Glenn Chugg - Make Room

Meaning: Grief, long after the funeral — not "moving on," but making internal space to carry someone permanently while still being allowed to live. Technical: Slow, devastating acoustic folk ballad, 78–80 BPM. One voice, intimate close-mic, plainspoken and almost spoken-word. No backing vocals, harmonies, autotune, or reverb. Solitary fingerpicked acoustic guitar with audible breath and real silence between lines; a soft upright piano enters only at the turn. Read: The best-written lyric in the entire catalogue, full stop. Nothing forced, no over-explaining, restraint used as a weapon — "I get to remember the sound of your voice, even when I can't quite hear it anymore" — and the line right after it may be even better: "you can miss someone and still keep living... and somehow feel guilty for it." This is Glenn's best chance at a song that reaches people who've never heard of AuDHD or masking at all. Pure, universal grief writing.