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Today’s segment of NPR’s All Songs Considered featured a discussion of the past year in music. All Songs Considered producer Robin Hilton chose as his song of the year Jason Lytle’s “Ghost of My Old Dog” off Lytle’s haunting album “Yours Truly, The Commuter.”

As Hilton explains, “I don’t normally fall in love with a song specifically because of the lyrics, but I did with this song. This guy is in a screeching relationship and whoever his partner is is yelling at him, and he says, ‘Don’t yell at me because you can’t see who I am thinking of. You act as if you caught me with someone I used to love. But I’m just laughing with, I’m just talking with the ghost of my old dog.’ And it was someone he used to love. It was his dog. [Heavy sigh.]”

You can listen to the song and listen to or download the show here.