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 Shostakovich on some of them.

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."