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What simply sounds good and you wind up in some way trying to, you know, eventually accessing the truth about your condition.
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informed by the life that we live and where we've been for the last 20 years. I
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lyric out in front and yet it really satisfied the body satisfied with this very song
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I think that what I do is somewhat, you know, relegated to a period in time in which lyrics
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You can be in a train station sometime and put on a set of earphones and turn it up and you do.
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and devil entendre. That comes from my father who would never give me a straight answer about anything. I mean, everything he ever said to me had about three meanings in them.
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Yeah, it's true that the songs come out of my experience, but they're really about anybody's
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I'm not thinking about Van Morrison if I sing this song or even if he's singing this song. I'm not thinking about his life. I'm thinking about mine and that's the way I think music works.
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I could think of swim better if I had somebody to show me how. It would be better if I...
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In my country, the middle class is now shrinking again. It's like an idea that happened and now it's gone away.
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There, people call for requests, too. I have people in my band that get really frustrated if I start changing the set, because it takes them a lot to set up their instruments and know what's going to happen next.
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So they really frown on us. I got guys that really go into a major, major, you know, they throw a big wobbly, you know, if I start doing what the audience asks me to do.
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you know what do you think and I went well it's great what song is that and she'd written it and I thought
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of a relationship but at the beginning of the song what i like so much about this song is it just sort of it sort of grabs you by your lapel and and
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that out you know it's a big discussion but no one disguise no one discusses whether or not we should leave the weapons out you know of the national agenda so these questions you know
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resoundingly accepted it's one of the most it's one of the strongest ovations you know in an evening of singing
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very critical of me. But I agreed that it was speech-like, you know, in the way... But it was also a time...
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It could be that I don't really believe that people can be together or stay together. Maybe I want to believe that they can be together.
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The impetus to write that song really comes from the first line. I heard somebody in an interview describing
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But it's done every day. I don't mean to interrupt you, but it's done every day. I mean, the news is in competition with entertainment. And that's another thing that it refers to, just the idea that we are, we entertain ourselves with depictions of, you know, doomsday scenarios where the terrorists have the bomb and the guys have to, you know, somehow, you know, protect all of humanity by, you know, by being superior warriors. And this is an idea put forth in, would it be too much to say half the movies made, you know? I mean, it would, you know, I mean, an enormous amount. And there's also another scenario that's real familiar in Hollywood movies, which is that somehow the children of the world are sort of, you know, kept prisoner in some subterranean catacomb and being made to work for an evil, an oppressive, you know, evil character.
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Well, to answer that with a very personal, you know, thing. I mean, somebody once told me that he thought my entire life was about trying to put
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this song i sort of use everybody's imagination sort of peaked by the beginning of the song but it's not clear who this
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But I use it to refer to somebody that I'm, once again, in a long-term relationship with and to,
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engages people in their imagination, in their prurient imagination.
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that may be you know i mean i think that uh you know my parents broke up when when i was about
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for the most part Americans were pretty unfamiliar with. I mean you can sing a lot about
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my music is that I and in this example, Casino Nation is that it's much more impressionistic and more general and these phrases like the hammer shapes the hand or
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This is the main character of a song. This is what songs do. I mean, you can take any song, any song, and say,
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They weren't sure how much of their time I was going to take with a subject.
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looking for my sister and she said ah she's not here you want to hear a song and i thought well
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That's, I mean, if you listen to Walk Away Renee, you know, and you get to the line, you know, the empty side blocks on my street are not the same. I mean, I see my street. I'm sure you see yours, but I see Oreo Glen Street and, you know, where I grew up and I see, or you see the street that you lived on with the...
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only started thinking about who wrote songs of a year or two before that i mean i when i was it when i was a young teenagers maybe even only twelve or something i went on called up
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I politely said, well, okay. And she said, okay, put the phone down and played this song on the piano and sang this song, a song I'd never heard before. But it was a kind of a song about a guy.
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And it's an interesting theme to have sort of bubbling under our subconscious and especially with the issues of child labor.
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that aren't it really begs a question you know what is it what are our obligations to ourselves and to our allies if we are in fact in the business
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when I thought a speech was called for, and there are those times. But, like you said, I mean, going back to the time when that, I might have worried people.
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Like many of my songs, I think that a question is stated in the beginning that has to be pursued.
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Well, it's really hard to talk at any length, to great length, about any of these subjects in a song, because as I said before, like in Lives on the Balance, I mean, you have to know something about what's being talked about to feel that you can hear it in a song.
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or how people would talk to each other if they were kind of decided to stay together. It's a playful way. You can't really, I don't think you can make people, I don't think you can hold a relationship together by expressing, constantly expressing undying love and devotion and faith in the future. Rather, I think it's a more playful thing in a way of like really admitting that there are doubts all the time, that you have your doubts. And I like that very much about this record too, that there are these sort of, it begins with the end of this relationship and it ends with the continuation.
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Can be put there can't really be discussed in any great length and they're not meant to be they're meant for people to hear them and to chew on them themselves and to and You know in that way, I don't really expect people to necessarily be with me in agreement with me by the end of the song But I think that a great many people are
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I mean the work that was done by generations of slaves to build a country that now is the foremost military power in the world.
