Some friends have been doing one of those month-long song challenges on Bluesky (#David’sMonthOfMusic). I found out late, which tracks, since I don’t really pay much attention to social media. I also don’t usually do challenges, but any excuse to talk about a few favorite songs and artists is hard to ignore. And because I’m bad at rules and worse at daily commitments, I figured I’d just do it all at once.
This also ended up being longer and more meta than anyone probably intended, with side stories and songs that might only mean something to me and a small handful of other people. I don’t really expect anyone to read or listen to the whole thing, and that’s fine… that kind of stuff tends to be my favorite things to write anyway.
Day 1 – A favorite song
Song & Artist: Random Rules by the Silver Jews
I love everything David Berman, and trying to pick just one Silver Jews song is next to impossible, but I’ve always loved this song and the video. Berman writes like a poet who accidentally ended up fronting a band, which is basically what happened. (His poetry collection Actual Air, I can’t recommend enough.) “Random Rules” is classic Berman: witty and self-aware with lines that kinda sound like a shrug and land like a punch. It’s a combination of mess and clarity, like somebody telling the truth while trying to laugh it off.
Berman’s life ended the way a lot of his best lines always hinted it might, and when you go back through the catalog after his suicide, it feels obvious. If you aren’t familiar and feel like exploring him, (and you definitely should!) for sure hit all the Silver Jews records, and when you’re ready, jump into Purple Mountains. It came out right before he died, and it feels like a final postcard that’s funny and sad and brutal in the same breath. If you actually listen to the lyrics, and you possess even a minimally functioning emotional system, there’s a pretty good chance you’ll notice some moisture in your eyes.
A few lines:
I know that a lot of what I say has been lifted off of men’s room walls
Maybe I’ve crossed the wrong rivers and walked down all the wrong halls
But nothing can change the fact that we used to share a bed
And that’s why it scared me so when you turned to me and said
“Yeah, you look like someone…
Yeah you look like someone who up and left me low
Boy, you look like someone I used to know”
Day 2 – a song from this year
Song & Artist: Feel Free by Jeff Tweedy
Why: Twilight Override is a huge triple record, but this song feels like its quiet center point. It’s loose, repetitive, and doesn’t ask much of the listener. Just a reminder, offered without irony, that some things still belong to you. And according to Apple Music’s end-of-year thingy, it’s the song I played more than any other in 2025. It followed me on a lot of long runs, sometimes on repeat. At seven minutes, it also happens to pace a seven-minute mile pretty well.
A few lines:
Feel free
Get yourself born in the USA
Love with a love they can’t take away
Feel free
Day 3 – A cover version
Song & Artist: The Ghost of Tom Joad by Rage Against the Machine
Why: The original Springsteen version is amazing, of course, but Rage turns it into something else entirely. Less like a story being told and more like a warning being shouted through a bullhorn. Tom Morello does that thing he does where the guitar turns into an air-raid siren and a turntable at the same time, and conjures a riff you can’t get out of your head. Zack’s anger gives the song its teeth. It’s one of those covers that doesn’t just pay tribute.
I was lucky enough to see Rage once around 1998 or 1999, and even though I’ve been to hundreds of shows over my 45 years, I’ve never been in a room that boiled over with that kind of energy before Zack even picked up the mic. And once he did, it absolutely exploded.
A few lines:
Wherever there’s a cop beating a guy
Wherever a hungry newborn baby cries
Where there’s a fight against the blood and hatred in the air
Look for me, Mom, I’ll be there
Wherever somebody’s fighting for a place to stand
Or a decent job or a helping hand
Wherever somebody’s struggling to be free
Look in their eyes, ma, and you’ll see me”
Day 4 – A song with four words in the title
Song & Artist: One of These Days by Neil Young
If I were the type of person to create a holy trinity of songwriters, it would include Bob Dylan, Jeff Tweedy, and Neil Young, with Conor Oberst, David Berman, and Leonard Cohen right there too. With the exception of Cohen, who I regretfully never got to see, I’ve seen everyone else on that list live multiple times. And while I wouldn’t rank Neil as my favorite among them, because that kind of thing shifts depending on the day and my mood, I can say with confidence that Neil Young and Crazy Horse at ACL Fest 2012 is still my favorite live show I’ve ever attended.
But I digress. “One of These Days” sounds like a grown-up promise: one of these days he’s going to sit down and write a long letter to all the good friends he’s known. It’s simple and warm and a melancholy. And its a song that, if you’ve lived long enough, reminds you there are people you should probably write that letter to also.
