The third single from Dutch-English artist Tessa Rose Jackson’s forthcoming The Lighthouse album is a delicate acoustic number that delves into those moments when you realize you’re slow dancin’ to the wrong side of a squabble but, ego being what it is, can’t bring yourself to give in. “I wrote this song at exactly one of those moments during an argument with my partner,” she explains in the press release. “Hot and flustered I fled upstairs to let off some steam, reached for a guitar, and ‘By Morning’ rolled out. When I came downstairs again with my tail between my legs, I played him this song. He forgave me.”
“By Morning” conjures Joni to an extent—but also, oddly, McCartney, as it borrows from his well of whimsy: “I’m a solar-powered thinker with the sun in my veins/Guess I carry fuel around with me until the light wanes/Just promise to be patient I’ll turn whole again/by morning.” At the same time, the guitar motif drills into the memory banks and hits the late 1970s, when we were all swayin’ to the music. It’s a wonderful song.
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