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Hey, good thread. :thumb:

Well, I always thought that 'Willow Logic' was a very sad portrait of a child and an abusive father. That shows the other side of Downie's writing about parenting---the possibility of it going wrong, the power imbalance between parent and child becoming tyrannical and awful.

Another great one is 'Into the Night' on the same record. That's more about the reverse: the helplessness a parent feels as the child begins moving away from them, into their own life. 'A picture of someone growing older, and someone growing up.' Downie, the narrator, comes off as pathetic in his efforts to get his child to pay attention to him, but he's redeemed in the end, when they have a great conversation that restores some of their relationship---maybe on a more equal footing, young adult to adult rather than child to father.

But the best line must be from 'Glass:' 'I know I'm losing you, I know what that means.' Yep. That one resonates with me, because I myself just had a baby girl and one of the things that occured to me is how our children mark our own mortality.

And finally...don't forget 'Put It Off' and its weird parallel between art and human birth.

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