Photo of Pain Lies on the Riverside lyrics, posted by Ed on Facebook Options

[dangum]

Ed posted a pic of some handwritten lyrics to PLOTR. I think it's pretty cool that Ed has kept something from that far back. I'm led to believe that Live have an extensive archival history of material - it would be great to see more of this sort of stuff!

http://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=101...&type=3&theater

[jayda]

I didn't even think about questioning it when I first read the post. Like Dan said, I thought it was pretty cool when I checked out facebook this morning on my phone. When I got on the computer to work I took another look so I could see what he wrote, what he had crossed out, you know revel in the intimacy of the photo of something connected to one of my fav songs from MJ.

Then a few things didn't add up. Nothing was scratched out apart from some poor handwriting that looked like it was re written so he could read it from back a bit perhaps - for a show? So I reread his comment...he doesn't actually say that it's the original writing of the song. He says " I was 19 when I wrote this"...'this' could be referring to the actual song or 'this' could be the piece of writing he'd photographed and posted. And then I wondered was he bringing this up to prove a point? Sorry I don't have the faith in him to give him the benefit of the doubt. He has shown a side of himself that would point to him having a hidden agenda in making that post.

And then I read the comments on here posted later and saw I wasn't the only suspicious one

The song has been in my head ALL.DAY.LONG since I read the post this morning. So that was a good thing to come out of it.

I can only hope I'm wrong in my suspicions and that when the words come to him it flows so freely that he gets it right the first time and that he really was going thru stuff and found this and posted it in all innocence to share the thrill. And that yeah, he just fucked up on the age bit