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  12. <title>MeFi Music</title>
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  22. <title>Time Trial</title>
  23. <description><![CDATA[In honor of the Tour de France, which starts this weekend, here's a little techno track i made featuring samples from race commentators Phil Liggett and Bob Roll. Good workout music.]]></description>
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  26. <pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 13:51:09 GMT</pubDate>
  27. <dc:creator>spudsilo</dc:creator>
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  29. <category>Cycling</category>
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  36. <title>Matte Beige</title>
  37. <description><![CDATA[A song about a time when I felt incapacitated by my own anxiety, but like, make it fun, kinda.<br/><br/>Lyrics:
  38.  
  39. Defenseless
  40. Stripped of every habit that protects me
  41. Sexy
  42. If you like neurosis and fear of closeness
  43. Precocious
  44. Quick to fall apart thanks to a big headstart
  45. Red heart
  46. But what it pumps through me is
  47.  
  48. Matte beige and unvivacious
  49. Afraid that I'm contagious
  50. Afraid to turn the pages
  51. And see what happens now
  52. But it'll happen anyhow
  53.  
  54. Distracted
  55. Trapped in autopilot, blankly smiling
  56. Beguiling
  57. If you like 'em vacant-eyed and pacing
  58. Erasing
  59. Everything but that which found me hapless
  60. Cat piss
  61. Soaking all my idle time and I'm at
  62.  
  63. Wit's end and feeling half-witty
  64. I don't want to want it but I need your pity
  65. If I don't get it I'll make do with my own
  66. And my head in a cone
  67. My life's completely blown
  68. I spent it all just dealing]]></description>
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  71. <pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 04:19:41 GMT</pubDate>
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  74. <category>CatPiss</category>
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  81. <title>Stupid Babies Need the Most Attention!</title>
  82. <description><![CDATA[A quirky little 90s(ish) jungle track. It goes like: <pre>|  A  |  B  | a+b |</pre>]]></description>
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  85. <pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2025 08:02:47 GMT</pubDate>
  86. <dc:creator>Television Name</dc:creator>
  87. <category>808</category>
  88. <category>90s</category>
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  94. <title>Prep Time</title>
  95. <description><![CDATA[Synth Brass over more synth pings and wubs<br/><br/>An Ambient Office installation with a little actual keyboard playing. Patch notes: Just Friends and Operat on pings and bass, with Mangrove put through Beads for the brassy notes. Teletype as sequencer.]]></description>
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  98. <pubDate>Thu, 19 Jun 2025 16:49:03 GMT</pubDate>
  99. <dc:creator>q*ben</dc:creator>
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  107. <title>dangorma (kora tune played on guitar)</title>
  108. <description><![CDATA[I loved the song dangorma as played by Malian kora player Sanjally Jobarteh, so I arranged it for nylon-string guitar. <br/><br/>For the guitar version, I use the dadf#be tuning that South African guitarist Derek Gripper figured out works well for most kora tunes.
  109.  
  110. I really like sections where a steady repeating pulse ends up sounding syncopated because of what is going on under it, and this tune has two of those. There is also a muting thing I have never done before that is basically like playing a 0 fret harmonic.]]></description>
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  113. <pubDate>Wed, 18 Jun 2025 01:17:37 GMT</pubDate>
  114. <dc:creator>umb&#xfa;</dc:creator>
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  121. <title>Inky Fingers</title>
  122. <description><![CDATA[The repeating bassline is either stolen from or inspired by a performance by Wet Ink Ensemble that I was watching last night (thus the name). It got stuck in my head so hard that I had to stop the livestream and start working on this instead.]]></description>
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  125. <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 04:25:38 GMT</pubDate>
  126. <dc:creator>moonmilk</dc:creator>
  127. <category>jazzy</category>
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  132. <title>Unmarked State</title>
  133. <description><![CDATA[Post-rock instrumental.<br/><br/>Guitars, bass, logic drummer. 110 BPM in D. Recorded through a Tonex One.]]></description>
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  136. <pubDate>Sun, 15 Jun 2025 03:42:37 GMT</pubDate>
  137. <dc:creator>signal</dc:creator>
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  145. <title>Dreaming Of Me</title>
  146. <description><![CDATA[Kind of a lowkey ORGANic cover of the Depeche Mode tune.<br/><br/><a href="https://makertube.net/w/orACbUXNJrvaqjA2C8C7AV">Video of me in different sweaters</a> recording it.]]></description>
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  149. <pubDate>Wed, 11 Jun 2025 17:20:09 GMT</pubDate>
  150. <dc:creator>chococat</dc:creator>
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  152. <category>cover</category>
  153. <category>DepecheMode</category>
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  159. <title>Ain&apos;t So</title>
  160. <description><![CDATA[is a song inspired by a trip to the high desert.<br/><br/>Last year we traveled around the US looking for a place to settle down. The best place was Sedona, AZ. When we got back, I put this together on my Maschine.