A few lines:
One of these days
I’m gonna sit down and write a long letter
To all the good friends I’ve known
And I’m gonna try
And thank them all for the good times together
Though so apart we’ve grown
Day 5 – A song with a number in the title
Song & Artist: Waltz #2 by Elliot Smith
Elliott Smith had this unfair ability to make something sound gorgeous while it’s fucking cutting you in half. “Waltz #2” is melodic and almost sweet on the surface while the lyrics take inventory of damage. It’s one of those songs that makes you appreciate how much can be packed into a few minutes when the writing is that sharp and the delivery is that controlled. It’s like you’re listening to someone who could describe pain with surgical precision and still couldn’t outrun it.
And yeah, going with Smith after leading off with David Berman, it might seem like I’m drawn to a certain “tragic musician” archetype. But that’s only because I am.
A few lines:
Now she’s done and they’re calling someone
Such a familiar name
I’m so glad that my memory’s remote
‘Cause I’m doing just fine hour to hour, note to note
Here it is, the revenge to the tune
“You’re no good
You’re no good, you’re no good, you’re no good”
Can’t you tell that it’s well understood?
I’m never gonna know you now
But I’m gonna love you anyhow
Day 6 – Another favorite song
Song & Artist: Don’t Let Me Down by The Beatles
What can I even say about The Beatles that hasn’t been said a billion times by people who know more than I do. The rooftop performance is iconic, and the whole thing has that rare “caught on tape” energy where you can hear the band locking in around John in a very human moment.
A few lines:
I’m in love for the first time
Don’t you know it’s gonna last?
It’s a love that lasts forever
It’s a love that has no past
Day 7 – A song from 2013
Song & Artist: Shackled In Chains by Gary Tyer
Not just a great song, but a song by one of my best friends—and one of the most talented musicians I’ve ever known—who’s no longer with us. If you’re interested, I wrote an essay about him for The Chaos Section earlier this year: Odds Are Against Me: Dementia, Sobriety, and the Excuses I Made to Avoid a Friend
A few lines:
I remember the song that she used to sing,
I hear it today and it doesn’t mean anything
An obligation inside of you, was it one and one that makes two?
I remember the day that love ran away
I pinched myself in hopes I was dreaming
Day 8 – A song with you / me / us in the title
Song & Artist: A Song for You, For Me by Clay Nightingale
In 2005, I’d just gotten out of the Army, and my sister and her boyfriend at the time—now my brother-in-law, Joe—were living in San Marcos, attending Texas State University. My wife and I spent a lot of time there back then, before we had kids and real responsibilities. Joe was in a band called Clay Nightingale, and so many of my favorite memories from that stretch of life revolve around going to their shows, hanging out with everyone afterward, feeling like everything was still wide open. This song is a cappella, just voices, stomps, and claps, which I always thought was cool, considering the band was made up of some of the most talented instrumentalists I’ve ever known.
A few lines:
I know you hate every job that this town has to offer,
it’s ridiculous.
We work for peanuts all day,
put up with rich out-of-towners being dicks to us.
Man, when I met you we both spilled our guts,
how we’d be more optimistic if we could shake off the rust.
We had a million good reasons
to drive New York City nuts.
Here, take my keys,
give it some gas,
easy on the clutch.
Day 9 – The first song you’d put on a mixtape to a crush
Song & Artist: Train Leaving Gray by Mason Jennings
The last time I made a mixtape for a crush was twenty-something years ago. And we’re still married, so I guess it was a pretty good tape. Okay, this was in 2003, so it was a “mix CD”, not an actual tape. And it wasn’t just one. It was several.
I don’t remember exactly what was on them, but I can make a pretty educated guess based on what I was mostly listening to back then. Tracy played one in the car once while we were driving somewhere with our friend Eric, and he said something along the lines of, “Dude. What the fuck. I’ve never heard such a depressing mixtape.” I’m pretty sure it included Elliott Smith, Mazzy Star, Conor Oberst, Jewel, Nick Drake, Ben Kweller, David Berman, and Damien Rice, so he may have had a point. Hey man, we have to work with the music we know.
But I’m also pretty sure I threw in a few songs that weren’t actively trying to ruin your day, like stuff from Dropkick Murphys, Jack Johnson, Old 97’s, and the Toadies. And definitely “Train Leaving Gray” by Mason Jennings. And if not, I should have. I’m going to go ahead and pretend I definitely did so I don’t have to burn one of the “another favorite song” slots on it later.
