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Throughout pop culture, there is an abundance of songs, poems, and stories of the unfaithfulness of a spouse or partner and most recently of how the narrator of these things himself is unfaithful. Society isn't what it used to be and hearing if someone's being unfaithful or having someone being unfaithful to them is something most people will experience. Jordan Dreyer and his band La Dispute for example have written a song called Last Blues For Bloody Knuckles which talks about a wife being infidel to her husband. A main part of this song goes, "My precious wife, we made a promise, pledged our flesh to be one, how can you doubt a love that stood so proud as we raised our children, I believe in it still, it has faltered and it has faded, but I know it's there, how'd it change, the way you thought of me, how strange to think we once were lovers, now we've wrapped the past up in broken glass, and when you speak my name you shudder, oh precious wife, believe I'll save this, I'll revive it, I will, we've built a family from this marriage, why would you tear it apart." This song is talking about a man who still has faith in the promise of what marriage is but the wife fails to meet with those standards. It shows how the man is still in love with her, how she must be in love with him still since they had children but the wife doesn't. She fell in love with greed which is what drove her to find someone new. The wife is egoistic in the song and even when the husband tries to work it out, she doesn't want to hear it, she's moved on even though they didn't even try to work it out, "Oh speak now, precious, your silence screams, you're giving in to failure, hear me, the promise that you made was meant to live forever, until our deathbed, you're not allowed to change your mind, was there nothing in that promise, are you listening to me? Oh husband, I could not control it, husband, I could not abstain. One cannot stop the wind from blowing, nor refuse the falling rain". Just like in the Great Gatsby, Gatsby couldn't quite let go of Daisy even though she didn't care about him she cared about the money, the husband in this song cannot let go of his wife even though lust and lack of morality drove her to someone new. She just told him that she couldn't help herself and that has to be a good enough reason to leave him. Society now has come to a point where morals and ethics are practically non existent and the drive for materialistic wants is higher than the need of love.