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Music Performance | Rodney Crowell | TEDxNashville


okay illuminate on my contribution then
I would say that self-awareness of
songwriting going hand-in-hand I learned
some time ago that I’m not naturally
monogamous however the right woman came
into my life and I really realizing that
I’m not naturally monogamous I realized
monogamy is a gift I’m going to give
myself from now because I wouldn’t do
anything to jeopardize the partner that
I’ve made for life but the subconscious
has ways of working and one night as I
lay sleeping I had this dream
and and in this dream two women were
kissing me on both sides of the cheek
and my beloved was watching from far
away I woke up and I said oh my god
feeling guilty from a dream and I just
couldn’t shake it I couldn’t go back to
sleep and I realize ah you know I gotta
go and write about this so I had to turn
my guilt into a positive experience
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last night Ali dream I was drinking in a
hotel bar two women came up and kissed
me and you are watching for distant star
I know it doesn’t make much sense but
what can I tell you judging by the
evidence I’m feeling reckless
I don’t know why would go there all to
make a fuss over what I’ve got a woman
like you and what do I do pretend I
might be something I’m not
I know you know it’s not your fault it’s
just something inside me
what did I were worth my salt but I’m
feeling rich
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you give me more than I deserve
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you could say I’ve got so no so slay me
with your tender mercy
company with words of Steel you can
catch me in a lie and I cast a roving
eye but you’ll never know the way I feel
I know you know you’re smarter than me
tell me something I don’t know there’s
so much more that I
but I’m feeling reckless
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I’m feeling reckless
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so I have a new album that’s coming out
the 31st of this month it’s called close
ties and in the process of writing the
songs and figuring out the concept I
happened to stumble across an album
cover of mine from 1988 and there I was
with silver toe tips on my boots had a
wife beater on and a bolo tie hanging
around my neck and a mullet haircut I
mean walking down a row pretending to
walk down a road dressed like that and I
said oh my god
poser so I thought oh man I got to do
something for that guy you know they say
poke fun at yourself and not others so I
thought I would land poon my 1988
version of myself
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poor kid I used to pull my britches on
with just one thing in mind make the
girls believe that I’m the last one of
my kind silver toe tips on my boots and
a mallet head a hat designed to walk
into the room and make somebody stare
but I don’t care anymore if I don’t
stand out in a crowd
I was better off before
I tried to make my mother proud I came
to town a dreaming I could make my mark
in space for they argue later on my best
cards have been played well it’s a hard
luck situation when the accolades
bestowed on your every last creation
cause a middle-of-the-road but I don’t
care anymore
about the fortune all of the thing
I was better off before
I try to make myself a name all that
money that I blew through that some
bootblack off the farm
good night i vanish quicker if i to shot
it in my arm some so-and-so says don’t
you know the limit is the sky well then
the next thing I remember I’m
learning how to fly and I don’t care
anymore
I don’t care anymore
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while those party dolls and favors that
I save it from day one add up to next to
nothing after all is said and done a
real friend tried to tell me man with
all respect for you the time to put away
these things as long since overdue if
indeed I do get a lonesome in my mansion
lonely there’s his neighbor’s wife I
covered for her beauty and her scale the
way she puts herself together sleeking
vagabond Couture mixing to mailbox
conversation when laurent82 in do but I
don’t
you
I don’t care anymore
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I’ve been lied on spy don’t cry don’t
try it on taking farad you bet for act
cracked smacked Jack or what you see is
what you get
I been spit out hit it I quit at it
shouldn’t hurt a bit him what I’m trying
to get at fool me once shame on me fool
me twice and put the blame on I don’t
care anymore
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no I don’t
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thank you have a good afternoon
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