The One Song Your Mother Should Know

There was this one song your mother should know. Jacob had listened to it so mny times that he had taught himself exactly how long to hold down the re wind button at the end of the song in order to get back to the beginning. It was a simple song, only a couple of sentences repeated,. It was about how much had been lost and couldn't be recovered. He knew he should probably stop trying the drug, given how extreme the pain could sometimes be, but he hated the idea of failing to rise to the challenge that it represented.