Blanc Thoughts

Noah Kahan, Noah Kahan, Noah Kahan

Green Mountain Jesus

The Massachusetts & Maine Messiah

I don’t like to idolize artists, but damn this kid is perfect. He’s your neighbor who played guitar. He’s the kid you had a few classes with in school. He knows this place better than us all.

Stick Season is a term I’d never heard before, but I knew exactly what he was driving at. The season here where it’s cold, the leaves are gone into brown and dead piles in the wood, the sticks are all that is falling. Winter and snow is around the corner. It’s dark by 5 pm and everyone’s mood begins to dip.

You wish you had someone to love during stick season. If you succeeded during “cuffing season”, you’ll make it through the season of the sticks.

This year I failed during cuffing season. It’s okay, I had a few hits but ultimately left empty handed.

I’m going to keep a grip during stick season this year. I’m too aware of the mood dampening that comes with lack of sunlight. I’ll do what I can to mitigate and think hard on making it to April.

The song “She calls me back” with the Kacey Musgraves feature is just so real.

I’m glad I’m not the only fuckin fool in this world.

Does it bite at your edges? Yes.

Do you lie awake restless? Yes.

Why are you so obsessive? I wish I knew.

Hanging on to every sentence. I don’t miss a beat.

To me this song sounds like unrequited love. It felt real to the guy, but maybe it never was real for her and she can’t muster the feelings for this guy’s pain.

I will shamefully admit to being that guy who gets the “weekly call” and is immediately fixed. Then the panic and anxiety cycles until the next weekly call.

It took a massive hit from reality to bring me out of that trance. Its pretty pathetic what a man can reduce himself to. Then when I think about it in hindsight – I could’ve done without all those phone calls. A whole lot of nothing. Yet I listened and responded anyway thinking she’d come back for real.

What an idiot, lol. If it was ever real she never would’ve left.

I love the song though, especially with the feature. I’ll have to listen to the solo version though because it’s a lot more of a solo feeling. He’s legit singing about his delusions and frustrations and then she swings in with reality. It kinda leaves me feeling stupid.

I feel like the solo versions ultimate message is way more positive. Self-realization versus being confronted with reality by the other person.