Pink Moon probably shouldn't be listened to when depressed or lonely. It is the sound of a human who has completely fallen apart. The album consist of the Drake voice and his a intricately picked acoustic guitar. The only overdub on the album, the piano in the break of the title track, is jarring enough to bring a listener to tears. In "Pink Moon", Drake issues the chilling warning, "and none of you stand so tall/Pink Moon goona get ye all" to those who think it won't happen to them. "Road" is a dreamy journey, its full lyric, "You can say the sun is shining if you really want to/I can see the moon and it seems so clear/You can take the road that takes you to the stars now/I can take a road that'll see me through", is one of lunar moods and unresolved questions.
Consisting mainly of Drake's moans, "Know" is the real killer on this album. As harrowing as it gets, in the same league as "Hellhound on My Trail" and "Devil Got My Woman", this is the song where the end is made clear and inevitable. Drake would hang on for a couple more years, but eventually succumbed to an overdose on his antidepressant pills in his boyhood room. He was twenty-six years old.
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