Stevie's vocal on the WOS version has that kind of spacey, inanimate, distant quality of her Street Angel, aka Klonopin, Days. And this is a perfect example of less being more. I suspect that Lindsey took the relatively drab demo and tried to fashion it into something interesting by adding layer upon layer of instrumentation and vocals. And ultimately it just sounds too busy and detracts from the true timbre of the song, which is about one woman and her struggle with rejection.
The SYW version is SO much better in conveying this lonely, pained feeling. The sparse, melancholy arrangements and the guitar riff are the perfect foundation for Stevie's much more impassioned, stronger vocal.
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