Jesus, Etc.

Nonesuch, under Warner. He stays with someone while the distance closes in. The holy names are borrowed, and not mocked.

Nonesuch released it. Nonesuch is Warner. The song sits with a person and talks to them as if the ordinary words of love had run out, so it reaches for older ones. It does not sneer at those older ones.

Play it low, late, when the house is frayed and nobody needs a speech. It will not fix the distance. It will refuse to be cruel about it.

The eight

Industry
7/10
Quiet arranging. Nothing in it is showing off.
Household
7/10
Two people, and he is trying to stay kind while they hurt.
Piety
6/10
Our love is used like a hymn. He knows he is borrowing.
Courage
6/10
Gentleness when it would be easier to be sharp.
Republic
4/10
A private room while something large is ending outside.
Temperance
7/10
Soft, and it does not beg for more volume.
Truth
7/10
The sadness is exact. He does not inflate it.
Stewardship
7/10
A way of speaking to someone you might lose. Worth keeping.

Live historicallyThe next night the house is sharp with each other, this, quieter than the argument.

Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1980

RCA · Sony Music Entertainment

9 to 5

RCA, under Sony. A joke with a true bill inside it.

RCA released it. Sony owns RCA. The cup of ambition is a joke until you have had the job. Then it is a description of a day that begins before you are awake and ends with someone else taking the credit.

Laugh, and then notice who in the house, or the shop, is the one the song is about.

The eight

Industry
7/10
The typewriter percussion is a job, done with wit.
Household
5/10
A worker who wants a life after the shift. The house is what the job is eating.
Piety
3/10
No reverence for the office. The person is the point.
Courage
7/10
She says the skim out loud, in a cheerful key.
Republic
8/10
A wage, a boss, a cup of ambition. That is a civic song.
Temperance
6/10
The anger is aimed, not sprayed.
Truth
8/10
The credit-taking is described exactly.
Stewardship
7/10
A song for the person who makes the place run and is not named.

Live historicallyThank the person who did the uncredited work this week. Do it in front of the others.