“i’m surrounded by / some kids at play / i can feel their laughter / so why do i sear?”

Via: The 9 best Thanksgiving songs I definitely didn’t just make up (Archive link in case paywalled):

One of the great joys of my job is putting together countdowns of the best and worst songs for key holidays. For Christmas, I ranked 100 songs. For Halloween, 50. It seemed only right and natural that I should provide the same service at Thanksgiving. So that is exactly what I did!

And it was easy, because everyone knows there are lots and lots of preexisting classic Thanksgiving songs, and I certainly did NOT recently make all these songs up in collaboration with composer Jack Mitchell! And we certainly have no reason to thank the extremely talented performers listed in the credits at the bottom of this column, because, again, these are snippets of preexisting Thanksgiving songs with which everyone is familiar and which we didn’t entirely write and record this week!

---L.

Subject quote from Black, Pearl Jam.