We…sometimes face moments and events that drive us to think and compare the best and the worst. It seems like a daily ritual for some. Others are able to take these thoughts and inspect them and present them as something that’s at once pain, and a salve for the pain.

That’s what I hear in this song. It’s almost a stream-of-consciousness examination of a realization that’s been growing and building until she can no longer turn away. That leaves her with facing a truth.

Truths are hard to face.

Here is Etta James with ‘I’d Rather Go Blind,’ from 1968. It’s a good, reflective song to sing as you walk and wonder about the state of yourself and the state of the world, and what has been, and what’s to come.