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Drive-By Truckers - Pauline Hawkins

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Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

Pauline Hawkins Lyrics

Don't call me your baby
I won't answer
Love is like cancer
And I am immune

To all that you're bringing
The tune that you're singing
A sign of a locked room
I saw the locked room

It's such an illusion
Before the collision
I made a decision

Don't tell me your secrets
I'd rather not listen
I know what I'm missing
It's always too soon
It's always too soon to be cold for comfort
To belong to someone inside a locked room

But that always happens when nobody's looking (nobody's looking)

I really don't care what's inside you
I wont stand beside you or answer your calls

I don't want to fight now
I'm only here right now
This moment is all
This moment is all

Don't call me your baby
I'm nobody's baby
I won't let you cage me
Or lock me away

I'm not yours to keep
Don't want you to save me
You're just a vacation
A wonder way station
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep
To keep me awake, until I'm ready to sleep

Writer/s: PATTERSON HOOD
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Pauline Hawkins

This English Oceans track finds Patterson Hood singing of a woman resisting the bonds of genuine connection. Hood wrote this song after reading Richmond Fontaine frontman and author Willy Vlautin's 2014 novel of three intersecting lives, The Free. He penned it about one of its main characters, Pauline Hawkins, an emotionally removed nurse.

Hood said: "I got an advance copy of Willy's latest book, The Free. I've been a fan of his writing for a while. I read it in about three days. I finished it on Saturday, I wrote the song on Sunday, and then we cut it on Thursday and mastered the record on the following Monday. It sure makes it a better record."

Drive-By Truckers - The Part of Him

Drive-By Truckers - The Part of Him Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

The Part of Him Lyrics

He was elected, wingnut raised and corn fed
Teabags dragging on the chamber floor
He did what he had to do to get southern boys to vote for you
To grease the wheels to get you in the door
But he must of said some things
That made them think that he was strange
And made them wonder if he was one of them
They had to call him in but he wouldn’t make amends
So they had to reel the poor boy in

He was an absolute piece of shit to tell the truth
But he never told the truth to me
He never told the truth to you don’t think he ever set out to
He was indifferent to honesty
His positions were pre-ordained to help conceal his vast disdain
For anything that lessened his appeal
His integrity was phoning in, totally Nixonian
Honing in the art of making deals

He was a piece of work, more or less a total jerk
His own mama called him an SOB
He never worked an honest day, just kissed up to a better way
To sell the cow you could get for free
When he got out of line, they snatched him up from behind
And put him in a box with fancy trim
Rolled him out for all to see his rendezvous with destiny
Now someone else will play The Part of Him

Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him
Someone else will play the part of him

Writer/s: Patterson Hood
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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The Part of Him

This Patterson Hood penned song is a scathing takedown of the procession of scandals that plague the political world year after year. "It's about political assholery - there's someone new playing that role every few months," he said. "As soon as we get rid of one of them, someone comes up and starts playing that part again."

Drive-By Truckers - Grand Canyon

Drive-By Truckers - Grand Canyon Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: English Oceans
Released: 2014

Grand Canyon Lyrics

We went to Grand Canyon
And we stood at the expanse
And we watched the rocks change colors
And we watched the shadows dance
And we probably didn’t say anything
As the sunset turned to night
We let the spirits do the talking
With cascades of faded light

And we drove across the desert
Saw the mountain range at dawn
Heard the thunder rumbles echo
Against the rocks that Gods were made from
And we drove across the wastelands
Until we finally reached the sea
And I wonder how a life so sturdy
Just one day cease to be

I’m never one to wonder
That the things beyond control
I stare off in the darkness
I'ma feel the highway roll
I feel the highway roll

And we roll on in the darkness
To some city far away
Lug our sorrows, pains and angers
And we turn them into play
There’s no time to dwell upon it
It’s this life that we chose
That made it all worth living
Through the horrors that life throws

If the recently departed make the sunsets
To say farewell to the ones they leave behind
There were technicolor hues to see our sadness through
As the sun over Athens said goodbye
Said goodbye

Said goodbye

There’s a white owl out my window
Soft-lit in fading light
He’ll go soaring through the clouds
And go hunting through the night
And in my dreams I’ll still can see him
Flying through a western sky
And I’ll think about Grand Canyon
And I’ll lift my glass and smile
I’ll lift my glass and smile

And I'll smile

Writer/s: PATTERSON HOOD
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Grand Canyon

Drive-By Truckers close their English Oceans album with this emotional elegy for Craig Lieske, a longtime member of the band's touring family. (He was credited as "assistant" on Go-Go Boots). Lieske died suddenly of a heart attack in January 2013 following the first night of the band's three-night homecoming stand in Athens. "I probably wrote it in 15 minutes," Patterson Hood said. "It wasn't any kind of a conscious thing. It's the most important song of mine on the record. I wrote new songs to go with it. It recalibrated something. It became a totally different record for me than the record I thought we were going to make."

Drive-By Truckers had to go on tour two days after Lieske's death with his empty bunk on the bus. Hood told Uncut magazine: "It was brutal and I wrote 'Grand Canyon' for him."