TUNAGE – MORNING VIBE

Some losses are loud—funerals, breakups, broken glass. But some pain moves in quiet ways. It shows up as sleepless nights. As numbness. At the moment, you laugh but feel nothing inside.

And here’s the thing: that kind of pain always comes with a cost. You don’t just survive it and walk away clean. There’s a price. And whether it’s your peace, your trust, your tenderness, you paid something.

We don’t always talk about that. We praise resilience, but skip over what resilience took. We love a comeback story, but rarely stop to ask what it cost to crawl back from the brink.

O.V. Wright’s “A Nickel and a Nail” isn’t just a heartbreak song—it’s a soul inventory. It’s a man taking stock of what life left him with. And the answer? Not much. Just the bare minimum and a voice still willing to tell the truth.

His delivery is stripped down. Raw. There’s no ego in it. Just survival.

The band doesn’t build to a resolution—it stays right there with him, sitting in the ache. No lift. No redemption arc. Just the sound of dignity refusing to disappear.

So if today you’re feeling hollow, spent, like all you’ve got left is fragments—don’t dress it up. Don’t rush past it. Sit with it.

You’re not broken. You’re just holding the receipt.

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