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By the time Anna, in Rearview started—the off-key twelve-string, the raw catch in my throat—I was crying. Not silent movie tears. The ugly kind. The kind that comes from a place you forgot you had.

Some nights I still play it. Not often. Just when I need to remember that once, before spreadsheets and silence, I was a boy who screamed into a microphone like the world owed him an answer. rock band songs 1

We called ourselves The Hollow Mile because everything felt empty back then, and we thought irony was depth. I was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist—which is a polite way of saying I was the one with the car and the most untreated anxiety. Leo, the drummer, could play triplets while reading Dostoevsky. Marcus, lead guitar, had fingers that moved faster than his conscience. And Benny, bass, was there because he owned a van and didn't ask questions. By the time Anna, in Rearview started—the off-key