mournful

According to Carlin, the band had no great expectations for 1992’s “Automatic for the People,” an album of mostly quiet, mournful ballads that, along with “Out of Time,” remains its most popular album.

The song works as a reaction to that moment - a slow, mournful realisation of his past behaviour, and a soul-cry for forgiveness.

But he made up for it with a smarmy opening to his acceptance speech in which he gave a mournful minute-by-minute recitation of the assassination attempt.

There’s a mournful quality to “Girl From the North Country” that is comforting in its twilight beauty even if the vision isn’t particularly consoling.

I don’t necessarily think that for me it was this massive letting go where I was so mournful it was happening right now.