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D Watts's avatar

This is insane. I love that you share these stories with your son, and this is so real. I’m sorry I missed it the first time around, but grateful for the heads up from GC.

Such a haunting recollection, but the words dig deep and he pours every ounce of this pain into each performance. Thank you for this one, especially. So fucking good. 🔥

Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

I’m covering Footsteps this weekend and it made me want to write about its real context. More evidence that Eddie is one of the best lyricists of his time, and really ever.

JHong's avatar

Who knew? I feel very uncomfortable having belted out some of those lyrics on occasion. And poor Eddie. I think I need to give him a hug. And maybe a kiss. Do you have his #?

Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

Every time I ask him for it, I get a threat of a restraining order. I may have egged him on for it maybe a few…dozen…hundred…thousand times?

Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Dude I got chills reading this. I knew this already (what pj fan doesn’t) but reading it again, spelled out the way you did it, damn. Good one here, j-hawk

Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

Stone was probably: “Damn this is brilliant. Also, this dude is seriously fucked up. I love it.”

Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

💯

Brain of J-Hawk (he/him)'s avatar

I forgot the part of his mother trying to seduce him. That's the part which gets me when I go back over the story. I try to imagine what it must have been to be Stone hearing this lyrics over his music for the first time.

Ginger Cook (GC)'s avatar

Oh I know!