  161.  
  162. I worked a vocal sample from Sia that was part of a Native Instruments community pack (so there are no barriers to using it this way) into a short song that preserved for me the feeling of sitting on the mesa, connecting with everything. I lost my fear of heights there, lost my fear of flying, too.
  163.  
  164. For now, we've given up on our dreams of moving, but we'll always have this song, and I will never be afraid of falling.]]></description>
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  167. <pubDate>Tue, 10 Jun 2025 05:55:46 GMT</pubDate>
  168. <dc:creator>Ice Cream Socialist</dc:creator>
  169. <category>bongos</category>
  170. <category>IrishHarp</category>
  171. <category>Maschine</category>
  172. <category>meditative</category>
  173. <category>piano</category>
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  178. <title>Final Exit</title>
  179. <description><![CDATA[Based on a harrowing incident my Wife and I experienced once. Also, Ford sucks.]]></description>
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  182. <pubDate>Sun, 08 Jun 2025 04:27:26 GMT</pubDate>
  183. <dc:creator>spudsilo</dc:creator>
  184. <category>AlternativeRock</category>
  185. <category>Electronic</category>
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  189. <title>Never Leave the House</title>
  190. <description><![CDATA[This is another chiptune song played on the Sega Master System. I made a little <a href="https://youtu.be/1tSoWWg_g-k?si=ZwPPc5GWi0UtSPxM">music video</a> for this one. The song title wasn't intended to be "Never Leave the House," but I liked the way the words looked in the title scene in the video, so that's what it's called now.]]></description>
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  193. <pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2025 19:44:54 GMT</pubDate>
  194. <dc:creator>The Great Big Mulp</dc:creator>
  195. <category>chiptune</category>
  196. <category>sega</category>
  197. <category>segamastersystem</category>
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  202. <title>Pattern Fraud</title>
  203. <description><![CDATA[More Ambient Office modular jam music<br/><br/>Lots of filter pinging and wavetable pads]]></description>
  204. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9588/Pattern-Fraud</link>
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  206. <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 04:19:26 GMT</pubDate>
  207. <dc:creator>q*ben</dc:creator>
  208. <category>ambientoffice</category>
  209. <category>bleepbloop</category>
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  214. <title>DERSERT FLOWER</title>
  215. <description><![CDATA[A little art rock jam inspired by the posts on the Blue by <strong>chariot pulled by cassowaries</strong>.]]></description>
  216. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9587/DERSERT-FLOWER</link>
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  218. <pubDate>Mon, 26 May 2025 00:31:04 GMT</pubDate>
  219. <dc:creator>snsranch</dc:creator>
  220. <category>artrock</category>
  221. <category>chariotpulledbycasslowaries</category>
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  225. <title>Wither (NIN + Bill Withers mashup)</title>
  226. <description><![CDATA[Experimenting with Logic Pro's stem splitter tool and Flex Pitch tool led to this unlikely mashup that I heard in my head this morning and then decided to see if I was right.]]></description>
  227. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9586/Wither-NIN-Bill-Withers-mashup</link>
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  229. <pubDate>Sat, 17 May 2025 18:11:17 GMT</pubDate>
  230. <dc:creator>emelenjr</dc:creator>
  231. <category>billwithers</category>
  232. <category>closer</category>
  233. <category>logic</category>
  234. <category>lovelyday</category>
  235. <category>mashup</category>
  236. <category>NIN</category>
  237. <category>nineinchnails</category>
  238. <category>trentreznor</category>
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  242. <title>No Signal Blu</title>
  243. <description><![CDATA[Something a bit different, working on recording stuff and developing material with a friend. So instruments pre-recorded and I jump on vox only.<br/><br/>No signal blue = digital no connection. New job in theatre. Ambivalence.]]></description>
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  246. <pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2025 23:48:22 GMT</pubDate>
  247. <dc:creator>multivalent</dc:creator>
  248. <category>blu</category>
  249. <category>heavypop</category>
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  254. <title>Dirty Jeans</title>
  255. <description><![CDATA[Like something that I could have made with my kid's Casio RapMan back in the day.]]></description>
