As I groped toward the dead kitten, my mother lingered behind me unseen in the dark, her disembodied voice egging me on.

在黑暗中，我向死猫走去，母亲以一种难以言表的威慑，于黑暗中催促着我，“

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The imagery was of a lonely freighter out there somewhere in the dark, with Winchell's disembodied voice floating out of the blackness, like a rumor, a message in a bottle.

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Painter is six feet three and forty-two, with dark hair, rimless eyeglasses, and a deep voice.

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"I fell down, down, down into this dark and lonely hole, " he sings at the beginning of the song, his voice beautiful, mellow -- kind of reminiscent of Jack Johnson's.

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