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I got to choose one of the songs for my father's funeral.  It was a real tear jerker sitting next to my teen and younger sons.

 

 

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On 9/12/2025 at 11:34 PM, gofuckyourself said:

Man.  My wife and I are empty-nesters, have been for a few years.  It's like a whole new marriage.  We connect, we love each other, we relish the moments we have together.  But those moments also come--necessarily--in the back half of our lives.  As we can see our mortality from here.  If We Were Vampires fucking shreds me.  Just gutted.  It's an amazing song, and I love it and hate it.

Here's one I haven't seen posted:

Love.  Loss.  Time, and that loss never goes away.  

Lydie lit a cigarette today
Ancient fumbling fingers in her way
From a forty year old coffee cup she sipped a bit of gin
Closed her eyes and let the memories in

 

I come from "cigarette and forty year old coffee cup" people.  I can see, smell, and taste this song, and the grief.

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The first time I saw Slaid he was doing a solo gig at the Waterloo Ice House on 38th & Medical Parkway.  He was new to town having come from Maine.  He was unspectacular, very raw, but there was something there.  Maybe a half dozen years later "Broke Down" came out and everyone exclaimed in unison "holy shit".  One of the best records ever to come out of Austin.

 

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On 9/6/2025 at 7:27 AM, Damor said:

Another for the Lord Huron fans.  Never released on an album outside of a soundtrack and for some reason hard to even find a decent version on Youtube.

I missed the year they played it at Red Rocks.  I probably would have broken.
 

 

 

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Heh.  A friend of mine used to room with Paula Cole at Berklee.  She was also a singer-songwriter.  She about lost her mind when Paula hit it big and she didn't.  (Never did.)

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On 9/19/2025 at 8:44 AM, Pato del Muerto said:

 

Two things...

I miss Charlie Robison.  Goddammit.

And second....I will never NOT be madly in love with Kelly Willis.  Man. She kills me.

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I lost a good friend
Christmas time when folks go off the deep end
His woman took the kids and he took Klonopin
Enough to kill a man of twice his size

 

 

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Here is one that ChatGpt and I wrote..lol  

House I Can’t Sell

(Key of G — 4/4 slow strum feel)

Verse 1

G                          C
There’s a cracked screen door swinging in my mind  
      G                         D
Sunlight fades on the hardwood time  
        G                       C
Her perfume’s still in the hallway air  
        G                     D           G
And the wind hums songs like she’s still there  


Pre-Chorus

         Em              C
Tried painting over every wall  
         G                         D
Hung new curtains, tore ‘em down in the fall  


Chorus

          G                     C
She still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  
          G                               D
Her laughter echoes like a church bell  
          Em                 C
Got the sign in the yard, but it never gets a bid  
          G                          D
Guess some ghosts won’t let go where they lived  
          G                     C
Yeah, she still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  


Verse 2

      G                         C
Her teacup waits on the window sill  
      G                          D
Like she just stepped out and always will  
        G                        C
The kitchen clock quit keeping time  
         G                     D            G
The same day she quit being mine  


Pre-Chorus

         Em               C
I patch the roof and mow the grass  
         G                       D
But the past keeps coming through the cracks  


Chorus

          G                     C
She still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  
          G                              D
Her silhouette’s framed in every shell  
           Em                    C
I’ve shown it around, but nobody stays  
            G                               D
They all feel her heartbeat in the hallways  
          G                     C
Yeah, she still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  


Bridge

         Em                     C
Maybe someday I’ll burn it down  
         G                        D
Plant wild roses on this ground  
         Em                  C
But even then, I know too well  
         G                    D
She’ll still be living in that house I can’t sell  


Final Chorus / Outro

          G                     C
She still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  
          G                             D
Her memory rings like a wedding bell  
         Em                   C
No one wants to buy a place this blue  
         G                               D
And I can’t seem to move on too  
          G                     C
Yeah, she still lives here, in this house I can’t sell  

       G          D           G
The lock won’t turn, and it never will
       G          D           G
She still lives here… in the house I can’t sell

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