"No, he didn't," the Balladeer acknowledges, slightly impatiently. Everyone from back there tried to kill him at one time or another; it's not much of a novelty. "Johnny did too."

Honesty compels him to clear Johnny of that particular crime, but he doesn't mean it as much of a reassurance. "Okay, what I didn't do there...with the singing?" The need to resort to so many questioning statements, for once, actually does reflect his own complete confusion surrounding all of this. "I can't do that anymore. Especially not with Johnny. And I didn't hear anything - "

He shakes his head, looking at her with wide eyes. " - wrong."