?) I'd have to say, it's Barbra Streisand's "Where am I going?" from Sweet Charity.

Here sung (too upbeat) by Shirley Bassey:

Where am I going?
And what will I find?
What's in this grab bag
That I calI my mind?

What am I doing
Alone on the shelf?
Ain't it a shame,
But no one's to blame but myself.

Which way is clear
When you've lost your way
Year after year?

Do I keep falling in love for just the kick of it?
Staggering through the thin and thick of it,
Hating each old, tired trick of it,
Know what I am,
I'm good and sick of it!

Where am I going?
Why do I care?
Run where it's foul,
Run where it's fair,
No matter where I run I meet myself there.

Looking inside me, what do I see?
Anger and hope and doubt,
What am I all about?
And where am I going?
Tell me why do I care?

No matter where I run I meet myself there
Looking inside me, what do I see?
Anger and hope and doubt
What am I alI about?
And where am I going?
Where am I going?