I never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
WAYLON JENNINGSI was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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And yet his greatest desire was the simple warmth of love’s fire, cause it’s cold on the dark side of fame.
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I could have killed her when we first met and I’ve been out of jail by now.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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I was alive, and Buddy and those boys were dead, and I didn’t know how, but somehow I’d caused it.
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This world that I live in is empty and cold/the loneliness cuts me and tortures my soul.
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I say, Lord, do right be me, I’m tired of being lonesome, on’ry, and mean.
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We got a lot of politicians up there on Capital Hill. Ain’t it funny how they prosper while the country stands still?
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The rock and roll spirit. I learned a lot of that because I worked with Buddy Holly. I played bass with him, and he taught me a lot about that.
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It was all devastating. I’d never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn’t know where to put it in my life.
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You’ve got to care about the music…You’d better not be doing it for the publicity, the fame or the money.
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Got my Allman Brothers cassettes stacked up on the dash, got some Jack back in the trunk and a tank full of gas.
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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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If I could only fly, you see, a lot of my problems would be gone. When you think of just how much I’d save on shoes alone.
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To me a guitar is kind of like a woman. You don’t know why you like ’em but you do.
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I was king of the mountain for a long time, well, I don’t want that no more.
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Lately I’ve heard rumors that the eagle may be lame. Just because I’ve been idle, don’t mean that I’m tame.
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I don’t believe in reincarnation at all, but if all that stuff is true, then he might have been on his last time around.
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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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And you’d sure better not be doing it because it’s a way to make a living, ’cause that ain’t always going to be easy. You got to believe it, believe in the music. You got to mean it.
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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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But Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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I ain’t got no reverse. I’ve learned, a little later in life, it works out pretty good to have one every once in a while.
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