Coward (cover) - Vic Chesnutt

Описание: Vic Chesnutt lived for music and drew tirelessly on his deep perspective across hundreds of songs. He was only five years old when he started writing songs and 13 when he declared that he was an atheist, a position that he maintained for the rest of his life. Paralyzed at the age of 18 after a car accident and living with chronic pain, debt, and depression, Chesnutt turned vulnerability into art that refused pity and rejected easy hope. His fragile and strained voice carried a lifetime of reckoning. He never wrote to comfort; he wrote to tell the truth.

In the haunting song “Coward,” he flips the meaning of courage on its head. Drawing from literature and lived experience, Chesnutt suggests that real courage is born from fear, despair, and the daily choice to keep going. It’s not self-loathing. It’s radical self-awareness. The song was released shortly before he died in 2009, making it feel less like a farewell and more like a final act of clarity.

This song speaks volumes to me in such condradicting times when cowardice and silence against genocide and violations of the so called world order is unabashedly being celebrated. The more coward you are, the better species you are. You get rewarded with peanut salaries and lesser quality of life.

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