| Warren Zevon – Werewolves of London Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| I'd like to meet his tailor has nothing to do with James Taylor. James Browne fully explained this is an interview some time ago with Rolling Stone. The song is a rip at upper society, pompousness, and the using and ripping apart of other humans for the benefit of a privileged few. The tailor for instance is the one who is charged with covering up the flaws and blemishes of the perfect people so that others cannot see the beasts they really are. | |
| Warren Zevon – Don't Let Us Get Sick Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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A song once more that Warren speaks on so many levels that it is hard to see them all sometimes. Largely though, is seems a song of one who tries to always be there for others, "take up the slack in the line", in the pure hopes that someday they will be there for them. Attempting to hide one's own troubles so that they do not have to think of them, pretend the are not there and lessen them by helping others, in hopes that while you pretend they are not there, someone else will recognize, come to your aid, and share them to lessen your load. The moon is a common theme of Warren, representing an ideal, that always seems unreachable. Most notable on that is probably "They moved the moon". But that dream also disturbs attempts at peace without reaching it, always calling and making lesser things not enough: Lake being a kind of serenity in life but all through time disrupting it with ripple, calling for more. Why can't he be happy with the good things he does have, why must he want more? Why must people fights and do stupid, hurtful things, rather than mutually support those that support them. Comfort in each other. That is one level, and yet you look at exactly the same words, and you read something different, and Zevon meant those things as well. The one that I find especially shaking though, is this is one of several songs he did that were pure and straight forward about not what he had faced, but what he would face. This is partially about his fear, and as it were, precognition of what would happen to him, long before he had to actually save it. The fact that he saw such things are almost as haunting as his voice. |
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| Warren Zevon – Accidentally Like A Martyr Lyrics | 16 years ago |
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Between words, playing, and vocals in WZ's raw, even brutal to the heart style, it is amazing what he can convey so simply, but so complex. These few words talk about so much. It is about one's who life and relationships, not one, and the difficulties in reaching. The lines are about different women one has known, random love: those met in passing to fill a void of loneliness, shallow love: means nothing but wish it did, mad love: pure passion that burns out like a match, abandon love: to find what you really want, but have the other not feel the some, pay for what was already yours: to find your goal, only to have that goal not find you. Much of this is a manifestation of OCD, something that may be hard to fully understand for one that does not share the condition, the inability to move freely from one place or one person to another with the freedom and short lived pain that others have. Though the continual obsession and inability to release the past, the heart only gets harder and the pain multiply with each loss and each day. Sorry, so many words are required to describe so few. |
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| Warren Zevon – A Certain Girl Lyrics | 16 years ago |
| This one is not a Warren Zevon creation, this is a cover. Warren was actually covering Clapton, but the song originated much earlier with several different people having been credited as author. Unlike most thing Zevon wrote himself, this one is pretty straight forward. | |
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