April 30 - Soft Targets

Well, it's the end of the month, so it's time for rarities and miscellany, and a soft-voice John song of tragic domesticity is exactly what we asked for.

There's something so unsettlingly real about the moments of doomed relationships that John captures in songs like this. Two people cursed to be in love, bound by the fact that leaving is worse, somehow the worst thing in each other's life but still there because every other alternative is worse. "There is nobody innocent here" is one hell of a line in a song that mentions a relationship with a baby, and the rest of the song carries it off.

Sometimes you can't wish the characters in a song like this well, so instead you can only wish them peace.