When David heard that Absalom was slain, he went up into his chamber over the gate and wept. And thus he said: “My son, my son, O Absalom my son, would God I had died for thee!”

This is the saddest song I’ve ever heard. The first time I listened to it, I sat down and cried for about ten minutes afterward. There’s a moment deep into the song that you will see coming from far away and that will devastate you nonetheless; it just made me cry sitting here at my desk. Utterly, exquisitely painful and beautiful.

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