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Say I Am You, 2006
Written by Deb Talan and Steve Tannen
This is tuneful, whisper-soft pop that leans on folk instincts, especially in the lovely, interlaced harmonies of Deb Talan and Steve Tannen. As the title promises, it's about the unbridgeable gap between our inner lives and the selves we present, even to the people closest to us. "Now I got lots of friends, yes, but then again, nobody knows me at all / Kids and a wife, it's a beautiful life, nobody knows me at all." What makes it hit isn't the melancholy so much as the clarity: the sense of standing quietly at the edge of your own life, watching the weather roll over a garden, feeling the hush of a near-empty chapel. It's a gentle confession of solitude, rendered with grace.
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