Damn… Rest Easy Billy Joe.
When this old world is blown asunder
And all the stars fall from the sky
Remember someone really loves you
We’ll live forever you and I
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I’ve been listening to and loving this song for years and only now do I know it’s about a dog 
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This guys voice is amazing and he’s a cool 
cat 
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but wooooaaaah it makes me wild
with all these years upon my head
to have you call me child
I won’t slave for beggar’s pay
likewise gold and jewels
but I would slave to learn the way
to sink your ship of fools…
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What I need to remember sometimes when feeling judged
Mama said God won’t give you too much to bear
Well, that might be true in Arkansas
But I’m a long, long way from there
that whole world’s a lonely and faded picture in my mind
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Cause I remember all the times I tried so hard
And you laughed in my face 'cause you held all the cards
I don’t care anymore
And I really ain’t bothered what you think of me
'Cause all I want of you is just a let me be
I don’t care anymore, d’you hear? I don’t care no more
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It’s been one of these days…
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“Enough hair of the dog to make myself an entire rug
The good times are killing me
Have one, have twenty more “one mores” and oh it does not relent”
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This songs everything to me lately 
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I searched pain cause my back hurts. Haven’t heard this in a while. Like the song says I’d rather feel pain than nothing at all…my decades of addiction gave me more than enough of feeling nothing.
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That spoken introduction brings out the dreamer in me too. Bless your heart sir!
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Another one I’ve been singing along with lately.
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Brilliant band
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Love this song
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That whole album is exceptional, one of my favorites!
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Been singing and playing this one on guitar a lot lately. I had never tried, and it actually suits my range well - and, it’s fun. Bit of a story here, too.
I’ve been listening to The Smiths about 10-15 years now, I don’t know if they’ll ever be replaced as my favorite band. But I had sort of disregarded their last album (which this is from) for a while because I didn’t like it on first listen. Then about four years ago, I went back to it and found that the album is actually great just like the other 3, and this song in particular stuck out to me.
It was around that time where I was really at the height of my life, mid-2016. I was 27, I had a real sense of self, I had been free of the worst parts of my drinking for several years, I was social, and most importantly I was happy and I felt alive. I felt free back then, rather than bogged down in…well, whatever it is I’m bogged down in. These are things I am trying to get back. I don’t know what happened to me, really, over the last 4 years. A lot of things line up with it. Relationship, stopped drinking entirely (I know, I know…), back injury. Whose to say what the biggest contributor was. Although the first on that list was by no means a bad thing, I have stated before that I felt I had lost myself in it - I do still believe that to be true to some degree.
Anyhow…I distinctly remember I was walking around the airport in Boston listening to it on my headphones, waiting to board my plane to go to Iceland for my first (and only, so far) trip alone. No plans, nothing. Just going and winging it. It represents a lot of things to me, but mostly self-empowerment. It is one of the greatest things I have ever done for myself, and I strongly associate this song with it.
Funny how now, I am returning to this song as I am going on a new journey of sorts. Hopefully I can find the zeal and joy inside myself once again. I hope that person is still inside this meat suit of mine, somewhere. I’d love to have him back.
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