They’re powerful, those songs. At times they’ve been my only way back, the only door out of the dark, bad places the black dog calls home.
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don’t ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
My daddy left home when I was three and he didn’t leave much to Ma and me, just this old guitar and an empty bottle of booze.
My father was a man of love. He always loved me to death. He worked hard in the fields, but my father never hit me. Never. I don’t ever remember a really cross, unkind word from my father.
I wear my crown of thorns on my liars chair, full of broken thoughts I cannot repair, beneath the stain of time the feelings disappears. What have I become, my sweetest of friends?
I expect my life to end pretty soon. You know, I’m 71 years old. I have great faith, though. I have unshakable faith.
I don’t give up because I don’t give up. I don’t believe in it.
I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there’s a lot to be said for that.
I’m thankful for the sea breeze that feels so good right now, and the scent of jasmine when the sun starts going down.
Death and hell are never full, and neither are men’s eyes.
Deep in the heart of the infinite darkness, a tiny blue marble is spinning through space. Born in the splendor of God’s holy vision, and sliding away like a tear down his face.
Love is a burning thing and it makes a firey ring.
When I was arrested I was dressed in black.
It’s good to believe in yourself, but there are people out there who can make or break you.
Of travel I’ve had my share, man, I’ve been everywhere.
The more I learn, the more excited I get.
We’re all in this together if we’re in it at all.
I came to believe in a power much higher than I.
My mother told me to keep on singing, and that kept me working through the cotton fields. She said God has his hand on you. You’ll be singing for the world someday.
Beneath the stains of time the feeling disappears, you are someone else I am still right here.