Every Friday, pop critics for The New York Times weigh in on the week’s most notable new tracks. Listen to the Playlist on Spotify here (or find our profile: nytimes) and at Apple Music here, and sign up for The Amplifier, a twice-weekly guide to new and old songs.

On countless nights, Isbell performed the song with his wife and bandmate, Amanda Shires, and it naturally was interpreted as a public expression of their till-death-do-us-part commitment to one another. “It’s knowing that this can’t go on forever,” goes one especially potent cry-line. “Likely one of us will have to spend some time alone.”