Kick off your lunch break with some musical accompaniment, provided by William Doino in today’s On the Square :
[Warren] Zevon was not just a man of sardonic wit. His songs could be tender and introspective. “Accidentally like a Martyr” speaks to anyone who has ever been tempted—and burned—by a misguided romance. “Hasten Down the Wind” is a piercing ballad about a once-strong relationship gone cold. And “Splendid Isolation” is as memorable a tribute to independence as John Lennon’s superb “Watching the Wheels.”
Read (and listen!) to the rest here .
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