Over the Rhine: The Long Surrender

Like every Over the Rhine album, the lyrics plumb the mysteries of love, divine and human, not so much blurring the boundaries as acknowledging that they are inseparable and integrally related. “Undamned” finds Bergquist trading lines with alt-country legend Williams, the verses a confessional catalogue of misplaced passion and rueful regret, but suffused with the knowledge that there is still time to fall back on a love that endures.

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-- Andy Whitman