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        "plaintext": "Simple but very strong chord progression on this one, which puts me in mind (in feel and lyrical content) of Dilaudid from The Sunset Tree, which feels like a song that will come from this at some point."
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        "plaintext": "Mountain Goats songs about relationships crumbling aren't rare, but this is one of the earliest about a relationship that is simultaneously bad and self perpetuating.  It feels like the people trapped in this particular mess of a relationship are going to make it but don't actually want to.  And that's a very different kind of sadness, arguably one with less help available."
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