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The Seeker
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They call me The Seeker
I've been searching low and high
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It's so hard to write about music. Few writers are able to make the words dance or sing like the subject they're writing about. But look how @ginanarchy.bsky.social closes her most recent essay about Jerry Harrison/Adrian Belew's Remain In Light show. Perfection!
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"Honestly, to take a song about suicide like "Take Me to the River" and inject a sense of anomie into it is a breathtaking act of imagination. But it is also a beautiful thing to do, and as human as it gets. The show ended with the audience singing, chanting, and then whispering, drop me in the water, and it was easy to see in retrospect why such a song would sound so strange, and yet have such a profound effect on me, when I heard it on Sproul Plaza as a very young girl. I was used to hearing love songs. And I still am, and so are you, but much as we all like to think about love, that uneasy sense that we have been plopped down on a hostile planet, attempting to fit into a society with rules we barely understand, is surely a feeling we all know much better. No wonder we can all relate."
August 19, 2024 at 6:56 PM