![]() ![]() The bridge to the song, or the middle eight as the British would say, the part that starts, 'Say my name, sun shines through the rain,' that part in particular is very Beatlesque. Regarding the composition of this song, Billy Steinberg told us: "Tom started to write the chords and the melodies on an acoustic guitar at my house. I thought, 'Well that's a great title for a song,' so very quickly I wrote the rest of the lyrics for the song based on that title." ![]() It seemed like a very profound thought when I was a child. When I was a child I remembered thinking it never burned out, that it was something like the sun or something beyond our capacity to even contemplate. There was one little red light and they told us it was called the eternal flame. I remember during our Sunday school class they would walk us through the sanctuary. As soon as those words were mentioned, I immediately thought of the synagogue in the town of Palm Springs, California where I grew up. Said Steinberg: "Susanna was talking about the Bangles having visited Graceland, and she said there was some type of shrine to Elvis that included some kind of eternal flame. I was really thrilled when I had a demo of this somewhat simple, pure, melodic, almost like a lullaby that I came up with." That led to Billy saying, "Oh, eternal flame is a good title for a song." So we crafted the lyrics at Billy's house and then we took it over to Tom's studio. Actually, that day it was raining so the flame was not on. The day we were there we were taken out to the Garden of Memories, and there was this little box which was supposed to have a lit flame in it, an eternal flame. When we spoke with Susanna Hoffs, she said: "I told Billy the story about this official private tour of Graceland the Bangles had been given. ![]() There is an Eternal Flame at the gravesite of Elvis Presley in Memphis that inspired this song. ![]()
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