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Mandolin Rain

I’m taking a bit of a departure from writing up a full album in order to talk about a single song that I was recently re-introduced to. It was a song I heard plenty of times in my childhood as my mother was into all that 80’s pop rock crap.* The song, Mandolin Rain by Bruce Hornsby. I don’t know what it is about the song, but it just tugs at me. I think it’s because the song is how I view Suzie and my relationship. Somewhere deep down, I know that she’ll leave someday. We’ve both talked about it, so that I feel that way isn’t a shock to either of us. I hope that’s not the case, but even if it becomes so, every second with her has been worth it, and that’s why I love this song — it’s able to articulate all of that.

*by 80’s pop rock crap, I mean the greatest guilty pleasure music in the world, with the likes of Elton John, Phil Collins, and Billy Joel.

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