A few lines:
Hoping that I see you on the street
It’s your kind of day
Nothing has the color of your eyes
Train leaving gray
Day 10 – A song with a color in the title
Song & Artist: Love Is Blue by Clay Nightingale
I wasn’t going to repeat artists in this list, but, again, rules are meant to be broken. Especially self imposed rules. Love is Blue isn’t just a wonderful song from one of my favorite bands, but also my little sister happened to write the lyrics, so there’s that.
A few lines:
The first time I saw you
I didn’t know just what to do,
so I walked away,
I couldn’t find the words to say.
If you want my love,
this is all you have to do:
come to my house,
it’s the one that’s painted blue.
I’m just sitting here killing time,
wishing you were mine,
without you.
Day 11 – A song where the title is a question
Song & Artist: Whatchya Gonna Do Now by HoneyHoney
I’m going with the live in-studio version from The Joe Rogan Experience because, one, it’s where I first heard of the band, and two, it’s a great performance with Suzanne Santo on the violin. The album version doesn’t have the violin, and I think it’s better with it. Personal preference.
Back before Rogan endorsed Trump (and then started doing that thing where he complains about the awful stuff Trump said he was going to do… when Trump actually does the awful stuff Trump said he was going to do), he used to have musicians in the studio pretty regularly. This performance by Ben and Suzanne was one of the best. The song is beautiful, a not-so-gentle shove to stop running, stop waiting, find some peace, make a choice, do something.
A few lines:
So you run to the river, you run to the sea
You sift through the rubble and search the debris
But you won’t find anything if you don’t find peace
Ooh, so what you gonna do now?
Don’t wait ’til you die
Cause you can always change your mind, and make it right
So why are you still waiting outside?
Day 12 – A song you would describe as beautiful
Song & Artist: At Last by Etta James
I don’t really need to describe this song as beautiful. It just is, the way the sky is blue or rain is wet. No description or opinion needed. It feels timeless, like it’s always existed, and like it’s been waiting for whatever moment you happen to attach it to.
A few lines:
At last
The skies above, they’re blue
Oh, and my heart was wrapped up in clover
The night I looked at you
Day 13 – Another favorite song
Song & Artist: Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ by The Velvet Underground
Another band where I could’ve picked almost anything. Pale Blue Eyes is an all-timer for me, but Oh! Sweet Nuthin’ is one of Lou Reed’s best “just tell the truth” songs, a handful of people sketched with empathy instead of pity, like he’s simply saying, yeah, this is who’s out here.And it’s one of those songs where the first chord triggers a completely Pavlovian response, my hand cranking the volume knob to the right before my prefrontal cortex has even registered what’s playing.
It starts off loose and almost conversational, and by the time it opens up you’ve got this long, rising stretch where Sterling Morrison’s lead guitar starts wailing and those snare-heavy drums push it forward to a crescendo that peaks and suddenly crashes back to earth. It’s quiet and loud and cathartic and it doesn’t need to solve anything to still leave you with a sense of relief.
A few lines:
Say a word for Pearly May
She can’t tell the night from the day
They threw her out in the street
But just like a cat, she landed on her feet
And say a word for Joana Love
She ain’t got nothing at all
‘Cause everyday she falls in love
And every night she falls
And when she does, she says
Oh, sweet nothin’
You know she he ain’t got nothing at all
Day 14 – A song with a type of weather in the title
Song & Artist: Shelter from the Storm by Bob Dylan
I really considered making this entire 31-song list nothing but Dylan, and honestly, I could’ve pulled it off if he’d released albums in 2003 and 2013. Everything else is covered.
My friend Hatch once said the answers to all of life’s big questions are hidden somewhere inside “Shelter from the Storm.” Hatch is way smarter than me, so I’m inclined to believe him. And even if you’re one of those people who “doesn’t like Dylan,” this is the kind of song that explains why he’s the greatest anyway. Because he is. Don’t argue with basic facts.
A few lines:
In a little hilltop village, they gambled for my clothes
I bargained for salvation an’ they gave me a lethal dose
I offered up my innocence and got repaid with scorn
“Come in,” she said, “I’ll give you shelter from the storm”
Day 15 – A song that never fails to make you happy
Song & Artist: I’m Straight by the Modern Lovers
Jonathan Richman’s whole childlike thing makes me happy. The delivery, the sincerity, the little awkward clarifications that sound like his brain is narrating in real time. The opening is basically him talking himself through a phone call like a nervous middle-schooler, including the tiny aside about putting the phone back in place, and it makes me smile every time.
