I can’t stop listening to “San Bernardino”, from the new Mountain Goats LP, “Heretic Pride,” so I thought I’d share.

There is a line you cross the moment you become a parent, it’s like your old self is some bizarre alien species.  Hearing your child (or in my case, children) cry just as they’re born is the most magical moment a parent will ever experience.  That cry — that scream of defiance against the sudden shift from the internal world of the womb to the external one — is proof that your child has been born and is wonderfully alive.

It was that moment that I crossed the line.  Rachel’s voice was first, then Anya’s.  And this song perfectly captures that moment and that feeling of change.