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My Pleasant Afterlife
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[Flash 9 is required to listen to audio.]Patsy Cline - She’s Got You
This song, no matter how many times I listen to it, is guaranteed to push me from “kind of sad” to “crying for no reason.” I don’t know what it is. If I’ve had more than two ounces of whiskey (or if it’s overcast) I will just start blubbering, or sit there with those big, fat tears swelling on my eyelids. It’s terrible when I’m biking and it comes up on shuffle. I have to pull over and smoosh my eyeholes dry with my sleeves. I have always loved her, ever since I heard ‘Walkin’ After Midnight’ when I was ten or eleven, and as I have grown into this shambling man-creature that lives and loves and works in the Loop and is sometimes petty and other times fiercely loyal or giving, who knows the definition of ‘consomme’ and ‘pulchritude’ and who occasionally weighs his regrets against his progress and wishes that you could trust the math, I only grow more fond of miss Patsy Cline, and my respect for her grows accordingly.
Woman had the experiences to fill those songs with genuine understanding and emotion, and the pipes to back it up.
Plus she called everyone “Hoss,” and that’s just great.
