As we approach the end of 2024 (and perhaps much else), the final two posts of the year will depart a bit—at least on the surface—from our direct exploration of healing, shadow, and the diverse American narratives that, as Sara Bareilles wrote, “made sense because [we] didn’t know the truth.”
This podcast will briefly address two songs—amazingly for me, neither by Kristofferson—Cliff Eberhardt’s “Everyone’s Wounded,” and Sara Bareilles’s “Orpheus.” Both songs are connected to Greek mythology—“Everyone’s Wounded” was written by Cliff for a 2019 play, The Heal, based on Sophocles’ Philoctetes, and Orpheus takes its title from well, the myth of Orpheus. Both also involve suffering and serpents (below the surface they are consistent with our concerns with healing, shadow, and American narratives).
Here are the two songs:
The studio version of “Everyone’s Wounded” is available here:
An acoustic version of “Orpheus” is available here.
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