Got it, eliza! Yes, I too ask meself the same question most days... Is this song cathartic? Should I be singing only 'feel good' songs to the warm fuzzy audiences that long to smile and hum those sweet memories of yesteryear... Sure, I do love the purely positive songs... and those that wind up reality checks and melodrama to the feverish breaking point ... and then end with happy ever after...

The message is in the medium... i guess... It's just so complex, this simple thing called music...

And while I keep learning all manner of songs that relate the hard won morals of previous ages... I sometimes need to give 'em a break and get 'light' for a while. It goes both ways.

These days, people seem to be overwhelmed with fighting... and the news and information glut is too large of a glass to drink in one sitting (maybe if it was something good for us it'd be different)... so we're shutting down... turning off anything that doesn't inspire tangable hope we can sink our teeth into...

This too shall pass... and the pendulum just keeps swinging. But I daresay we have much to learn from that ol' pendulum... For healing must occur, and the feedback from a moved, insipred responsive audience is sometimes our only guide through the darkness.

May the swinging lantern always lead you safely... home.
ttr