Emmylou Harris wrote two that are so beautiful and so sad, if you need to cry, Boulder to Birmingham:

"I don’t want to hear a sad song full of heartbreak and desire

The last time I felt like this, I was in the wilderness, and the canyon was on fire

And I stood on the mountain in the night and I watched it burn, I watched it burn"

And also in the same song she sings - “well you really got me this time, and the hardest part is knowing I’ll survive” wow.

If that somehow doesn’t work, Red Dirt Girl might.

"She loved her brother, I remember back when

He was fixing up a 49 Indian

Told her, little sister gonna ride the wind, up around the moon and back again

Well he never got farther than Vietnam, I was standing there with her when the telegram come for Lillian

Now he’s lying somewhere about a million miles from Meridian "

But we’re all gonna die,

Decompose into daffodils and dandelions,

The bees will use our honey for whatever they like,

Make the honey that our grandkids will put inside,

their morning tea, it’s the thing of life.

Real G’s move in silence like lasagna

There’s too many, but I won’t lie if I take any few lines from L. Cohen’s “The Future”:

"Your servant here, he has been told
To say it clear, to say it cold
It's over, it ain't going any further
And now the wheels of heaven stop
You feel the devil's riding crop
Get ready for the future: It is murder"

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR SKEEZIX.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO YOU.

I love it when you call me senorita I wish I could pretend I didn’t need ya but every touch is o la la la

awesome song!

The whole start to Graceland by Paul Simon is pretty vivid:

The Mississippi Delta Was shining like a national guitar.
I am following the river down the highway through the cradle of the Civil War.
I’m going to Graceland, Graceland - Memphis, Tennessee
I’m going to Graceland

Poor boys and pilgrims with families and we are going to Graceland
My traveling companion is nine years old he is the child of my first marriage
But I’ve reason to believe we both will be received in Graceland

I have never been to Tennessee. But this intro really conjures up some vivid imagery of driving down a highway through some historic country, along a river in the company of a child - and being among many others going to the same place.

It’s pure poetry.

🎶 I am gonna make it through this year if it kills me 🎵

Lies are a funny thing, they slip through your finger tips because they never happened to you.

I Sat By the Ocean by Queens of the Stone Age.

If you’re going to ask a question to everyone and also answer it, the best practice is to put your own answer as a comment, rather than in the textbox.

To answer the question:

True, there’s been trouble and trickery, sir
Trembling and tribulations
Twitches from switches of hickory, sir
You, sir, and your usurpations
But my patience wears very thin
When you play the violin

from “When You Play the Violin” by the Gothic Archies. It’s not emotionally resonant, I just love the wordplay.

Yeah, the clock moves around and the child is a joy, But death doesn’t care just who it destroys, Now the woman gets sick, thins down to the bone, She says, “Where I’m going next, I’m going alone”

Paul Kelly - Deeper Water

Especially that last line. Damn powerful. And the whole song talks to me as a father of a 10year old.

I can recommend it for a listen

“I walk a lonely road, the only one that I have ever known. Don’t know where it goes, but it’s home to me, and I walk alone.”

Boulevard Of Broken Dreams - Green Day

They say all the best things in life are free

So 🗡️give💣 all your beer and your rum to me

Once in a while you can get shown the light in the strangest of places if you look at it right

Manufacturing consent is the name of the game.

The bottom line is money, nobody gives a fuck.