If he takes the breath the song keeps going, and the song ends, and the CD ends, and we leave the room, and everyone keeps getting older all the time, and we’re older now, too, and then suddenly we’re on the school bus at the corner of East Union and North Harmony, right in front of our old junior high, when the radio tells us that he’s gone. What do you mean he’s already gone by the time the Unplugged CD comes out, before he shuts us all up, before he takes the breath, before he keeps going after he takes the breath?
