when people used to put classical music on desert island discs
alongside the kinks and whatever bullshit by led zeppelin or the smiths you know the sort of thing
and they’d be like oh this reminds me of the first time my baby smiled
or the last time i saw my dad
or the trees in autumn
or compassion
or
and i’d think whatever mate, whatever
after the book deal, the plaudits, the nod from sue lawley
impress yer mates down the bbc
but then
i heard the protecting veil
and in those 15 minutes is all of life
sunsets and sleepless nights and peaceful nights and long lost friends and redemption and the sea breeze and when you drive over a hill and the view explodes and landing back home after so long away and my niece and my nephew and inside tents in the rain
all these things and infinitely more
and so for my first disc sue it’s got to be the protecting veil because at 6:48 i collapse in on myself and my mind explodes into the evermore and i will never ever recover