Now, I was on drugs, and that didn’t help a whole lot. He hated that.
WAYLON JENNINGSBut Buddy was an upper. He was happy. He loved music, and he was really happy. I don’t know…
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Take your tongue out of my mouth, I’m kissing you good-bye.
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I might be an endangered species.
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Those neon light nights, couldn’t stay out of fights, keeps a-haunting me in memories.
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Hitting the bottle again, ever than I’ve drunker been. Or is it drunker than I’ve ever been?
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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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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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Maybe it’s time we got back to the basics of love.
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Listening to his songs she heard nothing but bad news, still she made her mind up to try to get him win or lose.
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What bothers me most is that I don’t bother you.
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Was an American archetype, the bad guy with the big heart.
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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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Ladies touch babies like a banker touches gold, outlaws touch ladies somewhere deep down in their soul.
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The villains have turned into heroes. The heroes have turned into heals.
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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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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 very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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Honesty is something you can’t wear out.
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Mainly what I learned from Buddy… was an attitude. He loved music, and he taught me that it shouldn’t have any barriers to it.
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Is your head up your ass so far that you can’t pull it out?
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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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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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Besides that, I felt guilty. I thought for some reason…
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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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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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I sat at a bar having a beer trying to hold down the stool.
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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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