The other lyricist is Pat DiNizio of the Smithereens, who
mines movie
titles and quotations for lyrics. On the albums Especially
for You and
Green Thoughts, noir-influenced songs include Strangers When
We Meet,
Spellbound, and Blood and Roses (with a classic bass riff).
Most notably,
he wrote a power pop bossa nova, In A Lonely Place, with a
chorus taken
straight from the movie: "I was born the day I met you, lived
a while when
you loved me, died a little when we broke apart."
There's also all those "She walks these hills in a long black
veil . . ."
hillbilly murder songs, but that's another story.
Bob Vietrogoski
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