(obviously, he is saying she was a complete stranger to him)

I think this means that his music was able to make someone change the way they think and her praise 'raised' him or lifted his spirits) (Some fan sent him a letter saying he 'upset her'. (He was sitting around kinda depressed from all of this when he gets a letter) (Not really sure here, but I think maybe he means he will just give in to the fame but now strangers are coming on to him or being overly friendly and he is not sure if talking to them is selling out and playing the game or just being himself: Like should he really go along with fake kindness) (Now he is thinking 'Why is it that just seeing me in a crowd of people or on the street would make others so happy to see me') And he is saying 'I had this thought that I am a big time event and people want to know what I have to say (songs), but give me one reason why I should think I am that important')

(I see this first part to mean that he is sitting and thinking, probably in a very interspective way.

Esp bands that are put together with individual artists.Īnyway, this is what I think. If you write a song, you can take credit for it regardless of the band you played it with.

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