Kutukan Bunuh Diri di Balik Lagu Gloomy Sunday - Billie Holiday

Banyak pihak berpendapat kalau sejumlah bunuh diri tersebut terjadi karena saat lagu tersebut menjadi hits, perang sedang berkecamuk, sehingga faktor sebenarnya yang menyebabkan banyaknya kasus bunuh diri adalah frustasi terhadap resesi ekonomi, kemiskinan dan kelaparan.

Namun, entah berhubungan atau tidak, pada Januari 1968, sekitar 30 tahun setelah menulis lagu Vége a világnak atau Gloomy Sunday ini, Rezső Seress melakukan bunuh diri dengan melompat dari jendela apartemennya sehari setelah merayakan ulang tahunnya yang ke 69.

Lirik lagu Gloomy Sunday - Billie Jollie

Sunday is gloomy,
My hours are slumberless.
Dearest, the shadows
I live with are numberless.

Little white flowers
Will never awaken you.
Not where the black coach
Of sorrow has taken you.

Angels have no thought
Of ever returning you.
Would they be angry
If I thought of joining you?

Gloomy Sunday

Gloomy is Sunday,
With shadows I spend it all.
My heart and I, have
Decided to end it all.

Soon there'll be candles
And prayers that are said, I know.
Let them not weep,
Let them know that I'm glad to go.

Death is no dream,
For in death I'm caressing you.
With the last breath of my soul,
I'll be blessin' you.

Gloomy Sunday

Dreaming, I was only dreaming.
I wake and I find you asleep
In the deep of my heart, dear.

Darling, I hope that
My dream never haunted you.
My heart is telling you,
How much I wanted you.