Beck was 32 years old when the song came out two years after he discovered his fiancée was cheating on him (with a member of a band called Whiskey Biscuit), and he practically sighs every lyric: "I'm tired of fighting,

Lost Cause” is one of the saddest, prettiest, altogether greatest songs of all time. The centerpiece of Beck’s majestically depressed 2002 opus Sea Change never fails to astonish me, and few recordings in this world sound more like a cloudy fall day.