From Elvis Costello's "Alison" to Townes Van Zandt's "Loretta," we're probably all familiar with the stories of the men who wrote songs about their sultry muses and lovers that scorned them. But what about the women behind these songs? On her latest album, Woman To Woman, Esmé Patterson decided to give voices to the ladies lost in rock lyrics with a record comprised of response songs to some of our favorite pop hits.

Take the song "The Glow," in which the Denver singer-songwriter and Paper Bird member delivers a rebuttal to The Beach Boys' 1966 classic, "Caroline, No." Patterson responds as the titular "Caroline" of Brian Wilson's pining: "Where did your long hair go / Where is the girl I used to know / How could you lose that happy glow." Instead she sings, "I cut off my long hair / Turned the glow inside / All that leaves must die / You're crying for what you can't keep." 

Now, Patterson has released a new music video for the song that illustrates the concept perfectly.

The video begins with Patterson waking up at 5:30 a.m. as her lover plops into bed -- hardly trying to be inconspicuous. She then spends her day, like any broken-hearted person would do, at the zoo, driving around in her native town of Boulder and other spots to reflect on the harsh realization that animals get locked up and roads end. 

Patterson explained the inspiration for the album in a Denver TedX talk last year, saying "I started to think about how many songs were just a woman's name and how these woman are frozen in time and frozen in archetypes. In black and white. I thought they deserved to be colored in." 

Eat your heart out, Brian Wilson.