wind slipping through fence posts, strong tea, a low voice that never needs to raise, something steady even when it hurts, something sweet after dinner, hay and cedarwood and sun-warmed earth, the grit of dust on your tongue after a long ride, hands that know how to hold on and let go.
1 : SHADOW OF THE DAY — LINKIN PARK.
↳ learning how to carry grief without letting it carry you.
2 : SLOW BURN — KACEY MUSGRAVES.
↳ trusting that not everything meaningful happens quickly.
3 : THE NIGHT WE MET — LORD HURON.
↳ loving a memory you can never return to.
4 : WORK SONG — HOZIER.
↳ the kind of devotion that survives everything.
5 : LIABILITY — LORDE.
↳ wondering if people leave once they see the whole truth.
6 : BLOOM — THE PAPER KITES.
↳ finding softness in places you thought were barren.
7 : SOMETHING IN THE ORANGE — ZACH BRYAN.
↳ holding onto hope long after you should have let go.
8 : I FOUND — AMBER RUN.
↳ finding home in another person and losing it all the same.
9 : WAITING FOR THE END — LINKIN PARK.
↳ accepting that moving forward doesn't mean forgetting.
10 : LIKE REAL PEOPLE DO — HOZIER.
↳ choosing connection despite the scars.
11 : HOLOCENE — BON IVER.
↳ realizing how small you are and finding peace in it.
12 : FUNERAL — PHOEBE BRIDGERS.
↳ carrying loss so long it starts to feel familiar.
13 : BETTER TOGETHER — JACK JOHNSON.
↳ finding comfort in the quiet company of people you trust.
14 : NO LIGHT, NO LIGHT — FLORENCE + THE MACHINE.
↳ fighting for the things you love, even when you're exhausted.
15 : TO BUILD A HOME — THE CINEMATIC ORCHESTRA.
↳ mourning not only what was lost, but what could have been.
16 : FIRST DAY OF MY LIFE — BRIGHT EYES.
↳ the rare feeling that life is beginning again.
17 : ANCHOR — NOVO AMOR.
↳ the rare feeling that life is beginning again.
18 : SKINNY LOVE — BON IVER.
↳ watching something beautiful unravel in your hands.
19 : BURY IT — CHVRCHES.
↳ trying to outrun pain that always finds its way back.
20 : SLEEPING ON THE BLACKTOP — COLTER WALL.
↳ restless roads, open skies, and nowhere else you'd rather be.
21 : BURN IT DOWN — LINKIN PARK.
↳ the anger that comes when people mistake progress for destruction.
22 : TAKE ME TO CHURCH — HOZIER.
↳ devotion powerful enough to become its own religion.
23 : NEAR LIGHT — ÓLAFUR ARNALDS.
↳ the stillness that settles after the storm.