A note, there is a brief mention of suicidality in this episode.

I guess maybe your mind is like a car engine.

You know, it's a good idea to perform routine maintenance, get tune-ups.

But still, you'll probably have some problems at some point.

Probably need to go to the mechanic slash therapist slash psychiatrist once in a while.

Hopefully you can get where you need to be going. If you're lucky, you get a check engine light first. If you're wise,

you won't ignore that light. Still, sometimes no matter what you do, you might lose power

in your engine slash mind, might have a total failure busted down on the side of the road

scared and scrambling you might have a breakdown that's what happened to our guest this week

call it a mental collapse a nervous breakdown a psychotic break she was broken down fell

apart and now she's back on the road, engine humming

along, and listening to some great new songs that she wrote about it. It's Depresh Mode. I'm

John Moe. I'm glad you're here.

I've come up for air after years underground

Still got the taste of dirt in my mouth

Delicate

Delicate as a skeleton holding a jar of flies.

That's Emma Swift, with no happy endings, off her new album, The Resurrection Game.

Emma is a singer, songwriter, originally from Australia. She now lives in Nashville,

Tennessee, with her husband, the musician Robin Hitchcock. She tours with him sometimes, but she's

been getting a lot of attention, a lot of critical praise, a lot of audience, really, for the work

that she does on her own. In 2020, she released Blonde on the tracks, an album of

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