everyone has a song or twelve that gets them, for reasons both known and uncertain. it‘s a beat or an image, an urgency in the vocals, something you swear you’ve thought yourself before. explaining how it gets you is beside the point, really. but you hear it once and it’s a fixed point your life returns to each time thereafter.

everyone has a song like that, or should, and if they’re really lucky, it was made by people dear to them.