Speed Of The Sound Of Loneliness notes
"That song just came all at once. I had this picture in my head of this old photograph - I think it was in Life magazine - of one of the astronauts in the '50s with his face all contorted by G-force. I was thinking of somebody's heart being pulled apart by G-force like that, from going through this real intense breakup of a relationship. The song actually reminds me of The Louvin Brothers, the song they did called "Runnin' Wild." It's written about somebody that's runnin' wild out there, breaking the speed of the sound of loneliness." ~John Prine