It'll All Work Out

I find this to be such a soothing song. The guitars really create this gentle and melodic backdrop for Blake's quiet stoicism, which is what the song feels like it's about. The world Blake paints isn't one where people consistently lose, they just seem to never win.

My favorite aspect of this song, though, has to be its construction as a narrative. You know after the first verse that it's sort of a genesis song, starting with Blake's mother's disappointment or failing, a torch of inherited struggle that is passed on from verse to verse, person to person, until it ends with the personal disappointment of implied adultry (or at least an attempt on the guy's part, and at the least a lie on the girlfriend's part [Danielle?].)

I think I read/saw somewhere that either intentionally or in retrospect, Blake realized that the phrase "it'll all work out" doesn't actually mean anything. It's a phrase as hollow as "it is what it is." It's what you say when you there isn't a right thing to say. It's one of those prayers of quiet desperation.

Lovely song, lovely performer.