Grief and reassurance don’t usually occupy the same sentence without one canceling the other out. “Don’t Get…
Will You Find Me (25th anniversary)
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Some songs comfort you and some songs steady you, and those aren’t the same thing. Comfort softens…
There’s a version of “Don’t Think Twice It’s Alright” that hits you like a door closing in…
Grief has a way of arriving in the body before the mind catches up, and some songs…
There’s a particular kind of heartbreak that doesn’t announce itself with slammed doors or raised voices. It…
Some songs about need are also, underneath it, songs about terror. The fear isn’t of being hurt…
Some songs use two minutes and eleven seconds better than others use six. “Don’t Drop the Baby”…
Reassurance is one of the loneliest gestures in the emotional vocabulary. Someone tells you not to worry,…
Sometimes the most honest thing two people can do is stop talking. Not out of defeat, not…