Brian Hendrix

Brian Hendrix still writes the old songs that Townes Van Zandt inspired in him. Catchy enough for the modern country audience, but meaningful and poignant as the lyrics that shaped an entire genre.

 

#205 Suchergebnisse

This song is about someone who's in love with someone else who's already in a relationship. So despite all the times he's daydreamed about being with her, they're still only daydreams. The idea of dancing with his own shadow isn't just literal; it's also metaphorical in the sense that these feelings make him feel like a shadow of his former self.
This is a song about Homer Joy - a criminally underrated songwriter in the country-music genre, who wrote the hit song "Streets of Bakersfield," and a whole lot of other songs. Though it's also generally about a man who led a troubled life and tried hard to walk a straight and narrow path. Like so many of us, sometimes he stayed on it, sometimes he veered off.
This is a typical love song, a guy singing about a girl. The idea of this song is that he's in love with her all the time, all day, every day, and with everything she does.
A lovelorn song about a guy who's crazy about a girl, but she's already with somebody, and he knows that she'll never be his. That doesn't make him want her any less, but he's nevertheless aware of the fact that reality is what it is. To him, it's beyond just wanting her; he needs her.
The idea behind this song is that it's supposed to read as if a man is talking about a woman who left him. In reality, though, he's talking about his horse he has a kid who ran away and he never found again. It's revealed in the chorus that he's speaking about a horse, and verse 2 really hones in on the idea that it's his horse who ran off.