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| Drive-By Truckers – Goddamn Lonely Love Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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To me, it's about missing what was. He reminisces about home ("I could take a greyhound home") and old flames ("belly up and arch your back"), but realizes that they can't be the same again ("but when I got there it'd be gone" & "but that wouldn't be the same"). The only way to cope with the fact that what you hold dear is just a memory is to drink it away -- "so I'll take two of what you're having." |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Loaded Gun in the Closet Lyrics
| 15 years ago
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I must have missed the suicide/murder hints -- I didn't get that at all. To me, it's just a simple song about people with very simple lives. Seems songs aren't written about 'boring' people like this.
The gun is almost romantic -- she knows he keeps it for some reason, but it's also there for her -- just in case whatever "it was that made him so afraid" would make her use it, even though "she didn’t get out much, so she never knew just what it was." |
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