SPIN: Your 2005 album, The Sunset Tree, is about your experiences with domestic violence at the hands of your stepfather. If you could have told your 12-year-old self, “This will pass,” would you have believed you?
John Darnielle: Nope. People told me that all the time, and it’s not something you need to hear. Because it doesn’t matter. “Someday you won’t be hungry,” is not something you tell a hungry person. You have to break it down so that you’re telling yourself, “It gets better by the end of the day. It gets better in half an hour.” I didn’t believe I was going to live to see 21.
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