I fell in love with Aerosmith in particularly Steven Tyler from the very young age. When walk this way came out I was 12 years old. I remember picking up the album at a local department store and looking at it and seeing the photo on the back. I fell in love with Steven Tyler in that moment, he was so androgynous and so beautiful. I knew in my little closeted transgender heart that I wanted to be like him. Cut to a couple years later when I was actually able to buy this album and I listen to it all the way through, songs like No More No More, Uncle Salty, And you see me crying resonated with me more than any of the others. I used to listen to this song, you see me crying with my headphones over and over, the lush orchestrations, the whaling guitar, and Stevens mournful plaintive cry, really stuck to me and got in my heart and stayed there forever.
Some clarity on the lyrics. First of all guys, there's no mention of hair. The lyrics say "Honey what you done to your head? Honey what's the words I said" Steven Tyler is really big on a technique of lyric writing called rhyme scheming. Hair does not rhyme with said, sorry boys. Listen closely. You might also notice some tonal inflections that he uses, he doesn't actually pronounce word as wird (rhymes with bird), he says woid with a southie accent
I felt in my young heart, that the song was him speaking to another guy. Maybe I was projecting, but I've learned something over the years and when you're doing drugs any closeted emotional or sexual issues that you may have will find a way to spill over one way or another. And if as the story goes Steven and the members of Aerosmith were strung out as legend hasn't, it may very well be that Stevens androgyny and ambiguous sexuality may have bled through into the lyrics. All I know is that I still suspect It was written for a guy and Stephen will never confirm nor deny because it's always better to leave things like this a mystery. We like mysteries, we like wondering, because each of us has things about us that we're not sure we can disclose publicly and so leaving a little bit of mystery around ourselves makes the magic a little bit more mysterious.
Just my two cents, but I'm sticking to it. There's no sin here and there's no judgment. I'm transgender M2F and though I tend to prefer women I've met some beautiful men that I would be with in a heartbeat. Because love is love and if it helps you write a song like you see me crying, well I'd call that a blessing.
I fell in love with Aerosmith in particularly Steven Tyler from the very young age. When walk this way came out I was 12 years old. I remember picking up the album at a local department store and looking at it and seeing the photo on the back. I fell in love with Steven Tyler in that moment, he was so androgynous and so beautiful. I knew in my little closeted transgender heart that I wanted to be like him. Cut to a couple years later when I was actually able to buy this album and I listen to it all the way through, songs like No More No More, Uncle Salty, And you see me crying resonated with me more than any of the others. I used to listen to this song, you see me crying with my headphones over and over, the lush orchestrations, the whaling guitar, and Stevens mournful plaintive cry, really stuck to me and got in my heart and stayed there forever. Some clarity on the lyrics. First of all guys, there's no mention of hair. The lyrics say "Honey what you done to your head? Honey what's the words I said" Steven Tyler is really big on a technique of lyric writing called rhyme scheming. Hair does not rhyme with said, sorry boys. Listen closely. You might also notice some tonal inflections that he uses, he doesn't actually pronounce word as wird (rhymes with bird), he says woid with a southie accent I felt in my young heart, that the song was him speaking to another guy. Maybe I was projecting, but I've learned something over the years and when you're doing drugs any closeted emotional or sexual issues that you may have will find a way to spill over one way or another. And if as the story goes Steven and the members of Aerosmith were strung out as legend hasn't, it may very well be that Stevens androgyny and ambiguous sexuality may have bled through into the lyrics. All I know is that I still suspect It was written for a guy and Stephen will never confirm nor deny because it's always better to leave things like this a mystery. We like mysteries, we like wondering, because each of us has things about us that we're not sure we can disclose publicly and so leaving a little bit of mystery around ourselves makes the magic a little bit more mysterious. Just my two cents, but I'm sticking to it. There's no sin here and there's no judgment. I'm transgender M2F and though I tend to prefer women I've met some beautiful men that I would be with in a heartbeat. Because love is love and if it helps you write a song like you see me crying, well I'd call that a blessing.