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.
WAYLON JENNINGSAnd 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 was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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You know, I feel sorry for the young artists.
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Did ole Hank really do it this way?
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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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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Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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When you’re down in Texas, Bob Wills is still the king.
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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 can’t walk, so I can’t go home. No need to talk, cause I’m all alone. If I stay here they’re gonna lock me in, hitting the bottle again.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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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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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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