The song, “Happy Together” by the Turtles popped into my head, but I was thinking of a woman singing it soulfully. I thought how great it would be if Cat Power has done a cover of it. I thought, surely, there would be plenty of covers. But there weren’t many. Maybe in the future. I did find a cover by Filter, of “Hey Man Nice Shot” fame (I still remember one night when I was 18 or 19, driving home on the Lawrence Expressway with the sun roof open and it was the middle of the night–“Hey Man Nice Shot” blasting through my entire being and I felt alone but on top of the world).<\/p>\n
The line is “You and me. Me and you.” But it sounds like, “You will make…me, you.” And I thought that was a nice counter-psyche addition to add more drama to the song.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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