This song made me bawl a few times shortly after losing a beloved dog (gratuitous pic of said dog pasted below!). And when I listened more closely to the lyrics I realized that it’s a weird effing song!
Watch this and feel the crushing weight of a guilty conscience for every time you ever Rick rolled someone or just made light of Rick Astley. I'm not kidding around, this is huge and beautiful
Delbert McClinton, "When Rita Leaves". The teary lines go, "Had a sky blue ragtop Mustang - 1964...and she burned that pony to the ground on the desert in New Mexico".
I saw him perform it and he paused at the end of the verse to "wipe an eye".