General Comment No one can read these lyrics and understand the power of this song without hearing the airconditioner turn into strings My Interpretation The overall tone feels like it's about recovery from alcoholism - " Absolutely amazing and it always brings me to tears. His lyrics were witty and intelligent rather than introspective and confessional. He was classically trained and as an adolescent knew Igor Stravinsky. And I've had that book on my to-do list for years; thanks for the reminder that I really need to get to it. I think I missed a good bit in my original analysis: 
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Warren Zevon - Desperados Under The Eaves Lyrics
Following the the second verse of Dylan's "It takes dessperados lot to laugh, It takes a train to cry" from Highway 61 Revisited. Warren had been staying for quite a while at the Hollywood Hawaiin hotel during one of his many "down" periods, and had run out of money and couldn't pay his bill. Gower Gulch is were they used desperaros shoot a lot of westerns; the term "drugstore cowboy" came from all the extras from these films who would congregate in the drugstores along Gower drinking coffee and probably whisky.
His lyrics were witty and intelligent rather than introspective and confessional.
The Best of Warren Zevon. This is the true origin of the songs title. Add your thoughts 29 Comments.
EQ's, Warrn 1 Log in to add a tag. Great call Pat, dizzoh, on the shopping center Gower Gulch!!! It is true that Gower St. Log in now to add this track to your mixtape! Dolly, the Cameroon connection and the power of storytelling.
Create an account tge SongMeanings to post comments, submit lyrics, and more. For me, it was the year of Warren Zevon. Login with Google Error: Then — a lyrical surprise. General Comment As Crystal Zevon reports, the song is actually a literal report from the field.
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Newman, Dylan and Springsteen considered him one of the greatest American lyricists. That was a tag which had connotations of sensitive troubadours beloved of the baby-boomer generation. Yours is a brilliant interpretation. Flag dizzoh on March 04, I don't think the echoes in "Desperadoes" were accidental, especially the eavds two lines here.
Desperados Under the Eaves
Years later, flushed with his advance from Asylum, Zevon offered to settle his account. Read more at songmeanings. I suppose he was feeling a bit like an outlaw as he sat in that hotel room contemplating the alternatives to a traditional front desk check out.
Deaperados Comment It's my opinion that anyone that has the time to actually sit and listen to an air conditioner hum is probably in over their head in one way or another with something. That is a great story.
One, that an alcoholic sleeping late would shun the direct sunlight and stay under the eaves. If the album was his most realised work — and Mojo readers recently voted it No1 among his 11 studio long-players — it was hardly downhill all the way until cancer took him in Later he led the band which backed the Everly Brothers when they took their ethereal harmonies and fractious relationship on the road.
Warren Zevon: Desperados Under The Eaves
User does not exist. They were also funny, sardonic and highly literate, reflecting a passion for reading which led him into friendships with novelists and journalists such as Stephen King and Hunter S Thompson.
When he wrote Desperados Under The Eaves, in the early s, he was seemingly bent on living out the supposedly romantic role of the drunken wordsmith personified by Ernest Hemingway, Dylan Thomas, F Scott Fitzgerald et al. Liner Notes and The Swimming Song.
The Warren Zevon playlist. Desperados are desperate persons, right?
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