I Can't Really Say Why

I Think It Was Tommy Who Told Me, 'when Your Song Is Called 'xyz' Or Whatever, Every Line Has Got To Make Sense Against Your Title.' He Showed Me Little Methods Of Proving To Yourself Whether The Line Belongs, And Ways Of Finding Out Whether You Were Able To Get More Out Of A Line If You Tried.

Back When The Country Was Strong, Back Before Elvis And Before The Vietnam War Came Along.

There's Two Or Three Kids Out There Trying To Make Good Music, And The Rest Of Them Sound Like It's Been Strained Through Some Kind Of White Toast Or Something. It All Sounds Just Too Neat And Perfect, With No Surprise To It At All. No Story, No Nothing. It's Like Building Cars, Like An Assembly Line. It Doesn't Sound Like Anything That Came From A Guitar.

The Thing That Bothers Me The Most Is The Recklessness And Greed Of The Local Ranchers, Who Run Too Many Cattle Back Here, Choking With Waste The Creek That Runs Through My Property. There's Certain Times Of Day That The Cowboys Like To Send Them Turds Down The River. Them F**kers Piss Me Off. If You Gotta Mess Up The Ecology Of The World In Order To Raise A Bunch Of Cows, Well Eat Somethin Else. I'm Not A Fan Of The Cowboys.

Before The Beatles And Yesterday, When A Man Could Still Work And Still Would.