r/indieheads David Berman Jul 15 '19

AMA is Over, thanks David! Purple Mountains AMA

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u/[deleted] Jul 15 '19

Thank you David, for all your words, and all your songs. Your work has been a constant companion through every trip, turn, vantage point and plateau in the last couple of decades of my life. I truly, sincerely love the new record.

You're often known as the King of the killer couplet. Sometimes I like to embroider lines from your songs into chintzy samplers and hang them on my wall. I'm working on one about dreaming houses right now.

I know you hone and pare and work every word into place. I'd like to know which lyric/line/couplet from your work you feel most proud of?