Can I have songs that are tangentially related for 300 please?
You're So Clean by We Are the City please meet Soap by The Oh Hellos
this is so interesting ay because they feel like they should be friends but you look at the lyrics and it's like theyre opposed to each other. the oh hellos, in oh hellos fashion, are sweet and optimistic:
they say: it's not too late for you, it's not too late for us, but you have to dare to be vulnerable, you have to dare to let go
whereas we are the city's song (by my understanding, though i've heard different interpretations) is more pessimistic:
they say: this is the cycle, of continually trying to look like you have it together, this unending cycle of recovering a little so things can get worse again
but then at the same time they both voice dissatisfaction with the present and are asking for change. the oh hellos are saying: "you can improve, i believe in you" and we are the city are saying "the uncertainty of clean, bright tomorrow means that things might get better as much as they might get worse, and you gotta accept and live for the uncertainty"
what's also interesting to me is that both the oh hellos and we are the city have heavy christian inspirations.... of course they would both be interested in metaphors of getting clean