David Berman's lyrics are what place him in the pantheon of history’s greatest songcrafters. Many of his best lines are slant rhymes, but the slant mentality cuts far deeper into the core of his work than that. It’s the uneasy wisdom in his off-color jokes, the shaggy insights lingering at the edges of his simplest statements, the disarming despair of his upbeat marches toward the void. ⁠ ⁠ However tilted their presentation, most of Berman’s songs are self-contained stories, whether their premises are straightforward or absurd, their narratives linear or fragmented. But “Like Like the the Death,” a late-album cut from Silver Jews’ 1998 masterpiece American Water, follows an internal logic that’s invisible to anyone but its author. ⁠ ⁠ Read hamiltonmixtape's feature at the link in bio, or head to The FADER.com⁠ ⁠ 📸 Cassie Berman ⁠ ⁠ #DavidBerman #SilverJews