I generally gravitate to the music first before the lyrics. But as a writer, I still marvel at well-spun verses and choruses. This month, I’m joining the music Twitter community in #SeptSongLyricChallenge

Day 2

The songs of Soft Sounds From Another Planet are like a bridge from despair to joy. It’s the necessary mourning of death and loss that make joy and hope even possible one day. I love these songs. “Diving Woman”, “Till Death”, “Boyish”, “Road Head” and this one. As Japanese Breakfast suddenly became a hot band nearly overnight last year, I was lucky to catch them live at Brooklyn Steel where they played “The Body Is A Blade”. They say your pain is more meaningful if it becomes the experience that enables you to be there for someone who goes through something similarly painful. I think that’s what Michelle Zauner was doing when she wrote these lyrics.

“Try your best to slowly withdraw. Your body is a blade that moves while your brain is writhing. Knuckled under pain, you mourn but your blood is flowing.”