Song for Dana Plato
Lyrics
The three month ride sticks in your mind
As though the insides of your head were a big screen
And coming in on the evening wind
It's the unmistakable scent of Brilliantine
What kind of memory serves, what kind of world is it that
Comes headlong at you and then swerves at the last possible second
It's this one
Yeah, it's this one
And it's easy to slow down
And it's easy to slow down
And it's easy just to lie out by the blue pools
In the squinting sun and slow down
And it's easy to slow down
And in situations like these
It's sometimes useful to think of life as one long continuous evening
That never turns into night
Hey hey
Banter
- What's more fertile ground for inspiration than child stars? Who run aground? (2009-12-01 Webster Hall)
- This is a song about an actress. I played it in Atlanta and I was surprised by a couple of things. One, that I could remember the chords. And two, to find that the memory of this actress… you know, sometimes you fixate on a popular culture figure for a while and it seems like that person is so infused with power or pathos or whatever that it gets very exciting and then twenty years later you think, you know, ‘God, what was so exciting about Richard Gere? I can’t really remember it now.’ But this has not been the case with Dana Plato. The more I think about her, the sadder I get. (2009-11-28)
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