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My Heart Has Been Outgrown: Songs About Change

This week, in lieu of a Thanksgiving episode, A Symposium of Popular Songs is listening to songs about change. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com.

This week, in lieu of a Thanksgiving episode, A Symposium of Popular Songs is listening to songs about change. Send your song recommendations to symposiumofsongs@gmail.com.

  • 0:00

    Casey Dienel, “People Can Change” (My Heart Is an Outlaw, 2025)

  • 5:54

    Madison Cunningham, “All I’ve Ever Known” (Revealer, 2022)

  • 11:00

    New Order, “Regret” (Republic, 1993)

  • 15:47

    Reading: Will Durant, The Lessons of History

  • 17:49

    Sam Cooke, “A Change Is Gonna Come” (Ain’t That Good News, 1964)

  • 21:56

    Wilco, “You Are My Face” (Sky Blue Sky, 2007)

  • 26:30

    Fleetwood Mac, “Landslide” (Fleetwood Mac, 1975)

  • 29:45

    Bob Dylan, “Things Have Changed” (Wonder Boys OST, 2000)

  • 35:40

    Reading: Kathleen Raine, “Change”

  • 39:14

    Okkervil River, “Savannah Smiles” (The Stage Names, 2007)

  • 42:46

    Will Sheff featuring Bridget St. John, “Tommy McHugh” (single, 2023)

  • 50:27

    The Flaming Lips, “Suddenly Everything Has Changed” (The Soft Bulletin, 1999)

  • 55:02

    The Posies, “Coming Right Along” (Frosting on the Beater, 1993)

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Michial Farmer

Michial Farmer is a poet, essayist, and history teacher. He is the author of Imagination and Idealism in John Updike’s Fiction (Camden House, 2017) and the translator of Gabriel Marcel’s Thirst (Cluny, 2021). He lives in Atlanta.