What We Are Made Of

i heard it in a trailer for a movie i never even saw: Bee Season
(one of that inexplicable wave of a dozen or so movies that came out about spelling bees.)
apparently the actual issue at hand was not spelling bees but kleptomania...?anyway.
I found myself watching a trailer and feeling my mind blowing... not by the movie, because that was just confusing... but by the song. ugh. THAT SONG!
so i googled the crap out of the three or so words i could remember when i got home and cursed google for not having a function that translated humming into a search.
it turns out it wasnt put on the official soundtrack.
the artist wasnt signed at the time of the movie...
the song didn't even have a TITLE.
it was a mess.
but i found it.
ooooh yesidid.

its by scott mallone
and unfortunately its the only decent song hes ever done, in my opinion.
but its a hell of a song.
something about the simplicity of the piano that surprises into a guitar solo
...and the vulnerability of the lyrics.
and most of all, the reality it speaks on:
does it make us weak if we excuse another person's weakness?
is it a mistake to accept mistakes?
we forgive the ones we love.
right or wrong. we forgive.

listen to 'what we are made of'