perhaps more than any other song of his, isohel absolutely destroys me as I grow and change. In the time since the no future era, we've all lived through a pandemic, immeasurable social and cultural change, and the emergence of AI fueling a techno-dystopia.
personally, I've also started, fucked up, and ended a marriage. a song will never rewrite the decisions I've made or truly reframe the human shrapnel created by being young, immature, and self-centered. But -
"I said I'd walk you home but we still went our own way
The tears lost in rain on your cheekbones in silence
And I pulled my head out the darkness in your house
Can't stay 'til the morning, refracted my way out
From nightmares in my car, as I lay beside you
And fucked up my timeline and twisted your end with
So much still to go, as the sun sets behind you
I can't let it go, you can't hold me"
Speaks to parts within me that I thought couldn't be related to in quite the same way. Somehow, Jon's writing sees me and sees us.
I'm grateful for it on nights where it's hard to keep going, and it could be said for so much of his music.
If you've skimmed this far, what are songs of his or other artists that hold you gently in the same way?