Crucial Track for May 18, 2025

"Best of the Best of Times" by Darlingside

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I saw Darlingside in Phoenix at the Musical Instrument Museum six years and a different lifetime ago. It was a joy to see them again last night. They played this song — one of my favorites — with no mics, standing in the aisle just ahead of where I was sitting. What a special show. ~ And I wonder Whether our days are unnumbered If one is the same As another Whether we mistook the colors For the real thing If we’ll ring out Brimming and broken and somehow Truer than blue And then come to Pulled from the wreck in the daybreak All equal and safe We're a long way, long way From the best of the best of times A long way, long way From the best of the best of times