"Downhearted" is, as Austin, Texas-based singer-songwriter Molly Burch says, a song that communicates mixed feelings. There's the heartache the title promises; despondent lyrics confronting an emotionally distant loved one that ends the first verse with a plead: "I could be your dream girl / Your whole world / If you let me."
But by the second verse, woes turn into an epiphany, offering optimism and a sense of freedom that comes with independence. "I got the moon, the sun, the stars, the night," Burch assuages herself in one line, before emphatically declaring "I guess I don't need too much."
Musically, the track is sweeter than its name; crystalline chords ripple affectionately and burly riffs toll with a western valor. "Downhearted" bears an old, country soul brimming with sentiment, and it almost makes you forget that behind the bucolic tone is a song that revolves around heartbreak.
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