And remembering the falling down
And the laughter of the curse of luck
From all of those sons of bishes
Who said we'd never get back up

Some of my favorites come from the memories formed as a kid listening to the jukebox at Garner State Park.

Smokey Mountain Memories
"Smokey Mountain memories
Pretty girl from Tennessee
I was such a fool to leave
Leave her all alone"

Amarillo By Morning
"I'll be looking for 8 when they pull that gate
And I hope that judge ain't blind"

Blackland Farmer
"When the Lord made me he made a simple man
Not much money and not much land
He didn't make me no banker, no legal charmer
When the Lord made me he made a blackland farmer"

Garner State Park
"In the western part of Texas,
90 miles from San Antone
There's a place I go each summer
When I get the urge to roam
I stand out on the highway
If I couldn't get a ride I'd walk
To Garner State Park"

Kris Kristofferson has a way with words, and Willie puts the music to them

--- Help Me Make It Through the Night ----

Take the ribbon from your hair, shake it loose and let if fall
Lying soft against your skin, like the shadows on the wall
Come and lay down by my side, till the early morning light
All I'm taking is your time, help me make it through the night

I don't care who's right or wrong, and I don't try to understand
Let the devil take tomorrow, because tonight I need a friend
Yesterday is dead and gone, and tomorrow's out of sight
And its sad to be alone, help me make it through the night

---- Loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again ---

Coming close together with a feeling that I'd never known before in my time
She ain't ashamed to be a woman or afraid to be a friend
I don't know the answer to the easy way she opened every door in my mind
But dreaming was as easy as believing it was never gonna end
Loving her was easier than anything I'll ever do again

Sturgill - from "Turtles All the Way Down"

I've seen Jesus play with flames in a lake of fire that I was standing in
Met the devil in Seattle and spent 9 months inside the lion's den
Met Buddha yet another time and he showed me a glowing light within
But I swear that God is there every time I look into the eyes of my best friend

and

"Every time I take a look inside inside that old and fabled book, I'm blinded and reminded of the pain caused by some old man in the sky"

And some from Isbell

-- from "Steetlights"

"Close your eyes and remember this... It won't be back again, it's almost gone.
Even times that don't seem like much will be your only crutch when you're alone.
Time moves slow when you're seventeen and then it picks up steam at twenty-one.
Pretty soon you'll remember when you could remember when you loved someone."


- from "Songs That She Sang in The Shower"

On a lark
On a whim
I said there's two kinds of men in this world and you're neither of them
And his fist cut the smoke
I had an eighth of a second to wonder if he got the joke

And in the car headed home
She asked if I had considered the prospect of living alone
With a steak held to my eye
I had to summon the confidence needed to hear her goodbye
And another brief chapter without any answers blew by

Get me higher than the grocery bill!

Whodini: "She had a big fat head and a skinny body
I wouldn't be caught with her alone, let alone at a party"
--Haunted House of Rock

The mattress is mildewed and lumpy
but you fall fast asleep where you lay
under that lump is a 20 gauge pump
cause they'd just as soon blow you away.

Shine on you crazy diamond.

Waylon Jennings
"The only two things in life that make it worth livin,
Are guitars that tune good and firm feelin, women"

Some high society lady says, "Is your horse outside?"
No, ma'am he's between my legs, but you're too fat to ride!

3OH!3 - Don't Trust Me

"Shush girl, shut your lips
Do the Helen Keller and talk with your hips"

mike_ags_fan12 said:

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Same album different songs.

"Both feet on the floor, two hands on the wheel,
May the wind take your troubles away."

"I will meet you anywhere the western sun meets the air."

---

Uncle Tupelo or Son Volt? Forgot.

Kyrie Eleison

When I was young I thought of growing old, of what my life would mean to me

Would I have followed down my chosen road, or only wished what I could be

Not sure if my favorite, but one of them:

"The ones who love us best, are the ones we'll lay to rest, and visit their graves on holidays at best.

The ones who love us least are the ones we'll die to please, if it's any consolation, I don't begin to understand them."

*******s of Young - The Replacements

Always loved this line from Dylan:

I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
And just for that one moment I could be you
Yes, I wish that for just one time you could stand inside my shoes
You'd know what a drag it is to see you

American Pie

Did you write the book of love
And do you have faith in God above
If the Bible tells you so?
Do you believe in rock and roll?
Can music save your mortal soul?

"As the rain ruined my alibi"

Backslider's Wine - Jerry Jeff Walker / Michael Martin Murphey

Well I stand up next to a mountain and i chop it down with the edge of my hand

Khalid

Yeah we're just young dumb and broke
But we still got love to give

Don McLean - I know it's an anti-war song, and I was in the Army, but it's still beautiful and powerful...

"When the wars of our nation did beckon
The man, barely twenty, did answer the calling
Proud of the trust
That he placed in our nation
He's gone
But eternity knows him
And it knows what we've done"

In honor of the last day of school!

Well we got no class
And we got no principles
And we got no innocence
We can't even think of a word that rhymes

School's out for summer
School's out forever

Eminem-

9 millimeter heater stashed in two-seaters with meat cleavers, I don't blame you I wouldn't let Hailey listen to me either.