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Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk

Jimmy Buffett - Why Don't We Get Drunk Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: A White Sport Coat and a Pink Crustacean
Released: 1973

Why Don't We Get Drunk Lyrics

Why Don't We Get Drunk

Jimmy: "This song was written as a piece of total satire when I did my first album in Nashville. I was hearing a lot of suggestive country songs - in particular, Conway Twitty's "Lets Go All The Way." I figured I would write a song that would leave no doubt in anybody's mind. I thought back to a late-night in an Atlanta diner where I was eating and watched this out-of-focus business man trying to pick up a hooker. That's all the inspiration I needed." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada)

Jimmy wrote this song, but he used the name Marvin Gardens as a alias. (thanks, Dave - Pomeroy, OH)

Ginuwine - Two Sides to a Story

Ginuwine - Two Sides to a Story Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: 100% Ginuwine
Released: 1999

Two Sides to a Story Lyrics

I ran into some girls who knew you today
They tried to tell me some things
But I know there's always Two Sides to a Story

I don't give a damn about what others say
They just can't see you gettin' close to me
I don't give a damn about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story

I don't give a damn about what others say
They just don't want you gettin' close to me (No, no, no)
I don't really care about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story (First verse)

I don't understand why it's happening
And I'm tryin' to ignore the things I hear
People saying things all up in my ear
And I'm wondering is it the truth I fear

You don't need to explain, 'cause baby, I don't care
Whatever happened then was then, then was then
All that really matters, girl, that it's you and me
Whatever was then is gone, we can't change it now

I don't give a damn about what others say (Oh)
They just can't see you gettin' close to me (Close to me, yeah)
I don't give a damn about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story (There's always two sides to a
story, mmm, hmm)

I don't give a damn about what others say (Mmm, no)
They just don't want you gettin' close to me (They don't want you
gettin' close to me, no)
I don't really care about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story (Mmm, hmm)

Met some others girls and they started tellin' me
How you used to carry on back then with them
And they tried to tell me things like you ain't changed one bit
But they ain't there to see the things I see

You don't need to explain, I just want you to know
It starts from now and not back then, then was then
All that really matters, girl, that it's you and me
Whatever was did, it's gone, it's history

I don't give a damn about what others say (I don't give a damn)
They just can't see you gettin' close to me (See you gettin' close)
I don't give a damn about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story (There's always two sides to a
story)

I don't give a damn about what others say (Yes, it is)
They just don't want you gettin' close to me (Want you gettin' close)
I don't really care about what happened before me (Baby, can you tell me
one thing)
There's always two sides to a story (Can we go)

On and on and on and on and on and on and on
Can we go on and on and on and on and on and on
Can we go on and on and on and on and on and on
Can we go on and on and on and on and on and on

I don't give a damn about what others say (No)
They just can't see you gettin' close to me
(No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)
I don't give a damn about what happened before me (Mmm, hmm)
There's always two sides to a story (There's always two sides)

I don't give a damn about what others say (There's always two sides)
They just don't want you gettin' close to me (No, no, no, no, no)
I don't really care about what happened before me (I don't give a damn)
There's always two sides to a story ('Cause there's always two sides to
a story, baby)

I don't give a damn about what others say
(Oh...they don't want you getting close to me)
I don't give a damn about what happened before me
(No, I don't give a damn what happened before me)

I don't give a damn about what others say
(No, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no, no)
I don't really care about what happened before me (I don't give a damn,
no, no, no)
There's always two sides to a story (All I know is that I love you,
darlin')

I don't give a damn about what others say (Mmm)
They just can't see you gettin' close to me (All I know is that I need
you)
I don't give a damn about what happened before me
There's always two sides to a story (Oh, I don't care about what
happened before me, baby)

I don't give a damn about what others say
(They're just jealous of you and they want your place)
I don't really care about what happened before me (No, no)
There's always two sides to a story (No, no)

Writer/s: MOSLEY, TIMOTHY Z./LUMPKIN, ELGIN B.
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc., BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Two Sides to a Story

Much of 100% Ginuwine deals with the various dramas that can challenge a relationship. Billboard magazine asked the singer what was going on in his personal life at the time? He replied: "I was dating a lot of different girls [laughs]! You know, when you have a platform like we have you express those life situations and put them into song form for other people to appreciate. You become an open book when you're a writer and a singer because where else are you going to grab from? So everything on 100% is pretty much what I was going through at the time or wanted to go through."

