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You Get It All

by Hayes Carll

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    With folkie conscience, country simplicity, and a vagabond’s desire for mischief, Hayes Carll has spent over 20 years including anybody who will listen in an easy conversation about what it is we’re all doing here.

    “I like to tug at heartstrings, find commonality with others, reflect on my own life, and sometimes I do it in a lighthearted way,” says Carll while discussing his 8th album You Get It All. “A lot of musical styles found their way onto this record, but my first and most formative influences came from country music. This is a country singer-songwriter record. It’s just unapologetically me.”

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    With folkie conscience, country simplicity, and a vagabond’s desire for mischief, Hayes Carll has spent over 20 years including anybody who will listen in an easy conversation about what it is we’re all doing here.

    “I like to tug at heartstrings, find commonality with others, reflect on my own life, and sometimes I do it in a lighthearted way,” says Carll while discussing his 8th album You Get It All. “A lot of musical styles found their way onto this record, but my first and most formative influences came from country music. This is a country singer-songwriter record. It’s just unapologetically me.”

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1.
Nice Things 03:48
God came down to earth To enjoy what she’d created Took a fishing trip to Georgia To see what she could see Cast out a holy line Thought she’d hooked a big one Reeled in a oil barrel And said “Oh my me!” This is why your whole world is on fire This is why you can’t drink from your own springs This is why, this is why, this is why, why, why This is why y’all can’t have nice things So she walked back to the highway Flagged down a passing stranger An old man with a kind streak Who offered her a toke Just as she was partakin’ The blue lights started flashing As they slipped the handcuffs on her She thought this must be a joke This is why y’all are all strung out to Christmas This is why I left you all them seeds This is why, this is why, this is why, why, why This is why y’all can’t have nice things So she walked out of the jail With a rap sheet and no money Went lookin’ for a coffee And passed by an angry mob They were yelling about people Who should suffer pain eternal She asked one for a dollar And they said, “Sinner, get a job” This is why I blessed you with compassion This is why I gave you empathy This is why I said to love your neighbor This is why pills don’t grow on trees This is why I gave you all salvation This is why angels lose their wings This is why, this is why, this is why, why, why This is why y’all can’t have nice things
2.
All my tame and all my wild, all my man and all my child All my faults and all my scars All my sometimes lucky stars All my joys and my regrets All my old Guy Clark cassettes I knew the night we met, you get it all All my lows and all my highs, all my truth and all my lies All my rights and all my wrongs All my from now on love songs All my future, all my roots, all my worn out cowboy boots I kick off in the hall, you get it all And I’d rather drive you crazy being more than you can stand Than to let you try to love half a man All my cards are on the table and darlin’ it’s your call But I’m all in, so lose or win, you get it all All my will be, all my was, all my cloud of Texas dust All my humble, all my braggin’, all my on and off the wagon All my be your place to hide, all my always on your side All my catch you when you fall, you get it all And I’d rather drive you crazy being more than you can stand Than to let you try to love half a man All my cards are on the table and darlin’ it’s your call But I’m all in, so lose or win, you get it all All my blessing, all my curse, all my better, all my worse From the chapel to the hearse, you get it all
3.
The leaves on that ancient old oak tree are starting to turn The same shades as the flames of this fire that I’m watching burn There’s an unfinished crossword resting on the arm of this chair And for the life of me I can’t recall if I’m the one who left it there It feels so familiar as I watch you walk in the room At first I don’t recognize you but then I damn sure recognize that perfume And you kneel down beside me and gently take hold of my hand I say, “Baby I’m scared and I’m not sure I know who I am” Can you help me remember Who it is I used to be Can you tell me the story of my family, my hopes and my dreams Did I try to stand for something or would I always fold Did I do things when I was young to be proud of when I was old Was I a house on fire or was I just a slow burning ember Could you please help me remember This ring on my finger is golden and faded and worn Like it was forged in the fires of love and has weathered the storms I try to make sense of these old photographs on the wall But they’re just faces and places that I don’t know at all Can you help me remember I feel like I’m losing my mind I know there’s a story it’s getting harder to find Did I protect my children, stand up for my friends How much damage did I do, did I ever make amends Did I try to make a difference, did I give a damn Was I a believer in God and his plan Did I light up your life like a full moonlit night in December Could you please help me remember I need you to help me remember
4.
I have climbed up on the mountain and I’ve fallen in the pit I’ve looked love in the eye and seen the other side of it I spend most my time just laughing at a joke nobody gets And I wouldn’t have it any other way She said she’d stay forever but she lied, lied, lied She couldn’t keep a straight face if she tried, tried, tried Told me that she loved me, now she someone else’s bride But I wouldn’t have it any other way Ain’t it funny What gets you where you’re going Who’s to say what’s right or what is wrong There ain’t nobody Knows how life’s gonna happen Only thing to do is live it ‘til it’s gone Every time I see my buddies we get way too stoned We start trading stories and it’s on, it’s on I swear I’ve left a piece of me down every road I’ve gone But I wouldn’t have it any other way Ain’t it funny What gets you where you’re going Who’s to say what’s right or what is wrong There ain’t nobody Knows how life’s gonna happen Only thing to do is live it ‘til it’s gone It’s a big old beautiful universe and I’m happy where I am I got supper in the oven and a cold drink in my hand I take naps when I want to and go dancing when I can And I wouldn’t have it any other way Ain’t it funny What gets you where you’re going Who’s to say what’s right or what is wrong There ain’t nobody Knows how life’s gonna happen Only thing to do is live it ‘til it’s gone
5.
