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  • Signature Song: "Colors and the Kids" to her fanbase. "Lived in Bars" and "Sea of Love" perhaps going by the fact they're her most widely-known. To a lesser extent, "Headlights" and "He War".
  • So Okay, It's Average: see Broken Base. The reaction a vocal part of the fanbase has to her post-You Are Free work, although some are a bit more hostile.
  • Tear Jerker:
    • "Names" is about friends from the narrator's childhood that met horrifying demises (literally and metaphorically).
    I don't know where he is
    I don't know where they are...
    • Also, "Good Woman". It's a melancholy song about a breakup. The children's choir doesn't help at all.
    • "Song to Bobby".
    Phone call from a New York City office
    You were supposedly asking to see me
    I wanted to tell you
    That I was just only four hundred miles away
    Who could believe that when you were calling, I was in D.C.
    I was four hundred miles behind
    Backstage pass in my hand, giving you my heart was my plan
    I wish I could tell you
    • Moon Pix as a whole can be this. Considering what occurred to inspire it.

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