My Ride’s Here (2002)
“She was a systems analyst
For a dot com company
She said, ‘You think because we’ve kissed
I’ll be yours eternally
I’ll sign another pre-nup
And we’ll merge our P.L.C.s
That’s why most girls go belly-up
In this economy’”
—Warren Zevon, “MacGillycuddy’s Reeks”
Life’ll Kill Ya (2000)
“Life’ll find ya
Wherever you go
Requiescat in pace
That’s all she wrote”
—Warren Zevon, “Life’ll Kill Ya”
Mutineer (1995)
“Ain’t no room on board for the insincere
You’re my witness
I’m your mutineer”
—Warren Zevon, “Mutineer”
Learning to Flinch (1993)
“They tell us ‘These are the good times’
But they don’t live around here
Billy and Christie don’t—
Bruce and Patti don’t—
They don’t live around here”
-Warren Zevon, “The Indifference of Heaven”
Warren Zevon, songwriter who never took no shit and never gave none back - died from cancer on this day in 2003, aged 56…
Mr. Bad Example (1991)
“Of course I went to law school and took a law degree
And counseled all my clients to plead insanity
Then worked in hair replacement, swindling the bald
Where very few are chosen, and fewer still are called”
-Warren Zevon and Jorge Calderon, “Mr. Bad Example”
Transverse City (1989)
“Well, we’ve been fightin’ with the mujahaddin
Down in Afghanistan
Comrade Gorbachev, can I
Go back to Vladivostok, man?”
-Warren Zevon, “Turbulence”
Sentimental Hygiene (1987)
“Johnny, I’ve been working in the factory
Kickin’ asbestos in the factory
Breathin’ that plastic in the factory
Punchin’ out Chryslers in the factory
Makin’ polyvinyl chloride in the factory”
-Warren Zevon, “The Factory”
The Envoy (1982)
“Nuclear arms in the Middle East
Israel’s attacking the Iraqis
The Syrians are mad at the Lebanese
And Baghdad does whatever she please
Looks like another threat to world peace”
-Warren Zevon, “The Envoy”
