In "Ode to Mix Tapes" he writes: "But O, the last track / Was the vessel that contained / The most devotion and pain / And made promises that you couldn't take back".
Sibling devotion streaked with pain and resentment is distilled in exquisitely fine-tuned performances.
It is a story of love and loyalty, pain and devotion and loss, and the price a famous singer, La Perichole, pays for her art.
The governor, ignoring cries of pain and going against the unswerving devotion to Louisiana's food culture, pushed for the $50-a-meal 50-a-meal 50-a-mealant.
The renunciation of the professional virtuoso's career is both a kind of pleasure a freedom from the pain that it caused him and an ascetic devotion to a higher ideal.
It argues that the willful pursuit of death is at odds with the imperatives of medicine, but that extreme devotion to comfort and relief of all varieties of pain is not.
At the same time he mercilessly exploits his loyal acolytes and, ignoring his young female star's devotion to him, relentlessly asks her to explore her private pain.
The renunciation of the professional virtuoso's career is both a kind of pleasure — a freedom from the pain that it caused him — and an ascetic devotion to a higher ideal.
And to the uninitiated, those who don't have Botoxed armpits and obsequious personal shoppers, our devotion to Martin Margiela's unfinished hems and large flower corsages (I feel your pain, Sarah Jessica Parker) can be unnerving.
Her songs about eternal love and the pain of separation have, two decades later, become not just vows of devotion but invocations of nostalgia, longing and, for Iranians in North America, the pain of exile.
