mark knopfler, “baloney again,”
from: sailing to philadelphia, 2000
This song sails rough seas, but it sails. Despite the difficult picture of race it paints, it endures the persistence of evil and reveals details of moments of triumph. And yet there is a noose hanging in it. Within this passionately forlorn saga, a cricket percusses all the way through maybe as a persistent sentinel. It should hang in the Museum of Toughness and Delicacy.