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.
we would sleep to the glow of the exit sign dream
that the world was yours and mine better run if you want
shotgun the day was dark but it was all good and fun
we were heroes to those who knew us better times change are evident
i read your letter the path we chose went different ways
but i can't let you get lost that maze 'cause i don't see that you're
next to me after all we've been through i still wish you would come around
around again
it's not too late for you my friend to start to live again
so please don't throw it all away and come around again
yell from the rooftop you didn't care and throw your fist up
in the air life always hits like a bomb but why did it hit to you
so hard 'cause i don't see that you're next to me
after all we've been through i still wish you would come around
around again
that the world was yours and mine better run if you want
shotgun the day was dark but it was all good and fun
we were heroes to those who knew us better times change are evident
i read your letter the path we chose went different ways
but i can't let you get lost that maze 'cause i don't see that you're
next to me after all we've been through i still wish you would come around
around again
it's not too late for you my friend to start to live again
so please don't throw it all away and come around again
yell from the rooftop you didn't care and throw your fist up
in the air life always hits like a bomb but why did it hit to you
so hard 'cause i don't see that you're next to me
after all we've been through i still wish you would come around
around again
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Great beat! I like this song a good bit! Good band!