David Poe is one of my favorite singer/songwriters, especially for his lyrics. I met him in London and asked him about some of his songs. He said then this one was inspired by a girl he knew from New York who moved to California and sadly overdosed on heroin, and that he never had been to California at the time he wrote it. But then I asked him about it later when I saw him play it San Francisco and he said the whole thing was made-up, but I think he was just embarassed or trying to be mysterious. By the way, the lyric in the second chorus is definitely "wide open DRESS," not drug. Too bad he doesn't play this one live very much anymore.
David Poe is one of my favorite singer/songwriters, especially for his lyrics. I met him in London and asked him about some of his songs. He said then this one was inspired by a girl he knew from New York who moved to California and sadly overdosed on heroin, and that he never had been to California at the time he wrote it. But then I asked him about it later when I saw him play it San Francisco and he said the whole thing was made-up, but I think he was just embarassed or trying to be mysterious. By the way, the lyric in the second chorus is definitely "wide open DRESS," not drug. Too bad he doesn't play this one live very much anymore.