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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
2 years ago 16
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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.
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@FreshWaterOtters He lived and died exactly as he wanted. What's the problem with that?
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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.
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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"
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@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?"
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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.
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Said with a lump in my throat; Amen!
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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.
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magic!
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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!
Tubee2TOO 5 months ago 2
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.
starlight1946 1 year ago 2
@starlight1946 Doesn't say wish I was stronger! The ending says "TOO LATE to wish I'd been stronger"
Tubee2TOO 1 year ago 2
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.
FreshWaterOtters 1 year ago 3
@FreshWaterOtters Mental help? Maybe another shock treatment? Man in need? Aren't we all? He' just telling it like it is!
Tubee2TOO 1 year ago 3
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.
Otispuss2 3 years ago 3
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!
Tubee2TOO 3 years ago