One of the miracles of popular music is when a songwriter expresses a feeling or a moment in a very specific way that rings true on a personal level. Not just the feeling of missing someone, or the joy of payday, but something very specific. Like being alone in a new town, sitting in a park on the weekend and wishing you just could go back to work already so that you wouldn’t have to be alone with your thoughts.

I love songs about disappointment and broken dreams (why, no, I’m not in therapy — what makes you ask?), and this is a classic.

Kris Kristofferson - Just The Other Side Of Nowhere from his every-song-is-a-hit 1970 debut Kristofferson (insound / amazon CD / amazon mp3 / itunes)