For this week’s Sunday Morning Music, I want to share a longtime favorite song that seems appropriate for many folks in this place at this moment. It’s a version of the Bob Dylan song Everything is Broken performed by Sheryl Crow and Jason Isbell.
It was written and released by Dylan back in 1989. Things felt broken then and now. Things have always felt broken throughout history. People in every period of history and in every place have declared their society and civilization as being near its end. You can look at the Dark Ages, the Middle Ages, and injust about every time and place. For the most part, they were wrong. Things often work out.
However, there have been more than enough examples of them being right that you can’t discount the thought as a whole. I don’t know where we stand on that spectrum that ranges from needless worrying to dire existential danger for society as a whole. It feels like the latter at the moment but who knows what the near future will bring?
Which way things fall will depend on our actions. If everything is broken, I guess it’s up to us to do what we can to somehow piece it back together. Hopefully, we can set aside our fears and do what needs to be done.
Now, here’s that song.
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