{"id":146,"date":"2019-12-20T17:03:07","date_gmt":"2019-12-20T17:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/?p=146"},"modified":"2020-04-25T19:35:03","modified_gmt":"2020-04-25T19:35:03","slug":"snow-is-falling-in-manhattan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.richbradley.org\/songs\/201x-favorites\/snow-is-falling-in-manhattan\/","title":{"rendered":"\u201cSnow Is Falling in Manhattan\u201d \u2013 Purple Mountains"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Snow is Falling in Manhattan\" width=\"780\" height=\"585\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/50227UHWULg?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>It took me longer than it should have to get David Berman. Like a lot of people, I was exposed to Silver Jews mainly because Stephen Malkmus had been in the band, reducing it in my mind to a Pavement side project. In reality, Silver Jews predated Pavement and was the primary vehicle for Gen X\u2019s best lyricist. But I was never one to put lyrics first, and so it was years before I properly heard lines like \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/genius.com\/Silver-jews-pretty-eyes-lyrics\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">All houses dream in blueprints \/ Our houses dream so hard \/ Outside, you can see my shoeprints \/ I&#8217;ve been dreaming in your yard<\/a>\u201d for what they were.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Berman released one self-titled album as Purple Mountains in 2019, ten years after ending Silver Jews. Berman committed suicide shortly before going on tour to promote Purple Mountains, and it\u2019s hard not to hear the album as a note of intent.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>On opener \u201cThat\u2019s Just the Way That I Feel,\u201d Berman sings, \u201cWell, a setback can be a setup \/ For a comeback if you don&#8217;t let up \/ But this kind of hurtin&#8217; won&#8217;t heal \/ And the end of all wanting \/ Is all I&#8217;ve been wanting \/ And that\u2019s just the way that I feel.\u201d It\u2019s a characteristically pithy and pained sentiment from an artist who\u2019d long been on record about his treatment-resistant depression.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This time though, the cloud that hangs over the first track envelops everything. The lead single is \u201cAll My Happiness Is Gone.\u201d Other tracks: \u201cNights That Won\u2019t Happen,\u201d \u201cDarkness and Cold.\u201d On the innocuously named \u201cMargaritas at the Mall,\u201d Berman despairs, \u201cHow long can a world go on under such a subtle god?\u201d before using the title image to describe the meaningless limbo in which humanity finds itself. The songs are more upbeat and witty than they sound, but it\u2019s plain that Berman had crossed the line from being cynical to something more persistently tormented.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The album\u2019s moment of respite is \u201cSnow Is Falling in Manhattan,\u201d which seems at first to be a lovely, simple ode to winter in the city, and the act of taking people (and cats) indoors. But gradually a metaphor is revealed, one that\u2019s now made more powerful in the author\u2019s absence: \u201cSongs build little rooms in time \/ And housed within the song&#8217;s design \/ Is the ghost the host has left behind \/ To greet and sweep the guest inside \/ Stoke the fire and sing his lines.\u201d&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I can\u2019t know if David Berman knew he was leaving when he wrote this, but he knew what he was leaving with us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It took me longer than it should have to get David Berman. Like a lot of people, I was exposed to Silver Jews mainly because Stephen Malkmus had been in the band, reducing it in my mind to a Pavement side project. 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