Review Summary: A man and his guitar
Where were you, when your first love broke your heart? When the people around you disappointed you more than you could understand. When it was your hardest day. Where were you? Where. Where were you. When you felt like she didn't love you anymore. When you felt like no one loved you anymore. When on the day of her funeral, you fell apart. Where were you. Can you be that honest? Can you express the pain you felt. For me, there is no true way. For anyone is there. It is honestly. It is only only honestly that separates us from all the minutia. From all the pointlessness.
There has to be a point in all of this.
There has to be. Listening to this album, it all floods back. The way that you can love someone so much more than they can ever love you. The way you can blame yourself for every mistake. Th way you can beg for things to be better. The way you wanted them to stay. The way you can let go.
This is more than an album. This is an expression from a man who doesn't know where he is going. Doesn't know where to go or where he has been. It is honest, it is earnest and it is the kind of pain we can face when we love those who don't love us back.
It is a man and his guitar; in complete transparency. With no boundaries, with no moments in between and nothing to hold back. So simple but so true. This is what makes this album as special as it is. It is no complicated swan song. It is no great statement of truimph. No. It is the way that one can feel lost in all of this. All of this great big world. And still not know. But you have to sing it. You have to say it. And even if it isn't perfect, it is yours. It is all we have in this. All of this world of ours. To give our truth.
This is why this album is something special. It is that complete moment of truth. Where one can tell their story. And one man, and one guitar can come together. And they can say all that needs to be said.
That we are unsure, but thats okay. That we can make it through all of this.
That we all feel like this sometimes.
