Dead Songs in Depth

    
I never doubted there was a real Sweet Jane who lost her sparkle. I
hope she is still around, there are too many gone too early. "Drugs was
our Vietnam".
  

    

Anybody notice that for the first several weeks of this song's existence,
Bobby sang "Garlands of neon"?  There were several other awkward things that
were worked out in the early days.  The first few times, he sang "Detroit and
Chicago" instead of vice versa.  Much less clumsy to sing "Chicago, New
York..."
  

    
Interesting - and would be interesting to know what Hunter originally
wrote, given Bobby's tendency to want to amend Hunter's lyrics. If
"Garlands of neon" was the original lyric, Hunter nonetheless seems to
have adopted "Arrows" as the 'official' version.
  

    
So I saw.

I haven't had much luck getting info out of Hunter over the last few years,
so I won't annoy him by asking.
  

    
No, not worth it. "Garlands" is fun, though!
  

    
Yeah.  A VERY hard word to sing in that spot, and "arrows" works perfectly.
  

    
I heard arrows as eros for way longer than I'd care to admit.