We waited.
The curtains at the far end of the room rustled. My heart stalled and my thumbs prickled. They knew something I didn’t.
Something wicked this way comes.
Lauren too, if asked in the empty space of night, would say …
To Grace, to the one, who like a sister was there when the darkness consumed everyone, and in her own unique way, shone a light to beat back the dark.
How unexpected? 2024 would be the year the Cure release their second best album, ‘Songs of a Lost World,’ one that would be, by any other band’s standards their best were it not for the perfection that is ‘Disintegration.’
The final of the ten great albums I discovered in 2024, and the best. Lauren would have adored this.
I cried when I first heard ‘And Nothing is Forever.’ I was in the car, my hand on the steering wheel – I do a lot of my listening there these days – on the way to see my father, a man who like for many, the dying of the light stole memory and more than a few other precious keepsakes too. For me tears are uncommon and a fragile thing. It wasn’t long before my heart broke on the back of ‘I Can Never Say Goodbye.’
I hope and pray we can all stay safe in the treacherous night. Lauren and Jake included.
Feel.
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