The Most Beautiful Song Ever Written
In celebration of Valentine’s Day, made-up holiday or not, I thought I would post the most beautiful song ever written. Of course I was happy to see this song show up in the recent film Whip It, but it was all mine before it was everyone else’s. Yes, you’re not hearing that incorrectly, Jens Lekman’s Your Arms Around Me
The first time I heard this song, I was sitting at my dead-end desk at my dead-end job, wishing I was somewhere else writing songs. When this track came on, I just figured I better hang it up and stop writing songs altogether, because I could never make something this perfectly lovely. The line that still gets me choked up: “what’s broken can always be fixed; what’s fixed will always be broken.”