Jacksonville Skyline Lyrics
'BOARDED ON THE dirt roads, and I scraped my knees
Well they paved the roads eventually
With neon signs and car dealerships and diners
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, I moved away soon as I turned sixteen
Figured I was old enough to go and work a job
Well I floated down main street, pools of car lights
WOE BECAME me, wishing I was still back home
The soldiers fill the hotels on the weekends
I saw the pretty women as I walked through town
Well, Jacksonville's a city with a hopeless streetlight
Seems like you're lucky if it ever change from red to green
I was born in an abundance of inherited sadness
And .50 cent picture frames bought at a five and dime
I ended up a soldier on the weekend
Looking for a vacancy I was unable to find
Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket
Shoot it with my cap gun just to make it
Seem like stars
Ryan has said that this song is mostly autobiographical. Completely understandable.
Still a great song about home, youth, growing up and how much of a struggle all of it can be! One of my favies!
you feel immediately that this is his most personal song, and what a song it is.
I know it's easy to say "such and such might be the best such and such of all time" but seriously....this song must have one of the top 5 ending lines of all time. "Somewhere the night sky hangs like a blanket, shoot it with my cap gun just to make it seem like stars"
It paints such a meaningful vision, and it almost seems out of place in the song. It's 100% perfect.
Yes! I absolutely agree with you about the last two lines--they are a beautiful, perfect surprise, I feel incredibly happy every time I hear them. It is one of my most favorite Ryan Adams songs.
Yes! I absolutely agree with you about the last two lines--they are a beautiful, perfect surprise, I feel incredibly happy every time I hear them. It is one of my most favorite Ryan Adams songs.
Oh well ... I must say, I'm from Germany, 33 years of age, and, wow, how wonderful Ryan Adams fits my personal life ... for every situation he has the perfect matching song ... this one is really one of his alltime greatest, saddest, deepest and loneliest tunes ever ...
Hope to be in Nashville sometime ... never was there, but long to be ...
Nice greets!
My favorite Whiskeytown song, such an excellent song.
ME TOO.
jacksonville, nc is where Adams is from, he hated it as a kid growing up and couldnt wait to leave, its an army town (hence the references of that)...this song is painful to listen to sometimes but Ryan can really paint a picture with his words, pure brillance