i'm a latebloomer when it comes to warren zevon. i could never get into him all that much until a friend insisted "dude, it is thee crucial late night drunk album" in reference to his 1976 s/t lp. boy, was he right. that record is completely perfect and i have been listening to it nonstop for a couple years now. one of the very top LA records. i wish i'd been hipped to him enough to catch a show before he died.
July 25, 2008
mohammed's radio n' shit
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he also spent most of i believe 1983 bombed out of his mind on vodka at the rittenhouse hotel in philly in a suite outfitted with a grand piano. splendid isolation is my favorite song of his. i liked it so much i named a drawing after it. poetically enough an ex-lover purchased it.
'Splendid Isolation'
written by Warren Zevon 1989 Zevon Music BMI
I want to live alone in the desert
I want to be like Georgia O'Keefe
I want to live on the Upper East Side
And never go down in the street
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation
Michael Jackson in Disneyland
Don't have to share it with nobody else
Lock the gates, Goofy, take my hand
And lead me through the World of Self
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation
Don't want to wake up with no one beside me
Don't want to take up with nobody new
Don't want nobody coming by without calling first
Don't want nothing to do with you
I'm putting tinfoil up on the windows
Lying down in the dark to dream
I don't want to see their faces
I don't want to hear them scream
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation
Splendid Isolation
I don't need no one
Splendid Isolation
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