mina’s Reviews > This Year: 365 Songs Annotated: A Book of Days > Status Update

i hope they’ve got / plenty of money where you’re going / and the cornet blows / where the oleander grows / and us two: / not the same people that our old friends knew

shoutout to suicidal children who could not kill themselves despite their want. on an entirely unrelated note i’m gonna be sick.
call the coroner, book the hearse / my whole God damned family was crazy and i / was just 14, and ready to die / strike while the iron’s still nice and hot: / you people can stay here but I will NOT

wow. a lot here. song about a son who lost contact with a parent due to divorce at age six. the connection to a prior song. bad patterns. “try to step outside the shadow of your great catastrophe / dream all night of freedom / never wake up free” <— the last line in particular evoking never quite free to me. wow.

predictable, if spectacular, results

i did a pained groan when i read the title. excavating / the space we left behind

drafts are organ donors

heavy heavy heavy stuff . the next song being this year is also Wow

sometimes you just move on and sometimes you just don’t

THERE WONT BE ANY REASON LEFT TO CRY / BECAUSE THERE WONT BE ANY PEOPLE LEFT TO CRY FOR / MY MEMORYS GOING TO VAPORIZE ITSELF

song feels like a gut punch. “i don’t remember writing it” doubly so. what do we owe to each other? is death a victory? sometimes i’ll meet you out there, lonely and frightened. the end of an album to end all albums.