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12-15-2008, 09:15 PM | #1 (permalink) |
gun whales
Join Date: May 2008
Location: Knoxville/Nashville, TN, USA, NA, E, S, LC, MW, Known Universe
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Rodney Crowell
Who else here loves him?
I heard "Earthbound" years ago, and I loved him ever since. However, I only just bought Fates Right Hand the other day, and I've gotta say, I'm really digging it. He's so poetic and soulful in his lyrics. |
12-15-2008, 09:37 PM | #2 (permalink) |
afrocentric
Join Date: Jan 2008
Location: texas
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rodney is a song writter, thats for sure,....
alot of people dont relize the hits he's half of the hits he's written for other people
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12-17-2008, 07:54 AM | #3 (permalink) |
Groupie
Join Date: Dec 2008
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Rodney Crowell is THE man!!
The Houston Kid, Fates Right Hand, The Outsider, Sex and Gasoline are all must have cd's. In Rodney's early career he was the bandleader for Emmy Lou Harris, and following that has a limited solo career in the 80-90's. With the release of The Houston Kid, Rodney said.....**** it!....I'm doing what I want to do, screw success....and that led to ....you guessed it...success!
I've been lucky enought to see him with the full band locally (DC) and he puts on one hell of a show. The following are the lyrics to some of my favorite Rodney lyrics...hope you enjoy: Dancin' Circles Round The Sun (Epictetus Speaks) Disregard what don't concern you, don't let disappointment turn you Avoid adopting other people's views Know what you can and can't control, don't let envy take a toll It's nothing more than weather passing through When your back's against the wall, when you're headed for a fall The tables set to make a run Dancin' Circles Round The Sun Through action wisdom is revealed and too much talk is like a shield In silence lies the keys to how we grow When focused on the truth at hand, the critics try to make you bland But they don't understand what they don't know Make your own cracks in the sky, grit your teeth and learn to fly And when the right thing has been done, you'll be Dancin' Circles Round The Sun Forgive the ones who meant to harm you, don't let superstition charm you Conform your wishes only to what's real Your reputation doesn't matter, let idle gossip chirp and chatter No one else can tell you how you feel In between the masks you wear, wash your face and comb your hair You're not hurting anyone Dancin' Circles Round the Sun Your mind cries out to God alone, please send me someone I can own Your soul says son you're walking on thin ice Possession in the broadest sense, compounded by coincidence When all it takes is one roll of the dice In between the good and bad, think of all the fun you had It's the same for everyone Dancin' Circles Round The Sun Evolution comes in fits, it stops and starts, it coughs and spits Picasso and Mile Davis come to mind True artists, bold unbridled passion, no concern for fad or fashion Sexy beasts in love with woman kind Bend the rules until it breaks, stand your ground until it shakes That's the way to get things done Dancin' Circles Round The Sun Hey, sod convention let's have fun Dancin' Circles Round the Sun Fates Right Hand Cool as a rule you don't learn in no school You can't brown nose the teacher from a dunce hat stool It's the hum and the rhythm of the birds and the bees The momma's and the poppa's and the monkeys in the trees It's the brothers and the sisters living life on the street Play a hunch pull the punch and you'll likely get beat By the junk food tattooed white dude true blued Honky with an attitude coming unglued Fate's Right Hand.....I don't understand at all Redrum dot com dim sum smart bombs Double cappuccino and a heart like a tom tom Ozone long gone that's it I quit Natural inclination says enough of this brat pack black jack heart attack crack We need another news channel like a hole in the back There's a 187 on the 405 And we all go to heaven on a hard disk drive Fate's right hand.....I don't understand at all Billy loves women like a junky loves dope Give him just enough rope and the monkey gon choke She's a Bill Blass combo maxed out mombo D.K.N.Y. caught him in a lie Ken Starr word man were talking absurd Spending forty million dollars just to give a man the bird He's a king she's a queen so the rap won't stick Get it on with a rubber and you