And on much of the same album, for that matter. The merger of Hatfield-McCoy feudin' modes shows up prominently on the sixties-style pop-rock displayed on the sublimely jangly Byrdsian folk-rock of “Shining On.” But the more modern pop-rock of “So Alone,” whose pounding and shimmering instrumentation propels an insistent musical force, also drives through a harrowing lyrical one:
- …you’re so alone you’re so alone you’re gonna die and nobody knows you’ve told everyone whoever meant anything to you to please just go away and now you’ve got nobody what are you supposed to do it’s getting late and the night is getting darker and you’re fading away you’re fading away and you’re talking to yourself is this really happening and I’m talking to myself is anybody listening?
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