Also, true story: I had this record playing at my house a couple years ago and one of my daughter’s friends goes, “Ok, we get it dude, you’re straight,” and I had to give the whole mini-history lesson on why “straight” didn’t always mean what it means now, how he’s trying to convince a girl she should date him instead of Hippie Johnny, because Johnny’s “always stoned” and Richman’s “straight” in the not-high sense. So that memory makes me smile too.
This was maybe one of the most challenging categories, because there’s no shortage of songs that make me happy the second they come on. “New Slang” by The Shins. “I’m Alive” by Johnny Thunder. “Whiskey River” by Willie. “Don’t You (Forget About Me)” by Simple Minds. “Just Like Heaven” by The Cure. But if I’m only picking one, I’m sticking with Jonathan Richman and the Modern Lovers.
A few lines:
I called this number three
Times already today
But I, I got scared, I put it back in place—
I put my phone back in place
I still don’t know if I
Should have called up
Look, just tell me why don’t you
If I’m out of place
Cause here’s your chance to make me feel awkward
And wish that I
Had never even called up this place
Day 16 – A song from 2003
Song & Artist: Laminated Cat by Loose Fur
Let’s see how many Jeff Tweedy songs I can sneak in here without just turning this into “Nick’s top 31 Wilco songs.”
“Laminated Cat” has that jittery, slightly surreal energy Tweedy does so well, where the images come fast and don’t explain themselves, but somehow still feel emotionally dead-on. It’s funny and anxious and kind of beautiful.
A few lines:
Summer comes and gravity undoes you
You’re happy because of the lovely way the sunshine bends
Hiding from your close friends
Weeding out the weekends
Candy left over from Halloween
A unified theory of everything
Love left over from lovers leaving
Books, they all know they’re not worth reading
It’s not for the season
Day 17 – Another favorite song
Song & Artist: Lizzy by Ben Kweller
This song and album always takes me back to a really good time in my life.
A few lines:
Sign me up, I volunteer
Votes are in for lifeguard of the year
Her feline past lives are plain
Their singularities are shown in this life again
Like momma said
“Don’t you let it go to your head
When you know you’re being fed”
I’m so proud to know you
Day 18 – A song with air, fire, water, or earth in the title
Song & Artist: Moon River performed by Audrey Hepburn (Henry Mancini / Johnny Mercer)
When Tracy and I first started dating, I learned she’d never seen Breakfast at Tiffany’s or Roman Holiday, which obviously had to be corrected. There’s something kind of funny about the role reversal of an active-duty soldier in the barracks insisting his girlfriend sit down and watch old black-and-white romantic movies, but stereotypes are made to be ignored.
A few lines:
Two drifters off to see the world
There’s such a lot of world to see
We’re after the same rainbow’s end
Waiting ’round the bend
My huckleberry friend
Moon River and me
Day 19 – A song with a part of the body in the title
Song & Artist: Your Rocky Spine by the Great Lake Swimmers
Atmospheric indie-folk band with banjos and mandolins and beautiful harmonies with a little Neil Young and Nick Drake in their DNA. Whats not to love.
A few lines:
The mountains said I could find you here
They whispered the snow and the leaves in my ear
I traced my finger along your trails
Your body was the map, I was lost in it
Floating over your rocky spine
The glaciers made you, and now you’re mine
Day 20 – A song with a name in the title
Song & Artist: So Long, Marianne by Leonard Cohen
Cohen was a poet long before he was a songwriter, and you can feel it. Not many musicians can squeeze that much emotion out of a single line.
A few lines:
We met when we were almost young
Deep in the green lilac park
You held on to me like I was a crucifix
As we went kneeling through the dark
Now so long, Marianne, it’s time that we began
To laugh and cry and cry and laugh about it all again
Day 21 – A song from 1993
Song & Artist: Start Choppin by Dinosaur Jr.
I was 13 when this came out, right at that age where your brain is basically a sponge for anything involving distorted guitars. J Mascis sings like he’s half bored and half wrecked and 32 years this song still hits the same part of my nervous system in the exact same way.