You row your boat, I’ll row mine We’ll both get there in our own sweet time In our own sweet time Our own sweet time Some stay in the shallow, some get in the deep Some are slow and lazy, others up a creek Others up a creek You know what that means We get what we are given and hope that it floats Everybody’s on the river, just takin’ different boats He drinks liquor, she loves the Lord Some hear the music, some jump overboard Some jump overboard They jump overboard Hard storms raging out in the West Some never get lucky, some might’ve been born blessed Might have been born blessed Hard to say I guess We get what we are given and hope that it floats Everybody’s on the river, just takin’ different boats Water is smooth, water is rough You hang on tight then you hang in tough It don’t matter what will be and be and be We’re all headed to the same sea You row your boat and I’ll row mine We’ll both get there in our own sweet time In our own sweet time In our own good time We get what are given and hope that it floats Everybody’s on the river, just takin’ different boats
6.
The good times we’ve had, the smiles and the laughs, are the pictures that fill up these frames That hang in the halls and cover the walls of the home where we spend our days Most times the good times are the times that we’re in And even the tough times we’d walk through again But in the meantime, the holler and scream time The crush all your dreams time, the can’t hardly breathe time When faith gets forgotten and hope falls behind The love that we had turns bitter and bad In the meantime We’ve been through some years, some heartache, some tears Some struggles like all people do We held on by a thread to the vows that we said And somehow we’re still true blue At yesterday’s end we were still friends And tomorrow might find us right back there again But in the meantime, the holler and scream time The crush all your dreams time, the can’t hardly breathe time When faith gets forgotten and hope falls behind The love that we had turns bitter and bad In the meantime Lord help us outrun The damage we’ve done In the meantime
7.
It rains all day in the desert And Elvis is alive A circle’s got four corners And two plus two is five I’ve never been hung over And there ain’t no fish in the sea And she’ll come back to me A guitar don’t make music And a bumblebee won’t sting It works if you don’t use it And Dolly just can’t sing We don’t go to church on Sundays And freedom, it comes free And she’ll come back to me And I heard her say I do But just because one says a thing That don’t make it true Now I’m sittin’ here by my lonesome Sad as a man can be Prayin’ she’ll come back to me A clock don’t tick and time stands still Monkey is a man’s best friend It’s easier pushing that rock uphill There’s no such thing as sin Mommas don’t love their babies And money grows on trees And she’ll come back to me And I heard her say I do But just because one says a thing That don’t make it true Now I’m sittin’ here by my lonesome Sad as a man can be Prayin’ she’ll come back to me Prayin’ she’ll come back to me
8.
I bought myself a tall boy and some cigarettes I’m gonna climb into this old truck and get as far as I can get Go looking for a motel room, one with an actual key The old kind I used to find where you pay by the week Gonna hang a couple pictures above that rotary phone The one on which I’m not expecting too many calls from home Gonna find me a movie, one that makes me laugh Roll around that old TV so I can watch it in the bath I can’t remember where I had my breakfast Probably some old run-down diner In a broken border town But I ain’t ever going back to Texas I’ll pay the cost of being lost just to keep from being found I really like my lawyer He’s a helluva guy He spreads the love and he ain’t above Watching a grown man cry I don’t have to worry ‘bout whose side he’s on He’ll be my friend until the end Or ‘til the money’s all gone I can’t remember where I had my breakfast Maybe Southeast Oklahoma Or some backwoods Arky town But I ain’t ever going back to Texas There’s a girl down there in Texas Who does not want me around I ain’t ever going back to Texas I’ll pay the cost of being lost just to keep from being found
9.
Ever see a star about to go out It burns so bright before the final bow Who would ever think it was on its last breath Kind of like looking at you right now When you’re way down in it And you reach your limit And you finally admit it Baby don’t lose your mind Just leave it all behind So get your feet back underneath you A little solid ground will remind your soul You can walk down any empty hallway Find the door and then let go When you’re way down in it And you reach your limit And you finally admit it Baby don’t lose your mind Just leave it all behind When you’re way down in it And you reach your limit And you finally admit it Baby don’t lose your mind When you’re way down in it And you reach your limit And you finally admit it Baby don’t lose your mind Just leave it all behind
10.
I drove all the way to Tennessee to keep from looking at you Constantly reminded of the damage love can do Amped up like a junkie praying for a little sleep I tried every kind of medicine to purge you from my bloodstream Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you I told myself I’d never but I don’t believe it Prob’ly ought to let it go but I can’t conceive it I finally found a dream that ain’t gonna leave I figured out there ain’t no reprieve Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you Your love is gonna put me in the grave I ain’t got no soul to save Goddamn the way I love you Goddamn the way I love you I drove all the way to Tennessee to keep from looking at you Constantly reminded of the damage love can do Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you Goddamn the way I love you, Goddamn the way I love you
11.
If it was up to me The fish would all be bitin’ The words would not need writin’ They’d just fall out of my pen If it was up to me My bank account would have more zeroes I’d be friends with all my heroes And they’d call me now and then If it was up to me I’d live out by the sea And order extra rum with every single drink I’d let it and the waves Drown your memory If it was up to me If it was up to me We’d all be driving eighty I’d be livin’ like they paid me Instead of working to get paid If it was up to me My mistakes would not outlive me And everyone could just forgive me For all the ones I’ve made If it was up to me I’d have my own money tree And I’d buy all the things that I don’t really need It’d help me not to think About how we used to be If it was up to me If it was up to me The Stros would win the season And I’d have every reason to go out and paint the town If it was up to me This life would be so easy Everyone would aim to please me And they’d never let me down If it was up to me I’d have no enemies And I’d receive the grace I need without apology And no one that I love Would ever have to leave If it was up to me But it’s not up to me

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released October 30, 2021

Produced by Kenny Greenberg and Allison Moorer

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