“Thirteen Songs About Forgiveness”: Mockingbird

with some images of how to do it, when you need to:

…Given its origin in the blues, rock n roll, and pop music more generally, comes by its emotional palette honestly: desire, frustration, hurt, despair, sadness, anger—these are the primary colors of the form. There are gazillions of songs that plead for a second chance (“I Want You Back”), gazillions of songs of repentance and regret. There are gazillions more about standing one’s ground, about enough being enough. But forgiveness itself is different matter. Not exactly the sexiest of subjects. An anthem about forgiveness will not get a party started—it may even spoil one. Revenge is much more apt to get fists pumping. Or maybe it’s just too hard to do forgiveness justice in less than four minutes without sounding trite (not that that’s stopped anyone before…). Whatever the case, examples are few and far between. With that in mind, here are a few options for your listening pleasure:

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