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Among his gnomic-genius singer/songwriter peers, Cass McCombs might be the most gnomic: His lyrics often read like complicated philosophical dissertations, unspooled in a private corner of his mind. I've never understood a Cass McCombs song-- even the ones I've listened to hundreds of hundreds of times ("County Line", "I Went to the Hospital"). "There Can Be Only”
