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Cool Inferno: Chris Staples, “Hold Onto Something”

Like any spell of magic, it is a song of few words: eight lines in two verses, a two-line chorus, as simple as an ice-cream cone, effective as a cigarette.

When the prospect of fulfillment is finally fully demolished -- this bird has ceased to be -- the world carries on, unchanged in its strips and streets, still makes its offers, two for one, late nite happy hour.

And this is the Hell of the song. Not agreeing to go to Hell like Huckleberry Finn, no sense of any stakes involved, not going but already gone, hell I been to worse places than this, you too I bet.

“I guess I got a couple words” -- this is the coin you give to the ferryman, to pay for your passage down below: the words that could have made love stay if you had known you had them to say, if you had said them, instead of everything but them, which is what you did.