Townes Van Zandt - A Song For -

[Tubee2TOO]

This was from his "No Deeper Blue" album.

You just made a great discovery! A little late like a lot of us, but better late than never!

[TheAMTRAK]

This is a very moving song . Could you please tell me what CD it is extracted from. I've just duscovered townes van Zandt today and I love both the singer and his music.please answer.

[THEPIEMANANDBAGELBOY]

i dig this song especially "now as I stumble and reel to my bed/All I've done, all I've said/means nothing to me/ i'd soon as be dead/ all this world be forgotten." Sends shivers down my spine everytime i head it. "that ain't a song, It's a suicide note"

[ralokan]

I made my living as a "writer" for 40 years, and, alongside what this man wrote, I feel like a neanderthal. I just wish there was some way to really celebrate in a very public fashion the contributions of people like Townes, Hank and Guy Clark...like a concert in the middle of the fountains where Forrest Gump and his girlfriend reunited. Not much is important in this life, I think. But what Townes said was VERY important.

[WUNDERFRAU2020]

magic!

[GuildGunner]

Townes is such a national treasure.

[ibelle999]

Is it ok to cry now?

[ibelle999]

Is it ok to cry now?

[BigEvinrude]

None of y'all know nothing about what it's really like to drink your pain... to see your own hopelessness in the bottom of a glass. Townes was who he was and thank God his friends let him be who he was supposed to be.

[ThumbBurnerCT]

A touching song that is moving to the soul when you listen to the heartfelt words.

[leahcim3360]

Townes died fro complications from Hip surgery.....don't think 'mental health help' could have prevented that.

Anyway, poets never die.

[leahcim3360]

Townes died fro complications from Hip surgery.....don't think 'mental health help' could have prevented that.

Anyway, poets never die.

[ThumbBurnerCT]

Nice

[ThumbBurnerCT]

Nice

[starlight1946]

He was truly a man who understood pain and being in need. Listening to the words you could connect them with how our Country has become, the ending line of this song says ...I wish I was stronger. Let us hope its not too late for all of us.

[Tubee2TOO]

@starlight1946 Doesn't say wish I was stronger! The ending says "TOO LATE to wish I'd been stronger"

[LtProfty]

@Tubee2TOO so damn true

[FreshWaterOtters]

When this song was released, his friends should have offered him serious emotional and mental help. Could have saved a legend.

Many artists have the ability to write abstractly, but this was written from the deep crevasses of a man in need. Incredible song. I don't think you can write a song like this and live to tell it very long. Beautiful but unfortunate.

[Tubee2TOO]

@FreshWaterOtters Mental help? Maybe another shock treatment? Man in need? Aren't we all? He' just telling it like it is!

[lusepuster]

@FreshWaterOtters So are we blaming the victims now? Maybe the system that erased is long term memory was the one that should have offered him some consolation for their mistakes?

[leahcim3360]

@FreshWaterOtters

Townes died fro complications from Hip surgery.....don't think 'mental health help' could have prevented that.

But I appreciate that you have compassion for my old friend , Townes...

Anyway, poets never die.

[SmoothHudsonLanding]

@leahcim3360 were you truly a friend of Townes? Please tell me he had laughter for at least a moment in his life. every song that I truly love leaves me hurting for him and his ability to write such lyrics. gets inside my head when I go thru TVZ binge to the point I have been asked "you've been listening to townes again haven't you?"

[steele917]

writing, singing, playing was Townes Therapy, though he probably never thought of it that way...he wanted to make a differance regardless of his doctor's "diagnosis". in my veiw he did well, he made a differance.thousands of souls have written saying how his songs helped, healed, even released them from torturous memories. maybe he didn't follow the program, but in my experience, had he done that, thousands would not have heard his voice.

[emmysawvel]

@FreshWaterOtters

Do you think his friends didn't try to help?

[willong1000]

@FreshWaterOtters

Unfortunate? Yes, for his closest loved ones, I suppose. For the other suffering souls on that dark slide to oblivion, a blessing--just to know that others have already blazed the trail. "I'm weak, and I'm weary of sorrow."

"All that I've done, all that I've said; mean nothing to me--I'd soon as be dead. All of this world be forgotten" ...."it just doesn't matter, no longer."

Here lies the essense of peoples' facination with TVZ: he reveals their darkest toughts.

[SONGFORTHESOUTH]

@FreshWaterOtters He lived and died exactly as he wanted. What's the problem with that?

[sambo75420]

The theme song for Depression...How he captured the feeling in words...

[MrKneller]

This is just incredible.

[MrKneller]

@MrKneller

"Sung out my heart for all it was worth".

The way Townes sings that line is heart breaking. The honesty and desperation is almost unbearable.

[RossM3838]

A contemplation of suicide that is heart breaking. This was a recurring theme with Townes. See Kathleen.

[kinks49]

Townes Van Zandt & Gene Clark are my best heroes!!! A big hallo from Rome!

