Exiled Adam needs a music that, while it doesn't relish or glorify life east of Eden, at least acknowledges its complexities, a music that owns his complicity for his miserable state.
Who we vote for, and who we elect as a society, may not be the most important thing, but it does say something about how we see ourselves, and who we want to be.
The proliferation of popular I am hurt and wounded style songs is itself sobering, having moved well beyond the pathos of, say, Patsy Cline in their stark descriptions.
What audiences hear or feel in the Symphony of Sorrowful Songs may simply be the presence of a spiritual dimension in the work, like a door deliberately left open.