Mission of Burma
A dense, dreamlike lyric from Mission of Burma's 'Trem Two' that treats a streetcar ride as a passage through half-formed memory…
dissociation and self-confrontation loss of intimacy transit as metaphor for consciousness
Harry Nilsson
A short, incantatory set of lines about the impossibility of escape gets stretched into a nearly six-minute groove, with the…
inescapability codependency self-destruction
Laura Marling
This is Laura Marling's rendition of a 1965 folk standard originally written by Jackson C. Frank, a song about restless flight…
itinerancy and escape addiction as coping mechanism inescapability of sorrow
Ice Cube
Ice Cube builds a blunt structural argument: the chorus states a thesis about systemic setup, and the verses supply case studies…
systemic entrapment mass incarceration survival and violence