To me, this song represents why "Sea Change" will be looked at very favorably in years to come. The songs, while downtempo and introspective, are very elegant in their simplicity -- there's not one throw-away line. They're powerfully arranged. And they'll sound as good ten or fifteen years from now.
"Lonesome Tears" is a confessional that vows resolution, but ultimately admits (and rages at) the unfairness of love, and descends into a vortex of emotional upheaval at the end. It reminds me of a sad western song mixed up with Southern Gothic imagery (e.g., Carson McCullers, William Faulkner) -- the kind of lyrics that you might find written on the back of a brown paper grocery bag in a ditch along a rural road on a late autumn evening.
To me, this song represents why "Sea Change" will be looked at very favorably in years to come. The songs, while downtempo and introspective, are very elegant in their simplicity -- there's not one throw-away line. They're powerfully arranged. And they'll sound as good ten or fifteen years from now.
"Lonesome Tears" is a confessional that vows resolution, but ultimately admits (and rages at) the unfairness of love, and descends into a vortex of emotional upheaval at the end. It reminds me of a sad western song mixed up with Southern Gothic imagery (e.g., Carson McCullers, William Faulkner) -- the kind of lyrics that you might find written on the back of a brown paper grocery bag in a ditch along a rural road on a late autumn evening.