Widespread Panic - Holden Oversoul (Birmingham, AL 7/20/2013)

Yarn

Don't Break My Heart Again

In The Ocean

Sitting on a park bench, watching people.
Never know just who or what will come by.
A class from 2nd grade, a bunch of weirdos on parade,
A girl I used to know in Junior High.
There’s a man who looks just like Pat Sajak.
I asked him if I could buy a vowel.
I guess he’d heard that before, he said, “Sure, there are four,”
“You wanna buy some more or solve the puzzle now?

A man who asked me if I had a quarter.
I didn’t, but I gave him a dollar bill.
A bunch of kids on skates, a lawyer running late.
Someone’s grandma selling daffodils.
A man came by and asked if he could join me.
I said I didn’t know I was coming apart.
He grinned, told me his name, I grinned back and did the same,
Then for forty-five minutes he opened up his heart.

I should be happy with this life I’ve got.
I should be happy, but I’m ‘fraid I’m not.
I should be happy, but I find, happy’s just a waste of time.
Sadness comes along and smooths things out.

He proceeds to share with me his story.
I could not believe the tales he spun.
Some lives have been charmed, some lives have been harmed,
But my new friend, he’d had neither one.
“Everything I touch,” he said’s, “been middling.
I have never had the highs, nor lows.
You may think that sounds grand, but what you fail to understand,
Is that it gets so lonely with no place to go.

He asked me if I thought I was happy.
I paused to think it through, then I agreed.
“That’s what I once thought,” he said, “Least what I was taught instead
Of looking at my life with honesty.
But I noticed all those peaks and valleys
Started looking like a parking lot.
It was flat, it was square, and it never went anywhere,
I spent all my time just looking for my spot.

I should be happy with this life I’ve got.
I should be happy, but I’m ‘fraid I’m not.
I should be happy, but I find, happy’s just a waste of time.
Sadness comes along and smooths things out.

I’ve been thinking ‘bout this man’s dilemma, pondering the moral of his tale.
Do sad and happy cancel out? Do whispers balance when you shout,
Is winning just the opposite of fail?
Or are they all companions in this journey we’re all in together?
Would life be complete if one was gone?
You gotcha good, you gotcha bad, you gotcha happy and your sad.

I Should Be Happy

Birmingham

The Criterion Collection. Father Day 2016.

2016/06/19 Oklahoma City, OK

Widespread Panic - Diner

Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats

Wasting Time

Dispatch - The Way It Goes [Live]

Greensky Bluegrass performing on day 2 of All Good Presents' first (and only) Merryland Music Festival held at Merriweather Post Pavilion on July 9th and 10th in Columbia, Maryland.

Set list:
Road to Nowhere
Worried About the Weather
I'd Probably Kill You
Leap Year
Dustbowl Overtures
Burn Them > Rueben's Train > Burn Them
Shame I'm In > Wheel Hoss
Take Cover
Windshield
Living Over

Photo by Brady Cooling bradycooling.com/

Greensky Bluegrass at Merryland Music Festival 7/10/2016

Road to Nowhere: Greensky Bluegrass at Merryland Music Festival 7/10/2016

The official Soundcloud profile of the band Dispatch.