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What if artists stated their pain in simple declarative sentences?
What if we didn’t hide behind chord changes and rhymes, characters and far-off future worlds?
What if we didn’t have to resort to signs on bumpers or invent a desperate morse code of car horns and headlights?
Oh, never mind.
There are so many impossibilities…