Shadows

Album: Ryan Adams (2014)
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Songfacts®:

  • This ballad finds Adams pondering a fading relationship. The tune also hints at his experiences dealing with Ménière's disease - an inner-ear disorder that causes attacks of vertigo and almost forced Adams into retirement. "That song has two guitars diving into each other like B-1 bombers," he told Q magazine, "musically, it's like me describing what it's like to have a Ménière's attack."

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