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.
WAYLON JENNINGSThe only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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What I did. I’ve listened to it, and I think it was more a west coast rock thing, you know? But it fit. It was country, but it was my own interpretation of country.
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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 love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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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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This is getting funny, but there ain’t nobody laughing.
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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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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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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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If you have the courage and you have the heart, that hero just might be you.
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Now, I don’t know how they judge all that, but if anybody in the world deserves to be in the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame, Ritchie Valens does.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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The men who could not fight, in a war that didn’t seem right. You let them come home, America.
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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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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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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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Don’t you be so nice to me; I fall in love so easily.
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The only problem was I needed to use my own group, and things didn’t happen until I did. It wasn’t a real country sound.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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They got me for possession of something that was long, long gone.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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