The Supreme Court hath spoken, and it repeated its mantra: Money talks, everything else walks. Call it American justice: Bankruptcy can wipe out all the loans you can’t repay except the ones you took out when you were in or just out of your teens.
The loan Jackson Browne was singing about was emotional, not financial. Of this cut from his critically derided 1980 album “Hold Out,” he once told Mojo magazine, “This is about not being able to pay up, stealing someone else’s heart and not being able to go on with the theft – not knowing the complete cost, and wanting to call it a loan until you grow enough to pay for it.” He wrote the tune with his longtime sideman David Lindley.
