Song · Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music, Pandora, and YouTube Music · 1979
A&M · Universal Music Group
Message in a Bottle
A&M, under Universal. The loneliness is real. So is the hundred billion other bottles.
A&M released it. Universal holds A&M. The song lets a man indulge the island for two minutes and then shows him the shore covered in other people's bottles. You are not the only one. That can be a comfort or a duty.
Hear it as a duty. Someone else's bottle is already on your beach.
The eight
Industry
8/10
The guitar figure is a distress signal, built.
Household
5/10
No house. A castaway who wanted one.
Piety
4/10
A hope sent out with no address.
Courage
6/10
He sends the note anyway.
Republic
6/10
He discovers a crowd of the lonely. That is a kind of public.
Temperance
6/10
The ache does not turn into a spree.
Truth
7/10
He thought he was the only one. He was wrong, and he says so.
Stewardship
6/10
A correction to self-pity. Useful.
Live historicallyAnswer one message you have been leaving unread. A real person sent it.