Jonathan LeMaster-Smith

December 2nd is upon us, and it’s time for the second song that has spoken to me this year. I ran across this song as the theme song to the Podcast “Delete This,” but I didn’t know it had words.

Andrew Huang’s music is a mix of ambient and electronic, and it was a good piece without knowing the words, but learning the words really hit me.

The song is “Everything Will Be Alright” and it comes from his album *Love and Desolation.* A lyric selection:

Who told you that everything will be all right?
Oh, oh you want to know it
Oh you want to dream that everything will be all right
Oh, oh everything will be all right

Carry you around in my heart
But I feel your memory go, oh
I’ll carry you around in my heart
I’ve got that heavy glow, oh

I have been listening to this song on and off all year, but with my dad’s death yesterday, it hits different. The reality is, life is still pretty good. His death is and will be hard. I don’t know that everything will be okay, but I’m willing to keep going to find out what comes next in all this.