Take No Prisoners - Intro

Lyrics

[Spoken] I like closing with the next song because It says a lot of how I feel being a writer And um, as cliched as this is, I've wanted to do what I'm doing tonight Since I was two and a half years old So it's really amazing to me that I still get to do it and, uh, be up here and People actually come who aren't even my relative or anything It's an amazing thing to be a songwriter You know, y-you, you pray to write songs Like "Seventeen" or "Stars" or "Jesse" that, that touch people's heart And you hope to make something of a change in people's lives And also earn a living while you're doing it, and I've been really lucky I think it's just the best, just the best job in the world 'Cause you know, artists, when we're doing our job We get to take people's dreams and make something visible out of them And then when people forget that they have dreams And everything look really dark and horrible We get to remind you that they exist And that's a serious privilege for us, ya know I feel like I stand on a lotta people's bones every time I get up on stage Bones of people like Billie Holiday Who do that for me, and continue to do it for me And um, you know it is a terrible cliché, but it really is a real privilege To be able to do it night after night, so thank you for that And um, I do, I do