Tom T. Hall

"That song that you've been singing, it's not what you think, I know you've seen some sunny days. You love your music but you love your life and there's nothing silent like a grave" - "Joe Don't Let Your Music Kill You", by Tom T. Hall. See complete lyrics below.

Vocals: Tom T. Hall

Words & Music: Tom T. Hall

Original Album: For The People In The Last Hard Town (Mercury Records-1973)

**Universal Music Group Owns The Copyrights To The Music Used In This Video

Lyrics:

Joe don't let your music kill you

It's a thing that supposed to fill you

It's a thing that supposed to make you happy

Taking pills and drinking whiskey, pickin' can be mighty risky

Joe don't let your music kill you, nobody cares

That song that you've been singing, it's not what you think

I know you've seen some sunny days

You love your music but you love your life

And there's nothing silent like a grave

Joe don't let your music kill you

It's a thing that supposed to fill you

It's a thing that supposed to make you happy

Taking pills and drinking whiskey, picking' can be mighty risky

Joe don't let your music kill you, nobody cares

Hunger can be killed with a can of beans

Don't let 'em tell you that I'm wrong

You got a good woman and she's got her dreams

Don't hang your life up for a song

Joe don't let your music kill you

It's a thing that supposed to fill you

It's a thing that supposed to make you happy

Taking pills and drinking whiskey, pickin' can be mighty risky

Joe don't let your music kill you, nobody cares

Joe don't let your music kill you

It's a thing that supposed to fill you

It's a thing that supposed to make you happy

Taking pills and drinking whiskey, pickin' can be mighty risky

Joe don't let your music kill you, nobody cares

This Tom T. Hall is nothing short of brilliant, from stem to stern: He can have a beautiful voice along with terrific singing. But, oh is his songwriting just utter perfection. The terseness, the painful subtlety, the tenderness and insight. I wish I could tell him how deeply his music speaks to my soul: I Wash My Hands In The Morning Dew, Whose Gonna Feed Them Hogs, Clayton Delaney, Pamela Brown, That's How I got To Memphis, Beauty is a Fading Flower, and on and no and on nearly forever.Amongst He, Merle Haggard, Johnny Paycheck, Keith Whitley and but a few others...absolute gems a a whole universe of goodness and extraordinary.

11 years назад