In addition to providing Crowe with another villain role, The Weight marks the first time that he and Hawke have performed together in a movie
How they edit it is amazing
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So it is that she describes a mystical She which represents performance itself, singing, Get on the stage/And I call her by her first name/Try to stay away/But I always meet her back at this place/She gives me everything, I feel no pain I break down, get up and do it all again/Because its never enough/And she makes me feel loved/I could come here and scream as loud as I want. In addition to delineating the way that performance is almost like a kind of magic itself for her, Welch later alludes to her time in the hospital after her health scare, singing, The witchcraft, the medicine, the spells and the injections/The harvest, the needle protect me from evil/The magic and the misery, madness and the mystery/Oh, what has it done to me?/Everybody scream. And yet, on another level, the magic and the misery, madness and the mystery is also representative of her life as a famous musician