Hold You Like a Lover further validates the outright significance of Theodore. This is a record to make one at ease with feeling down in the mouth; about doing wrong to those whom one ought to do right, if only for the knowledge that one shares this condition with so many others who wake every single day with the hope, misguided as it may be, that today might be the day things turn around. It's a record about longing for a past and a home that did not, do not, cannot, exist. It's about the joy of one's sweetheart and the perverse relief in being caught in a complex lie. But mostly, it's about the transcendent feeling that things might be all right, if only for a brief spell, while this music is sounding.