He continued: "'Two Sides to a Story,' for example, was a song I wrote because there were some girls saying this and that and the other thing about a girl I was seeing."

Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)

Deftones - Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Around The Fur
Released: 1997

Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away) Lyrics

This town don't feel mine
I'm fast to get away
Far

I dressed you in her clothes
Now drive me far away, away, away

It feels good to know you're mine
Now drive me far away, away, away
Far away
I don't care where
Just far away
I don't care where
Just far away
I don't care where
Just far away
And I don't care

Far away
And I don't care where
Just far away
And I don't care where
Just far away
And I don't care where
Just far away

Writer/s: MORENO, CHINO/CHENG, CHI/CARPENTER, STEPHEN/CUNNINGHAM, ABRAN
Publisher: Warner/Chappell Music, Inc.
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Be Quiet And Drive (Far Away)

This is about wanting to leave the town you are stuck in. You just want to leave and get away from everything being the same day after day. When you finally find someone to drive you (or you drive them), you just want them to be quiet in order to enjoy the moment of leaving. You can also interpret it as wanting to leave as a result of doing something bad, such as getting a girl pregnant or using drugs. You just want to get away from your problems, but it has to be quiet so you can think about what's going on in your life. (thanks, Tim - Pittsburgh, PA)

The Handsome Family - Far From Any Road

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Album: Singing Bones
Released: 2003

Far From Any Road Lyrics

Far From Any Road

The Handsome Family are an Alternative Country husband-and-wife duo comprising Brett and Rennie Sparks. This Southern gothic tune was selected for the theme song for True Detective by the show's music director, T Bone Burnett. Though it fits in nicely with the HBO crime drama's themes, the song has actually been around 2003, when it was a track on The Handsome Family's Singing Bones album. "People keep asking us how we managed to write such a perfect song to open True Detective," said Rennie Sparks. "They complement us on all the various connections to the storyline we've managed to include and how perfectly our song emotionally sets the pace for each episode. They think I'm lying when I say that the song was written long before the TV show was a spark of an idea. Maybe time really is a flat circle."

Songwriter and co-vocalist Rennie Sparks was surprised at the song's prominent placing in True Detective. "They contacted us a year ago," she said, "to use the song for 30 seconds as as interrogation scene. We knew nothing until the show premiered. Brett saw that opening sequence and hit himself so hard he bruised his legs."

This was used as the opening song for Guns n' Roses' 2014 world tour.

Written by Rennie Sparks just after the duo had moved from Chicago to Albuquerque, New Mexico, the song is a hymn to the majesty and darkness of the desert. She explained to Uncut magazine: "Here we have a lot of jimson weed. It's a horrible hallucinogenic and poisonous. During the day these bugs just look like a little pile of weeds, but at night, as soon as the moon comes up, you see these enormous white trumpets appearing from them. They always grow in the strangest places, on the sides of highways or in abandoned lots."

"There is a special kind of moth that comes out at night that has a beak like a hummingbird and it goes and sits down that trumpet," she continued. "It's very sexy. In June, they suddenly appear en masse and that each as big as a hummingbird. Then a month later, they're all gone."

"I wrote the lyrics for 'Far From Any Road' inspired by all this," she added, "then I probably told Brett I had some ideas for the music that he ignored!"

Brett Sparks added something like 11 castanets to the mix. He explained to Uncut: "I knew that I wanted Latin percussion. If you listen to the first measure of (Miles Davis and Gil Evans') Sketches of Spain, it has this beautiful sound of a chorus of castanets, it sounds like cicadas, like the Spanish night. I just loved it, so obviously I wanted to steal it (laughs). And that's a perfect way to create the frame for that song, for the place the song lives – the desert, at night."

