lifeblood: songs: backgrounds: devotion

2000-10-03: retrospective liner notes:

"i guess i am finally understanding the futility of trying to control anything in life."

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2014-07-03: indigo girls "backstage at the greek - devotion" video

"i wrote devotion for...i kinda started it...i don't...why did i...i think this was kinda like a song like to my family a little bit and to my girlfriend, and this was years ago. and i actually wrote it, i wrote this after i was working on buying a bunch of headstones for, for these a, for all these graves that are unmarked in my mom's side of the family cause no one had any money. so i went and bought a bunch of tombstones to mark their graves in the, where the family is all buried. and i started thinking about it. i know that's morbid, that's really morbid, but it is what i did.

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2019-03-26: lucy wainwright roche: five essential indigo girls songs, wfuv.org:

"devotion" (amy), retrospective (2000)

i didn't discover this song until about 20 years after it was released but it has become one of my favorite indigo girls songs. amy has a unique gift for writing love songs and this one is no exception. when i hear "devotion," i believe amy completely. it is urgent and driving and feels like it is a song that needed to exist. "devotion" looks both forward and backward, and it speaks to how our pasts are vital to who we are - and how those roots can be suddenly upended by loving someone in the present. emily's vocal parts fit together perfectly with amy's in the choruses in an unexpected, complex way. kills me!