"Just 'cause I don't run my mouth don't mean I got nothing to say"
Mike Cooley of the Drive-by Truckers
These past few days I've been thoroughly digging into some of the Drive-by Truckers deeper songs and trying to get inside the minds of the South's greatest storytellers. The song "Marry Me" includes some great insight on the expected life of a southern-gentleman. The line in the title really hit me in that I've felt the need to express something (I'm not sure what), but I haven't felt the need to dump my opinions on others more-so than they want. I have been dropping hints to certain people about things that I want to tell them but am too afraid to, and I worry that they may not be understanding the full meaning of what I am trying to tell them. But in the lines of Mike Cooley, I ain't gonna' run my mouth.
What a neat idea for a blog. So often I'll hear a line from a song and think I should write it down, but I don't. I can't wait to see how you relate lyrics to your life--or your life to lyrics. Either way, it's going to be fun!
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