Under the Red Sky

The words

A fairy-tale about a boy and girl in a small town that ends in loss.

Told like a fairy tale, the song follows a boy and a girl who live in a little town, and the singer seems to address one of them as if recalling a shared childhood. Its simple, riddling verses hint at danger beneath the surface, and by the end the place and its innocence are gone and the world they knew has come undone. The childlike telling makes the sadness underneath feel stranger. George Harrison adds slide guitar to the title track.