January 29 - Going To Monaco

Songs with a traditional form are a rarity so far in this journey, which is one of the things that makes this jangly indie number stick out. It's ultimately a punchy, blustery lyric about hitting the end of love but keeping on going, and does a great job of showing the entropy of feelings that you've started to forget. Or at least started to forget why they were important.

I've been fortunate or unfortunate enough to not have known the feeling of a relationship that was over and had to be the one who did something about it. Not to say I haven't been dumped. My list of relationships is ultimately a couple of dots and then a dash that I hope will go on for the rest of time, and it says nothing to my credit that the two of those dots that lasted more than a week were both occasions where I thought everything was fine right up to the point where I was told it wasn't. I don't at all blame the two entirely lovely people who decided that being in a relationship with me just wasn't working. Things happen when people are young and things ended in ways that were sad but not bitter. I hope I've never made anyone feel like being with me is a light going out. Or that holding me is the devil's work.

Anyway, this song is a trip into a head that isn't really like mine.