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Is anything, is anything the way it used to be?
That’s a line from a song I heard yesterday morning as I walked. It’s from “I Dreamt I Spoke with You Again” by Death Cab for Cutie, off the 2018 album Thank You for Today. If the song had played during a scene in a movie soundtrack, critics would probably have complained that it was “too on the nose.”
The walk was a mixture of beauty and anxiety. Trees were displaying their spring flowering. Near the park, all its playground equipment wrapped in yellow caution tape, I found a small piece of fieldstone, brightly painted and leaning against a tree. Someone had written “Trust” on it. Lawn signs promised, “You Are Not Alone” and advised “One Day at a Time.”
Later the Death Cab song “Gold Rush” came up, with this line:
It didn’t use to be this way.
That’s for sure.
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