Whisky

Last week I saw this fellow (AJ Rocha) in a really excellent concert with Anais Mitchell and this song hasn't left my head since. His songwriting is really incredible.


They say that love is just a chemical reaction
I say that makes this all too hard to explain
Chemicals for me have been my only safe bastion
They maketh me numb whene'er they run through my veins

When you get featherdusted
you're dirty and desperate
Not desperate, mind you, for a woman's sweet touch
Just desperate to feel like you belong to something
That something will own you when you want it too much


It's just a great song style, simple and poetic and talking about a simple kind of heartbreak and a simple kind of fix. It all makes me ready to rediscover the poetry I've shied away from in the "country" music I grew up surrounded by. And to drink the unopened bottle of whisky in my cupboard.