Pinned
Fountain of Sorrow is reportedly about Joni Mitchell. The song starts with the lines “Looking through some photographs I found inside a drawer. I was taken by a photograph of you.”
When asked whether that had happened, Browne replied: “I could show you the photograph. It was a great photograph of someone that I knew. What the story tells is exactly how that happened. I just started writing from the beginning and wrote it to the end.”