Umm, it’s Coretta Scott King. You get it.

My second rap group was called “Ground Zero.” We were in The Source’s Unsigned Hype in errr…. oh shit.. 97? Something like that. I’ll find out and put the right year.

Marshall was a guy I dated late teens/early twenties.
I first referred to this relationship on “LoveSong” from “Attack of The Attacking Things” (hence the “on the first record, number 8” line.)

I think the rest is pretty self explanatory.

When I was writing this, I actually wrote all of the verses in letter form, separate papers and all, that included the hook at the end. I really wanted to stay absolutely true to the emotion and intent of the song.
I didn’t have addresses, or I would have sent them as well.

I think it was the first time I started taking responsibilities for my actions and understanding how what you do can affect people’s lives and your own.

Vicki, was a friend of mine that I hung out with quite a bit in the late 90’s. She was a super talented artist and was dating the best friend of my boyfriend.
When my boyfriend and I broke up, Vicki and I continued our friendship and really enjoyed each others company.
I was kind of a dick…aaaaaand slept with Vicki’s boyfriend.
I didn’t want to be with him, or steal him from her(which now kinda makes it worse)I just did it because I could.
It was a crappy act of youth and I regretted it for awhile.

She questioned me because I think it was obvious and I lied. Thus compounding the giant lie mountain I had started.

I felt shitty about it for years, so I wanted to apologize. I wanted her to hear it. I wanted her to know how much I was wrong, publicly.

She came to a show I did, maybe a year after this was released, hugged me and we let the past be the past.

Whew.

Norm, to me, was the saddest character on Cheers. You never even saw Vera, except when she called…but it seemed like their relationship had disintegrated to the point where he didn’t even want to see her at all. In any waking hours. Why not just divorce? I always wanted to see a back story on Norm and Vera, but it never happened.