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• This song may have a slightly unusual title, but it had a truly terrible inspiration.
  
  In August 2005, as he left a concert in Denver, Marc Cohn's tour van was targeted by a carjacker. He was shot in the head just above the eye but miraculously though the bullet lodged in his skull, it did no real physical damage.
  
  At the time, a spokesman for Denver police told the BBC: "Frankly, I can't tell you how he survived."
  
  Just over a year after the near fatal attack, Cohn's assailant, drug addict Joseph Yacteen, was sentenced to 36 years in jail. >>>

  Suggestion credit:
  Alexander Baron - London, England