To lose your home, your native land, that’s like falling from a bridge into a huge abyss with no way back.
—
Lizzie Johnson,
New Yorker,
25 Apr. 2026
There’s a parallel universe where possibly one of the greatest songs of all time, and definitely the best song ever written about the boys being back in town, was squandered off into the abyss of record-store crates and never given a chance to shine.
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