What Lack Of Love Has Done - Nick Lowe

What Lack Of Love Has Done - Nick Lowe

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Dig My Mood, 1998

Written by Nick Lowe

The narrator of this song has an occupation, a vocation, maybe an obsession.  He goes around the world, goes up on stage, and tells people about his bad love affair.  "And though I do it nightly / It never is the same / For it's a never ending story / Of jealousy and blame."  This is a man whose past haunts him, weighs heavy on him.  The title is a deliberate misnomer.  It isn't lack of love that's done this to him, it's perfidy.  But doesn't all betrayal stem from lack of love?  The song has a cool, relaxed vibe with understated vocals that belie the hurt in the words.

She's Got Soul - Nick Lowe

She's Got Soul - Nick Lowe

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The Convincer, 2001

Written by Nick Lowe

A newly debonair Lowe, no longer the Jesus of cool but now the dashing debonair grandfather of cool, applies his talent for pop perfection to a spare, country-tinged love song.  The narrator has found a girl, a real pearl.  He's been lonely, but "she could be / the making of me."  A gentle, unassuming song, delivered with a quiet, sure vocal.  The words say he's over the moon, but he doesn't sound too excited.