“It was the darkest night in 500 years according to the radio, but all the darkness just disappears in the static of the neon glow,” Mulgrew sings. “Oh my darling, I’ve been missing you. Oh, oh my darling, it seems it’s all I ever do. There’s no promise of salvation. It’s just another load that we tow to an unknown destination down a long empty road.”

The song, and much of the new album, was recorded in Bob Rea’s bathroom in his house on the “historical” side of Nashville, meaning the un-gentrified side, which Mulgrew describes as mostly “shotgun shacks with angry dogs chained up in the front yards.”