Days after a gunman stormed their Florida school and killed 17 people, two young survivors wrote
a song about their grief and healing.
Not exact matches
What I loved
about the rituals of
grief — the viewing, the flowers, the stories, the
songs, the laughter, the sobbing, the burial — was that they forced me to keep moving, to avoid getting stuck in a place of despair.
«The
songs we sang when I was growing up,» Stark points out, «almost all told
about a religious reward — what a friend we have in Jesus, all our sins and
griefs to bear; we're not alone; there is salvation out there.»
Last September's 85 - minute long Trip, an undulating, psychedelic
song cycle
about grief, may have been heavy going but take solace from the fact that these live shows will offer some lighter relief via tracks from 2014's excellent Souled Out debut and the surprisingly intriguing Twenty88, Aiko's collaborative album with rent - a-rapper Big Sean.