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painfulkissing
god, david berman's words haunt me like no other. lyrics that could define another artist's ENTIRE career is just another stroke of genius found in every single song he writes. i miss his abstruse yet vivid imagery. i miss his weird humour w/ that characteristic touch of surrealism and painfully self-aware melancholy. i miss david!!! he never fails to reconfigure the way i view the world, myself, my own creative craft. even in the littlest of ways: seriously, listen to the line "the jagged skyline of car keys" off the song 'black and brown blues' and i swear you will never look at your city the same way ever again. rest in peace :((
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painfulkissing
im just constantly blown away by how he crams all these massive, metaphysical questions into the small space of a song. "all houses dream in blueprints / our houses dream so hard / outside you can see my shoeprints / i've been dreaming in your yard" -- the concept that even "finished" things, be it a building or a situation that has ended, still ache for a time when everything was more fluid, less rigidly set, like that of a blueprint or any other being in its early blossoming form -- it's too damn beautiful and applicable to much of life's daily throes. will forever appreciate berman's ability to distill these philosophical ideas into something tangible/relatable. yet, amidst the accessiblity remains an air of mystery and abstraction where now-familiar ideas take on new flesh/new forms of introspection. what a unique soul, what a loss.
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DylanSantana
I don't know much in this life, but I know that my life, and the lives of so many people I know, were made happier, deeper, stranger, and more beautiful, because David Berman lived and wrote. We miss you and love you. Always.
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SuperrChance
"wait... you... you're a girl... and you like SILVER JEWS .... you are one interesting chica....."
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yahzenbahzen
In fairness I know very little of this band, or it's heritage but I like what I'm hearing. It's 2024,,not all of it still fits but maybe that's a good thing.
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tortellini3k
and ill be seeing you , soon my friend if these old directions still direct , oh yeah if these old directions still direct
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CanadianWater
Everybody wants perspective from a hill But everybody's wants can't make it past the window sill
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nessrocks08
I'll see you soon my friend if these old directions still direct...if these old directions still direct.
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