The Animals
This is The Animals' 1977 cover of Bob Dylan's 1965 farewell song, a surreal address to a departing figure told entirely through…
endings and departure identity dissolution surreal imagery
The Velvet Underground
A closing-track litany that names a small cast of the dispossessed—people with literally nothing left to their name—and turns…
poverty and dispossession resignation found community among outcasts
Lynyrd Skynyrd
A survival anthem built on plainspoken endurance imagery, the song catalogs loss and damage while insisting the speaker remains…
survival and endurance loss and dispossession freedom versus belonging
Mitski
A brief, hymn-like address to the moon in which the speaker asks that their love outlive their body. It works less as narrative…
mortality possession and dispossession love as legacy
Margo Price
A pastoral invitation song that turns into something stranger: a plea to leave the city for rural Tennessee that widens into…
longing for rural simplicity mortality and impermanence land and dispossession
Gillian Welch
Gillian Welch wrote this song in the early days of music piracy and free downloading, framing an artist's economic dispossession…
artistic labor and value piracy/free culture economic precarity