Townes Van Zandt - To Live Is To Fly (live)

Townes Van Zandt - To Live Is To Fly

Won't say I love you babe
Won't say I need you babe
But, I'm gonna get you babe
And I will not do you wrong
Livin's mostly wastin' time
I waste my share of mine
But it never feels too good
So let's don't take too long
You're soft as glass
And I'm a gentle man
We got the sky to talk about
And the world to lie upon.

Days up and down they come
Like rain on a conga drum
Forget most, remember some
But don't turn none away
Everything is not enough
Nothin' is too much to bear
Where you been is good and gone
All you keep is the gettin' there
To live is to fly
Low and high
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the sleep out of your eyes

It's goodbye to all my friends
It's time to go again
Think on all the poetry
And the pickin' down the line
I'll miss the system here
The bottom's low and the treble's clear
But it don't pay to think too much
On things you leave behind
I may be gone
But it won't be long
I will be a-bringin' back the melody
And the rhythm that I find

We all got holes to fill
Them holes are all that's real
Some fall on you like a storm
Sometimes you dig your own
But choice is yours to make
And time is yours to take
Some dive into the sea
Some toil upon the stone
To live is to fly
Low and high,
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the sleep out of your eyes
So shake the dust off of your wings
And the tears out of your eyes

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• Townes
• Van
• Zandt
• To
• Live
• Is
• Fly

[verbaud]

In the bar, you can be Iron Maiden, or Elvis, or Mick Jagger, whatever..., but when you stumble home alone, and grab your guitar, and write a song at 3am at the kitchen table, you're always going to be somewhere between Mickey Newbury and Townes van Zandt or Lyle Lovett and John Prine, because it's only you and your heart sitting there and nobody else to brag to, and then your dreams take flight.

[Pickininvt]

"Where you been is good and gone, all you keep is the getting there"....that my friends is prolific songwriting.

[snakey973]

Wow...powerful songwriting--

[Wampusdude]

The penultimate verse is quoted in the 1/1/12 Houston Chronicle section G...a story about the Big Tree, the big Live Oak on Lamar Peninsula. it's worth looking up for the sideways perspective from Townses soul. "chron dot com" Story name is "Firmly Rooted"

[Wampusdude]

The penultimate verse is quoted in the 1/1/1q

[tubeyas57]

Please, don't be hatin'

[matoler]

This is an amazing song! But I wish that YouTube had a way to indicate which videos were simply sound over an unchanging image or, for that matter, sound over random slides, vs. performance or actual official music videos or narrative music videos.

[Ferretsong]

1 Person has Dust in his Soul

[DurbanpoisonXskunk]

@verbaud Very very Profound, no pun intended... love This Artist

[Pickininvt]

@armiller4215 pro·lif·ic/prəˈlifik/

Adjective: 1. (of a plant, animal, or person) Producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring. 2. (of an artist, author, or composer) Producing many works.

[armiller4215]

@Pickininvt prolific means many. I think you are confused.

[guitarhead2k2]

pro·lif·ic/prəˈlifik/

Adjective:

(of a plant, animal, or person) Producing much fruit or foliage or many offspring.

(of an artist, author, or composer) Producing many works