Even If I Explain It To You, Word By Word…
Maybe alienation isn’t something to be solved, but something to be lived with—not a wound, but scar tissue I have to learn to move with. Maybe the question shouldn’t be “where are you from?” but “what did you have to lose in order to be here?”
…And Where Are You From?
The question I always dreaded having to answer. Not at all because I felt ashamed of where I came from, but because I knew that no matter where I came from, my answer would always change my relationship to the person asking it.
What We Have Known: Music Revealing the Timeless Nature of War
Californian folk singer-songwriter Joanna Newsom’s What We Have Known grapples with the state of the world at the time it was released; first in 2003 on her EP Yarn and Glue and later as the B-side to her single Sprout and the Bean in 2004. In analysing its lyrics, Newsom ruminates on the idea of war and the destruction it causes.
Technicolor
My mom always said I smile better with my teeth
I never believed her, but now I’d like to
I just can’t bring myself to look into the mirror
