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Avalon Sunset, 1989
Written by Van Morrison
On this Celtic-tinged brief air, Morrison growls about being world-weary over a simple and traditional-sounding melody: "Oh I'm tired Joey Boy of the makings of men / I would like to be cheerful again." The titular Joey is in some idyllic pasture with sheep, while the narrator fumes on dark streets, "not greener but meaner." It may be an illusory sort of eden and a false dichotomy, but the song connects with its yearning for a serene, more natural world.
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