By now you'll have read about Alyson checking out Jackson Browne (he performed THREE Warren Zevon covers) at a small club in L.A. So for those of us here in nyc, is a much younger Browne singing "Fountain Of Sorrow" off Late for The Sky.
The first verse of this song makes me wanna cry and the axiom, the one about how sometimes it feels easier to change the past rather than the future, is very wise indeed. It has also other meanings for me, it is the theme tune to my saddest heartbreak and takes me back to a place and time, oddly enough not such a long time ago as well. But it is one of those scars that are lighter now. The ache passes.
And anyway, this song is really callous. Essentially, Jackson was in a relationship with a woman and cheated on her. The woman left him brokenhearted but he runs into her again a little while a later and she is happy again with another man and happy to see Jackson. "You could be laughing at me," he admits, "You have the right".