Liz Phair Liz Fare Liz Fair

!!

Yep.

That’s an interesting factoid. (Fwiw, Phair doesn’t even get the lyric right… it’s the narrator who gets up out of bed.)

what the!

i had no idea

Finally that song makes sense and is beautiful

Paul Simon was writing a song, washed his face, and found someone else was writing his song?!?

Garfunklel’d, as they say in the biz

I was today years old when I learned…

Paul Simon was writing a song, washed his face, and found someone else was writing his song?!?

Probably Robert Lamm

“I would identify with the girl they were singing about in the song…like Cecilia” Sorry to be a lyrics dork but Cecilia is a song about writing a song. St Cecilia is the patron saint of songwriters.

(Also, don’t know what band you all are talking about, Blondshell were horrific)

I went to the Brooklyn show last night - missed Blondshell and got in my seat like 10 minutes before Phair started and it was really awesome. I wasn't sure if I'd ever see a show like this, but I really loved hearing all the lesser-known songs from Guyville, particularly the quieter cuts.

Saw her tonight in Nashville, lots of fun. This was the third time I've seen her so I'd heard the fan faves off Guyville before but it was cool to hear the lesser-known tracks. I also love how 30 years on she's still kind of perched halfway between making it and not making it — Gen X for life.

So, "making love with Cecelia" is a metaphor for writing a song, "wash my face" is some distraction (like the man from Porlock?) and "someone's taken my place" being "can't remember what I was thinking about while I was writing"..... ?

Or maybe a song was released by someone else that covered similar ground or had a similar melody.