When I present what he does it is the Pajamas. I was inspired by him, and I tried to write a song a day too, but as the years wore on I kind of gave up. These days Eric writes a lot of songs of a very high caliber but the Green Pajamas course has been set. Most of his will have to wait for another act. It's hard to sing about something that isn't real to you.
Luckily life is populated with intensely lyric-inspiring people and events.
Sometimes the names are changed to protect the innocent, or the guilty, whatever. In our songs phrasing of the words sometimes presides over the actual story we are trying to build upon. We work the lyric in like an addition to a good dream. Yes, they all do in one way or another, but it is interesting to hear what other people think our songs are about. It is always something other than what we intended it to be.