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• Jackie Trojanowsky from TexasI think We Could Be So Good Together is a song about Mary Werbelow, Jim's first love. They broke up in the year before Jim graduated UCLA with a film degree. I'm sure her reasons were complex, and to make matters worse, she promised Jim over and over that they would get back together one day. Per Mary, Jim asked her to marry him, and told her the first 3 albums were about her. Jim couldn't understand why they couldn't get back together. Keep in mind that Mary was only ~21 years old when they broke up...so she may have truly thought one day.... After their breakup, Mary said that she would still talk to Jim, when he needed someone to talk to...but she left to study meditation in India a few months before the Miami concert, and from there it was downhill for Jim I think. It (not getting back with Jim) was a major regret in her life...she later said that no one could 'replace' him. After Mary, Pam Courson certainly filled the void of a love interest in Jim's life, but he thought about Mary for a very long time, and even at the Miami concert, he broke into song singing India, India, India. which I think was about Mary, who left for India a few months prior. Knowing that she promised Jim that she would give him another chance, this song makes sense to me. He was trying to tell her that the wait was painful. And I think the angels reference is just a reference to the human condition, their love and the damage she was doing making him wait. Mary later said (after his death) that she would cry every time she heard Break on Through because of the lyrics Arms that Chain, Eyes that Lie as she thought it was a reference to herself.

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