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Been listening to Linda Ronstadt's album Simple Dreams on which she covers Warren Zevon's song Carmelita which contains the following lines:

And I'm there with her in Ensenada

and

The county won't give me no more methadone

Could just be a coincidence, but there are two pretty big echoes in two Vision Thing songs from this one track...

Anyway, Linda Ronstadt's version of Carmelita is mighty fine and well worth checking out.

jherek wrote:Been listening to Linda Ronstadt's album Simple Dreams on which she covers Warren Zevon's song Carmelita which contains the following lines:

And I'm there with her in Ensenada

and

The county won't give me no more methadone

Could just be a coincidence, but there are two pretty big echoes in two Vision Thing songs from this one track...

Anyway, Linda Ronstadt's version of Carmelita is mighty fine and well worth checking out.

I hate that I'm about to say this, but GG Allin's version of Carmelita is really very good.

i presume what you're mishearing as "methadone" is actually "methedrome" in Vision Thing (and is written as such on the lyric sheet).
methadone is a legal heroin substitute used in the treatment of heroin addiction . "methedrome" is word play being a portmanteau word made up of, or derived from, methedrine (a street name for methamphetamine) and videodrome (see film of same name.)

ensenada is just a place in mexico so i would presume your mishearing of methadrome as methadone means he probably wasnt influenced by Zevon at all.

jeez - yes I do know the actual lyric is methadrome.

I said echo, not copy.
Also the place name is pretty distinctive to occur on two different songs.

It was just meant to be a bit of fun from something I'd spotted.

So thanks for patronising me.
No wonder I don't bother posting on here much, what an unfriendly place...

Not sure any patronising was intended & given Zevon's covers of both KOHD & the occasional Cohen song, it's probable he was on Von's radar to work his own brand of lyrical alchemy .

jherek wrote:jeez - yes I do know the actual lyric is methadrome.

I said echo, not copy.
Also the place name is pretty distinctive to occur on two different songs.

It was just meant to be a bit of fun from something I'd spotted.

So thanks for patronising me.
No wonder I don't bother posting on here much, what an unfriendly place...

no patronising intended, merely replying to your post with my opinion. however if you are that sensitive i advise you avoid the Lyrics section....

....as for Heartland being unfriendly: what colour is the sky where you live?