Monday, July 18, 2011

7/18/11

So I love this song, but it was always a little on the twangy side, the album version at least.
This setting is new to me, and beautiful. The intro is pretty great, too.



"Loaded like a sailor
Tumbling off a ferry boat
I was at the bar till three
Oh Lord, and I wasn't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Tennessee's a brother to my sister Carolina where they're gonna bury me
And I ain't ready to go
I'm never ready to go
Let it ride let it ride easy down the road
Let it ride
Let it take away all of this darkness
Let it ride
Let it rock me in the arms of stranger's angels until it brings me home
Let it ride
Let it roll
Let it go"

~Let it Ride
Ryan Adam, Ryan Adams and the Cardinals

7/18/11

Trying to learn this song tonight. I cower/bask before the greatness of Nolan performance.



"Cause after this mess
I guess you'd bet
That I'd collapse before you do
Well maybe that's true
Or maybe, it's not at all"

~Your Name Here, Sunrise Highway,
Straylight Run, Straylight Run

7/17/11

Today was a wonderful day. And I got home and listened to all kinds of wonderful music. And this song kind of closed it for me in some way. A good, sad way.

"I went down to the gas station
for no particular reason
Heard the screams from the high school
It's football season

Empty lot the station faces
Will probably be there forever
I climbed over the four foot fence
I was trying to sever the tether

Moon in the sky
Cold as a stone
Spend each night in your arms
Always wake up alone

I lay down in the weeds
It was a real cold night
I was happy 'til the overnight attendant
Switched on the floodlight

Walking home I was talking to you under my breath
Saying things I would never say directly
I heard a siren on the highway up ahead
Kinda wished they'd come and get me

Frost on the sidewalk
White as a bone
Tried to get close to you again
Always wake up alone

And as I was crossing our doorstep
I hesitated just a moment there
Remembered the day we moved in to our small house
'til the vision got too vivid to bear

You were almost asleep
Halfway undressed
I lay right down next to you
held your head against my chest

And a guy with any kind of courage
would maybe stop to think the matter through
Maybe hold you still and raise the question
Instead of blindly holding onto you

But we crank up the heat
And you giggle and moan
Spend all night in the company of ghosts
Aways wake up alone"
~Moon over Goldsboro
The Mountain Goats, Get Lonely



Strings are damn gorgeous. Sparing. Long, story ballad-like structure. I am a fan.