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Songs Tagged: rueful
9 songs
2014
Best Intentions
A heartbreaking father-and-son song about love, regret, and the distance that can grow despite every good intention. Its sorrow is quiet and reflective, more full of watching and wondering than of accusation.
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2013
A Way from Here
A song of exhaustion and emotional suffocation, written from the point where even rest and breath feel out of reach. It moves through weariness toward a distant hope of peace without pretending the way there...
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2012
I Don't Know
A song about the baffling pull of someone who keeps slipping away and coming back. It captures the weary tenderness of a relationship that never quite settles but never quite ends.
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2008
One More Shot
A song about a relationship where whiskey and heartache blur into the same habit. The singer knows the cycle is ruining him but keeps asking for one more round anyway, which is what gives the song its bite.
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2012
Desperate Times and Drastic Measures
A breakup song written from the stunned quiet after long companionship suddenly ends. Instead of big declarations, it relies on small physical details, rain, cold, empty woods, to show how abandonment settles...
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2011
Let's Remember to Forget
A rueful song about a love affair caught in its own repetition. The title says everything: this is not about forgetting, but about trying to will memory and desire into silence for one more night.
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2008
One More New Years
A New Year's song for anyone who has tried to squeeze hope out of one more late-night promise. It balances weariness and resolve, treating the wish to begin again as both fragile and necessary.
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2010
Catch Up With You Later
A wry, easygoing song about loving someone whose pace is impossible to match. Rather than fighting it, the singer steps aside with a smile, letting the refrain carry equal parts affection, admiration, and...