Warren Zevon The Indifference of Heaven (Live Version)

[SuperLadyRae]

Hits me in the gut!!

God we miss you, Warren!

[L3point]

Time marches on. Time stands still. Fantastic song, my favorite of his, Renegade close second and of course W of L too.. Heaven hasn't been indifferent since 8 years ago today. RIP WZ, genius.

[johnthehulk1]

Warrens' songs were prophetic. Maybe hung up on darkness and death. But there was a phenomenal sense of humor with Zevon too. And there was a spiritual side of him . This great song!!! He was what you call a down-to-earth rock lyricist.

[123rcac]

o crap. now i have to figure it out for myself

[BorderRebels]

One of my very top favourite live performances in 55 my year love affair with rock'n'roll. Utterly brilliant writing, singing, playing (love those Ovation 12-strings) and performance.

[bwrpwr]

This may be my #1 song ever. It is at least the truest song ever written.

[freewheelinQ]

This song is a proof of the authentic lyrical talent Mr. Z possesed!!! Thanks for uploading!

[Kefkadet]

Story of my life....and my favorite Zevon song, wish this was as popular as "Werewolves"....

[boiledhooker]

So this girl and I get in a conversation about Warren during math class..Our forty something teacher doesn't know who he is, but he knows who Jackson Browne is...so we tell him that Jackson Browne is like Warren Zevon light...

[hockeytown49341]

@boiledhooker

This forty-something year old teacher would give you an A just for knowing who Warren Zevon is!

[boiledhooker]

@hockeytown49341 He is one of the best...I was introduced to him through the radio, and I remember his cancer, but I got into him posthumously with one of his greatest hits albums...after hearing Excitable boy, I was hooked.

[CGGodbee]

Out of so many choices...this is my fav Zevon song....

[captnswing]

Hey, Rock n' Roll Hall of Fame dudes - There is most definantly someone missing. Why don't you throw out some of the imposters and make room...

[chimpvandam]

@captnswing the real people know that warren dont belong with all them chumps. ya some them bands belong in the r n r hof but theyve made a disgrace of it. the real geniuses know what and who warren is. love ya warren

[baffoflavoski]

so you start off a song with six (!) consecutive cliches and somehow it becomes art. i can't think of anyone else who could do that. yeah, it's great talent, but sometimes we just admire talent and it doesn't connect to what makes us alive. this does that. wow. a great wrenching song. like so many others, i miss this guy.

[johnthehulk1]

Warren is always best remembered around "Halloween" for "Werewolves of London", a great song. But nothing as profound as this song is. Truly the most gifted song writer in the last quarter of the 20th century. God bless you from "Lyme and Cybelle' to "The Wind". You were awesome.

[johnthehulk1]

What a brilliant man. So unappreciated for the unfathomable talent he had as a song writer, and musician. Warren was one of a kind. A quick wit. And profound too like this song. Zevon was phenomenal. Wish you were still with us. There will only be one of him. Maybe OCD but one of the smartest men that ever lived.

[Bilco1949]

@johnthehulk1 I totally agree. The guy was a genius of double entendre, and of sneaking in the obvious.

[rwwelch56]

a truly musical artist. combines heartfelt passon with extraordinary intelleligence to the human soul. great humor, great depth of emotion and understanding of the human psyche(?). he is missed

[TravellinMan94]

Heaven is not indifferent of you Warren.

[zitlight73]

Seven years ago we lost one of the truly great song writers and performers. Warren Zevon is still not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Shame neither is the Moody Blues or Steppenwolf but Abba is. Anyone who patronizes that place is aiding and abetting the corporate punks who have ruined music today. No one who truly loves rock and roll should never enter that self absorbed temple of mediocracy..

[manuetalain83]

@zitlight73 I think exactly the same thing as you!

Warren was an exceptional artist, really different from others, who could pass up emotions in her songs, but mostly what fucking talent!

I miss him!

[zitlight73]

@manuetalain83 Sometimes I think something else gets lost, he had a great sense of humor. You can have all the talent in the world but if you take yourself too seriously it will come across in your work.

