This is another of his great songs where he packs so much anguish in a beautiful, delicate package. It's a lilting waltz, yet it's about the pain of loving someone addicted to heroin. He uses the phrase "thrown over" which was used in the early part of the 20th century for, as we so crassly put it, being dumped. Just a beautiful song.
This is another of his great songs where he packs so much anguish in a beautiful, delicate package. It's a lilting waltz, yet it's about the pain of loving someone addicted to heroin. He uses the phrase "thrown over" which was used in the early part of the 20th century for, as we so crassly put it, being dumped. Just a beautiful song.