[Reba24u]

Wow he took the words right out of my heart

[fubarcat50]

thank you, townes was one of the best

[countryboyon]

Could you put this up with the video,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,pleeeaaa­sse

[goldsharktooth]

Ribbons of love

Please keep me true sane

Until I reach home on the morrow

Never never to wander again

Im weak and Im weary of sorrow

[maryblackchurch]

A beauty song

[pesahleah]

I had the privilege of seeing Townes Van Zandt perform in Cambridge, Austin, San Fransisco, New Orleans, Oakland... He was one of the finest American songwriters ever. What made him so? His utter sincerity and the depth of his character. Nothing compared to him. When I moved overseas and heard the bad news, couldn't stop crying not for him so much because he was so tortured a human soul, but for all of us whom he left behind bereft of his presence. Townes Van Zandt was a true American troubadour

[pachecoben]

@pesahleah I also had the good fortune to see him in 1969 and again in 1994. I joined him with Robert Earl Keen and Guy Clark after the concert and he remembered the concert in Wyoming in 1969 when he was very late because of a Wyoming blizzard!

[Amethysting]

RIP Townes......you have inspired many and left us some great songs

[hirkyjerky]

pick it, and it wont ever heal

-TVZ

[UrsaMusic]

Does anybody have tabs for the solo sections of this song? I found the chords, but can't seem to find the solo section at the end of the 2nd and 3rd verses... and I'm too lazy and not a good enough guitarist to figure it out by ear :) Thanks!

[rbharley922]

R.I.P. Townes. Peace be with you always bro

[metaltolliver]

Awesome. This guy is amazing.

[Arjanajanath]

Without doubt one of his best lyrics (and as we all know there's A LOT to choose from). Hope all of you know that you can download a nice cover of it by Jonell Mosser legally from his wife's official TvZ page...

[leahcim3360]

very well done.

Thanks.

those of us who appreciate this ART need to keep spreading Townes ( 7 his pal blaze Foley & his son JT...how 'bout the 'Poet' version of 'Proud Mountain'...?

[Otispuss2]

OMG! It just doesn't get more real than this! Beautiful, powerful and sad. Makes me wonder about all the music he still had in him that we'll never know.

[Tubee2TOO]

Fortunately, some of that music inside him will come out through others that hear him still and are deeply moved and inspired/influenced by his music!

[mysteria31]

His ex-wife Jeanene had come over to check on him one morning and found these lyrics written down on a old piece of paper laying on the coffee table beside an empty bottle of whatever he'd been consuming the night before. When he walked out of his bathroom to greet him She held up the paper and said "Townes, this is a beautiful song". To which he replied "Song! That ain't a song, It's a suicide note! He was dead serious.

[KatyONoClone]

amazing story about an amazing artist... thank you for sharing

[wovokanarchy]

@mysteria31 Bullshit.

[willong1000]

@mysteria31

Said with a lump in my throat; Amen!

[aodhvefnvoper]

Townes wrote alot of songs for people he probably wrote this one for himself

[Tubee2TOO]

Maybe, but it`s a kinda one-size fits all type song. At least one-size fits a bunch of us. lol!

Thx for comment & fave!

[NewCultureProduction]

I'm going thru sever DT's and SAD SAD music is the only thing that helps my mind right now so fans of Towns and JT Van Zandt please send me toward more music of thier's or any ones that is like Heart worn Highway and Nothing. Thanks you So So Much for being such beautifule people.

[cstep88]

I love your shit will contact you tomorrow , have a song I wrote that you will like it was written in 1988

[rachaelstewartmusic]

great video Kenny hugz rachael:)

[Tubee2TOO]

THX, Rachael!

[morphinlounge101]

Incredible song, one of my all time Townes favorites, but lyrically it's almost impossible to bear, when knowing Townes died two years after releasing this song. Great montage, nice video. "Too late to wish I'd been stronger". You are missed Townes.

[fariethesun]

I like this very much. Greetings from Germany. Heidi

[Tubee2TOO]

Glad you like it. Thanks for the fave and comments! Best regards, Kenny

[esselig]

What a fine collage!! And such a sorrowful song, it's great, thx,

[Tubee2TOO]

Thanks!

Someone once remarked that all of his songs were sad. To which Townes replied; " They aren`t all sad, some are hopeless" (paraphrase)

[mcob1]

i already got this.

[Tubee2TOO]

So?

[RossM3838]

as one poster wrote Bob Dylan chased the hell hounds. Townes was chased by them. The result is two brilliant but very different songwriters.

[TVZ1]

Thanks for putting this up. I have never heard the album version in full before. I have the live version from the concert with Guy Clark and Steve Earle.

[Tubee2TOO]

THX for visit & comment!

[Tubee2TOO]

"I've met Bob Dylan and his bodyguards, and I don't think Steve [Earle] could get anywhere near his coffee table." - Townes Van Zandt.

[Jonper]

"Townes Van Zandt is the best songwriter in the whole world and I'll stand on Bob Dylan's coffee table in my cowboy boots and say that." — Steve Earle.

I would do the same..