We Need Like A Song, But That’s Not All

Land Of Talk – Magnetic Hill

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I blink twice at most questions, three times at the stupid ones.

I attempt patience when it comes to new people, the first-meeting probing that ensues. “What do you do? Whom do you admire? What things do you like? What things do you want?” Mostly I can’t help the three blinks that follow. It sounds awful. I know it does. It is.

Recently, however, I brunched with someone who posed a question I’d never encountered: how do you need?

Which brings me to Land Of Talk and the following lyrics from “Magnetic Hill”:

“We need like a song
but that’s not all
we need like a friend
who won’t push us around”

It was a good question, which I felt received a good answer from a great song at a lovely brunch.

I need like a song, for the most part — skilled hands and a kind set of ears. At least for now.

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