| Jimmy Buffett – In The Shelter Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[ChipCMD:8068] - Thank you! I owned both versions, but had learned the lyrics first from Changes in Lat. I later got High Cumberland, but whenever the older song played I heard "NOT knowing...". The lyrics from the newer version were so burned into my head I just didn't hear it. Fast forward 35 years, I go and listen to the older version for the first time in at least a decade -- the word "AND" pops out, and repaints my entire image of this song. I thought I was going insane. IMO, this is the most inspired, poetic and artistic song he has ever written. It doesn't surprise me that as his fame rose, and he became Mr. Goodtime Partyman he changed the lyrics to be less fatalist. I love the magic in that one-word change. One is a hard struggle you might win, the other is one you lose. Powerful. |
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