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Thread: RIP Shane

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    RIP Shane

    https://pitchfork.com/news/shane-mac...an-dies-at-65/

    Its a wonder he lived to be 65.......

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    Yeah, 65 is pretty good given how he went about it. I've always loved this one:



    I'm not more suffering has ever been packed into a single song:

    A Pair of Brown Eyes

    One summer evening drunk to hell
    I stood there nearly lifeless
    An old man in the corner sang
    Where the water lilies grow
    And on the jukebox johnny sang
    About a thing called love
    And its how are you kid and whats your name
    And how would you bloody know?
    In blood and death neath a screaming sky
    I lay down on the ground
    And the arms and legs of other men
    Were scattered all around
    Some cursed, some prayed, some prayed then cursed
    Then prayed and bled some more
    And the only thing that I could see
    Was a pair of brown eyes that was looking at me
    But when we got back, labeled parts one to three
    There was no pair of brown eyes waiting for me
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    For a pair of brown eyes

    I looked at him he looked at me
    All I could do was hate him
    While Ray and Philomena sang
    Of my elusive dream
    I saw the streams, the rolling hills
    Where his brown eyes were waiting
    And I thought about a pair of brown eyes
    That waited once for me
    So drunk to hell I left the place
    Sometimes crawling sometimes walking
    A hungry sound came across the breeze
    So I gave the walls a talking
    And I heard the sounds of long ago
    From the old canal
    And the birds were whistling in the trees
    Where the wind was gently laughing
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    A rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    For a pair of brown eyes
    For a pair of brown eyes
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    And a rovin, a rovin, a rovin I'll go
    For a pair of brown eyes
    For a pair of brown eyes

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    Not sure if this belonged here or in the “Xmas songs that don’t suck” thread, but we played the hell out of it last night at the bar. My nomination for xmas theme song this year:


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    Quote Originally Posted by JimmyCarter View Post
    Not sure if this belonged here or in the “Xmas songs that don’t suck” thread, but we played the hell out of it last night at the bar. My nomination for xmas theme song this year:

    Good one. It's not always about Santa and getting lots of presents.

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    This one fits here.


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    Great song.

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