What's your favorite song about failure? Mine is "When I Ran Off and Left Her," by Vic Chesnutt. This failure comes from many parts: a well-worn country melody, a brittle lead guitar, a chalky drawl, and the lyric "When I ran off and left her/She wasn't holding the baby/She was holding the bottle/And a big grudge against me." It's the anti-"Born to Run," turning the irresistible compulsion to be hurtful and do wrong into the only great American road song that has its subject pull into a Piggly-Wiggly, phone up a shrink, and scream, "I should have kept all those appointments/I'm gonna need 'em, I'm... More >>>