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  258. <pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 05:21:35 GMT</pubDate>
  259. <dc:creator>spudsilo</dc:creator>
  260. <category>Cheesy</category>
  261. <category>Funk</category>
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  265. <title>(o)possum</title>
  266. <description><![CDATA[umbuzinho and I gave ourselves a 45 minute limit from coming up with the idea, to recording this vaguely goat simulator-y ditty. It was  as good a way as any to pass the time during his Spring break from 7th grade. Until he told me, I had no idea that possums and opossums were different animals.]]></description>
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  269. <pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 13:58:09 GMT</pubDate>
  270. <dc:creator>umb&#xfa;</dc:creator>
  271. <category>ditty</category>
  272. <category>opossum</category>
  273. <category>possum</category>
  274. <category>silly</category>
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  278. <title>Sumer is icumen in</title>
  279. <description><![CDATA[For May Day, a medieval song; the manuscript source dates from the 1260s.  The original earworm.  Extremely twee.  There is a tambourine.<br/><br/>I kept it in the original key which, at modern pitch, is probably honestly a bit too high for me-- apologies.  
  280.  
  281. Percussion is me thumping the piano lid.  The tambourine once belonged to the Mediaeval Baebes, if you remember them.]]></description>
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  284. <pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 15:16:37 GMT</pubDate>
  285. <dc:creator>Pallas Athena</dc:creator>
  286. <category>canon</category>
  287. <category>folk</category>
  288. <category>harmony</category>
  289. <category>medieval</category>
  290. <category>polyphony</category>
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  294. <title>Lea</title>
  295. <description><![CDATA[Something we recorded a bit more properly than we usually manage in the rehearsal room at the start of the year<br/><br/>Happy to be back. We've been playing a long time. Have been playing with a drummer for the past year or so, which makes such a difference rather than drum machines.  This is heavy pop, confessional mode. Something to do with the police, Hasidic traditions, and a kid who, tragically drowned. ]]></description>
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  298. <pubDate>Tue, 18 Mar 2025 23:12:56 GMT</pubDate>
  299. <dc:creator>multivalent</dc:creator>
  300. <category>lea</category>
  301. <category>partywall</category>
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  305. <title>Waiting Room (Yanni&apos;s version)</title>
  306. <description><![CDATA[I woke up this morning and weighed my options. Should I do some work, or record a Yanni-style version of the Fugazi classic Waiting Room? I chose the latter.<br/><br/>No regerts]]></description>
  307. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9580/Waiting-Room-Yannis-version</link>
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  309. <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2025 14:45:22 GMT</pubDate>
  310. <dc:creator>umb&#xfa;</dc:creator>
  311. <category>Fugazi</category>
  312. <category>Yanni</category>
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  316. <title>Check The Drain</title>
  317. <description><![CDATA[Back with some new modular action - pretty simple patch with a delay as a sound source.<br/><br/>Reorganized my case around Mannequins modules - this song is using the BBD delay in the Silhouette module as a main feature. Enjoy]]></description>
  318. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9579/Check-The-Drain</link>
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  320. <pubDate>Wed, 12 Mar 2025 02:40:52 GMT</pubDate>
  321. <dc:creator>q*ben</dc:creator>
  322. <category>AmbientOffice</category>
  323. <category>BleepBloop</category>
  324. <category>Electronic</category>
  325. <category>Modular</category>
  326. <wfw:commentRss>https://music.metafilter.com/9579/Check-The-Drain/rss</wfw:commentRss>
  327. <enclosure url="https://mefimusic--s3v2.s3.amazonaws.com/Check%20The%20Drain.mp3" length="5414400" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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  329. <title>Dotted Lines</title>
  330. <description><![CDATA[A weird shambolic mess of a song about so-called real life intruding on my attempts to appreciate the miracle of existence, the wonder and improbability of life including my own, the majestic splendor of the natural world, blah blah blah<br/><br/>Finally got my recording setup isolated enough to where I can do irresponsible things with my vocal tracks without worrying that one of my condo neighbors will call 911.
