song 086 : Gone (Suburban Legends + Outtakes)

For some reason all my life I’ve never been able to enjoy a decent heater in my bedroom. Even now that I live in a nice house the heater in the bedroom doesn’t really work and it’s impossible to fix. I wasn’t just describing the winter chilled, heater-less recording studio. I was also describing the plight of the homeless in downtown L.A. all around the studio. The play on concrete stairs and stares is a moment of spontaneous poetry I’m proud of.

But I was also singing about a different kind of cold. Cold people, cold behavior, the way society always seems to put the freeze on people who want to be artists. I mean, it’s a cliché, the starving artist. The shivering artist earns his fame like Washington and the Continental army earning victory in Valley Forge. Why should it have to be that way?

By the way, you want to know something weird? Suburban Legends was a hit on West Point’s radio station.


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