In the first song on I Need A New War, Craig Finn takes up the sweep of an American life in a handful of lines — guy meets girl, maybe at a Dead show; she's in recovery; they move to Montana. Things get "druggy" and fall apart; he pieces together life without her, finds religion, has a kid and, eventually gets ominous news from a doctor: "we're looking at these numbers from your tests." That's just the first two verses — it gets sadder, deeper and more provocatively unsettled from there.
Source: Rolling Stone
