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Let It Be, 1984
Written by Paul Westerberg
A ragged, yet tender ballad about the difficulties of adolescence. "Your age is the hardest age / Everything drags and drags / You're looking funny / You ain't laughing, are you?" A later, nearly inaudible, line about the youth of the song wondering if he might be gay has most listeners thinking it's about bassist Tommy Stinson, the young one of the bunch. I don't know anything about any of the Mats' personal lives, so this is news to me and I don't know how it relates, if at all. The meandering drums and guitar lines keep with the theme of being lost and uncertain. It's one of those Replacements songs that manages to sound both tossed-off and utterly sincere.
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