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First, we’ll quickly go over \u201cCall Your Mom.\u201d This song is about desiring one’s friend to find purpose, to refrain from self-harm, and about being there for a friend through darkness. In the song, the lengths to which Kahan goes for his friend is seen when he sings:<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Stayed on the line with you the entire night Don’t let this darkness fool you The song then talks about nights in the hospital and the grief that suicidal alienation creates. The ache is loud and silent at the same time, is terrifying, and is something that many of Noah Kahan\u2019s fans can sympathize and empathize with. The bridge of the song explores ways the friend can stay alive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Medicate, meditate, swear your soul to Jesus We are alive only when we have trajectorial lines to walk on; we need to \u201cgive ourselves a reason.\u201d Having no purpose in life, or being an existential nihilist, increases the statical chances of suicidal thoughts, depression, and many more harmful associations.3<\/a><\/sup> We need teleology within our lives and often this is brought by meditation, religion, and love. Noah Kahan does not care what option his friend chooses; he just wants his friend to keep breathing. In \u201cOrange Juice\u201d, it seems that the friend may have chosen religion.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I do not know for sure if the friend in all three of these songs is the same friend, but there are many parallels. Noah Kahan, elaborating on the song, says,<\/p>\n\n\n\n I wrote Orange Juice about two friends reconciling after years of being apart. A tragic accident that they went through kind of separated them and one person found religion and the other person stayed in the town where the accident happened and kind of just moved forward\u2026 It’s really a song about how trauma can bind you and how it can also separate you and I always think that going through something traumatic should at least bring you closer to the person that experienced it with you. And I think the hardest part about that is sometimes it makes you go farther away and I wanted to write about two people coming back together after that time\u2026 I drew a lot of inspiration from my own life, my own struggle with addiction, and alcohol, and friendships that I\u2019ve lost and haven\u2019t been able to maintain. And I wanted to create a story about two people that represented a lot of challenges that I’ve gone through, that people in my life have gone through, and that\u2019s what Orange Juice is about at its core.4<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n The song itself is amazing and is one of my favorites. In the song, there is the notion that religion has caused the main separation between the two. Kahan sings,<\/p>\n\n\n\n See the graves as you pass through Kahan here possibly refers to the fatalities that we learned about from “Call Your Mom” and Kahan later says that the friend did not put “those bones in the ground.” It seems that the drunk driving incident has caused his friend to find absolution in religion and because of that, he has abandoned his friends as they are like “crows that pull him down.” This will be of major importance in “The Great Divide.” This great divide is something one friend seems to want while the other does not. Kahan ends the song singing:<\/p>\n\n\n\n Honey, come over Sadly, it seems that religion is the main cause of the chasm between the two. One friend has changed too much to come back to his life – both to his hometown and his friends. The other has not changed and this creates the challenge that many of us may experience in our own lives. To what degree should one’s faith dictate how one goes about past friendships? Can a devoted sober-minded Christian socialize with friends that drink? How can a Christian live in love, but yet cast aside his old friends? Should the other friends accommodate their friend’s desire to remain sober? Is it wrong for religion to divide? And, a question that I think “The Great Divide” proposes, is religion the correct answer to moral injury?<\/p>\n\n\n\n These questions will be explored more in Part 2 as we dive into the Great Divide.<\/p>\n\n\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Noah Kohan’s music explores themes of religious trauma, spiritual divide, and the impact of religion on friendship.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":16,"featured_media":4316,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"[{\"content\":\"Noah Kahan, \\\"Call Your Mom,\\\" track 10 on\u00a0Stick Season (We'll All Be Here Forever)<\/em>, (Mercury Records\/Republic Records, 2023), audio.\",\"id\":\"e3ed78eb-e829-4de2-9556-c88c86c38eaa\"},{\"content\":\"Ibid.\",\"id\":\"029ba1cf-f223-4c53-97b6-79304d68d5d3\"},{\"content\":\"Kyron, M. J., Page, A. C., Chen, W., Delgadillo, J., & Ngo, H. (2025). 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‘Til you let it out and let it in<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n
All lights turned off can be turned on
I’ll drive, I’ll drive all night
I’ll call your mom
Oh, dear, don’t be discouraged
I’ve been exactly where you are
I’ll drive, I’ll drive all night
I’ll call your mom
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Throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason
Don’t wanna drive another mile wonderin’ if you’re breathin’
So won’t you stay, won’t you stay, won’t you stay with me?
Medicate, meditate, save your soul for Jesus
Throw a punch, fall in love, give yourself a reason
Don’t wanna drive another mile without knowin’ you’re breathin’
So won’t you stay, won’t you stay, won’t you stay with me?<\/em>2<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\nOrange Juice<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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From our crash back in ’02
Not one nick on your finger
You just asked m\u0435 to hold you
But it made you a stranger
And filled you with ang\u0435r
Now I’m third in the line up
To your Lord and your Savior.<\/em>5<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n
The party’s gone slower
And no one will tempt you
We know you got sober
There’s orange juice in the kitchen
Bought for the children
It’s yours if you want it
We’re just glad you could visit<\/em>6<\/a><\/sup><\/p>\n\n\n\n