won't get sick Fate's right hand.....I don't under stand at all Fate's right hand.....I don't under stand at all Time To Go Inward It's Time To Go Inward take a look at myself Time to make the most of the time that I've got left Prison bars imagined are no less solid steel Time to go inward would you believe that I'm afraid To stare down the barrel of the choices I have made The ghost of bad decisions make mountains out of everything I feel Outside my window the wind weaves a path through the trees The moon takes a shine to the shadows that fall on the leaves It's time to go inward Hmmm I don't know if I can do it after all that I've become I've been a fool for money but it's vanity that always leaves me flat It's time to go inward man I hope I have the nerve To take an inventory of the causes that I serve They say a man without a conscience is like a man without a country or something like that It's time to go inward time to be still If I don't do it now I don't believe I ever will My mind is like a chatterbox whose noise pollutes the pathways to my soul Time to go inward time to get a grip Time to put an end to one long bad acid trip I'm all out of excuses for the way I've let my choices take a toll Jesus and Buddah and Krishna and Minnie Pearl knew Do unto other the things you want done unto you Time to go inward take a look at me Try to make some sense of life's illusions that I see Try to solve the riddle of what it is I have to offer to this world Ridin’ Out The Storm The New York City winter comes in cold grey sheets of steel The numbness in his hands and feet is all that he can feel Alcohol and sterno turns a doorway to a bed And the ghost of who he might have been lives on inside his head In a canyon made of brownstone on a sidewalk icy black He wanders nearly barefoot with his righteousness in tact A man of many mansions in a cardboard box replete He lies sleeping with an angel while his heart pretends to beat The wind blows down on Lonely Street like an ice pick through the air Midst the Sunday times and coffee grinds and wino's in Times Square Five flights up on Easy Street you know she's safe and warm Way down low neath a foot of snow he's riding out the storm I offered him my winter coat politely he refused Like an educated man he spoke with words I seldom use He said I don't need pity for these choices are my own He bowed his head just slightly and quietly moved along Its not like he's a victim of the homeless life he stalks Nor helpless to get back across the fine line that he walks Riding out the storm means yesterday's already spent Tomorrow don't mean nothing it won't even make a dent Ridin' Out The Storm (Rodney Crowell) Earthbound I could shed my skin and in the blink of an eye I could fly fly fly Tie my dreams up in a sack and lay my head down on the track and die die die My life's been so sweet I just can't stand it I must admit I've made out like a bandit Last night's conversation with a real good friend of mine drinkin wine wine wine Said fifty years of livin and your worst mistakes forgiven it just takes time time time One man's lust for life brings world renown And the next guy can't get two feet off the ground...... he's Earthbound (Earthbound)....hear the wind through the tops of the trees (Earthbound)....summer sun nearly ninety degrees (Earthbound)....big ol' moon sinking down...... think I might stick around I'm EARTHBOUND I knew love once way back when she had almond eyes and olive skin And long black hair She was Irish Spanish mix breed I was southeast Texas hayseed We were almost there Her daddy did not like my kind around My true love took the next train out of town......earthbound (Earthbound)....where there's fathers and daughters in pain (Earthbound)....mama's boy walking home in the rain (Earthbound)....like a ship run aground I think I might stick around I'm EARTHBOUND With each new day that passes I'm in need of thicker glasses but it's all O K Someday I'll be leaving but I just can't help believing that it's not today Every golden moment I have found I've done my best to run right in the ground.....earthbound (Earthbound)....see the sky big and beautiful blue (Earthbound)....fallen angels come callin' for you (Earthbound....keepin' close to the ground think I might stick around EEarthbound)....Tom Waits, Aretha Franklin, Mary Karr (Earthbound)....Walter Cronkite, Seamus Heaney, Ringo Starr (Earthbound)….Dalai Lama, Charlie Brown make me wanna stick around I'm EARTHBOUND |
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