"So I listened to that over and over, trying to figure out how they got that sound," Sparks continued. "You just have a bunch of people barring of castanets at random, so I did the same on pro-tools. They're always moving around, going down in the mix and coming up at different points. I went crazy with the percussion, there's cowbell and guoro too. Obviously, the classical guitars are evocative of the desert too."

"Then I tried a trumpet on a keyboard and was like 'That's cool,'" he added. "So I told my friend David McChesney that I needed to find a trumpet player and he was like, 'Oh, I can do it...'"

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children

Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young - Teach Your Children Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Déjà Vu
Released: 1970

Teach Your Children Lyrics

You who are on the road
Must have a code that you can live by
And so become yourself
Because the past is just a good-bye.
Teach Your Children well,
Their father's hell did slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.
Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh
And know they love you.

And you, of tender years,
Can't know the fears that your elders grew by,
And so please help them with your youth,
They seek the truth before they can die.

Teach your parents well,
Their children's hell will slowly go by,
And feed them on your dreams
The one they picks, the one you'll know by.

Don't you ever ask them why, if they told you, you will cry,
So just look at them and sigh and know they love you.

Writer/s: NASH, GRAHAM
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, SPIRIT MUSIC GROUP
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Teach Your Children

Graham Nash wrote this. The lyrics deal with the often difficult relationship he had with his father, who spent time in prison.

Jerry Garcia performs the pedal steel guitar part of this track. He had been playing steel guitar for only a short period of time. Garcia played on this album in exchange for harmony lessons for the Grateful Dead, who were at the time recording their acoustic albums Workingman's Dead and American Beauty. (thanks, Scott - Richmond, VA)

Graham Nash (from the liner notes of their 1991 boxed set): "The idea is that you write something so personal that every single person on the planet can relate to it. Once it's there on vinyl it unfolds, outwards, so that it applies to almost any situation. 'Teach' started out as a slightly funky English folk song but Stephen (Stills) put a country beat to it and turned it into a hit record."

Deja Vu was the first album the band recorded with Neil Young, but Young did not play on this.

Josh Groban - Mi Morena

Josh Groban - Mi Morena Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Closer
Released: 2003

Mi Morena Lyrics

And so my love
From my window I can see
A beautiful vision
And when the music plays
Your body rises like a bird of grace

[Chorus]
Mi Morena
I saw you dancing in the rain
Holy water
Shining like a silver flame
Come like a ghost
I will watch you dance alone
Mi morena
You're the light within my soul

And so my love
The way you're moving in your dress
To a nylon guitar
On wings of silk and lace
You lift upon the notes and slip away

[Chorus]

Take this cross of feathers and bone
Take this heart I've carved into stone
In your name

Where the setting sun surrenders to the moon
Mi querida
I will wait for you

[Chorus]

Mi morena
Hold your hands out to the light
Be my lover
I will fall into your eyes
Sweet fire of love
For you I'd steal the stars
'Cause I adore you
O my morena

Writer/s: MARTIN PAGE
Publisher: BMG RIGHTS MANAGEMENT US, LLC
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Mi Morena

This song was written by Martin Page, who co-wrote the Starship song "We Built This City" and Heart's hit "These Dreams." He also had a solo hit in 1994 with "In the House of Stone and Light."

"Morena" is an affectionate Spanish term for a dark-haired girl. Page came across the word when he was reading a poem by Pablo Neruda, who is Chilean. The book he was reading the poems from had the original Spanish text on one page and their English translations on the other. When he saw "Morena," he thought it made a beautiful sound and wrote a story around it. Said Page: "It's such a romantic song, and I love brunette ladies, so I thought, 'This is going to be a Pablo Neruda song.' The whole song is influenced by reading all of his love poetry and just feeling how Neruda gets so under the skin with his love songs. It's not corny; it's rusty and deep and dark and bloody. And as soon as I knew that 'Mi Morena' meant 'My dark one,' I wrote it as an ode to a brunette and somebody watching somebody from afar dance." (Here's our full Martin Page interview .)

Martin Page, who wrote this song, also played all the instruments on the track except for the nylon guitar, which was performed by Brian Fairweather, who was in a band with Page in the '80s called Q-Feel. The track was mixed by Mike Shipley, who had worked with Page and Fairweather since their Q-Feel days.

