| Paper Rival – The Kettle Black Lyrics | 9 years ago |
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Interview confirming my theory: JAKE, YOU BASED THE SONG "THE KETTLE BLACK" ON LOVE LETTERS THAT YOUR GREAT-GRANDPARENTS SENT TO EACH OTHER DURING WORLD WAR II. HOW DID THAT COME ABOUT? JAKE: When my great-grandmother was getting sick, I lived with her on Lookout Mountain in Georgia, and I was always obsessed with going through the old stuff she had. When she was about to go into a nursing home, I decided to take everything that I thought my family would want. I was going through that stuff trying to get some inspiration, and I saw a few of those letters and just took little pieces of my great-grandfather's writing to her from Germany. It's amazing how the problems that they had in the 1940s are a lot of the same problems that I have now, just dealing with people and being in relationships. I don't know anything about being in a war, but I'm on tour all the time and I miss my family and people that I'm close to. People back home don't necessarily understand why I'm on tour, and my great-grandmother didn't necessarily understand why he was in a war that he didn't need to be in. It's funny how similar the things that I'm told are to what she said to him, like, "When are you coming home? What are you doing? Come home." It transcends 60 or 70 years. I just thought it was a neat idea: Instead of me writing the song, let him write the song. So I took some of his words. |
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