Hamilton Leithauser delivers a gorgeous, vintage-sounding vocal performance in a song about the loss of love. He’s lost his love–he’s stranded and left out in the cold, pouring rain.
Throw another dime in me my friend
And I'll sing a song I know for thee
You don't want me
You can tell me
I'm the bigger man here
Oh it's true
You're all prettier now
Than the last time
But the words aren't coming through
And I'm stranded and I'm starry-eyed
Oh why, won't you wash out of me
There's broken glass all around my feet
Laid my plans so carelessly
What's the story
With my old friends
Drunk and lonely
To a man
How I love 'em all
As the days slip by
And they're all following my lead
Oh why, does the rain fall o'er
When I'm stranded and I'm starry-eyed
Stranded was written by The Walkmen.
Stranded was produced by The Walkmen.
The Walkmen released Stranded on Tue Sep 14 2010.
In an interview with The Washington Post’s Express, frontman Hamilton Leithauser said:
That is from a period where we were really doing a lot of horn-based stuff. The horn stuff had just started toward the end of [“You & Me"] and then at the beginning of this record we were just sort of full on...