Results for “Jason Mraz”

Artists

Jason Mraz Jason Thomas Mraz is an American singer-songwriter and guitarist. He rose to prominence…

Songs

The Remedy (I Won't Worry)

Jason Mraz

A breezy pop-reggae tune that smuggles in a fairly dark worldview: the song opens with images of fireworks, illness, and media…

mortality and impermanence media-saturated anxiety living in the present

Speed Trap Town

Jason Isbell

A narrator sits at his dying father's bedside in a small town he's always known too well, and realizes only in that final vigil…

small-town claustrophobia estrangement from a parent grief and release

Stockholm

Jason Isbell

A song about surrendering to love as a kind of captivity, using Stockholm Syndrome as the operative metaphor for a man who no…

captivity as intimacy loss of former identity surrender and devotion

Super 8

Jason Isbell

A blackout-drunk road story told with wincing humor, in which the narrator recounts a chaotic night that nearly kills him.…

addiction and recovery mortality on the road touring musician life

Elephant

Jason Isbell

A narrator sits with a dying friend in a bar, trading jokes and old songs to avoid naming what's killing her. The song is a…

death and denial friendship vs. desire gallows humor

Something More Than Free

Jason Isbell

A working-class narrator describes his days through the rhythm of manual labor, framing exhaustion and diminished expectation as…

labor and class faith as consolation resignation vs. dignity

Traveling Alone

Jason Isbell

A recovering man takes stock of a life spent moving through places without anyone to share them with, and asks someone directly…

recovery from addiction loneliness and isolation vulnerability and asking for help

24 Frames

Jason Isbell

A meditation on the fragility of everything a person builds—relationships, careers, a sense of stability—delivered through a…

impermanence mortality self-deception

If It Takes a Lifetime

Jason Isbell

A recovering man tallies the small, unglamorous work of staying sober and rebuilding a life, using a job anniversary as a rough…

recovery and sobriety patience versus instant redemption estrangement from home and self

Live Oak

Jason Isbell

A murder ballad disguised as a confession of self-improvement, in which the narrator's claim to have left his violent past…

duality of self violence and love intertwined addiction as haunting past self

Cover Me Up

Jason Isbell

A recovery ballad disguised as a love song, in which the narrator counts the cost of his old chaotic life and credits a specific…

addiction and sobriety redemption through love domesticity as safety

Flagship

Jason Isbell

A song about watching long marriages calcify and making a private, almost superstitious vow not to let that happen to your own.…

marital decay willed devotion nostalgia