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It intrigues you I mean I've heard so many versions of what this song you know What people assume this song is going to be about that they just met this is a great opening line in a bar That is it's like you know it's a song about stocking something like people. It's it's just a very
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everybody knows that they know about things about love or relationship or about loss of innocence or I mean any number of subjects that everybody has in common but
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his inability to take it where he wants it to go I mean this is about the end of a marriage essentially and the realization that these two people that are sort of heading in different directions and no matter what
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As if by way of explanation of how we find ourselves doing the things we do in the world, you know, describing my country as, well, we're one of the weapons-producing nations
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Actually, the song that is sort of a bookend, the matching bookend or the asymmetrically matching bookend of the CD is a song called My Stunning Mystery Companion, which is a way of using this phrase, my stunning mystery companion.
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Until the song goes on for it really by the end of the song You're meant to know that it's a relationship that's been going on for a long time. It's not just somebody he met It's their house
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You know, that it would have to be something pretty special to, you know, to hold, that would hold you together.
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who were my fans and didn't want me to abandon singing about love or singing about our shared, our mutual experience and they were unsure what I was talking about but if I sing that song today and I do sing that song
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and you and it's that's the that's the that's the power that songs have is they harness the experience of the listener and couple it with you know you may be directing an
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That's exactly what happens. And those phrases are not always, it's not always apparent to me why they have the emotional charge that they have and the writing of a song sometimes is an exercise in finding out why or creating a context in which the songs will have the same effect on the listener or similar effect.
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passing of time there's there are songs that are now much more powerful and more resonant than they were 20 years ago not and I'm not speaking about my own it's true of some of mine but it's it's true of a lot of songs
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there are the words, under God, which are argued about generation after generation
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kind of an energy you have for trying to get to the bottom of things in your own writing.
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caption is that Jackson Browne forgets new song I think that's what people want
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It's a great, it's a big, quite a bit overwhelming, you know, it's a great thrill to have, you know,
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completely went blank in the middle of the first verse that's the one that they put on youtube the one of you forgetting
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not totally perfect, so I hope they'll put up with an album that it took me a year to
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the acoustic versions. But there is an acoustic version of me singing my new song. It's not a new song now. It's like about a year old, but, you know, where I...
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And that's the way it is with my songs, and that's actually the way it is with those artists, too. There were a few surprises. There's some people that I didn't really know before. Griffin House, John Schneider. They're just amazing versions of those songs that I...
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great like that is it's really like a transfusion it's like a transposition of inspiration and of
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I think the main feature is people want to see you, you know, see some kind of
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it's because you know you want to release an album you know people to like
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Well, I've written a few songs, but who knew that all this time, all these songs really needed was a singer?
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It sent me a version of, I mean, before McCartney wrote it, it was already a traditional lullaby.
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The Beatles' Golden Slumbers really resonates. I mean, it's just, you know, once there was a way to get back home, you know. It's about it.
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You're going to leave the outcome of a research like this to private individuals and a handful of activist groups.
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Now, I don't, you know, I think people really are drawn to the idea that children are somehow innocent and it's more tragic that children have AIDS than it is for,
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got she got aids in a in a blood transplant when she was having a child and she passed
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that are working to find a cure for AIDS when the government, you know, when the tax monies that could be spent to find a cure are being spent elsewhere.
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of saying well there's this group over here that they're really in trouble with AIDS but
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but actually I feel kind of peculiar because
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When you write something that's primarily nostalgic in its tone, you have to have a reason for going there.
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point I was going to call it In Harm's Way because it's a line from the song but I think
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There was this great banner and it said, it was a flag that somebody had sewn and it said
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refrain, Where Were You, is so incessant and so insistent that I decided to call it
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I think, like I say in this song, I want to go down singing.
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And it's one song that people will just start singing before it even gets to the end of the song. People will be singing along.
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I didn't even know how to identify what I was feeling. I would play these changes.
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oddly sort of Soviet policy. It's really weird to tell Americans that they
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in a time when such things were quite common.
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Because of this letter, I feel like I know all kinds of things about her that I wouldn't have known otherwise.
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somebody I met a long time ago and had this like really great wild time with
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Even at this late date, on the last verse, at this point in my life, I'm still trying to decide what kind of world I believe in.
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or the TV is so bad evidently that nobody watches it.
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I remember it vividly, but I didn't know a thing about her. So to get a letter from somebody 40 years later,
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and all this acid drop and world stop and bebop and freaks are just hanging on. It's really, I really don't mind the role of being this,
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kind of defiance you know against what i think is kind of like a really very dated and
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the most incredible players. So anyway, this song is an embrace and a sort of defiance of like.
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I realized that that was, after all this exhaustive reading, that really is the question, how
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This is one of my favorite songs. This is a piece of music I had, like just a melody I had for a long time.
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I lived on. Or maybe it was not about being a child on the street that I lived on. It was maybe about just being on the street that I was a child.
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Hello, this is Rollingstone.com, and I'm Jackson Brown talking about my new CD, Time
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And I saw this photograph that Bruce Weber had taken, it was part of the W Magazine
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because one of the lines is
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spend some time with the songs and figure out which songs they can
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Sometimes I think about a song and I think about what I was eating, what I used to exist on when I wrote that way.
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I got to write some of it in my old neighborhood where I was where I was raised and where I was going back to live you know
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There was no refrigerator, so I only could keep the food like rice.
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anybody who's had children knows that amongst us a circle of friends
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