I fell in love with the world as it fell out all around me
As a new existence found me out and sent me spinning down
And I fell in love with that spin
Like a cloud over an ocean
With the repetitive motion
With the slow repeating sound
Sound in the space between light and surroundings
I fell in love with New York
Not the buildings or the anthems
Like some heavy-hearted handsome ever does what it says it does
And I’d fallen in love before
Like when I fell in love with Esme
And that real love never left me
Just informed everything I would become
So I fell in love with the world
And I fell in love with breathing
And I fell in love with leaving
And I’ll leave before I’m done
And easy & relentless is just as easy, relentless does
And that’s everything that I was before I fell in love with the world.
Released in 2001, “The Convincer” is a gentle gem in the Nick Lowe catalog; an anniversary edition provides opportunity for rediscovery. Bandcamp New & Notable Sep 20, 2021
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