3/24/2024 0 Comments Enjoy every sandwich lyricsDiagnosed with a pleural mesothelioma, a rare form of lung cancer, and using what remained of his exhausting time to record The Wind, a final LP and what would be his goodbye to the world, the 56-year-old delivered an off-the-cuff line fit for one of his songs. Famous last words, or advice from the knowingly soon-to-be deceased, are usually offered up with at least a modicum of deep philosophical profundity – sometimes religious, sometimes self-pitying, sometimes peaceful and sometimes panicked, but invariably they are long premeditated and polished for posterity.īut when David Letterman invited his friend Warren Zevon to guest on the Tonight Show back on the 30th of October 2002 and asked the singer, who'd just been given a few short months to live, if, facing his own mortality, there was something he understood now that he didn't before, Zevon hesitated briefly, kind of shrugged, then said, 'Just how much you're supposed to enjoy every sandwich'. Steve Sutherland listens to the 1980 live album by the American rock singer/songwriter, now in a deluxe vinyl set with extras, and recalls some of its cadaverous lyricsĮnjoy every sandwich.' It was certainly weird as pay-off lines go, but somehow perfect.
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