Thankfully, the end product doesn't make one think of a suicide attempt, but about taking a leap of faith. “I was watching television one night and it was the five o’clock news and there was a fellow standing on top of the Arco Towers in Los Angeles and he was about to check out early, he was going to do the 33 stories drop - and there was a whole crowd of people in the parking lot downstairs yelling, ‘Don’t jump, don’t jump’ and I thought to myself, ‘Jump.'” David Lee Roth came up with the idea for the lyrics from a news report, as he details in this interview:

This song sounds pretty light-hearted, but its origins aren't pretty.

But if you stop to listen to the lyrics, it's pretty apparent that the song is all about oral sex and crystal meth. You'd be forgiven for thinking that this song is nothing more than just another inane pop song from the 90s. Third Eye Blind's 'Semi-Charmed Life' is about a couple on a crystal meth bender I had birth on the brain, I was struck by what a funny pun it was to be bounced from the womb.' 4. 'My wife and I were expecting our first kid very soon after I wrote that song. 'Partway into the writing of the song, I realised it was also about being born,' frontman Dan Wilson tells American Songwriter. Now popularly used by bartenders wanting to shoo out their patrons, there's more to this song than meets the eye. Time for you to go back to the places you will be from. Semisonic's 'Closing Time' is (partly) about the magic of childbirth Anderson revealed in a 2012 documentary that Marley transformed her doctor into the sheriff in the song, which explains the verse above. 2, Radio Insight reports.When Bob Marley wrote this song, his girlfriend Esther Anderson was on birth control pills, which Marley thought were sacrilege. Programming on the 660 frequency first aired in 1922.Ĭlosing out its stay, rock station RXP wrapped its final hour at 11:57 p.m. WFAN is one of the most successful stations on the AM dial. PHOTOS: Take Me Out: Hollywood’s Best Baseball Movies That gig was cut short as well, to allow for another format switch - “New Rock” in 2012 - then news, and finally, sports. Veteran radio jock and MTV personality Matt Pinfield was brought in to host a morning show which featured many popular and critically acclaimed rock acts, both of the indie persuasion and arena-sized (among them: My Chemical Romance, LCD Soundsystem and the Decemberists).

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