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Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone''
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Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone''alone''
* His 2023 album ''Weathervanes'' added a few more entries to this catalogue. The closest thing to a lead single, "King of Oklahoma," is written from the perspective of a construction worker who developed an opioid addiction after an injury, and now can't hold onto a legitimate job or the people he loves.
-->''She used to wake me up with coffee every morning''\\
''And I'd hear her homemade house shoes slide across the floor''\\
''She used to make me feel like the king of Oklahoma''\\
''But nothing makes me feel like much of nothing anymore''
* Also from ''Weathervanes'', the narrator of "Volunteer" has gone through quite the TraumaCongaLine.
-->''They'd fight about money, they'd fight about fighting''\\
''They'd fight about nothing at all''\\
''The car was still running when the deputy found them''\\
''[[MeaningfulName At the Shell by the Gunbarrel Mall]]''\\
(next verse)\\
''I cried when I missed 'em, got lost in the system''\\
''The foster homes passed me around''\\
''The last one was nice, but I ran away twice''\\
''And they gave up on tracking me down''
* His 2023 album ''Weathervanes'' added a few more entries to this catalogue. The closest thing to a lead single, "King of Oklahoma," is written from the perspective of a construction worker who developed an opioid addiction after an injury, and now can't hold onto a legitimate job or the people he loves.
-->''She used to wake me up with coffee every morning''\\
''And I'd hear her homemade house shoes slide across the floor''\\
''She used to make me feel like the king of Oklahoma''\\
''But nothing makes me feel like much of nothing anymore''
* Also from ''Weathervanes'', the narrator of "Volunteer" has gone through quite the TraumaCongaLine.
-->''They'd fight about money, they'd fight about fighting''\\
''They'd fight about nothing at all''\\
''The car was still running when the deputy found them''\\
''[[MeaningfulName At the Shell by the Gunbarrel Mall]]''\\
(next verse)\\
''I cried when I missed 'em, got lost in the system''\\
''The foster homes passed me around''\\
''The last one was nice, but I ran away twice''\\
''And they gave up on tracking me down''
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* "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[AnyoneCanDie either of them will die in the end.]]
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* "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be together forever because [[AnyoneCanDie either [[WeAllDieSomeday one of them will die in first and the end.]]survivor will have to carry on without them until their own death]].
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* Jason and Amanda's performance of Music/WarrenZevon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4nrkd0b0I "Mutineer"]] on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman''. It's a touching, but devastating CallBack to Zevon's final appearance on the same stage (and to Dave's tribute to him after his death).
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* Jason and Amanda's performance of Music/WarrenZevon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4nrkd0b0I "Mutineer"]] on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman''. It's a touching, but devastating CallBack to Zevon's final appearance on the same stage (and to Dave's tribute to him after his death).death).
* "Elephant" is a stark portrayal of trying to be there for someone dying of cancer. "Trying" being the operative word.
-->''She said, "Andy, you crack me up"\\
Seagrams in a coffee cup\\
Sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone\\
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes\\
Made up her own doctor's notes\\
Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone''
* "Elephant" is a stark portrayal of trying to be there for someone dying of cancer. "Trying" being the operative word.
-->''She said, "Andy, you crack me up"\\
Seagrams in a coffee cup\\
Sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone\\
When she was drunk she made cancer jokes\\
Made up her own doctor's notes\\
Surrounded by her family, I saw that she was dying alone''
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* "Songs That She Sang in the Shower," set in the aftermath of a breakup, is about missing the little details of life together.
-->''And the songs that she sang in the shower all ring in my ear''\\
''Like [[Music/PinkFloyd "Wish You Were Here"]]''\\
''How I wish you were here''\\
''And experience robs me of hope that she'll ever come home''\\
''So I'm stuck on my own''\\
''I'm stuck on my own''
-->''And the songs that she sang in the shower all ring in my ear''\\
''Like [[Music/PinkFloyd "Wish You Were Here"]]''\\
''How I wish you were here''\\
''And experience robs me of hope that she'll ever come home''\\
''So I'm stuck on my own''\\
''I'm stuck on my own''
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''To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love''
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''To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love''love''
* Jason and Amanda's performance of Music/WarrenZevon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4nrkd0b0I "Mutineer"]] on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman''. It's a touching, but devastating CallBack to Zevon's final appearance on the same stage (and to Dave's tribute to him after his death).
* Jason and Amanda's performance of Music/WarrenZevon's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TX4nrkd0b0I "Mutineer"]] on ''Series/TheLateShowWithDavidLetterman''. It's a touching, but devastating CallBack to Zevon's final appearance on the same stage (and to Dave's tribute to him after his death).
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* "Dreamsicle", which details a divorce in a family. In the second chorus, the narrator's father breaks his promise of seeing him play in a basketball game, breaking his heart.
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* "Dreamsicle", which details a divorce in a family. In the second chorus, the narrator's father breaks his promise of seeing him play in a basketball game, breaking his heart.heart.
