[strandinthewind]

Also, the "nag champra" line and ther way she delivers it made me a little numb with, for want of a btter word, realization when I "got it," so to speak. I mean I think she cleaverly puts it in there so when you hear it, you are like WTF is this dizzy Hollywood hippie chick saying. THEN, when you realize her smelling it then (when she wrote the song) perhaps the smell of it then took her back to 9/11 when she had to use it to cover the smell of burnt people and carnage, it is just chilling to me. Sort of the opposite of when you hear a song you haven't heard since a big event it is associated with for you (like a prom) and you hearing it again after a long time suddenly and without hesitation reminds you in that flas of a moment all of the things surrounding that event and you smile. THAT is why I think she is just so great.

Note: I am not saying others in and out of this band or anywhere else are not also great writers. I am just saying La Nicks captured that feeling I and apparently she and many of us felt that day in such a vivid and chilling way for me that I just love her for that.