Sometimes I wish Sundown had a little something else or more to it. I really like the song, and it's definitely catchy, but I don't know, maybe it needed more story, maybe less repetition or maybe a middle eight. I don't think I've heard a single Gord song with a middle eight, but that is typical of folk songs. It's either verse/chorus or a verse ending in a chorus. If anyone is not familiar with a middle-eight, it's that part of a song about half way through and about eight bars long that sounds different from the rest of the song. A good example is, "I Want To Hold Your Hand". The middle eight is, "and when I touch you I feel happy inside, it's such a feeling that my love, I can't hide, I can't hide". Gord has definitely done some interesting things in his songs, like Seven Island Suite and Canadian Railroad Trilogy, but he certainly doesn't write your standard pop song. Neither does The Flaming Lips as far as I can tell. They don't regularly incorporate middle eights into their songs.
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