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{Nashville Radio} Drink and pills and Nashville radio Life will never be the same Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico Ridin' on my funeral train In every town there's the same tribulation In every state I wake up in The night before is a dim recollection Of powders and bottles and sin There's a bald little stranger heading out the door Just about half my age Blood on the walls glass on the floor I don't think I even made it on stage Doctor doctor, sign my prescription I'm in trouble again Ever since I was a tiny little baby Just couldn't get rid of the pain Drink and pills and Nashville radio Life will never be the same Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico Ridin' on my funeral train I shake my hips but I walk like a cripple My body is getting too thin Can count every one of my bones in the mirror Pokin' through my cold white skin There's a shiny star on the dressing room door But I'll be out in the back of my car Cause I don't know a soul I can trust with the money To tune up my guitar Drink and pills and Nashville radio Life will never be the same Chills and spills from Maine to Mexico Ridin' on my funeral train Doctor doctor, sign my prescription I'm in trouble again Ever since I was a tiny little baby I just couldn't get rid of the pain I can't sleep without the engine humming And the wheels rolling night and day I can't sleep without the Nashville radio Slipping through the chemical haze Playing some song that I should remember With the DJ calling my name Play my song on the Nashville radio My life will never be the same Ever since I was a tiny little baby I couldn't get to sleep at night I'd be listening to the Nashville radio Hours before day light They threw me off the Grand Ole Opry Cause I couldn't behave Didn't know how many friends I had Till I was lying in a cold dark grave I gave my life to country music I took my pills and lost Now they don't play my songs on the radio Feels like I never was It's like I never was Fat sweaty cop in an Alabama lockup Looked at me and laughed Heard my records on the Nashville radio Asked me for my autograph Well doctor doctor, sign my prescription I'm in trouble again Ever since I was a tiny little baby I just couldn't get rid of the pain {The Death of Country Music} My body is a temple Safer than a prison I've done some demolition And in a world gone wrong The death of country music Rattles round the planet We light the flame and fan it Deep into the night Where the city casts its shadow We leave the straight and narrow Tomorrow and forever Will seem so far away Where the dance floor's overcrowded The music's getting louder The people do some breathing While they're cheating death Tonight the west is sleeping The desert will be creeping Inch by inch Across the continent And the bones of country music Lie there in their casket Beneath the towers of Nashville In a deep black pool of neglect So we cast our nets in the water Drag the pool and caught 'em We grind them up and snort 'em Deep into the night And we spill some blood on the ashes Of the bones of the Jones and the Cashes Skulls in false eyelashes Ghostriders in the sky And the Hank bone's connected to the Buckbone The George bone's connected to the Hank bone The Willie bone's connected to the Billy Bones We're picking the flesh off the bones The death of country music The death of country music The death of country music Picking the flesh off the bones The death of country music The death of country music The death of country music Picking the flesh off the bones