When all the answers, they don’t amount to much.

“Touch. I remember touch.”

–Daft Punk. “Touch,” my song of the year for 2013.

“Oh girl, that feeling of safety you prize
Well it comes with a hard, hard price
You can’t shut off the risk and the pain
Without losing the love that remains
We’re all riders on this train

So you’ve been broken and you’ve been hurt
Show me somebody who ain’t
Yeah, I know I ain’t nobody’s bargain
But hell, a little touch-up and a little paint…
You might need something to hold onto
When all the answers, they don’t amount to much
Somebody that you could just to talk to
And a little of that human touch”

–Bruce Springsteen, “Human Touch,” 1992.