This became a live favorite for Groban. He performed it at two concerts in September, 2004 at the Greek Theater in Los Angeles, which were compiled into a CD/DVD set called Josh Groban: Live at the Greek.

Martin Page released his own version of this song in 2008 on his second album, In the Temple of the Muse.

Metallica - To Live Is To Die

Metallica - To Live Is To Die Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: ...And Justice For All
Released: 1988

To Live Is To Die Lyrics

To Live Is To Die

This song is a tribute to Metallica's bassist Cliff Burton, who died in a tour bus crash. It is instrumental except the spoken word piece near the end - this was a poem that Cliff wrote before he died (thanks, Toke - Stoke, England)

The line, "These are the pale deaths which men miscall their lives" comes from the book Lord Foul's Bane, Book One of the series "The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever" by Stephen R. Donaldson. In the book, the main character decides to write a poem to amuse himself. The full poem is as follows:
These are the pale deaths
which men miscall their lives:
for all the scents of green things growing,
each breath is but an exhalation of the grave.
Bodies jerk like puppet corpses,
and hell walks laughing.
(thanks, Evan - Columbus, GA)

Metallica singer James Hetfield explained to Mojo magazine December 2008 that this song is an "homage to Cliff without going over the top." He added: "It's about realizing how grateful we were to have that time with him."

Metallica guitarist Kirk Hammett on the first part of the "To Live Is To Die" solo (Guitar Player, April 1989): "That's a very straight blues box. It was the very last solo I did on the album. It was recorded at 5:00 in the morning, just a few hours before we had to leave for the Monsters Of Rock tour. I just played off the top of my head. On the other solos I carefully figured out the most appropriate scales for the chord changes." (thanks, Olli - Finland)

Banks - Before I Ever Met You

Banks - Before I Ever Met You Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Fall Over
Released: 2013

Before I Ever Met You Lyrics

Before I Ever Met You

Jillian Banks is a Los Angeles songwriter who turned to music at the age of 15 to combat a bout of depression. Expressing her fear and loneliness through music helped her cope. This was her the lead single from her debut EP Fall Over, which was released on March 1, 2013. The song later found its way on to Zane Lowe's BBC Radio 1 show and the exposure triggered a breakthrough year for the singer. "'Before I Ever Met You' was the first one to come out and that just dives into the grit and it's pretty graphic about a relationship," Banks told Digital Spy . "For my first song, it was very special the way it happened, because I didn't really hold anything back and people responded to it."

The Sun asked Jillian Banks why she just uses her surname when performing? "Because I like the name Banks," she replied. "It's strong, feminine, masculine, big, small, brave and scared."

Grateful Dead - Truckin'

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Album: American Beauty
Released: 1970

Truckin' Lyrics

Truckin' got my chips cashed in
Keep truckin', like the do-dah man
Together, more or less in line, just keep truckin' on

Arrows of neon and flashing marquees out on Main Street
Chicago, New York, Detroit and it's all on the same street
Your typical city involved in a typical daydream
Hang it up and see what tomorrow brings

Dallas, got a soft machine Houston, too close to New Orleans
New York's got the ways and means and just won't let you be

Most of the cats that you meet on the streets speak of true love
Most of the time they're sittin' and cryin' at home
One of these days they know they better get goin'
Out of the door and down on the streets all alone

Truckin', like the do-dah man. Once told me you've got to play your hand
Sometimes your cards ain't worth a dime, if you don't lay'em down

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been

What in the world ever became of sweet Jane?
She lost her sparkle, you know she isn't the same
Livin' on reds, vitamin C, and cocaine,
All a friend can say is ain't it a shame?

