tracy chapman - give me one reason 

i’d forgotten about this song until it popped up on pandora. i used to listen to this as i walked back to campus from my outpatient psych program at the hospital, trying to process all the rational reasons for me to break up with my emotionally (mostly) abusive boyfriend. tracy seemed to have a much better handle on an equivalent situation, because while we were both desperately looking for any, tiny, reason to stay with someone who didn’t want us, she sounded energized, hopeful, certain that the world would be better after she walked away. it took me longer to get there, but looking back, the mood in this song was a turning point.

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