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What song or song words describes how you are feeling now...?

As unconventional as it may seem, especially to my age demographic, I'm quite smitten with Classic Country/ Country Western. Through most of its history, it has expressed a prevalent sympathy for collapse of relationship, self loathing, despair, loneliness, hopelessness, and social disenfranchisement. This isn't a fair general summary of the entirety of the scope its sentiments, as all music as an expressive medium possesses this capacity. But in my subject experience, it has shown itself to be some of the saddest music of the last century; colloquial and lyrically frank, it is a common mans anthem.

These are a few songs and lyrical excerpts that have brought me comfort over the years:

Make the World Go Away / Eddy Arnold

Do you remember when you loved me
Before the world took me astray?
If you do, then forgive me
And make the world go away

Make the world go away
And get it off my shoulders
Say the things you used to say
And make the world go away

Mr. Jukebox / Ernest Tubb

So here Mr Jukebox please take my last dime
Tell me the story of my life one more time
Bring back the memories of the past that was wrong
Here's my last drink to you then goodnight and so long

Hard Headed Me / Roger Miller

Well, she gave me fair warnin', many times my wife said
She said, if you aim to keep me, quit your fool hearty ways
I said, now listen woman, you better leave me alone
How long is forever that's how long she'll be gone

Hard, hard headed me
I spoke out of turn once too often
I'd be better off in my coffin
Hard headed me

It Ain't No Big Thing / Tex Williams

Every day the hurt grows bigger than before
But I'll pretend I don't know this
But If I can hold you one day more
You've got the look of someone who's goin'
You're gonna leave me and it's showin'
A little tear I can feel start to flow
It ain't no big thing but it's growin'

I'm So Lonesome I could Cry / Hank Williams

I've never seen a night so long
When time goes crawling by
The moon just went behind the clouds
To hide its face and cry

Did you ever see a robin weep
When leaves begin to die?
Like me, he's lost the will to live
I'm so lonesome I could cry
 

Bloop

River Lea by Adele
Staff Alumni
SF Supporter
Gold
Always believe in your soul
You've got the power to know
You're indestructible
Always believe in, because you are
Gold
Glad that you're bound to return
There's something I could have learned
You're indestructible, always believing
 

Bloop

River Lea by Adele
Staff Alumni
SF Supporter
"Jolene" - Dolly Parton

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can

Your beauty is beyond compare
With flaming locks of auburn hair
With ivory skin and eyes of emerald green

Your smile is like a breath of spring
Your voice is soft like summer rain
And I cannot compete with you, Jolene

He talks about you in his sleep
There's nothing I can do to keep
From crying when he calls your name, Jolene

And I can easily understand
How you could easily take my man
But you don't know what he means to me, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him just because you can

You could have your choice of men
But I could never love again
He's the only one for me, Jolene

I had to have this talk with you
My happiness depends on you
And whatever you decide to do, Jolene

Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
I'm begging of you please don't take my man
Jolene, Jolene, Jolene, Jolene
Please don't take him even though you can

Jolene, Jolene
 

MisterBGone

~\_✅`,')
SF Supporter
In a west end town a dead end world. The east end boys and west end girls. In a west end town a dead end world. The east end boys and west end girls. <WEST-END-GIRLS>
 

Bloop

River Lea by Adele
Staff Alumni
SF Supporter
When you try your best, but you don't succeed
When you get what you want, but not what you need
When you feel so tired, but you can't sleep
Stuck in reverse
 

Bloop

River Lea by Adele
Staff Alumni
SF Supporter
I'm Gonna Make A Change,
For Once In My Life
It's Gonna Feel Real Good,
Gonna Make A Difference
Gonna Make It Right . . .

I'm Starting With The Man In
The Mirror
I'm Asking Him To Change
His Ways
And No Message Could Have
Been Any Clearer
If You Wanna Make The World
A Better Place
(If You Wanna Make The
World A Better Place)
Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change
(Take A Look At Yourself, And
Then Make A Change)
(Na Na Na, Na Na Na, Na Na,
Na Nah)
 
Here I go standing on the edge
Holding on to the bitter end
This is it this is me with the weight of the whole world on my shoulders again
As I look up to the sky
All the pain that is in my eyes
It's all the things that you don't see
But you best believe that it's haunting me

"The Bitter End" - Falling In Reverse
 

Bloop

River Lea by Adele
Staff Alumni
SF Supporter
I'm back where I belong,
Yeah I never felt so strong
I feel like there's nothing that I can't try
And if you with me put your hands high
 

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