There are moments of despair, of an emptiness and loss of all faith that are nearly impossible to endure. Many an artist has tried to capture those moments, though they usually only get close enough to talk about it as if watching goldfish in the fishbowl, but never knowing what the goldfish is feeling.
Bill Morrissey manages to enter the hurt and not merely circle it, to capture its essence and not merely wallow. In this song, a man is in a beachside motel with his latest partner while he thinks of his dissolving marriage, his wife off with her new man. He is lost and turns to the only thing that can get him through:
The brown eyed girl, the empty man
And she wants to make love, I wanna drink
Drinking is what I do best
It is not a song about the ache, it is the ache.
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YouTube: https://youtu.be/8Urpu4tsOk8?si=byb2m1wrZga9zXsZ
Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/track/79aRqx5HDT0q8jRbt8Kf2S?si=ccd2d21def314acf