I might be an endangered species.
WAYLON JENNINGSGot 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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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You know, in the days when I started, if you had Chet Atkins’ name on your record as a producer and it was on RCA, you could work the road. It didn’t have to be a big hit record, it just had to have that on it.
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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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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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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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The Hank Williams Syndrome: Come to Nashville, write some good songs, cut some hit records, make money, take all the drugs you can and drink all you can, become a wild man and all of a sudden die.
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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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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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Don’t ever try and be like anybody else and don’t be afraid to take risks.
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But ya know what, I am a part of something that happened.
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I’m just a man, no more or no less. Bad as the worst, good as the best.
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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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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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Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
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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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His songs were soon curled on the lips of the world, they had earned him the highest acclaim.
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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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So I’m not very popular here with those inside the system, as you might guess. I never wanted to be.
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That was part of where Chet and I had problems, so I take complete blame for that.
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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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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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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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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 like to perform every once in a while for people who want to see me, and cut albums of music that is what I’m really about.
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