No, I think you're wrong, Kinghorse. He didn't know he was going to die yet when he wrote MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP. The song was on his album LIFE'LL KILL YA, which he recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. "MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP" is a mournful lament on aging, and of the inevitable decay that accompanies it. Zevon wasn't diagnosed with mesothelioma (which killed him a year later) until 2002. But MY RIDE'S HERE is a track from his 2002 album of the same name, so it is possible that he knew he had mesothelioma when he wrote MY RIDE'S HERE, but not MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP.
In the interest of chronology, he didn't know he was ill when he wrote either song. As you said, My Shit's Fucked Up was released in 2000 on Life'll Kill Ya. My Ride's Here was released on May 7, 2002. It wasn't until 2 months later in August that he was diagnosed. Warren always had a kind of macabre fascination with aging and health, which is definitely evident even in his early work. In the end the two albums added up to one astounding coincidence that Warren, himself, found to be rather humorous as evidenced by his final interview with...
In the interest of chronology, he didn't know he was ill when he wrote either song. As you said, My Shit's Fucked Up was released in 2000 on Life'll Kill Ya. My Ride's Here was released on May 7, 2002. It wasn't until 2 months later in August that he was diagnosed. Warren always had a kind of macabre fascination with aging and health, which is definitely evident even in his early work. In the end the two albums added up to one astounding coincidence that Warren, himself, found to be rather humorous as evidenced by his final interview with David Letterman. He's quoted as saying after his diagnosis, "I've spent 40 years creating this part- now it's time to play it."
No, I think you're wrong, Kinghorse. He didn't know he was going to die yet when he wrote MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP. The song was on his album LIFE'LL KILL YA, which he recorded in 1999 and released in 2000. "MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP" is a mournful lament on aging, and of the inevitable decay that accompanies it. Zevon wasn't diagnosed with mesothelioma (which killed him a year later) until 2002. But MY RIDE'S HERE is a track from his 2002 album of the same name, so it is possible that he knew he had mesothelioma when he wrote MY RIDE'S HERE, but not MY SHIT'S FUCKED UP.
In the interest of chronology, he didn't know he was ill when he wrote either song. As you said, My Shit's Fucked Up was released in 2000 on Life'll Kill Ya. My Ride's Here was released on May 7, 2002. It wasn't until 2 months later in August that he was diagnosed. Warren always had a kind of macabre fascination with aging and health, which is definitely evident even in his early work. In the end the two albums added up to one astounding coincidence that Warren, himself, found to be rather humorous as evidenced by his final interview with...
In the interest of chronology, he didn't know he was ill when he wrote either song. As you said, My Shit's Fucked Up was released in 2000 on Life'll Kill Ya. My Ride's Here was released on May 7, 2002. It wasn't until 2 months later in August that he was diagnosed. Warren always had a kind of macabre fascination with aging and health, which is definitely evident even in his early work. In the end the two albums added up to one astounding coincidence that Warren, himself, found to be rather humorous as evidenced by his final interview with David Letterman. He's quoted as saying after his diagnosis, "I've spent 40 years creating this part- now it's time to play it."