Carl's Rock Songbook, No. 130: Van Morrison, "What's It Gonna Take?"

& a Comparison with Kevin Morby

So last time we unraveled some complex songwriting work by one of our best millennial-gen artists, Kevin Morby, a rewarding exercise in my view, although we ended by applying to his songs this straightforward retort from Van Morrison’s latest: 

You’ve gotta stop, sitting on a fence. 

We saw that Morby expressed sorrow in one of his songs about forgetting …