YMMV / Lost Dogs

• Harsher in Hindsight: A lot of the songs Gene Eugene sang became this after Gene's early death.
  • "The Last Testament of Angus Shane" is about a man unfairly condemned to death.
  • "Jimmy" is about visiting a dying and/or demented man in the hospital.
  • Gene gets the final verse on "A Blessing in Disguise," a country weeper about using the pain in your life to benefit other people.
  • In "Rebecca Go Home"—his last solo vocal—he plays a man who is telling his elderly wife to go ahead and die.
  • The final song on Gift Horse, Gene's last album, is the traditional "Farther Along," which asks why bad things happen to good people—a question many of Gene's fans and friends asked on March 20, 2000.
  • Mike Roe says the following about Gene's "Dunce Cap" in the liner notes to the Little Red Riding Hood reissue:
    I would listen to the rough mixes of this tune on the airplane ride back home after the sessions and I would just bawl my eyes out and I didn't know why. I got up the courage to tell the other guys, and they each had similar reactions. It was in the music. It was in the lyric. It was in Gene's voice. I think, in some unspoken way, we all knew the song was about Gene, and we all sensed that something was going to happen to him.