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I've overcome the blow
I've learned to take it well
I only wish my words
Could just convince myself
That it just wasn't real
But that's not the way it feels


Between Hank Williams' pain songs
And Jerry Jeff's train songs and Blue Eyes Cryin' in the Rain
Out in Luckenbach, Texas there ain't nobody feelin' no pain


So never leave me lonely
Tell me you love me only
And that you'll always let it be me

‘Til Gabriel blows his horn

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Sun came up it was another day
And the sun went down you were blown away
Why'd you let go of your guitar
Why'd you ever let it go that far
Drunken Angel

 

St. Genevieve can hold back the water
Saints don't bother
With the tear-stained eye

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6 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

Don't ever leave me
Say you'll always be there
All I ever wanted
Was for you
To know that I care

Chuck Klosterman once argued that the coda (if that's the correct term) to "Rocket Queen" was the greatest 1:30 of rock and roll recorded in the 80's.

I can't argue.

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6 minutes ago, CooterBrown said:

 


The glimmer of a few seconds light after an album of utter darkness is what gets me every time.

 

Yeah.  It's a total contrast to the hour of filth that precedes it (which of course culminates with the recording of Axl banging Steven Adler's old lady in the studio right before it).  It's also the prettiest melody Axl Rose ever wrote.

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Red white and blue, gaze in your looking glass
You're not a child anymore
Red, white, and blue, the future is all but past
So lift up your heart, make a new start
And lead us away from here

You're fooling yourself if you don't believe it
You're killing yourself if you don't believe it
Get up, get back on your feet
You're the one they can't beat and you know it
Come on, let's see what you've got
Just take your best shot and don't blow it.

When I'm tired and thinking cold
I hide in my music, forget the day
And dream of a girl I used to know
I closed my eyes and she slipped away
She slipped away

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19 minutes ago, Grandioso said:

Permissively?

From what I've read/heard, no.  At least on the drummer's part.  Allegedly, Adler (drummer) told the gal that she wasn't his GF, so she went down to the studio and fucked Axl, who had been wanting to record sex noises for the part anyhow.  Then he (Adler) got pissed after the fact.

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Its Main Street after midnight just like it was before
21 months later at the local grocery store
Sherry buys a paper and a cold 6-pack of beer
The headlines read that Sonny is goin' to the chair
She pulls back onto Main Street in her new Mercedes Benz
The road goes on forever and the party never ends

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All that you touch
And all that you see
All that you taste
All you feel
And all that you love
And all that you hate
All you distrust
All you save
And all that you give
And all that you deal
And all that you buy
Beg, borrow or steal
And all you create
And all you destroy
And all that you do
And all that you say
And all that you eat
And everyone you meet (everyone you meet)
And all that you slight
And everyone you fight
And all that is now
And all that is gone
And all that's to come
And everything under the sun is in tune
But the sun is eclipsed by the moon

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Mister Peabody's coal train has hauled it away 

Well it took me years
To get those souvenirs
And I don't know how they slipped away from me

But only bones lie here entombed
My spirit flies as high as Old Glory waves
Remember all of us and the sacrifice we made
On the last Monday in May

 

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One that most people probably would never have heard of is a song by Barenaked Ladies called Tonight is the Night I Fell Asleep at the Wheel.

The first verse is:

Driving home to be with you
The highway's divided, the city's in view
As usual I'm almost on time
You're the last thing that's on my mind

then the crash is described, then the last verse is:

In all the confusion there's something serene
I'm just a posthumous part of the scene
Now I'm floating above looking in
As the radio blares and wheels spin
I can see my face slumped with a grin
And you, you're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind
You're the last thing on my mind.

I always loved how different the meaning of "you're the last thing on my mind" is in the two verses.

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Close your eyes and remember this. It won't be back again, it's almost gone.
Even times that don't seem like much will be your only crutch when you're alone.
Time moves slow when you're seventeen and then it picks up steam at twenty-one.
Pretty soon you'll remember when you could remember when you loved someone

Jason Isbell, Streetlights


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We can walk our road together
If our goals are all the same
We can run alone and free
If we pursue a different aim

Let the truth of Love be lighted
Let the love of truth shine clear
Sensibility
Armed with sense and liberty
With the Heart and Mind united
In a single perfect sphere

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