12.
Faraway, reverby drums were all K. was aware of, as he shielded his eyes from the light outside the darkened room. He may have been on his knees when the strings entered, framing the sustained, tremulous tones of a doo-wop balladeer.
And when I told her
I didn't love her anymore
She cried
“She cried,” confirm the backing singers. The balladeer explains, a bit more matter-of-factly than the situation would seem to demand:
I thought that our romance was over and done
But to her it had just begun
