Set the Fire to the Third Bar - Snow Patrol, featuring Martha Wainwright

Male/female duet songs can easily fall victim to the sickly sweet cuteness of couple-y happiness. Thank goodness this song is depressing as all hell.

I woke up with the intro, just some soft piano and quiet harmony. The song soon develops bass, percussion and guitar, while the vocals build to hold some strength before everything gives up and reverts back to the soft status quo of the verse.

One of my friends used this song in a video detailing his father's beaver trapping expedition one winter. The falling snow and shots of frost tainted windows fit the song so well, impressing upon one a real feeling of isolation and loneliness. The music and the video fit together in a tragic sort of perfection.

(Don't watch past 2:45 if you don't actually want to see a dead animal. Growing up around hunters and livestock makes it not such a big deal for me, but I understand that others have a different view on the appropriateness of hunting.)

Despite the sad song, Good Morning!