I personally don't even really like "Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands". I thought it was a major weak point on the album. Lyrically, all of the emotional impact is, for me, completely lost because he goes out of his way to be unnecessarily wordy...ultimately to the detriment of the song. For me, this makes it lack sincerity and relatability, all of the feelings masked by easy rhymes and adjectives for adjectives' sake. This isn't the case for me with all songs that use more flowery description at all: It's just in this case, it feels...contrived.
"Sara" feels much more sincere and emotive. Less emotion masked by word vomit, more emotion seeping into words.
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It's a hand-me-down, the thoughts are broken
Perhaps they're better left unsung
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