94. Naked Days - “Necks”

Whether or not this song can really be considered as being released in 2016 is open to debate. However, the sheer level of raw goodness its punches pack is not, and in the end that’s all that really matters.

This track is like listening to an internal monologue gone awry. It’s being taunted by a memory that would be better off forgotten, and yet you still can’t bear to part with it. You’ve lost track of how many times you’ve been over it. You know you should just ignore it and let it whither away, but you can’t. So you turn around slowly to face it. You tell yourself it’ll be fine this time around as you begin to walk down the familiar mental path. You know where it leads, but that doesn’t stop you. You keep going, thought after thought, plodding along. You rationalize your actions along the way, telling yourself you only want to talk it through. You want to hash it out. You want go over what went wrong. You need to know what went wrong. You even hold onto the hope that you’ll discover something new this time around, some sort of explanation that will finally make it all make sense. You just want to touch the memory, maybe hold it. You only want to make sure that its still there. That it hasn’t disappeared - that’s all. There’s no harm in that. You want to know whether you can still feel it, because you hate the feeling, but you love it all the same. You need it. Your worth is wrapped up in it. The feeling reminds you that it was once real – that you were once real. It has a power over you, and it makes you feel alive even as it makes you unravel.