Goddamn Lonely Love - Jason Isbell/Drive-By Truckers

i'm trying to remember bumbershoot

or i'm trying to remember what bands i liked the most

and while i liked bands, i wasn't blown away by bands

except jason isbell

which takes me back to a concert 4 years past now

at the media club

a tiny little space meant for adoration

and a band i'd heard of but never heard - and a singer shunned, a marriage broken
2 songs hit me that night - gutpunched me as i swayed with a drunken Dario and an even drunker Grant

4 years later it was the same 2 songs that pulled me under a second time

let's just pick one for now, save the other one for the depths of winter minor chords

i'm sure this song is a favourite of many drive-by/jason isbell fans

maybe it's the melancholy mood

maybe it's so trite and simple 

i am almost always alone - oh fucking go cry me a river, right?

seriously though, here i am, hearing two of my desert island song picks, outside on a beautiful end of summer night under the space needle, alone but for the couples swaying next to me and 100 proof vodka to kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love

and so i stood there, barefoot in the grass

wondered how a broken heart could get any better than this song

tried breathing, got aching instead