The song is generally assumed to have been inspired by Browne's brief relationship with Joni Mitchell. In the chorus, highly romanticized sexuality becomes a 'fountain of sorrow, fountain of light.' Later in the album the water images are developed into a larger metaphor for death and rebirth," wrote Holden. [7]

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It's about the fact that when you fall in love with someone, when you're brokenhearted, you don't see them as a person," Browne replies, by way of answer. In classic Browne fashion, The Long Way Around is both autobiographical and topical. In one verse he's recalling being a young singer hustling his way through Tinseltown, and then in the next he's singing about how the American economy is based on the politics of envy. With The Long Way Around I was trying to write about what I feel is wrong with America without preaching, so you need a certain amount of stealth," Browne says. Lowell George, the album was certified as a Gold and Platinum record in 1980 by the RIAA. It reached multi-platinum in 2001.

transmitted across the country. Still ranked as one of the finest gigs of the entire 1980 tour, and featuring a superb band with the With that he's gone, off to make the world a better place in the way only a rich, handsome Californian can. In his 1974 Rolling Stone review of Late for the Sky, Stephen Holden wrote that the song "develops parallel themes of sex and nothingness, fantasy and realism, as Browne, looking at the photograph of a former lover, recalls:"There is one former girlfriend enshrined in song whom Browne is only too happy to identify, suggesting he has happier memories of their time together. Browne was only 17 when, in 1966, he took a road trip from California to New York to start his career as guitarist for Nico, the icy German model, singer, collaborator of the Velvet Underground. Browne wrote the ballad These Days for Nico's solo debut Chelsea Girl, and The Birds of St. Marks, the opening song on his new album Standing In The Breach, is about her. He wrote it when he was 18 after their brief affair came to an end, but it has never been recorded until now. With The Long Way Around, another song from the new album, borrowing the melody of These Days, it almost seems that Browne has turned the album into something of a tribute to Nico. The Hold Out Tour began in late June and featured more than 50 dates across the US and one in Canada, culminating at the Los Robert Christgau called the song the best on the album: "I admit that the longest is also the best, an intricate extended metaphor called 'Fountain of Sorrow.'" [8] Cash Box said that Browne "uses his unique country-influenced balladry to his fullest about the highs and lows of love." [9] on bass and Russell Kunkel on drums – all of whom had played on the album too – this majestic concert has not previously been