You roll over and squint and wonder if it’s Tuesday and if today is the day that you can write one single line that would make the stones in a graveyard weep. If you can swing it, and maybe add another good one or two, someday they’ll get interested enough to ask you what it means. You can be nearly as honest as a song and tell them that you don’t know, because you just took dictation from an unseen warden, and hearing it is the only way to unlock the jail it’s in.
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A Man Who Has Nothing In Particular To Recommend Him Discusses All Sorts of Subjects at Random as Though He Knew Everything
Honest as a Song
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Otis Gibbs YouTube channel is full of great Townes Van Zandt stories.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCYX2MTovE0vYjD8touqRH7Q
One of my favorites was about how excited some small town venue was to have him show up, but after a full blast of Townes they couldn’t wait for him to leave.
Great song writer. Tortured soul.