Chloe Carbone’s “Another One” opens with quiet footsteps down the hall as they come to take someone away. The cold room, the watching crowd, the judgment day—it’s a death row execution described with documentary restraint. Los Angeles-based Carbone built the track around an acoustic guitar riff originally meant as temporary, but sometimes accidents reveal the right architecture. She plays bass and acoustic, her brother Dexter handles electric guitars, and they recorded old school with mics in front of amps to capture something unpolished.
What Is “Another One” About?
The song refuses to pick sides on capital punishment, which is both its strength and its discomfort. “Do we put him down for the good of all / Or have we gone too far to lay the law” isn’t rhetorical—it’s an actual question the narrator can’t answer. The Green Mile reference frames execution as a slow-motion spectacle, and the chorus warns, “you better be right” because “an eye for an eye kind of fight leaves everyone blind.” That last line borrows from Gandhi but applies it to state violence rather than personal vengeance.
The second verse shifts focus: “What of all the innocent who fall through the cracks / If there are any, that’s far too many lives we can’t give back.” Carbone identifies the irreversibility problem—execution precludes exoneration—without claiming moral high ground. The bridge asks who we trust to draw the line between justice and revenge, acknowledging that the distinction exists even if we can’t agree where it falls.
Carbone describes her work as “lyric-driven indie rock with emotional restraint and a dry, observational edge,” favoring tension over resolution. “Another One” demonstrates that philosophy by sitting with moral ambiguity rather than resolving it, watching another one go down the Green Mile while refusing to tell you how to feel about it.
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