| Jason Isbell – Speed Trap Town Lyrics | 2 years ago |
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Been obsessed with this story for some time now. The story hangs together best when you see the narrator as a girl, maybe a senior in high school. Mom is gone, so she does her own shopping and the folks at the grocery feel sorry for her. She’s just turned 18, still a kid, still feeling responsible for her dad. Her boyfriend is on the football team. That’s why she goes and gets drunk in the stands. Maybe he’s the quarterback, or the captain. Either way, he’s getting his ass kicked by those 5A bastards. This is it for him—the boys last dream, as good as it gets. It’s late fall and he’ll graduate in May and it s time to get a job and be a man. But he’s so wrapped up in his thing, he’s not there to ask if she’s alright. No one is. She realizes she’s 18 now and she can leave. She can’t do anything more for her bastard of a dad. She’s free. He has no more hold on her, she has no more duty to him. There’s nothing here that can’t be left behind… |
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| Hayes Carll – Long Way Home Lyrics | 4 years ago |
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I'm not sure about all it means ... but I like meloncholyjen's comment that the first verse is in the 3rd person ... which comes out even more in the Kelly Willis/Bruce Robison version from 2013. In either version, this song is achingly beautiful. |
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