Back in October, when I first discovered Karen Finneyfrock’s blog, she appeared on KUOW to discuss The Poetics Of Great Lyrics with Jeremy Richards. I got the idea for this mix back then, and have been working on it since: what would I have said were examples of songs whose lyrics could stand on their own as poetry? This is the result. These songs cover a wide range of genres, but they share in common simply that I can imagine discovering any of them in a book of poetry.

I Felt A Suddenness

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