
Epic
1989
Bottum, Gould and Bordin had the riff before Patton arrived; the bass and that piano coda did the rest.
★ 6.3

Bottum, Gould and Bordin had the riff before Patton arrived; the bass and that piano coda did the rest.

Lee wrote it at nineteen, the label insisted on a male voice, and David Campbell's string section did the rest.

Written in 1996 for an acoustic side project and shelved, it returned to spend twenty weeks atop Mainstream Rock.

Scott Litt produced it at NRG, and Boyd wrote the lyric amid two deaths and a collapsing relationship.