closing track off of mewithoutYou's 2006 high water mark "Brother, Sister". Amazing how you can listen to this album a few times at 17 years old and not think too much of it then listen again at 34, having literally doubled your lifespan, and think "oh fuck this rips". We are ever changing beings. This makes me feel like I'm on a rock in the middle of the ocean but I know I'm definitely going to get saved
I’m walking alone in dark, cold, snowy weather on the streets of some Eastern European city letting my entire body feel the intensity of all the world’s sorrow when I hear this song. Not to be dramatic.
Something about the autotune vocals makes it hit so much harder, it feels inhuman and detached and somehow because of that it feels way more connective
It's just like John Swartzwelder said:
"Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and rather fun, I always write my scripts all the way through as fast as I can, the first day, if possible […] Then the next day, when I get up, the script’s been written. It’s lousy, but it’s a script. The hard part is done."