I've always heard it as "it's too late for Satchel Paige" as well, and "when I dance I raise the dead." Live, I once heard Steve change it to "a Babe Ruth story," at which point we could maybe start to extract some meaning.
I know I'm stretching, but I always jokingly suggested that the title was a reference to his apparent hobby of lighting his ass on fire, as related in the Nirvana bio "Come As You Are".
I've always heard it as "it's too late for Satchel Paige" as well, and "when I dance I raise the dead." Live, I once heard Steve change it to "a Babe Ruth story," at which point we could maybe start to extract some meaning.
I know I'm stretching, but I always jokingly suggested that the title was a reference to his apparent hobby of lighting his ass on fire, as related in the Nirvana bio "Come As You Are".