[amazingguitarsam02]

Warren wrote some of best but unkown songs. Love his stuff

[Kenentigern7]

He had more insight and soul in his toenails than 99.99% of conformists.

Genius is a strong word but be was .............and wicked

[jay525224]

i always did like his music he certainly can sing alot better than most people these days. Rest in Peace you will be missed by your fans warren.

[zitlight73]

Might be the best song ever written. It's in my top five,definitely.

[boiledhooker]

I want Him BACK!!!

[monkeydashley]

@boiledhooker leave him alone. he's in his grave these 7 years

[boiledhooker]

@monkeydashley You don't want him back?

[monkeydashley]

@boiledhooker he deserves the peace of the grave. that is where all of us are destined to go after all. it just wouldn't be fair to disturb his eternal rest.

[manuetalain83]

Warren was an incredible artist

He miss me!

R.I.P

[zitlight73]

This is like so many of Zevon's songs I just listen to over and over again, in awe of the music and lyrics. I'm not the only one who does this am I?

[boiledhooker]

@zitlight73 it's a really good song.

[Jiggs46]

@zitlight73 Warren never gets stale to me..no you're not the only one...you just have great taste ;-)

[zitlight73]

"the front door closing forever." We never know when it might be the last time we see somebody.

[TheReach1]

My husband loved this guys music back in the day. He was so underrated. as a song writer.....that parts really true ! RIP Warren......better days....

[mmiaxx2002]

This supports my dis-balief and my belief

RIP Jim

[crimsondagger1]

This was one of the greatest songs ever created. Warren Zevon was trully unique and a genious. He deserves so much mroe recognition then he has recieved.

[thepassion10]

Fine dignified Song-writing. A Songwriter that can't face the reality of his own Life in his writing isn't much of a Songwriter. Warren Zevon sang for a great number of silent and silenced people not the college ignorated cynics and smart-mouths among us. Anyone that can turn his own passing away into Art deserves all the praise there is.

[briteness]

I once shook his hand in a very brief, fannish kind of way, between the main set and the encore of one of his solo shows, right around the time this was recorded.

Sitting here tonight, listening to this song (again), that memory seems embarrassingly significant to me. You just can't help but wish he were still here.

[chimpvandam]

the past seems realer than the present to me now. ive got memories to last me when tyhe sky is grey the way it is today i remember the times when i was happy! fuck awesome fuck awesome. b e a utiful

[briteness]

This is possibly my favorite Warren Zevon song. Very moving. So evocative when he sings of the cosmic angst, and the memories of happier days. In the bridge the narrator is blaming it on hard economic times, at least for him. Then in the last verse, without much comment, he admits the true source of his sorrow. '' I had a girl, now she's gone. She left town, and town burned down." There are not a lot of songs that present this kind of emotional and psychological depth, and so economically.

[MOOaCOW]

Time marches on Time stands still Time on my hands Time to kill Blood on my hands And my hands in the till Down at the 7-11 Gentle rain Falls on me All life folds back Into the sea We contemplate eternity Beneath the vast indifference of heaven

[doran44]

This CD "Learning To Flinch"is brilliant.Just Warren.Solo on the piano and guitar.Truly amazing how talented he was.He and Stuart Adamson have never got the recognition they deserved for the great body of work they both created.

[chrisanthemama]

This song is on WZ's album Mutineer.,

[ninesticks]

miss you warren

[gefan3]

Amen.

[Jiggs46]

A real gem!

[36clashfan77]

This is favorite zevon song, I cried the first time i heard it. It really tears at the heartstrings this song...anyone wanna learn to write song well learn from Zevon the master. Thanks so much for posting it, its been a real struggle to find learning to flinch C.D in the U.K. W

[smarlonc]

I believe it was Twain who said "Go to heaven for the climate, hell for the company." This was Warren at his best. Thanks for the post.

[gefan3]

Twain quoted in reference to Zevon?

I like your mind, sir (or madam).