Nobody knows I’m Elvis, nobody knows this is me. After all of my tries, I’ve got the perfect disguise.
WAYLON JENNINGSFinally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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Ladies love outlaws, like babies love stray dogs.
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I may be crazy, but it keeps me from going insane.
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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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I might be an endangered species.
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He gave us all a mind to think with and to know what’s right or wrong, he is that inner spirit that keeps us strong.
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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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There’s always one more way to do something– your way.
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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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Finally, my manager negotiated a deal where I got to produce my own records.
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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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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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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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One night of love don’t make up for six nights alone. But I’d rather have one than none Lord, cause I’m flesh and bone.
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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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Highway robbery and white collar crime, and they laugh at the system they beat.
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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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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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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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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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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Each tomorrow will depend on the love you give today.
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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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Men commit murder and all sorts of mayhem, in a few years they’re back on the streets.
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Cuz I was never pretty anyway and never cared anything about that.
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