January 10 - Seeing Daylight

...wow, this feels like a time jump. We're still with the rumbling of John's tape recorder, but everything from the vocals to the instrumentation to the lyrics feels almost infinitely more modern despite only being three years after the previous song.

Which isn't or shouldn't be surprising. The gap from A Hard Day's Night to Sergeant Pepper is also three years. The gap from me arriving in York and leaving with a degree was less than three years. Three years is the world.

But still. This song sounds like John in a way that the previous songs sound like they might one dday become John. There's a timbre to the voice and a vulnerability to the lyrics that was impossible one track ago. The line "and your voice on the other end. And the impossibility of your voice on the other end" will live with me.

This is spoken word bursting into song, a moment perfectly captured in beautiful sadness.