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❓ does anyone know what this song is about? The song keeps haunting me. Lu said in an interview that she wrote it while she was in New York about someone she knew. Some reviews say it is about a poet, but that doesnt make sense to me. Sounds more to me like an intellectually limited guy who is in love with a prostitute. Anyone else have the same read? A better one? Bonus points for actual facts. Thanks!
OK, here’s the actual facts from Lucinda herself – as she explained them on the live performance of “Sweet Old World” at the El Rey Theater in LA on 09/09/2007. She was living (or, as she put it, “trying to live”) in NYC in about 1978 w/ not much money. A fellow songwriter from Texas named Bill Priest had moved there first & had encouraged Lucinda to move there as well. As she tells the story, he actually did live about six blocks from her, in the East Village. She said she lived on the corner of 1st Ave. & 2nd St. and Bill actually worked at a donut shop. At the end of the story, she joked that “back then, I wrote, I guess, somewhat more literally than I do now.”
In case you’re wondering, the reason I can be so precise in the retelling of this is you could buy these shows (5 nights, where she played 5 albums in their entirety) on CD afterwards. I have them on my iPod… 😉
Tom
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