* "Goddamn Lonely Love", a song Isbell wrote while with Drive By Truckers, is an achingly melancholy song about [[DrowningMySorrows drowning one's sorrows]] to cope with being separated from a lover. There's some RealitySubtext here, too: Isbell wrote the song at the height of his struggles with alcohol.
-->''I got green and I got the blues''\\
''And everyday there's a little less difference between the two''\\
''So I belly-up and disappear''\\
''Well, I ain't really drowning 'cause I see the beach from here''\\
''I could take a Greyhound home, but when I got there it'd be gone''\\
''Along with everything a home is made up of''\\
''So I'll take two of what you're having, and I'll take all of what you got''\\
''To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love''
* "Goddamn Lonely Love", a song Isbell wrote while with Drive By Truckers, is an achingly melancholy song about [[DrowningMySorrows drowning one's sorrows]] to cope with being separated from a lover. There's some RealitySubtext here, too: Isbell wrote the song at the height of his struggles with alcohol.
-->''I got green and I got the blues''\\
''And everyday there's a little less difference between the two''\\
''So I belly-up and disappear''\\
''Well, I ain't really drowning 'cause I see the beach from here''\\
''I could take a Greyhound home, but when I got there it'd be gone''\\
''Along with everything a home is made up of''\\
''So I'll take two of what you're having, and I'll take all of what you got''\\
''To kill this goddamn lonely, goddamn lonely love''
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--->''There's no such thing as someone else's war''\\
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--->''It's knowing that this can't go on forever''\\
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** "Dress Blues," which memorializes a soldier killed in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
** "Alabama Pines," narrated by someone whose life has gone wrong in one way after another, and who just wants to go back home.
** "Speed Trap Town": Narrator's father is slowly dying of heart failure. Narrator makes a final farewell and abandons him.
** "White Man's World": Narrator is trapped in poverty, and fears that his daughter may end up the same way, but still feels guilt over how his country has treated blacks and Indians even worse. This song, at least, allows for a WorldHalfFull:
** "Alabama Pines," narrated by someone whose life has gone wrong in one way after another, and who just wants to go back home.
** "Speed Trap Town": Narrator's father is slowly dying of heart failure. Narrator makes a final farewell and abandons him.
** "White Man's World": Narrator is trapped in poverty, and fears that his daughter may end up the same way, but still feels guilt over how his country has treated blacks and Indians even worse. This song, at least, allows for a WorldHalfFull:
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** "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[AnyoneCanDie either of them will die in the end.]]
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** "Dreamsicle", which details a divorce in a family. In the second chorus, the narrator's father breaks his promise of seeing him play in a basketball game, breaking his heart.
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** "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[EveryoneDies either of them will die in the end.]]
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** "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[EveryoneDies [[AnyoneCanDie either of them will die in the end.]]
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''We're all carrying one great burden, sharing one fate''
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''We're all carrying one great burden, sharing one fate''fate''
** "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[EveryoneDies either of them will die in the end.]]
--->''It's knowing that this can't go on forever''\\
''Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone''\\
''Maybe we'll get forty years together''\\
''But one day I'll be gone''\\
''Or one day you'll be gone''
** "Dreamsicle", which details a divorce in a family. In the second chorus, the narrator's father breaks his promise of seeing him play in a basketball game, breaking his heart.
** "If We Were Vampires" details a married couple realizing that they cannot be forever because [[EveryoneDies either of them will die in the end.]]
--->''It's knowing that this can't go on forever''\\
''Likely one of us will have to spend some days alone''\\
''Maybe we'll get forty years together''\\
''But one day I'll be gone''\\
''Or one day you'll be gone''
** "Dreamsicle", which details a divorce in a family. In the second chorus, the narrator's father breaks his promise of seeing him play in a basketball game, breaking his heart.
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'''Where. To. Begin?'''
** "Dress Blues," which memorializes a soldier killed in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
** "Alabama Pines," narrated by someone whose life has gone wrong in one way after another, and who just wants to go back home.
** "Speed Trap Town": Narrator's father is slowly dying of heart failure. Narrator makes a final farewell and abandons him.
** "White Man's World": Narrator is trapped in poverty, and fears that his daughter may end up the same way, but still feels guilt over how his country has treated blacks and Indians even worse. This song, at least, allows for a WorldHalfFull:
--->''There's no such thing as someone else's war''\\
''Your creature comforts aren't the only things worth fighting for''\\
''Still breathing, it's not too late''\\
''We're all carrying one great burden, sharing one fate''
** "Dress Blues," which memorializes a soldier killed in UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror.
** "Alabama Pines," narrated by someone whose life has gone wrong in one way after another, and who just wants to go back home.
** "Speed Trap Town": Narrator's father is slowly dying of heart failure. Narrator makes a final farewell and abandons him.
** "White Man's World": Narrator is trapped in poverty, and fears that his daughter may end up the same way, but still feels guilt over how his country has treated blacks and Indians even worse. This song, at least, allows for a WorldHalfFull:
--->''There's no such thing as someone else's war''\\
''Your creature comforts aren't the only things worth fighting for''\\
''Still breathing, it's not too late''\\
''We're all carrying one great burden, sharing one fate''
