Liz Phair's Soberish
Broken Record with Rick Rubin, Malcolm Gladwell, Bruce Headlam and Justin Richmond
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The Power of Lying
Ryan Adams: "I feel more free and secure working my way around something that already exists than I do with just wide open nothingness" He says he was inspired by Elvis legs, a phenomenon where weak rock climbers' legs start doing an Elvis thing. The song is about hanging onto the cliff edge not knowing how to get out because he's told so many lies, you know, and that I'm seeing him out there. It hasn't been recorded yet, but like you and I, we survive on the sheer wall of hope canyon while the screamers fall,. That's the line that, that, that gets me.
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