A few lines:
When you call, it’s just not fair
It’s the last thing you should share
I can’t deal, I’ll let you know
Still, I wish you’d let it go
I ain’t telling you a secret
I ain’t telling you goodbye
Day 22 – A song with your favorite lyric
Song & Artist: Via Chicago by Wilco
Sometimes words land like a half-dream, explain nothing, and your chest registers something real before your brain catches up. It’s okay to love something without being able to explain exactly why you love it.
A few lines:
Where the cups are cracked and hooked
Above the sink
They make me think
Crumbling ladder tears don’t fall
They shine down your shoulders
Crawling is screw faster lash
I blow it with kisses
Rest my head on a pillowy star
And a cracked door moon
Says I haven’t gone too far
Day 23 – A song with an animal in the title
Song & Artist: Buffalo by Hurray for the Riff Raff
Hurray for the Riff Raff somehow weren’t even on my radar until earlier this year, when we went to a Bright Eyes show in Austin and they opened. One of those magic moments where you walk in not knowing a thing about the band, and then ten minutes later you’re fully converted. They absolutely blew me away—especially Buffalo, and another song, Ogallala, which has the great line: “I used to think I was born into the wrong generation. But now I know, I made it right on time… To watch the world burn.”
A few lines:
Will we go like the woolly mammoth?
Or the dear dodo?
Gone like the Bachman’s warbler
Disappeared like the melting snow
Little Mariana fruit bats
Or the bridled white-eye bird
Or will we keep on running
Like the sound of the buffalo herd?
Day 24 – A song you’d kiss to under the mistletoe
Song & Artist: Happy Christmas (War Is Over) by John Lennon and Yoko Ono
I assume this prompt is asking for a “mistletoe song,” which usually means something flirty, or at least something that sounds like a Hallmark movie. But it’s Christmas Eve, and this is the one that always shows up in my head. If you’re going to kiss someone under the mistletoe, you could do worse than a song that’s basically saying: hey, maybe we don’t have to keep doing the same violent, stupid shit forever.
Also, let’s be honest, if it’s the right person, the song doesn’t matter. Winking at you, T.
A few lines:
And so this is Christmas
For weak and for strong
The rich and the poor ones
The road is so long
And so happy Christmas
For black and for white
For yellow and red ones
Let’s stop all the fight
Day 25 – A Christmas song
Song & Artist: Merry Christmas From the Family by Robert Earl Keen
I’m not sure Merry Christmas From the Family is “traditional” for most of the country, but if you grew up in Texas in the 90s, it might as well be Silent Night. It feels like a Houston-area holiday in song form. The house too full, everybody drunk and talking at once, somebody making an emergency store run, and the whole thing held together by food, noise, and affection.
Also, Robert Earl Keen is actually starting to look like Santa Claus.
A few lines:
Mom got drunk and Dad got drunk
At our Christmas party
We were drinking champagne punch
And homemade egg-nog…
Day 26 – A song with love in the title
Song & Artist: Let’s Not Shit Ourselves (To Love and to Be Loved) by Bright Eyes
I remember my sister telling me once, and I’m totally paraphrasing here, so forgive me Mer if I get this wrong, but she talked about sitting in her car in college, listening to I’m Wide Awake, It’s Morning and just crying, partly because it was so perfect, and partly because no matter how good of a writer she is, she would never be able to write lyrics like Conor Oberst. While that’s debatable, because she’s an excellent writer, I know exactly what she means.
Wide Awake is probably the more complete album, but Lifted has some of my favorite Bright Eyes songs on it, “Make War,” “Waste of Paint,” “Laura Laurent,” and then this ten-minute fever dream at the end. And the fact that he wrote a lot of this stuff before he could legally drink, makes me think Mer might be right that some people just have a thing the rest of us don’t.
A few lines:
Well, I should stop pointing fingers, reserve my judgment
Of all those public action figures, the cowboy presidents
So loud behind the bullhorn, so proud they can’t admit
When they’ve made a mistake
While poison ink spews from a speechwriter’s pen
He knows he don’t have to say it, so it don’t bother him
“Honesty”, “accuracy” is just popular opinion
And the approval rating’s high
And so someone’s gonna die
Well, ABC, NBC, CBS: Bullshit!
