A Girl In Port by Okkervil River.
I can only assume I first heard Okkervil River on NPR All Songs Considered, most likely in the years of my longest car commute, when podcasts dotted a landscape otherwise made up of recurring Arcade Fire, Vampire Weekend, torrented-and-burnt Kanye, and the like.
I was already half a decade late to this record then, but in 2007 I was probably stuck on Bright Eyes and not sleeping much, because parenting.
A guilty dissolve to merge two pieces after I messed up the last verse badly enough to ditch it. More production on my vocals would help here.
This song doesn’t feel five minutes long when they do it.