"i tried my best to be good to you, could be better though oh i tried i tried oh lord i tried" 

nona croons this.  "Trouble No More" is my favorite song from Dark Dark Dark's debut full length, the Snow Magic.  they are so good.  i can't believe how much i love their music.  it's kind of unreal.  i love their songs lyrics, sound and delivery. 

"i gave up on whiskey and beer, butam i happier though?"  

i did too.  i used to love whiskey and beer.  together or separate.  i think i might have been happier boozing but i know it was just an escape and that being sloppy was never very becoming on me.  i made some of the worst mistakes of my life under the influence of whiskey and beer...

"i'll take these rosy cheeks of mine and be headed out/ headed south, cos i got two hundred dollars bills of mine to be headed out." 

200 dollars might be all it takes to get somewhere in the usa if you are smart and resourceful and frugal.  200 dollars is a lot of money for resourceful travel like catching rides or generally not caring where you end up...

"i think i'll get as far as New Orleans to be swallowed whole."  

oh, nola.  i want to go back to live for a spell.  that one weekend was one of the best adventues ever, and such a tease.  i felt a kind of magnetic feeling when i was there, like it was all happening at once. 

"find me the rockiest bank.  find me the muddiest shore. that's where i'll go to get lost.  won't cause you no touble no more" 

considering my recent breakup, this line drives really closely to my own feelings.  i kind of did this in a way when i got lost in jasper, except it was all to my own demise...

i wish they had played "Trouble No More" when i saw them in tally in februay.  in fact, the only song from the snow magic that they played was "Junk Bones" which I recently figured out on mandolin.  i am supposed to send them something across country to oly on the 4th but there's no way it'll get there now even if i fedexed it.  who cares, i will send it later.  i need to make it first anyways.  a letter, a drawing, a mixtape, a whatever.  nona and marshall are rad artists and i want them to know that i appreciate their songs.  that is all.