alrightnohusband:

every song on be the cowboy is about lonliness or longing…but it’s a departure from what critics call mitski’s “sad” ouevre. it’s accepting, it’s embracing, sometimes it’s even happy. it’s like you’re in a great expanse of nothingness, with nothing but your thoughts and your skeptically-held dreams, but it’s so grand and you’ve accepted that this is how it has to be OH MY GOD WAIT. ACCEPTING YOUR ROLE IN A GRAND EXPANSE OF NOTHINGNESS LIKE A FUCKING COWBOY