Waltz #2 is about his mother, and you can hear it, the way the strings build around his voice like arms that can't quite reach. "I'm never gonna know you now, but I'm gonna love you anyhow" is the most devastated line he ever wrote, and here it has an orchestra behind it, which doesn't make it grander, just more unbearable. The whole album is Elliott carrying his past into bigger rooms, and the rooms don't help. The arrangements swell and the fragility stays exactly where it was.