In our inaugural edition of The Songs That Bind, The Wonder Years’ (thewonderyears) Dan Campbell maps out the spiritual connection between 'You're the Reason I Don't Want the World to End' and Christian Lee Hutson's (chrisleehutson) “Lose This Number.'
—to balance a little bit of levity. Another thing that I think is a marker of a good song is the ability to show the expanse of the human condition in a song that is, in some ways, sad and, in some ways, angry; that there can always be this little raw joke in there—like “Bobby helped me track you down, ‘cause I just saw your name in the paper. You said, ‘Of course that reminded you of me, don’t you know that’s how a name works?’” I think, “Man, that’s a really smart lyric.
I remember the smell of the seaweed and the smell of the sugar from all of the little shops. I remember, as a really anxious kid, that being the one week of the year where my brain stopped feeling so bad. I sing about it init’s something about going to that beach town that pulls out something in me where I felt the safest and most loved in that place.
That tour was really beating the hell out of me and then, getting to Hawaii and just being like, “I’m just gonna gloat here for a minute and feel calm,” there’s something about that. It’s gotta draw back to being a kid and going to that place and feeling the most safe that I had ever felt, the most serene. I’m always drawn to it.
Then, I just continued to spiral downward throughout the pandemic and throughout everything else that was happening in the world. I was just watching these mass shootings and these acts of police violence and all of the reaping from all of the sowing of our obsession with fossil fuels and fire as energy—just watching climate catastrophe after climate catastrophe. And then we found out we were having another kid, Jack, and I just shut off.
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