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That's Just How It Goes

from Meeting Themselves by Broken Hearts Are Blue

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Broken Hearts Are Blue’s rollicking song That’s Just How It Goes is a mordantly rendered, doomsday anthem where romance has been traded in for a beach-set dance party on the last night on earth. God is there from the opening line, but they are stewed and legless, negligent, and naked, and in no condition to intervene. So too do the sandy-feet revelers, feel anything but the sweaty hand of Thanatos, clutching at their waists, spinning bodies into their final dervish.

The song’s pessimistic depiction of swashbuckling pleasure-seeking on the eve of human ruin is made more palatable because of the charm of the two choruses, and a scorching bridge that reminds the listener of the more animated territory a younger Broken Hearts Are Blue once roamed.

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A drunk and naked god on call
Slurred through the day and nightfall
All my friends and foes and me
Glazed and golden along the worn out sea

At the dance party of hushed throes
Time at one’s elbow and time our woes
As for a tomorrow nobody really knows
Because that’s just how it always goes
How this orgy goes

I whispered in the most gentle of way
“There’s nothing beyond today”
All our books and songs and quotes
In the mighty wave where nothing floats

At the dance party a hushed echo
A doo-wop guru’s chant at death’s repose
As for a redemption nobody really knows
Because that’s just how it always goes
How the ash flows

Like a washout, like a bust
The human story, fucked by us
Our greedy guts, just full of lust
How much can you get from zero times zero
Feels like the end of the show

With this grave nature and weight
We snickered along the straight
All the ghosts and ghouls and me
Stumble toward a cruel and sullen sea

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from Meeting Themselves, released March 1, 2024

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Broken Hearts Are Blue Detroit, Michigan

Broken Hearts Are Blue are a indie rock band whose members live in Kalamazoo, Minneapolis, Alameda, and Los Angeles.

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