Would it help if you’re Young?
What about Crosby and Nash?
Is there an echo in here?
If there is, should we just try to carry on?
You wouldn’t happen to be a wayward son, would you?
Would you believe I’ve been a long time gone?
Are you one of those people who’re born to Rimbaud?
Are we talking about Sylvester Stallone now?
Perhaps you just breathe Baudelaire?
Well, don’t you think I should try to stay in my own Verlaine?
(Am I trying to reach too far with these?)
Have you read some of the other posts in this thread?
And did you know I was quoting Don Henley, by the way?
Would you believe that Henley song has gone completely unnoticed by me until just now?
Well, it’s not his most famous, is it?
Wouldn’t you have to admit it’s not up there with “Dirty Laundry” in terms of public recognition?
Did you know I actually don’t like that song? Wouldn’t you agree that “The Boys of Summer,” “New York Minute,” “The Last Worthless Evening” and “You Don’t Know Me at All” are all better songs?
At 10:24 here:
So are you telling me it’s okay, then, if I say I’ve always found “Dirty Laundry” a bit too heavy handed for my taste? But that “Boys of Summer” and “You Don’t Know Me at All” in particular are fine pieces of work?
Well, sure, why not?
Don Henley sure has had a lot of hits, hasn’t he?
Even if you don’t count his time with the Eagles?
Why wouldn’t we count Eagles hits?