# Favourite Warren Zevon song **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 3, 2013, 11:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974 "2013-11-03T11:02:17Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![D.E.S.K.Top668](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f07891/32.png) [@D.E.S.K.Top668](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D.E.S.K.Top668)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/41 "2013-11-05T01:24:06Z")
> [@Biggirl](#): > > _Little old lady got mutilated late last nigh_ is the best single line in a song ever. Still, the song that is so powerfully emotional that I never listen to because it makes me bawl like a baby is Keep Me In Your Heart. I agree one hundred percent on both points, but especially “Keep Me In your Heart.” One of the most poignant songs ever. That’s even if you don’t know the real-life story behind it. As for “Werewolves of London,” it remains a sentimental favorite because it introduced me to a singer/songwriter named Warren Zevon. Not his best work, but why many people discovered him. As far as my personal favorites, I can’t narrow it down to one. Tied are “Jeannie Needs a Shooter,” “Lawyers, Guns, and Money,” “Roland The Headless Thompson Gunner,” and “Keep Me In Your Heart.” Peace - DESK ---
**Author:** ![dflower](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dflower/32/3270_2.png) [@dflower](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dflower)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 6:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/42 "2013-11-05T18:30:55Z")
What? No votes for The French Inhaler? “Your faced looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase” “So long Norman She said so long Norman” Breaks my heart ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/43 "2013-11-05T19:45:02Z")
> [@dflower](#): > > What? No votes for The French Inhaler? > “Your faced looked like something Death brought with him in his suitcase” > “So long Norman She said so long Norman” > Breaks my heart You said you were an actress Yes, I believe you are I thought you’d be a star So I drank up all the money, yes I drank up all the money With these phonies in this Hollywood bar These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar ---
**Author:** ![LawMonkey](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/d6d6ee/32.png) [@LawMonkey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/LawMonkey)\ **Post date:** [November 5, 2013, 7:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/44 "2013-11-05T19:54:54Z")
> [@Sam\_Stone](#): > > If I had to pick one, I’d have to say “Desperados Under the Eaves”. It encapsulates everything that was great about Warren Zevon’s music. It’s dark, yet witty. Poignant, but hard-boiled. It tells a story, but also works as pure atmosphere. Great musicianship, but still not sounding over-processed or artificial. My favorite as well. Also lovely is how it picks up the little intro melody from “Frank and Jesse James”, the album opener. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 1:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/45 "2013-11-06T01:36:17Z")
Goddamn but I love his first album so. The French Inhaler, Carmelita, Mohammed’s Radio… Hasten Down the Wind makes me cry every time. Did you know he studied with Stravinsky as a youth? For reals. Desperados Under the Eaves is so interesting, the structure of the song is not your usual pop ABAB verse chorus thingie. My buddy who left his heart in LA sez Desperados is the quinna LA elegy. ---
**Author:** ![Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/soul_brother_number_two/32/3515_2.png) [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Soul_Brother_Number_Two)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 1:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/46 "2013-11-06T01:38:19Z")
> [@Accidental\_Martyr](#): > > You said you were an actress > Yes, I believe you are I thought you’d be a star > So I drank up all the money, yes I drank up all the money > With these phonies in this Hollywood bar > These friends of mine in this Hollywood bar Ha! Yet another mondegreen on my part. All these years I thought he was singing “You’re such a warm actress…” ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 2:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/47 "2013-11-06T02:21:45Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > Ha! Yet another mondegreen on my part. All these years I thought he was singing “You’re such a warm actress…” Well, at least it wasn’t “Werewolves of Thunder.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![mbetter](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/53a042/32.png) [@mbetter](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/mbetter)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/48 "2013-11-06T06:13:59Z")
> [@LawMonkey](#): > > My favorite as well. Also lovely is how it picks up the little intro melody from “Frank and Jesse James”, the album opener. Is it just me or is the last line of the chorus - “Heaven help the one who leaves” - a bit of a call out to Stevie Wonder’s “Heaven Help Us All?” Regardless of the answer to that, I’m going with this song as my favorite. Any song that has most of the bridge sung from the point of view of an air conditioner gets my vote. ---
**Author:** ![silenus](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/silenus/32/166_2.png) [@silenus](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/silenus)\ **Post date:** [November 6, 2013, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974/49 "2013-11-06T14:36:54Z")
> [@Soul\_Brother\_Number\_Two](#): > > … Hasten Down the Wind makes me cry every time. Lordy yes! _She’s so many women He can’t find the one who was his friend So he’s hanging on to half her heart He can’t have the restless part So he tells her to hasten down the wind_ [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favourite-warren-zevon-song/672974.md?page=2)