The Night We Met

Fuck you, Lord Huron.

I mean that in the nicest way. But fuck you. Seriously.

You have somehow stumbled on the formula for making me cry, and it's really not fair.

Genre-wise, it doesn't seem like this entry should be part of the series

Top 40 Nonsense That Makes Me Weeeeeep

but because Netflix is the primary way we hear new music now, "The Night We Met" topped the THR chart for TV songs after appearing on 13 Reasons Why in March.

And so, it plays with the same frequency and regularity on the local Adult Alternative station as Top 40 songs play on the local Hit Radio Station, and as a result: me, cryving home from work.

If you, too, would like to pen a song that brings me to tears, you can play along at home with this handy checklist from today's track:

• 6/8 time
  This is a very magical time signature that is like slow dancing and losing your shit at the same time. See my previous post.
• Arpeggios
  This is related to 6/8 time and is the musical equivalent of simultaneously arriving at and departing from the safest and saddest place you have ever been to.
• Tight harmony in thirds
  It's equally basic and epic. Like tying a weight and a balloon to my heartstrings and letting go of both.
• E minor
  Like, come on. Just.
• Triple rhyme (aka feminine rhyme)
  most of you/supposed to do/ghost of you
  So Extra. Traditionally, it's used in comic verse, like a limerick. But when everything else is so sincere (see all the other items in this list), it's like the twist of a knife in my tear ducts.
• GHOSTS
  They're right there, but you can't touch them. They're a piece of the past, right in front of you. Reaching across the veil, mistily embodying loss, foretelling your own death. Fucking ghosts, man.
• Regret/loss/wistfulness/longing/romance
  And then I can tell myself / Not to ride along with you
  Sure, Lord Huron, tell me about traveling through time, back to the very moment before the union began that caused you all this pain, and tell me you would choose another path. Go ahead.
• Slide guitar
  The guitar version of crying.

Here's a live version featuring several white guys with matching hair grease and matching guitars. They must have been sponsored by Guild and Layrite.