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I got to choose one of the songs for my father's funeral.  It was a real tear jerker sitting next to my teen and younger sons.

 

 

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On 9/12/2025 at 11:34 PM, gofuckyourself said:

Man.  My wife and I are empty-nesters, have been for a few years.  It's like a whole new marriage.  We connect, we love each other, we relish the moments we have together.  But those moments also come--necessarily--in the back half of our lives.  As we can see our mortality from here.  If We Were Vampires fucking shreds me.  Just gutted.  It's an amazing song, and I love it and hate it.

Here's one I haven't seen posted:

Love.  Loss.  Time, and that loss never goes away.  

Lydie lit a cigarette today
Ancient fumbling fingers in her way
From a forty year old coffee cup she sipped a bit of gin
Closed her eyes and let the memories in

 

I come from "cigarette and forty year old coffee cup" people.  I can see, smell, and taste this song, and the grief.

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The first time I saw Slaid he was doing a solo gig at the Waterloo Ice House on 38th & Medical Parkway.  He was new to town having come from Maine.  He was unspectacular, very raw, but there was something there.  Maybe a half dozen years later "Broke Down" came out and everyone exclaimed in unison "holy shit".  One of the best records ever to come out of Austin.

 

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