Stuff Monica Listens To

and ya set me down with some fallen stars

i turn around and there you are - a flickering flame on the winter plains, the whistle of a train and a shooting pain.

Sep 3, 2025 • Monica Ek

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April 2025

can i get another year?

must i be so damn severe?

Apr 21, 2025 • Monica Ek

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November 2024

oh, you know i'm still afraid

i’m still crazy and i’m still scared, but if i make it to the stage, i’ll show you what it means to be spared.

Nov 23, 2024 • Monica Ek

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April 2024

we never did too much talking anyway

but don’t think twice, it’s all right.

Apr 23, 2024 • Monica Ek

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March 2024

there must be more to life than being on time

Two nights before I turned 33, I left work to find a hawk tearing a bird apart in the parking lot, the disembodied feathers catching on the breeze. One…

Mar 23, 2024 • Monica Ek

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October 2022

March 2022

forgive me // give it to me

tell me what to do, t-tell me what to do, t-t-to keep it.

Mar 2, 2022 • Monica Ek

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May 2021

leave the car running, i'm (still) not ready to go.

A note before we begin-

May 12, 2021 • Monica Ek

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April 2021

March 2021

Rolling Stone's Top 500 - Part Five

or, The Doors were just a bunch of jazz nerds and we probably all should be.

Mar 16, 2021 • Monica Ek

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i'm overmatched / i'm half as wise

If this is flat, brother, I apologize. — I am not a runner. I can count the number of times I’ve run in the last year on one hand. On one finger. I ran…

Mar 13, 2021 • Monica Ek

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February 2021