Tell Me

Album: Music from Another Dimension! (2012)
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Songfacts®:

  • Aerosmith bassist Tom Hamilton penned this song. Though he has had the occasional songwriting credit before, including the Toys In The Attic track, "Uncle Salty," this was the first to include his own lyrics. Hamilton told Rolling Stone that he was inspired by an online course in lyric writing from Boston's Berklee College of Music in Boston, where the band's rhythm guitarist Brad Whitford and drummer Joey Kramer both studied. "I had these chord changes, and I thought maybe I could try writing lyrics," he added. "It was a whole new experience for me. The song is about lost love, but I've been married since I was 25 years old. My wife goes, 'What the hell do you know about that?' I was just evoking a feeling I had when I was a kid listening to the Beatles and the Stones – I always loved their lonely sounding songs."
  • Steven Tyler plays the mandolin on this song, whilst Brad Whitford plucks the acoustic guitar.

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