![]() ![]() Zevon spent much of his time during his illness doting on family and working in a home studio on a new album, “The Wind.” His popularity among his peers was underscored by a parade of contributors to the record, including longtime friends Bruce Springsteen, Don Henley and Jackson Browne. Hey, I feel like I’ve lived a couple of lives - and now when people listen to the music, they’ll say, ‘Hey, maybe the guy wasn’t being so morbid after all.’ ” ![]() Then for 18 years I was a sober dad of some amazing kids. I was a malfunctioning rummy for a while and running away for a while. “I was the hardest-living rocker on my block for a while. “I feel the opposite of regret,” he said then. The singer, a longtime smoker, learned in August 2002 that he was suffering from inoperable lung cancer and a month later he went public with his condition in an interview with The Times. Bad Example,” an altar boy grows up to be a vagabond con man: “I’m very well acquainted with the seven deadly sins/I keep a busy schedule trying to fit them in/I’m proud to be a glutton and I don’t have time for sloth/I’m greedy and I’m angry and I don’t care who I cross.”ĭeath and dying were among Zevon’s favorite topics (the cover of his 2002 album “My Ride’s Here” showed him in a hearse, while another collection was titled “Life’ll Kill Ya”), and when confronted with his own mortality, he continued the exploration with aplomb. It really sucks that he's gone.In a macabre songbook that includes “Excitable Boy,” “Lawyers, Guns and Money” and “Roland the Headless Thompson Gunner,” Zevon presented a world of the undead and the unethical on the rampage in a mercenary world. One moment it's praise for Einstein and Sheen's skill with the ladies, the next is the sobering truth where he admits that he's emotionally destroyed. One thing I really like about the writing is how he hits you with something humorous, then immediately counters with something painful and honest. He isn't a genius and it's likely that he'll never become one. The previous jabs prove to be slivers of jealousy. "But there's nothing I can do or say I haven't done or said"īut the biggest admission and the one that elevates the song to the level of.wait for it.genius is: "I'm the one who always told you you were smart" His emotions are bubbling over with confusion while being stirred by an object that's capable of producing both enormous joy and pain.Īlso, pay attention to the confessions that are mixed in with the jabs. "Guess what-I'm stirring it with a monkey's paw" (an object that grants the possessor 3 wishes with severe consequences) "I've got a bitter pot of je ne sais quoi" (literally "I don't know what") WARREN ZEVON MUTINEER HOW TOI agree that the song is sprinkled with anger, but the first two lines give you an idea of how to take it: General CommentAbsolutely love this song. I didn't like the way he turned your headīut there's nothing I can do or say I haven't done or said Guess what-I never liked the way he cut your hair ![]() I'm the one who always told you you were smart ![]() When you dropped me and you staked your claim While he was working on his universal plan Grew up to be a backstabbing entrepreneur The poet who lived next door when you were young and poor There's a face in every window of the Songwriter's NeighborhoodĮverybody's your best friend whey you're doing well-I mean good Like every other unindicted coconspirator He thinks he'll be alright but he doesn't know for sure Since I saw you coming out of my barber's shopĭid you light the candles? Did you put on "Kind of Blue"?ĭid you use that Ivy Leaage voodoo on him, too? Guess what-I'm stirring it with a monkey's paw ![]()
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