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Song 17 | Aug 19 2003

Song 17 is Nick Cave’s “The Weeping Song.” I found the production a tad bombastic. Listening to it, I thought: Nick Cave would be an intense person to have over for dinner.

Also something in the music made me remember this time when, high and freaked out, a man appeared in my head and helped talk me down. He was older and had a nice voice. I was so stoned I didn’t realize I had conjured him.

Then I remembered the time I got caught in an undertow. This is not a metaphor. I got caught and couldn’t get uncaught. The shore was right there, with hundreds of people on it, and I couldn’t get to it. I thought of calling out for help but was too embarrassed to do so, so close to shore.

Nick Cave would have yelled his head off.