She pauses for a moment and then returns to her story saying, "when we came to Otash Camp I wanted to leave the sad memories behind and I hoped that this would be the end of my sorrow.' Contrary to her hopes, her sorrows grew when her husband died leaving her alone to raise five children.
The song marks the end of the sorrow of the Stranger, and his redemption years later.
He wrote, "A season that began with such hope ended with a sense of sorrow given the end result of the season-long backstage wheeling and dealing [a reference to David Duchovny's lawsuit].
For if the end of loving is sorrow beyond bearing, is it not better from the first to forswear love?" Each character has an answer to that question, and it bears on their differing relationships with their faith: one of comfort, one of conflict, one of refuge.
An unpublished poet, one of his works is Death: An end, a beginning, tears of sorrow cascade into a pool of joy, a conduit into light, memories become hope, shackles removed, the spirit soars, materiality transforms into an exuberance of bliss, earth overpowered by ecstasy, the finite morphs into infiniti, uniqueness of being joins the totality of the universe, death dies.
As he says toward the end of the show, mixing sorrow and regret, "You see, I'm still overcome with such an aversion to human beings, I can barely stop myself from retching".
But the Counting Crows total heart-stomping sense of sorrow doesn't end with this song, go ahead and jam "Anna Begins," "A Long December," or god-fucking-for "Colorblind," which will absolutely drop you to your knees, and you'll realize the full-force of the Crows' melancholic muscle.
There are two different records here — one of themes and one of collective improvisation, one of ends and one of middles, one of sorrow and something much less nameable.
While Olds grieves the end of a marriage, "Dread and sorrow reaching, in time, into /every reach", Graham heralds the end of the world.
Instead of wishing for something more we ought to be satisfied that death, because it is the absolute end of our lives, will end sorrow.
