Ben Folds & Nick Hornby

The album Lonely Avenue features music and vocals by American singer-songwriter Ben Folds and lyrics by English novelist Nick Hornby. According to Songfacts, the idea for Lonely Window was conceived during a dinner conversation between the two friends one night in 2009. After that, Hornby began regularly emailing lyrics to Folds, who then wrote the music. Folds told Paste: "I kind of ran the gamut between being as simple as I’ve ever been, and sometimes having to go [Russian composer Dmitri] Shostakovich on some of them."