| Drive-By Truckers – 72 (This Highway's Mean) Lyrics | 10 years ago |
| Highway 72. It goes through North Alabama from Tennessee to Mississippi. There are tons of little towns along the way, but that is about it. Everybody in those little towns (ones that feel like God has forgotten) dreams of getting out of those towns when they are kids, but most never do for one reason or another. Its not just the highway that keeps him there. Its also about a southern mother---the matriarch--who rules the roost in the family. Out of some sense of respect the children allow them to run their lives and the more they try to break away, the more she holds on. The harder you try to have your own life, the more miserable she makes it. I know of at least two of these mothers. Both live in Alabama. Until I experienced it, I really didn't get it, but if one of the children in those families ever moved away from town, they would be considered the "black sheep". Because in those people's lives there is nothing in the whole world that is more important than family. Not even your dreams or happiness. Family comes first. | |
| Drive-By Truckers – Gravity's Gone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[Tedvi:3789] One of the most significant things about the Drive By Truckers is that their songs represent what it means to be a southerner. The songs inform people about the many misconceptions about southerner people from the south. That's the whole point of the Southern Rock Opera: "We're not all the stupid, RACIST, rednecks that you think we are." (Not that there is anything wrong with being a redneck, as Patterson Hood said in the documentary about the Drive By Truckers). |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Gravity's Gone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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@[hoosierbeth:3787] "Sunny side"--like "keep on the sunny side of life". Its a song that any self-respecting southerner knows. There's a dark and a troubled side of life; There's a bright and a sunny side, too; Tho' we meet with the darkness and strife, The sunny side we also may view. [chorus] Keep on the sunny side, always on the sunny side, Keep on the sunny side of life; It will help us every day, it will brighten all the way, If we keep on the sunny side of life. Tho' the storm in its fury break today, Crushing hopes that we cherished so dear, Storm and cloud will in time pass away, The sun again will shine bright and clear. Let us greet with a song of hope each day, Tho' the moments be cloudy or fair; Let us trust in our Savior always, Who keepeth everyone in His care. |
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| Drive-By Truckers – Gravity's Gone Lyrics | 10 years ago |
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"I went stumbling through the fog trying to find a reason for the things I told her She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip her over" I went for a walk to try to figure out why I said what I said to her..... "She woke up sunny side down and I was still thinking I was too proud to flip her over" She was still mad when she woke up and I was too proud to apologize. "I've been falling so long it feels like gravity's gone and I'm just floatin'" Things are bad in my life. At first, I felt like I was in a downward spiral, but its been that way for so long that it feels normal now. |
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