  331.  
  332. Lyrics:
  333.  
  334. I know that what makes me me has been recycled a billion times
  335. And I know it's only separated by a dotted line
  336. And when I smell the lavender as I walk by
  337. It should remind me that there's really no such thing as I
  338. But it's kinda hard to believe it
  339. As long as there's a me to perceive it
  340. Yeah it's not enough to make it real
  341. I mean who else is gonna pay these bills
  342.  
  343. I know that every time I breathe it's a miracle
  344. It takes a billion little engines in tandem to keep me alive
  345. And when I see a sparrow or a new green stem
  346. It should remind me that the very same is true of them
  347. But it'll never amaze me
  348. It's just that work has been so crazy
  349.  
  350. I feed the crows and it bothers the neighbors
  351. Can't even live without selling my labor
  352. I traded wonder for comfort and it feels like the deal was raw sometimes
  353. And every morning I sit on a rock and I talk to a tree
  354. Real low so no one approach and notice me
  355. Desperately clawing back what I can from every crack in the unnatural grind
  356.  
  357. I hope there's still something to find]]></description>
  358. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9578/Dotted-Lines</link>
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  360. <pubDate>Tue, 25 Feb 2025 03:16:19 GMT</pubDate>
  361. <dc:creator>valrus</dc:creator>
  362. <category>feelings</category>
  363. <category>GuitarSolo</category>
  364. <category>IndieRock</category>
  365. <category>InstrumentalIntro</category>
  366. <category>noise</category>
  367. <category>riffs</category>
  368. <category>WhiteNoiseAsPercussion</category>
  369. <category>YELP</category>
  370. <wfw:commentRss>https://music.metafilter.com/9578/Dotted-Lines/rss</wfw:commentRss>
  371. <enclosure url="https://mefimusic--s3v2.s3.amazonaws.com/Dotted%20Lines.mp3" length="7055655" type="audio/mpeg"/>
  372. </item> <item>
  373. <title>Hungry Eyes / I Want the End of the World</title>
  374. <description><![CDATA[Little bit of angry background folk punk. Quick and dirty. Double feature, today. Mostly recorded while lying down and being sad. Lyrics in fold.<br/><br/>From the redlines to the green mines, I think I've had enough of your kind. For all the merit that you'd find, needles hang with hungry eyes. The camels are swinging high.
  375.  
  376. I want the end of the world. No, I don't want no one to get hurt. But, I want the last to be first like it says in the bible.
  377. Failing this, it would suffice for either the dead or the oceans to rise, the stars all to fall, the bombs all to drop, or whatever.
  378. Oh i want the end of the world. It's true. Yeah, don't you?]]></description>
  379. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9577/Hungry-Eyes-I-Want-the-End-of-the-World</link>
  380. <guid isPermaLink="false">tag:music.metafilter.com,2025:site.9577</guid>
  381. <pubDate>Mon, 17 Feb 2025 14:32:29 GMT</pubDate>
  382. <dc:creator>es_de_bah</dc:creator>
  383. <category>angry</category>
  384. <category>guitar</category>
  385. <category>protest</category>
  386. <category>punk</category>
  387. <category>quick</category>
  388. <category>rock</category>
  389. <wfw:commentRss>https://music.metafilter.com/9577/Hungry-Eyes-I-Want-the-End-of-the-World/rss</wfw:commentRss>
  390. <enclosure url="https://mefimusic--s3v2.s3.amazonaws.com/hungry%20eyes%20%2D%20end%20of%20the%20world%20song.mp3" length="2773006" type="audio/mpeg"/>
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  392. <title>Tomorrow Is A Highway</title>
  393. <description><![CDATA[My a cappella cover of a 1949 folk song ("Tomorrow Is A Highway" -- words by Lee Hays, music by Pete Seeger) that I love.<br/><br/>In 2017 I <a href="https://harihareswara.net/posts/2017/shes-out/">wrote about this song</a>:
  394.  
