Have you ever noticed / When you're feeling really good / There's always a pigeon / That'll come shit on your hood / Or you're feeling your freedom / And the world's off your back / Some cowboy from Texas / Starts his own war in Iraq. |
I just tried to come up with some honest songs. What I was writing about was real plain stuff that I wasn't sure was going to be interesting to other people. But I guess it was. |
I retired this next song in 1978, |
I wrote it just to get my father's attention, |
It was just time, |
It's a different thing when I sit down with [Memphis songwriter and longtime collaborator] Keith Sykes or some of my buddies in Nashville. It's more likely that I'll actually make the appointment and I'll have some fun and maybe at the end of the day we'll get a song out of it. But I've never had any discipline whatsoever. I just wait on a song like I was waiting for lightning to strike. And eventually -- usually sometime around 3 in the morning -- I'll have a good idea. By the time the sun comes up, hopefully, I'll have a decent song. |
MAKE ME AN ANGEL THAT FLIES FROM MONTGOMERY, MAKE ME A POSTER OF AN OLD RODEO; JUST GIVE ME ONE THING THAT I CAN HOLD ON TO~ TO BELIEVE IN THIS LIVIN' IS JUST A HARD WAY TO GO..... |
Sometimes a steering wheel is better than a guitar, |
The dressing rooms are bigger and cleaner, and the money gets better. |
Your Flag Decal Won't Get You Into Heaven Anymore. |