The
working title was "Sweet Jesus," but producer Jack Douglas
suggested "Street Jesus." Tyler went with it, inspired by
his frequent sightings of a man well over six feet tall who wanders
the streets of Los Angeles dressed
as Jesus Christ.
In the song, a rushed Tyler sings, "Somebody stole my shoes/
Man, I could smell the booze... After that thief I ran/ Into another
man who had no feet."
"I
sat down, put pad to paper and, before you know it, I had a bunch of
one-liners or 10-liners about a story like that – about the holes
in my shoes and the holes in his hand," Tyler recalls, "teaching
in church what you learn in the street."
The
finished song is the new album's second-longest track. Tyler compares
the tempo and feel to Aerosmith's "Jailbait" from 1982, but
bassist Tom Hamilton looks back further: "Steven nailed the
lyric on it. It reminds me of a classic British thing from the
Sixties."
Read the full story at Rollingstone.com.
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