The Unanswerable
by Eels

Album: The Deconstruction (2018)
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Songfacts®:

  • Eels mainman Mark Oliver Everett explained to Billboard why he recorded this instrumental track for The Deconstruction: "What I like about instrumental music is it's completely about feeling. There is nothing cerebral about a song that has no lyrics, and, one of the themes to this record that we all spend so much of our lives looking for big answers to the big questions when it's probably smarter to just stop asking and go with it."

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