| Running Time |
5:53 | | Performers |
David Bryson (Acoustic Guitar), Adam Duritz (Vocals), Charlie/Charles Gillingham (Piano), Matt Malley (Bass), Ben Mize (Drums), Dan Vickrey (Electric Guitar), Bob Clearmountain (Mixed By), John Harris (Recorded By), Bob Ludwig (Mastered By) | | Comments | by Counting Crows (appear courtesy of DGC Music, a division of UMG Recordings, Inc.) (P) & (C) 1997 Viacom International Inc. Recording for Effanel Music. Mastered at Gateway Mastering, Portland, Maine. Adam Duritz: "I read this book in college, when I was at Berkeley, called 'Henderson The Rain King' The main character in the book was this big open wound of a person, Eugene Henderson. He bled on everyone around him, for better or for worse, full of joy, full of sorrow. He just made a mess of everything. When I wrote this song years later, it didn't really have anything to do with the book, except the book had kind of become a totem for how I felt about creating and writing. It was just this thing when you take everything from inside you and you spray it all over. Not to worry too much about it, you try and craft it, but don't be self-conscious about it. It's sort of a song about everything that goes into writing. All the feelings, everything that makes you want to write, makes you want to pick up a guitar and do it, and express yourself. It's full of all the doubts and the fears, how I felt about my life at that time, and also the feeling that I really deserved something better than what I accomplished up to that point. I think it is sort of a religious song, about the undefinable thing inside of you, or out there somewhere, that makes you write, that makes me create, that makes you do any kind of art form." | | Appears On | |
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