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That's okay, I don't wanna go. I'm just gonna go home, lie down and listen to country music...the music of pain.
— Xander · Buffy the Vampire Slayer
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Our reading
An editorial interpretation.
The speaker declines an invitation and proposes going home to lie down with country music instead. Calling it the music of pain turns a quiet evening into a comic declaration of misery. Sad songs offer company for the mood the speaker wants to inhabit.
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