Truckin', up to Buffalo. Been thinkin', you got to mellow slow
Takes time, you pick a place to go, and just keep truckin' on

Sittin' and starin' out of the hotel window
Got a tip they're gonna kick the door in again
I'd like to get some sleep before I travel
But if you got a warrant, I guess you're gonna come in

Busted, down on Bourbon Street, set up, like a bowlin' pin
Knocked down, it get's to wearin' thin. They just won't let you be

You're sick of hangin' around and you'd like to travel
Get tired of travelin' and you want to settle down
I guess they can't revoke your soul for tryin'
Get out of the door and light out and look all around

Sometimes the light's all shinin' on me
Other times I can barely see
Lately it occurs to me what a long, strange trip it's been

Truckin', I'm a goin' home. Whoa whoa baby, back where I belong
Back home, sit down and patch my bones, and get back truckin' on

Writer/s: GARCIA, JEROME J. / WEIR, ROBERT HALL / LESH, PHILIP / HUNTER, ROBERT C.
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Truckin'

The '60s was a time for traveling and discovering your place in the world. Sometimes what you found was an empty existence that just keeps repeating itself day to day. Having to deal with everyday life when you were always waiting for some kind of revelation to expand your consciousness was often depressing. The Grateful Dead sang of acceptance of banality and the drive to continue their search for epiphany.

One verse in particular: "What in the world ever became of sweet Jane, she lost her sparkle. Well you know she isn't the same. Living on reds, vitamin C and cocaine? All a friend can say is ain't it a shame." seems to refer to the endless desperation that overtakes some people. They turn to drugs to provide meaning in their lives. This of course fails and spirals their lives into deeper depression. Drugs are for enhancing a good time spent with good friends. They cannot provide answers to the meaning of life. The previous verse speaks to commonplace usage and the consequences of accepting illegal activities as a normal part of your life. You often get "busted" by the police. (thanks, James - Rochester, NY)

Grateful Dead members Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh and Bob Weir are the credited writers on this track along with their lyricist Robert Hunter.

The line, "Busted, down on Bourbon Street" refers to an incident on January 31, 1970 when members of the band were arrested in a drug bust that netted 19 people in New Orleans. The group was in town to play two shows at a club called the Warehouse, and the raid happened the morning after their first show at the French Quarter hotel where they were staying. Lesh, Weir and drummer Bill Kreutzmann were all arrested along with crew members and fans of the band who had joined them at the hotel.

The story made the front page of the New Orleans Times-Picayune the next day, and drew national attention, with Rolling Stone running an article on the incident. Owsley Stanley, a Dead associate known for his pioneering work with LSD, was also arrested and labeled the "King of Acid" in the Times-Picayune piece. According to the Rolling Stone article, the band paid for bail and legal fees for all 19 arrested.

Christina Perri - Trust

Christina Perri - Trust Lyrics and Youtube Music Videos

Album: Head or Heart
Released: 2014

Trust Lyrics

Like the winds, blowing
Changes, fast and growing
I knew better then
I knew better then

Words that hurt the ones you lovin'
Hatred for who you're becomin'
I knew better then yes
I knew better then

To Trust myself
To trust someone else
To trust the lies that slip from my mouth
Trust the heart I'm so quick to sell

Yes I knew better then
I knew better then
To trust love again

Memories who won't stop stinging
Promises I could't believe in
I knew better then
I knew better then

To trust myself
To trust someone else
To trust the doubt in the back of my mind
Trust the trail of pain left behind
Yes, I knew better then
I knew better then to trust love again

And I'm so quick to lose
What was never mine to keep
And I cannot stand (oh) what's broken under me
I don't know how to forgive
Myself for everything that I missed
Learn trust

Like the winds, blowing
Changes, fast and growing
I knew better then
I knew better then

Writer/s: CHRISTINA PERRI
Publisher: Kobalt Music Publishing Ltd.
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Trust

The opening track of Christina Perri's Hand or Heart album was also the first song she wrote for the project. "I sat at the piano and wrote this song called 'Trust,' she told Radio.com . "As soon as I did I had a eureka moment, and I immediately knew what I wanted to say."

The album title was inspired by various failed relationships, where Perri had switched between trusting her head and her heart, and she couldn't figure out which was the right way to go. "I was trying to find the right thing and make the right choices, and because none of the relationships worked out I felt as though I just didn't trust me," she told Radio.com. "So I wrote a song about it. In that moment when I wrote the song, I named the album Head or Heart."

