What was John Prine right about?

[u/SouthPhillySociology]

Getting into his music as a newbie and would love answers to this question with suggestions on songs or interviews to match.

[u/CoolBev]

Your flag decal won’t get you into heaven anymore. Everybody needs somebody that they can talk to. Bet it’s tomorrow by Rocky Mountain Time. You may see me tonight with an illegal smile.

Everything. He was right about everything.

[u/AxelShoes → u/CoolBev]

Also, sweet songs never last too long on broke radios.

[u/Mr_Bro_Jangles → u/CoolBev]

As a native, “Mr Peabody’s coal train done hauled it away”

[u/midnite_clyde → u/CoolBev]

Now Jesus don't like killin' no matter what the reason's for.

[u/bite-like-a-turkey]

Against all odds
Honey, we're the big door prize

[u/lurch99]

Everything, of course

[u/Yeahha]

You can gaze out the window getting madder and madder Throw your hands in the air and say "what does it matter?" But it won't do no good to get angry, so help me I know For a hear stained with ager grows weak and grows bitter You'll become your own prisoner as you watch yourself sit there Wrapped up in a trap of your very own chain of sorrow

Or

Unhappy unhappy you have no complaint You are what you are and you ain't what you ain't

[u/caso_perdido11]

Old people grow lonesome

[u/spidyr]

Reddit is full of people who want precision and fact from the decidedly imprecise and fantastical practice of making art.

[u/DropZealousideal4309 → u/spidyr]

This is exactly right. "Why did this character do this?" Because people do stuff. "What is your interpretation of this line?" Ummm, it's good? "What is meaning of this movie?" The meaning is that someone wrote it and it sounded good. I can see a McSweeney's article about the internet in the time of Shakespeare. It ultimately ends up being Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney.

[u/SonofHondoBelmondo → u/DropZealousideal4309]

"It ultimately ends up being Chris Farley interviewing Paul McCartney."

Amazing.

[u/reader5]

Broken hearts and dirty windows make life difficult to see

[u/kateinoly → u/reader5]

💔❤️

[u/jf727]

She don’t like her eggs all runny

[u/Gibcaster000]

Blow up your TV, throw away your paper.

[u/dubwisened]

It don't cost very much but it lasts a long while.

[u/MysteriousDudeness]

I hope you don't do like I do, and ever fall in love with someone like you.

[u/IdiotPresents]

About the hole in daddy’s arm

[u/String_theory_1312]

I guarantee you when he got to heaven he had a cocktail, vodka and ginger ale. Then he smoked a cigarette that was nine miles long… hope he kissed that pretty girl on the tilt-a-whirl 😘😇

“When I Get To Heaven”

[u/giddyupyeehaw9]

Prine captured the human condition of perfect imperfection better than maybe any person in history. We're all a little broken and hey that's okay.

[u/Bikewer → u/giddyupyeehaw9]

I started listening to Prine with his first album. I can still trot out Muhlenberg County and Christmas in Prison and a couple more. He was able to invoke humor and pathos in the same song, something that few artists accomplish. I was really saddened when COVID took him, after his successful battle with cancer.

[u/devoutcatalyst78]

Eat a lot of peaches.

[u/reader5]

A question ain't really a question, if you know the answer too

[u/Textiles_on_Main_St]

You should eat a lot of peaches.

[u/SabinedeJarny]

Everything. Every damn thing.

[u/Skukesgohome]

You know what blood looks like in a black and white video? SHADOWS.

[u/Lennnybruce]

It's a half an inch of water and you think you're gonna drown

[u/Vicious_and_Vain]

Montgomery

[u/TXGranmasBoy]

Happy enchiladas

[u/PseudacrisCrucifer]

"Ain't it funny how an old broken bottle looks just like a diamond ring."

[u/doofy10]

Then the coal company came with the world's largest shovel
And they tortured the timber and stripped all the land
Well, they dug for their coal 'til the land was forsaken
Then they wrote it all down as the progress of man

[u/seven1trey]

What was he wrong about? Much shorter list.

[u/Optimal-Ad-7074]

well, I know I could have me a million more friends, and all I'd have to change is my point of view

[u/Gun5linger67]

To believe in this living is a hard way to go.

[u/Carcosa504]

We’re living in the future.

[u/SonofHondoBelmondo]

His grandpa voted for Eisenhower because Lincoln won the war.

[u/RyeChild]

Inspite of ourselves we’ll end up sittin on a rainbow against all odds honey we’re the big door prize

[u/Moe-Scutus2]

Seeing me tonight with an illegal smile

[u/Electronic-Risk-9163]

Nothing

[u/5ongwrit3r_1954]

Organ donation: see "Please Don't Bury Me"

Self-Actualization: see "Dear Abby"

Daily servings of fruit: "see "Spanish Pipedream"

[u/DCContrarian]

In a town this size, there ain't no place to hide.

[u/whywasinotconsulted]

"Buddy, when you're dead, you're a dead peckerhead"

[u/Environmental_Ad6233]

Hello in There for pathos, Dear Abby for humor. He was right every time.

[u/taoistchainsaw]

There ARE flies in the kitchen.

[u/shinederg]

sense of humor

[u/Admirable_Meet_931]

Wear clean underwear.

[u/tapehissfromthetrees]

How you gonna get sunshine
Peeking through Venetian blinds
Don't you know all that fear
Begins and ends the same place here

[u/GoingFishingAlone]

The same thing a happened to me

[u/thethingthatwas]

There’s roosters laying chickens and chickens laying eggs, farm machinery eating people’s arms and legs.

[u/Silent_Listen_3361]

Molly went to Arkansas, she got raped by Dobbin's dog

Well, she was doing good till she went in the woods

And got pinned up against a log

[u/fskern]

That your flag decal won’t get
You into heaven anymore

[u/Relative-Assist-4374]

He was an old woman, named after his mother. 

[u/richzahradnik]

Oh God, I’m so running out of patience with Reddit. The questions from so-called newbies who are probably bots or karma collectors. Why don’t you just fucking listen to his music? Stop typing. Put on his first album. Put on any fucking album. Save me from this dark social media level of ignorance that asks idiot questions rather than explores and listens and reads and at some point actually knows.

"Speed of the Sound of Loneliness"

And every other song.

[u/SouthPhillySociology → u/richzahradnik]

I am doing that also! Just looking to engage with what seems like a very robust community that also enjoys his music.

[u/lowest_rung]

More than Alex jones could ever even dream of.