| Damien Jurado – Newspaper Gown Lyrics | 6 years ago |
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Etc. Dudes, I’m pretty, kinda sure he’s talking to his self. He’s courting and coming to terms with his self and all the talents and ambitions and achievements that embodies. He loves himself deeply, but he knows that it all started off so slowly. It took intention and focus and time. And beyond that he was the inheriter of an pretty solid head-start (after all, he is a white male). It’s truly beautiful to behold and feel, but in the end he could, on a dime, destroy it all with self doubt. I could easily point to this exact arc as the main reason I love this guy’s music. He manages to string together an insight that so perfectly describes the current state of the human condition: seeing the true, real self just off in the distance, loving that vision of its own possibility, but being intrinsically separated from it by layers of irony and self-awareness and doubt. He’s casting the mold for the millennial Sisyphus, the lets-come-to-terms-and-really-look-at-this-whole-existence-thing carrots on sticks. Those existential carrots being advancing in your job (in the tech scene no doubt), moving forward to the next step with your partner, and self acceptance, and self-realized success, etc etc. |
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