If you see me getting smaller, I’m leaving, don’t be grieving, just gotta get away from here. If you see me getting smaller, don’t worry, and no hurry, I’ve got the right to disappear.
WAYLON JENNINGSI 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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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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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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 never have any problem getting enthusiastic with a good song and a good band.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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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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The only two things in life that make it worth livin’ / Is guitars that tune good and firm feelin’ women
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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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I’m a part of the music that happened. My voice is one more instrument, is what it is. So that’s the way I feel about people who “play on sessions.
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I mean, I think we’re put here on earth to make your own destiny, to begin with.
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Heaven is laying in my sweet baby’s arms, hell is when my baby’s not here.
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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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