FatherJohn Misty – When You're Smiling and Astride Me
Some October, in the future
I'll run out of trash TV
And I'll be feeling lonely
So I'll walk to karaoke
Sing the song you wrote about me
Never once checking the words
I hope that no one sings along
I hope that I am not a regular
We’re In Love, Song by boygenius
The music interprets him. That shadowy voice and those unamplified guitars set a contour around his body and he becomes legible again to himself.
Teju Cole • Tremor: A Novel
An obvious instance is that of ordinary and happy marriage. A man and a woman cannot live together without having against each other a kind of everlasting joke. Each has discovered that the other is a fool, but a great fool.