They give us fact or fiction? I guess an even split
And each new act of war is tonight’s entertainment
We’re still the pawns in their game
As they take eye for an eye until no one can see
We must stumble blindly forward, repeating history
Day 27 – A song with a one-word title
Song & Artist: Knockin by MJ Lenderman
I think one mistake we make as we get older is assuming new music isn’t for us, like there’s some invisible cutoff where you’re supposed to stop being surprised and just rotate the same records until you die. I’m constantly asking what my kids are listening to, not just to make conversation, but because I’m genuinely curious what good music I could be missing. MJ Lenderman is twenty-something and I’m 45, so yeah, different generation, different everything. But then he’s out here quoting Dylan, so maybe it’s not that far apart. It’s a good reminder to stay open. Sometimes a song shows up and knocks you off your own familiar track.
A few lines:
Loneliness is simple not much else is
Her love for me is real
She gives what she has to give
She gave me wings and I caught flight
And I think I might be knock knock knock
Knock knock knock knockin’ on
Heaven’s door tonight
Day 28 – A song from 1983
Song & Artist: The Creeps (I Just Wanna Give You) by Social Distortion
It’s no secret amongst my friends and family that I’m not the biggest fan of ’80s music in general, but I mean the Top 40 version of the decade: drum machines, synths, and feathered hair. When it comes to punk, though, I’m basically an ’80s loyalist. Black Flag, Minor Threat, the Descendents, Minutemen, Dead Kennedys, the Vandals, and of course Social Distortion.
A few lines:
I’ll be vigilant, I’ll be silent
Yes, no one will know
You want something for nothing
A toast on your grave
I just wanna give you the creeps
Day 29 – Another favorite song
Song & Artist: True Love Will Find You in the End by Daniel Johnston
Daniel Johnston is part of the Austin DNA. He showed up here in the 80s handing out homemade tapes, and his music still gets covered in bars any night of the week. And of course there’s the iconic Hi, How Are You mural he painted on Guadalupe Street.
Kurt Cobain wore that frog image on a T-shirt at the ’92 VMAs and suddenly Daniel’s weird little corner of Austin got shoved into the mainstream. Austin even turned his birthday, January 22nd, into “Hi, How Are You Day” to push mental health awareness.
His songs are simple, but they’re not simple-minded. He had a way of writing lines that sound childlike but hit something deeper. “True Love Will Find You in the End” is a good example of that.
If you aren’t familiar with Daniel, it’s worth watching The Devil and Daniel Johnston. It’s a rough watch in places, but it’s honest about the price tag that can come with a mind like his.
A few lines:
True love will find you in the end
You’ll find out just who was your friend
Don’t be sad, I know you will
But don’t give up until
True love will find you in the end
Day 30 – A song to dance to at your party
Song & Artist: Lou Reed Was My Babysitter by Jeff Tweedy
I don’t dance and I don’t really have parties, but if I were to, this would be the one. Another track off the new Jeff Tweedy triple album Twilight Override, this song sounds like a high school party for those of us who grew up pre-internet.
A few lines:
I wanna sweat next to you
Sweat next to you
With a sticky carpet sucking on my shoes
‘Cause rock ‘n’ roll ain’t never gonna lose
I want you to dance into me
Spill my drink
I wanna feel the kick kickin’ in my teeth
My bleeding heart bleeding to the beat
I want you to blow smoke in my eyes
Smoke in my eyes
I wanna shake, shake, shake, shake, shake
until my shoes untie
Day 31 – A song that defines your year
Song & Artist: Maybe We’ll All Get Along Someday by Joe Purdy
Joe Purdy wrote this in 2016, back when a lot of us still thought the country might eventually get tired of the circus and move on. I guess the joke’s on us. In 2025 it still reads like a current-events summary, which is not the kind of musical longevity anyone was hoping for. The song is blunt on purpose: the TV-show politics, the team sports, the quiet ways the system gets “adjusted” so some people stay comfortable and other people stay stuck, the whole gun argument that keeps getting treated like a debate club topic instead of a growing pile of bodies. And then it comes back to that embarrassingly basic request: treat me like a human and I’ll do the same. It shouldn’t feel radical. But I guess the fact that it still does is kind of the point. Honestly, the whole album, Who Will Be Next, could be a soundtrack for this past year. Or decade.
A few lines:
There’s a man who wants the White House
For his personal TV show
Wants his face on all the money
Wants his name on all the roads
Says he can make us great again
Says that he knows how
He’s gonna build a wall, big and tall
And kick everybody out
It’s just another reason that people can’t get along
Pickin’ sides of the USA
Treat me like a human
I’ll treat you like the same
Maybe we’ll all get along someday
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