  395. <blockquote>I've been listening over and over to "Tomorrow Is A Highway". It's got some lovely stark lines, like "leave this evil year behind." Time and space have unified; it doesn't say that we'll walk <i>into</i> the future, but rather, that the future <i>is</i> this journey, and there are only two time durations in this song, days and years -- tomorrow is a highway upon which we'll travel to a better year. And it's sort of a mix of prescriptive and descriptive, prophetically <i>defining</i> us as the people who are making this tomorrow. This song does not explicitly say "this might happen" or "we should hope for this to happen"; instead it combines "this will happen" and "let's make it happen". It's less a song of hope, and more a song of faith and promise and invitation.
  396. It can be hard to let go of hope, and it can be hard to let go of dread.....
  397. I can't seem to find my copy of Ursula K. Le Guin's <em>The Dispossessed</em> at the moment -- did I lend it to you? In it, Shevek thinks a few times about how our conception of time and promises and intentions work together -- a coherent future doesn't just happen, it's intentional human actions that make a "road" and breaking promises denies and breaks that "road" connecting past, present, and future.
  398. I have been feeling as though nothing is solid under my feet..... for the sake of my own forward motion I shall work as though the next stretch of the road exists too -- perhaps every step is in some measure a leap of faith.</blockquote>
  399.  
  400. The lyrics:
  401.  
  402. <blockquote>Tomorrow is a highway broad and fair,
  403. And we are the many who'll travel there.
  404. Tomorrow is a highway broad and fair,
  405. And we are the workers who'll build it there;
  406. And we will build it there.
  407.  
  408. Come, let us build a way for all mankind,
  409. A way to leave this evil year behind,
  410. To travel onward to a better year
  411. Where love is, and there will be no fear,
  412. Where love is and no fear.
  413.  
  414. Now is the shadowed year when evil men,
  415. When men of evil thunder war again.
  416. Shall tyrants once again be free to tread,
  417. Above our most brave and honored dead?
  418. Our brave and honored dead.
  419.  
  420. O, comrades, come and travel on with me,
  421. We'll go to our new year of liberty.
  422. Come, walk upright, along the people's way,
  423. From darkness, unto the people's day.
  424. From dark, to sunlit day.
  425.  
  426. Tomorrow is a highway broad and fair
  427. And hate and greed shall never travel there
  428. But only they who've learned the peaceful way
  429. Of brotherhood, to greet the coming day.
  430. We hail the coming day. </blockquote>
  431.  
  432. (I seriously was not thinking of the <a href="https://metatalk.metafilter.com/26557/Whats-the-one-subsite-youve-never-posted-to">"What's the one subsite you've never posted to?" MetaTalk</a> when I first decided this morning to record and post this, but in retrospect, now I have collected the set!)]]></description>
  433. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9576/Tomorrow-Is-A-Highway</link>
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  435. <pubDate>Sun, 09 Feb 2025 15:40:20 GMT</pubDate>
  436. <dc:creator>brainwane</dc:creator>
  437. <category>folk</category>
  438. <category>LeeHays</category>
  439. <category>PeteSeeger</category>
  440. <category>protest</category>
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  444. <title>The sun has got to shine through all this rain</title>
  445. <description><![CDATA[When joy is so close to the surface, when love is right there sitting too, the road to love another is so short, the path of the heart so true.<br/><br/>I lost a friend this week. In reflecting on this rare joy they possessed and where that came from, this song fell out of me. The recording is just getting the song down, and clearly has some rough spots, but I would love suggestions for when I properly record it.]]></description>
  446. <link>https://music.metafilter.com/9575/The-sun-has-got-to-shine-through-all-this-rain</link>
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  448. <pubDate>Sun, 02 Feb 2025 21:04:25 GMT</pubDate>
  449. <dc:creator>Sreiny</dc:creator>
  450. <category>country</category>
  451. <category>joy</category>
  452. <category>loss</category>
  453. <category>love</category>
  454. <category>pain</category>
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