One of my favorite songs ever, not just by you or your band, is "A Ghost to Most." That line in the chorus: "You're a ghost to most before they notice that you ever had a hair of hide." So is dying unmourned and unremembered something you're afraid of?
MC: No, not for me. The Hurricane Katrina aftermath is where all that came from.
I wouldn't have gotten that. I mean, it makes sense, now that you point it out, with some of the other imagery...
MC: That was the time period. I had a lot of those lyrics for probably a year-and-a-half before they ever turned into one solid thing. Some of [that song] I had going through my head for a long time. I just kept coming back to it. But the hurricane was the source of a lot of it. I watched that play out in Europe, which was a little different.
You reference ghosts and skeletons.
MC: I wrote that on Halloween. No shit. That might've been what came up first, actually. It was a rare Halloween that I was home. We were getting the kids ready to trick-or-treat, so that's what was in my head. Sometimes it really is that fuckin' simple. [Laughs.]
Good stuff Smitty. When BTCD first came out, I remember the "Ghost to Most" thread with the video and everyone chiming in with their interpretations of the ever-elusive Cooley's lyrics. We had pinpointed some pointed shot @ Bush, but I I was puzzled by the following lyric: Some believe it's God's own hand on the trigger and the other dumping water in the streets An insightful 9B'er (I think Lara) pointed out the Katrina reference, so hearing Cooley reference the Katrina situation again is pretty cool.
You are entitled to your opinion, but you are not entitled to your own facts.
- DPM
