Warren wanted a Beach Boys thing for this one, and Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche came in, with Carl arranging the vocal parts. The other harmony vocalists (credited as the "Gentlemen Boys") were Jackson Browne, J.D. Souther, Zevon's longtime backers Waddy Wachtel and Jorge Calderon, and Linda Rondstadt/Stone Poneys guitarist Kenny Edwards.
Every cell in this body
has been replaced since I last saw you
But the memory is in the DNA
and through the vessels and veins
weaves a halo round the brain
every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
I started working out when we broke up
I can do one hundred push-ups
I could probably do two if I was bored
I wrote some songs when we broke up
but nothing came out so I stopped
Every chord I struck was a miserable chord
Like an F minor 11 or an E flat major 7
It all sounds the same
Every chord knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
has been replaced since I last saw you
But the memory is in the DNA
and through the vessels and veins
weaves a halo round the brain
every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
I started working out when we broke up
I can do one hundred push-ups
I could probably do two if I was bored
I wrote some songs when we broke up
but nothing came out so I stopped
Every chord I struck was a miserable chord
Like an F minor 11 or an E flat major 7
It all sounds the same
Every chord knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
Every little hair knows your name
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The album opens with a piano reprise of this song, though it's not truly a reprise, because you haven't actually heard the song yet. You hear this sparse, pretty melody, but don't know what it means yet.
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