get me all emotional and then be laughing your butt off at the next one. Yeah, he’s a fine writer.
He is, he’s a great writer and a fine and dandy human being. Okay, I wanted to ask you about one of my favorite songs on the album, it’s “Make it Through the Rain”. Tell me a little bit about that one. I had a friend up in North Carolina. He had hired me to come up and do a gig for him on the Tennessee border up there. And he asked, “Do you think you could write a song for my wife? It’s her birthday.” So I said,
“Well, I’ll sure try. Send me
little pertinent facts about her.” So he sent me a couple of pages of some notes about her. She was originally from Long Island and now she’s a pure North Carolina girl, and she likes this, she likes that, and she does this, and does that. So I wrote a tune for her, and we surprised her with it. I had some music. It had been going around in my head, and it was playing when I sat down with my guitar - that’s what happens with me - I’ll pick up a guitar be playing a progression for a while and it’ll be going through my hands for a while and the words will start coming. So after I wrote her song, I changed the lyrics. Originally, for her, it was called “Sunshine Ray” - her name is
Exactly. It does.
I like to leave the interpretation up to the lis- tener.
I don’t blame you, man, and I want to tell you my very personal interpreta- tion of it. At this time in my life, this song means a lot to me coming along when it did so I’ve kinda played it, probably, a few million times... (Laughs)
Well, I’m glad it worked for you man. That’s what they’re for - to help.
Tell me about your song 13
Raye, by the way. “You are my sunshine ray, you take away the pain that I feel” was how that one went. Then I turned it around and this one says, “I want to be the one who takes away the pain I know you feel...” Maybe I’m explaining too much.
No, you’re not.
I don’t really like to limit the words of a song too much for a listener because...
It can mean something different for each person. And it usually does. Everyone has their own life experiences, of course,
sacred to them- selves, and whatever something means to you may mean something dif- ferent to me.
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