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Earl Sweatshirt

This is a dense, technically showcasing posse cut built around interlocking internal rhyme and layered ad-libs, moving from pure…

technical bravado and lyrical dominance poverty and urban decay violence and gun culture

Eleventh Earl of Mar

Genesis

A sprawling, impressionistic account of the failed 1715 Jacobite Rising, told through the eyes of a child-like narrator…

failed rebellion and political betrayal childhood disillusionment with authority history repeating itself

Valentine's Day

Steve Earle

A plain-spoken confession of forgetfulness dressed up as a love song, in which the narrator arrives on the holiday with nothing…

romantic devotion failure and forgiveness commercialized ritual vs. genuine feeling

The Revolution Starts...

Steve Earle

Steve Earle turns a protest chant into a personal call to action, insisting that political change begins in ordinary daily…

political awakening personal responsibility hope versus complacency

Ft. Worth Blues

Steve Earle

Steve Earle's tribute to a departed friend (widely understood as Townes Van Zandt) turns a travelogue into an elegy, mapping…

grief and mourning itinerancy and homelessness artistic legacy

Taneytown

Steve Earle

Steve Earle writes a first-person narrative from a young Black man who travels to a nearby town out of curiosity and is met with…

racism and mob violence guilt and moral compromise survival versus conscience

Rich Man's War

Steve Earle

Steve Earle threads together three young men from three different fronts of the post-9/11 war on terror — a working-class…

class and war economic desperation propaganda vs. lived reality

Tom Ames' Prayer

Steve Earle

Goodbye

Steve Earle

A quiet, unadorned reckoning with a relationship dissolved somewhere in a haze of substance abuse, told by a narrator who can…

addiction and memory loss romantic loss guilt and self-reproach

Hard-Core Troubadour

Steve Earle

A wry character sketch of an unrepentant romantic drifter told from the outside, by a narrator warning a woman about the man's…

romantic recidivism performance vs. sincerity the myth of the outlaw lover

Feel Alright

Steve Earle

A defiant survivor's anthem in which the narrator refuses to be pitied or contained, casting himself as a storyteller-outlaw…

survival and defiance inherited identity addiction and recovery

You're Still Standin' There

Steve Earle

A restless narrator describes a life spent chasing things he can't hold onto, only to find every path circling back to a lost…

obsessive love restlessness ambivalence