April 23 - Color In Your Cheeks

God, I needed this today. One of my favourite Mountain Goats songs for years.

The best happy songs are the ones that don't bullshit you. They don't pretend that everything's good, or that evil doesn't exist. What they tell you is that the world is fucked but that sometimes there's help. You're running from something, here's somewhere to hide. You're broken, here's a place to hold your pieces while you work out how the fuck they fit together again.

This is a song of dirty hope. Hope with broken nails. This is a song that knows that for the arc of history to bend towards anywhere you've got to get out there, spit on your hands, and fucking bend it. And that doing good in any degree right now is better than doing nothing.