#365songs (180 / 365)

One of two short, powerful tracks on Open Mike Eagle's Anime, Trauma and Divorce that bracket the considerable emotional spectrum spanned by this great album. This one is the bummer, a beaten-down lament of a series of losses Mike suffered in 2019. The near-beatless instrumentals build over each of four verses and then the bottom drops out abruptly on the word "ended." Oof. Just that much would be a brutally effective synthesis of form and content, but where the first three verses each give way to a dispirited, muttered aside, the fourth breaks the pattern, like that one still hurts too much to say any more about. Rough stuff, but a magnificent 140 seconds of music.