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We are confident that should he ever find this column, he will find it both confusing and mortifying.
Its hard to know what to do with the feeling of spring arriving in 2021.
Flowers are blooming, and robins are hopping around on green lawns.
Vaccination rates across the United States climb higher every day, and everywhere theres a tentative feeling of hope.
Maybe this summer or fall we can feel a little, tiny bit better.
Maybe we can get back at least some of the things weve missed so much over the past year.
But its such a tender, uncertain feeling.
And weve lost so many people, so much of our lives.
Weve lost far, far more than weve had time to process or even fully count yet.
What should we do with all these emotions?
How can we begin to express them?
There is no single answer to those questions.
There will be many memorials and many stories that still need to be told.
One thing that might help, though, is an anthem.
And I know just the man for the job.
He even writes and records TV theme music!
You know theDancing With the Starstheme?
With a guy yelling Hey!
and a twanging guitar theme?
That guitar is being played by Matt Berry.
The guy yelling Hey?
It is big and triumphant anthemic, even but its also restrained, a little unsure.
So take my hand, Berry sings.
Well disappear to a pub thats not too far from here.
The music is huge, the singer is pleading, but the stakes are very small.
Berry also has a history of making music that incorporates broad, big-scale input.
And, yes, there are lots of artists who could do it.
If Beyonces available, for instance, I think shed sing a great one.
But a Berry anthem would be really special.
What a lovely song it could be, especially when its safe for us all to sing it together.
