
“If It Makes You Happy”—Sheryl Crow
60 Songs That Explain the '90s
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The Hell Out of Leaving Las Vegas
Sharrow crow sings conversationally she conveys personality. She makes the song sound autobiographical even though it isn't because that's what great singers do. i don't think i'd ever fully registered with a fantastic line that is i'm standing in the middle of the desert waiting for my ship to come in i sure as hell know which one of them sang it john o'brien the author of leaving las vegas the novel died by suicide in april of 1994 just a few weeks after the letterman fiasco and also just afew weeks after signing away the rights to have his novel turn into a movie.
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