So, Smith's final album "From a Basement on the
Hill," (because I don't count that remastered crap as anything other than
his B-sides, and fully insist that "Basement" was the last piece he
largely completed prior to dying) was edited and completed by his producer and
his girlfriend. The same
girlfriend conspiracy theorists insist killed him. My take--heroin addicts and heroin addicts who are
schizophrenic would completely do something like stab themselves in the
chest. Just saying.
Anyway, on the song "King's Crossing," this darkly
beautiful song by a man who very clearly knew he was going to die soon, he
asks. "Give me one good reason not to do it," at 3:58, in
post-production his girlfriend added in her voice to whisper "Because I
love you."
As David Foster Wallace said, "Every love story is a
ghost story."
–Sofia
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