The Day Lost Soul Song, Positive News Is Just Telling His Truth

There's this persistent view in music. Maybe people don't hold this anymore, but for a long time, there was a sense of like, the drug helps you. And I remember Axel Rose telling Rolling Stone that he felt like once he started going to therapy, he wasn't as good a musician because he wasn’t as crazy. He came into the studio knowing what he wanted to do. The ending is not real in the song. The character goes, moves to New York and becomes perhaps even worse addict in real life. But it was a real life story.