While the tragedy of Katrina informs the album, Cohn’s focus on the tenuous thread between living and dying isn‘t merely external—it draws from his own brush with mortality in a carjacking attempt just weeks prior to the hurricane. His close call with a stray bullet adds first-person resonance to "Live Out the String," which deals with survivor guilt and poses a provocative question: what do you do with the gift of being left alive?
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