You will never cop To the damage that's been done. You will never stop 'Cause it's too much fun.<p>Now you want somebody to be your buttercup. Good l… - Lucinda Williams

My mother passed away in 2004, and then my dad 10 years later. That period in between, I wrote songs like “Death Came”, and then after my father passed away I wrote, “If There’s A Heaven” and “If My Love Could Kill”, which I wrote about the Alzheimer’s disease that killed my father. There’s a lot of dealing with loss, and heavy stuff, and life. It’s a lot different of an album than some of my earlier ones, like Essence, when I was still struggling with unrequited love as a younger girl.

I think what informs my songwriting is my empathy with that. Maybe that’s what bothers people. It scares them to go to the edge of the well and look in. But it’s what they like also. And wouldn’t you rather feel the pain than not feel anything?

Sun came up it was another day,
And the sun went down you were blown away.
Why'd you let go of your guitar?
Why'd you ever let it go that far?
Drunken angel.