“Everybody’s got something everybody does,” and mine is listening to “Crying at the Wawa” again. If you’re down, if you’re up, if you’re in the middle, “Crying at the Wawa” will make you feel it in the most spectacular and emotional of ways. 

The song, which touches on the things people end up doing to get through the struggles that are unique to their life, pairs Chris Gethard and Mal Blum to comfort those who, sometimes, just can’t keep it together. Life is hard – it’s understandable. 

“I go hard if I go at all. I’m sad but it’s not your fault,” Blum sings in the opening lines. The words are endlessly relatable to 20-somethings who immediately struggle to get out of bed when their alarm goes off in the morning. And with the way things are going in the world, it’s understandable to not want to get out of bed. Bed is warm and cozy, and there are literally multiple wars going on in the world and one of the most rhetorically gruesome election cycles we have seen in recent history that you will inevitably hear about once you get up, so yeah, stay in bed. 

But, for those of us who mustered the courage and got out of bed to be faced with the monotonous pain of existing in this world, the Blum-Gethard collaboration is there for support. Put it on when tears seep through as you make coffee. Put it on as traffic mounts on your commute to work. Put it on after you get fired with no warning and have no idea what your next move is. After all, as the song says, “Sometimes, you gotta cry in public.” 

And to the person who reads this article and thinks to themself, “How weak are the people coming of age today?” I pose to you this question: with all the struggle and sadness we are faced with on a regular basis, and considering the lasting implications of the decisions of our elders, “what do you expect, what do you want from me?”