As previously noted, I’m writing a novel. 🧔🏻
Not only did Casanova find the idea amusing, but apparently so does Father John Misty. I guess it’s not such a “novel” idea after all.
And I’m writing a novel because it’s never been done before.
Hey, you guys may laugh, but my book is going to be good! Okay, maybe not as good as Father John Misty’s song, but still good.
I’ve narrowed my 70 planned chapters down to 48. And on my third draft of the first 16 pages.
Less is more, baby.
The irony of staying in it, and trying to make it work, even when you know you’re swimming upstream. Sometimes we’re drawn to a challenge, even if we know it’s doomed.
We’re cut adrift
We’re still floating
I’m only hanging on
To watch you go down
My love
The irony of someone thinking maybe they don’t belong there, and so they don’t.
The men who love you, you hate the most
They pass right through you like a ghost
They look for you, but your spirit is in the air
Baby, you’re nowhere
Another great U2 cover by Transient.
Lucas Nelson has an amazing way of writing a song about one thing and then sneaking in a little mini-anthem about something else right in the middle. The mini-anthem hammers home the original point with an underlying truth.
It’s his jab-jab-jab-uppercut of songwriting. 🥊
On Find Yourself, Lucas rambles for a while about an unsatisfying relationship. Then the tone of the song briefly changes, and the mini-anthem bursts in.
I know the love that I deserve.
That’s the underlying truth to the rest of the song. It’s so beautiful and simple, it almost brings me to tears every time.
This song has some special meaning to me since I first heard it with a small but enthusiastic crowd at Lucy’s Friend Chicken in South Austin. Lucas Nelson sang it from the top of a picnic table as part of an unofficial SXSW performance. It sounded great, even without Lady Gaga. 😉
👉 Bonus: can you find the mini-anthem in Turn Off The News (Build A Garden)?
A great song by Neko Case about burning yourself out over the people…
Tired of trying to make everyone happy
Too tired to sing your own songs
Reclaiming your energy…
Do you wish you could stop everything
And take back your love
Say you’re sorry you gave it up so easy
And cry like you’re trying to be born
And getting to the work you were always meant to do.
So I died and went to work
So I died and went to work
Thank you, Neko. 🙏
Hats off to Hazel English for this beautiful, heartbreaking song and the perfectly bittersweet video to accompany it.
It’s hard to stay true to myself and to you
I can’t measure up to this girl you thought you knew
This aching in my heart is tearing me apart
But, darling all your love is somehow not enough
Mental Break Town 