In the video for “This Is the Song,” McKagan is seen playing in front of a screen flashing through the raw lyrics, further illustrating the paralysis often felt around mental struggles - Tried Lexapro / And what else, I don’t know / But still they can’t agree and urges Come along … Come along with me / This is the song that’s gonna save my life / It’s gonna set me free.Īt the bottom of the video, McKagan also urges listeners to “take action for mental health causes” via the mental health awareness campaign Propeller. It’s like my own songwriting, I overwrite something, then I chip away lines and phrases until I get to the real thing.”įor McKagan, “This Is the Song” breaches something more vulnerable, along with the EP’s more soulful “It Can’t Come Too Soon,” featuring singer/songwriter and educator Shaina Sheperd, and “Pass Me By,” inspired by his interaction with a gun-toting woman during a motorcycle trek through the Cascade Mountains. He didn’t build him from the ground up, he chipped away the stone until he discovered the king. Having lived over 50 years on this earth and playing with Guns N Roses, Velvet Revolver, Loaded, Walking Papers and many others, Duff McKagan has unlocked the secrets of manhood. “Chip away, chip away, like Michelangelo, breaking up solid marble stone to discover the form of King David inside. “It’s a graphic song,” said Dylan of the track in his interview with Wall Street Journal.
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