![]() Walsh’s sudden lyrical forthrightness came as a surprise even to other members of the band. People can love it or hate it, and that’s kind of none of my business.” “I was nervous, but I’m 40, and what I care most about in life is creativity and making things, so I felt I had no right to be worried about the reception,” he says. Laying out his personal turmoil in fairly stark terms wasn’t always a comfortable endeavor, but Walsh says he was committed to doing it as long as the songs didn’t come off like woeful teenage diary entries. Writing the “Astral Weeks” book helped shape the way Walsh approached songwriting for “I’m You.” (It influenced the sound, too: the song “It Still Floors Me” features flute and alto saxophone from John Payne, who played on Morrison’s “Astral Weeks” album and lives in Brookline.) “The book is a pretty straightforward nonfiction narrative, and to see that I could do that and tell a story that people could get engrossed in, I started to think I had relied too much on abstract poetry” in his previous lyrics, Walsh says. “The lyrics are different, there’s a shift in sound and lyrical content and intent.” ![]() “If you follow the band, and you imagine what the next record would be, I don’t think you’d imagine this,” Walsh says. ![]()
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