[id:$00000000] [ar:] [ti:] [by:] [00:36.42]The old man was sitting on the tailgate of a '62 Ford flatbed [00:41.49]Picking on an old guitar [00:42.99]He looked at me and said The engine's dead [00:45.99]It was a good run son as he strummed a melancholy chord [00:50.34]Now I've got nothing but time to kill until the coming of the Lord [00:57.57]Well he played me a few songs one about a Randall knife [01:02.19]One about a train one about the pain of losing the love of his life [01:06.63]He took a puff of that cigarette [01:08.52]Blew a breath of smoke that could smother [01:11.16]He said They always said these would kill me [01:13.29]And they did then he laughed and he lit another [01:18.21]He said I hear that you write songs boy [01:20.52]Play me one that I might know [01:22.92]So I sang him my latest greatest hit a number one on MusicRow [01:27.45]He stopped me before I could finish the verse [01:29.70]Said I think I've heard enough of that [01:32.07]When you've heard one you've heard 'em all [01:33.96]With a grimace of a grin he took his old guitar back [01:38.58]He said I guess that's alright if that's all you've got to give [01:43.44]If that's all you've got to say in this one life you've got to live [01:48.03]There's no meaning in your melody so predictable and weak [01:52.62]Wasted words and shallow rhymes [01:54.84]I'd rather hear a woman cuss me a blue streak [01:59.88]You see the pencil to the pad is like the bullet to the gun [02:04.05]The pen is mightier than the sword [02:06.06]If the words are forged from fire from the sun [02:08.97]Yet some do it for the fame the fun the money and all the glory [02:13.26]Yet some do it for their weary soul won't rest [02:16.29]Until they tell their story [02:20.28]You gotta make 'em feel what you feel [02:22.47]Help 'em dream a dream and make 'em wonder [02:25.05]It's like catch lightning in a bottle [02:27.09]Make 'em smell the rain and hear the thunder [02:29.76]Let 'em taste the tears of joy [02:32.01]Or the bittersweet taste of sin [02:34.41]Find the passion in a four letter word or a Sunday morning Amen [02:41.82]And then flicked his ashes and he pointed at my heart [02:45.63]Said If you're searching for solid gold [02:48.09]That'd be a real good place to start [02:50.55]Let the words speak for themselves [02:53.13]Tell the truth right or wrong [02:55.50]Bare your soul for all to see [02:58.65]All for the sake of the song