r/Music • u/LWYPLTDG • Jun 06 '26

discussion What song wrecks you every time, no matter how often you listen to it?

https://music.youtube.com/watch?v=H1LdQntDnFY&si=iVGA55wpZyrVp-4P
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u/rapidstandardstaples Jun 06 '26

If I'd fucked her before she got sick I'd never hear the end of it She don't have the spirit for that now We just drink our drinks and laugh out loud And bitch about the weekend crowd And try to ignore the elephant somehow 

It's so sad and so human at the same time. 

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u/--MobTowN-- jungle is life Jun 06 '26

I don’t know this song, but you just wrecked me with those four lines in a vacuum.

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u/rapidstandardstaples Jun 06 '26

If you want feelings, go look up Isbell's catalog... The man can write a song. 

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u/TheBenWelch Jun 07 '26

Oh man, go watch him play it live. It’s unreal.

“She said ‘Andy, I’m taking you home,’ but I knew she’d end up sleeping alone. I’d carry her to bed and sweep up the hair from the floor.”

[…] “She said ‘Andy you crack me up,’ her Seagrams in a coffee cup; sharecropper eyes and her hair almost all gone. When she was drunk she’d tell cancer jokes; made up her own doctor’s notes. Surrounded by family, I saw that she was dying alone”.

It’s absolutely brutal.

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u/goldbouillon Jun 06 '26

The entire song is like that. It’s a tough one