Love Sick

The words

A man walks through a world that has gone sour, sick from a love he can neither keep nor shake.

A man walks through streets that feel empty and hostile, worn down by a love he wishes he had never known yet cannot give up. He sees couples around him and feels only the distance between himself and them. The verses circle the same restless mood, contradictory, weary and sick at heart, without offering relief. As the opening track of Time Out of Mind, it sets the album's dark, spare tone with a flickering organ and a slow, stalking beat.