“Sarah” by Kate Miller-Heidke might be the best song ever written, considered as a whole.

What a perfect encapsulation of a moment, of an emotion, of a tragedy, in so few words. She has other great songs, but that one…all the nine Muses barreled into her atelier, bolted the door and refused to leave until they’d captured pure plangent truth and channeled it through her.

I’m working on a longer piece about the song — my first real essay in years — but just had to get that out there.