She mentioned the scruffy kid from Minnesota who got caught out with his name. She wanted to know about Elvis Costello, because she was working with him and she thought he wanted to use too many chords. Then she made up the rest, as if “we” were doing it. I couldn’t keep my mouth shut, but not ‘cause I was talking. She said, “Always keep the poetry out.” She said they ruined lyrics. I don’t know if I should tell you this or not, but she’s got everything it takes to take everything you’ve got.”Īnd I said, “Loretta, my God, what is this?” And she said, “Oh yeah, I remember that little bitch.” She asked me to sing it, knowing i’d only seen the lyrics, so I just sang a melody without thinking, and she said that was it. I quickly found a lyric that said, “I love you more than she ever will, but the only way she can get a man is steal. I sat there on the floor going through them. I couldn’t believe what i was seeing. She said, “Smoke one of your doobies and go through those. See if anything jumps out at you.”
#LYRICS TO CRUSH THE INDUSTRY FULL#
The refrigerator was stuffed completely full of bits of lyrics by Loretta Lynn that went back to the ‘60s.
She said, “Go look in that refrigerator, Todd.” So I did, and when I opened it a bunch of yellow legal pads, with her words written all over them, fell out onto the floor. Then she asked me out to the house to write another song. This time we went to her writing cabin and we were playing guitars and talking about what we could sing about. We sat at her office and wrote a song called “Don’t Tempt Me,” and I just remember that we were laughing the whole time and that I felt like I’d really made a friend.
She asked if I wanted to try to write a song.
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