I could wish to have you here

As the light of summer begins to fade, the fireflies disappear and love followed by loss becomes an all-too-frequent guest at the dinner table, Patterson Hood checks in with this. Achingly beautiful and devastatingly real, heartbreak has rarely sounded so inviting. "Come Back Little Star" makes you want to jump in and live within the delicate piano-driven melody, fully clothed, emotions bare, while plaintively wishing for a return to forever.

2012 has a lot of work to do to produce a better song than this.