"I knew that 'Trust' would be the first song on the album and set up the album," she added, "and I knew that the theme of the album would be split into two - into head songs and into heart songs."

Kiss - Deuce

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Album: Kiss
Released: 1974

Deuce Lyrics

Get up
And get your grandma outta here
Pick up
Old Jim is workin' hard this year
And baby
Do the things he says to do

Baby, if you're feeling good
And baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
He's worth a Deuce

Honey
Don't put your man behind his years
And baby
Stop cryin' all your tears
Baby
Do the things he says to do
Do it

Baby, if you're feeling good
And baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
He's worth a deuce

And baby, if you're feeling good
Yes baby if you're feeling nice
You know your man is workin' hard
Yeah

Writer/s: SIMMONS, GENE
Publisher: Universal Music Publishing Group
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Deuce

Gene Simmons: "'Deuce' was written in my head on a bus. I heard the lick, the riff, the melody, the whole thing. 'Deuce' was written on a bass. It was a very linear song. As soon as the riff came, the first verse came, then I wrote the bridge, and then I wrote the chorus. We arranged it right on the spot and knew that it would be a staple for years. In fact, when we first went on tour with our first record, it was the opening song of the show and we would come back for encores and not have any songs left and do 'Deuce' again. Then if we got a second encore we would do 'Deuce' again. Lyrically, I had no idea what I was talking about. Sometimes stuff means a lot, sometimes it means nothing."

Paul Stanley: "The beginning of the song was me ripping off the Raspberries. The beginning of 'Deuce,' the thing that starts it off, is me, bastardizing 'Go All The Way.'"

Ace Frehley: "It's my favorite KISS song. When I auditioned for KISS, they said, "We're going to play you a song for you to listen to, and then try playing along. The song was 'Deuce,' and they played it as a three-piece and the song was in the key of 'A.' I thought, 'That's easy enough,' so I got up and wailed for four minutes playing lead work over it." (thanks, Ken - LaSalle, Canada, for all above)

Emmylou Harris - Bang The Drum Slowly

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Album: Red Dirt Girl
Released: 2000

Bang The Drum Slowly Lyrics

I meant to ask you how to fix that car
I always meant to ask you about the war
And what you saw across a bridge too far
Did it leave a scar

Or how you navigated wings of fire and steel
Up where heaven had no more secrets to conceal
And still you found the ground beneath your wheels
How did it feel

Bang The Drum Slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

I meant to ask you how when everything seemed lost
And your fate was in a game of dice they tossed
There was still that line that you would never cross
At any cost

I meant to ask you how you lived what you believed
With nothing but your heart up your sleeve
And if you ever really were deceived
By the likes of me

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Gone now is the day and gone the sun
There is peace tonight all over Arlington
But the songs of my life will still be sung
By the light of the moon you hung

I meant to ask you how to plow that field
I meant to bring you water from the well
And be the one beside you when you fell
Could you tell

Bang the drum slowly play the pipe lowly
To dust be returning from dust we begin
Bang the drum slowly I'll speak of things holy
Above and below me world without end

Writer/s: Clark, Guy / Harris, Emmylou
Publisher: Sony/ATV Music Publishing LLC, Universal Music Publishing Group
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Bang The Drum Slowly

Guy Clark helped Emmylou Harris write this elegy for her father, who died in 1993. She told American Songwriter magazine: "You would think something like that is so important that you should write about it. I had a great level of difficulty dealing with something so close to home. It took me a while to get some distance … My dad, he worked on cars… there were so many things I could have learned from him but I was too busy being an artist. Sometimes, [with writing] you just forget: you think it has to come from above when it actually just comes from your heart."

"Guy Clark said we should write the song, because he knew my dad," Emmylou added. "When my parents would come to visit, I would always have Guy and Susanna over. Guy really appreciated that my father flew Corsair jets, and also how grounded he was, with the way he could make coffee and such. You know how Guy is, he can see people in a frame. And I felt that he could pull that out of me."

"So we worked on that song one day and then we would phone each other," she continued. "He once said, 'Is your father buried in Arlington?' I said 'no' and then he said, 'That's such a great word.' So that is one thing in the song that is in a sense not true."