Last year I was suicidal and hospitalized for almost two weeks. My plan was to stay there until they let me out and try again. One day a nurse brought his guitar and started playing Cover Me Up by Jason Isbell. I had owned and loved the album for years at that point, but it took on a completely different meaning to me in that moment. I broke down crying and couldn’t stop. All I could think was my wife and how she was the only thing I had in this world I was still fighting for. A lot of people have songs that changed their life, but this song saved mine. I swore then and there I would never put her through the hell I had caused her ever again. It’s been a long hard road, but I’m in a better place now. It’s strange and wonderful what music does, how a person I’ll likely never meet or talk to is the reason I’m still here today. Any time things get hard, I go back to this song and this moment.
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Glad to hear you came out of this all right. As the others have said, music indeed has a power to move us and inspire us, and sometimes it can help us at our lowest.
Thanks man
I only recently discovered Jason Isbell by way of “Be Afraid”. That song changed my life. That it wasn’t an anomaly is mind-blowing to me.
The guy doesn’t get the love he deserves. He’s the Bob Dylan of our day.
Glad to hear that you are still here and like Jim’s comment says, music/art can be a powerful tool to pull it out of our darkest days.
It really can be.
Music has a powerful impact on us all. I am glad you’re doing better, and I’m wishing you nothing but the best for the future.
Thanks