Townes Van Zandt - Waiting Around to Die (Official Audio)
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- Опубликовано: 18 май 2020
- "Waiting Around to Die" from Townes Van Zandt's album Townes Van Zandt
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Lyrics:
Sometimes I don't know where
This dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I can't even see the reason why
But, I guess I keep a-gamblin'
Lots of booze and lots of ramblin'
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
One time, friends, I had a ma
I even had a pa
He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
Headed down to tennessee
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
I came of age and I found a girl
In a tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit in on the sly
I tried to kill the pain, bought some wine
And hopped a train
Seemed easier than just waitin' around to die
A friend said he knew
Where some easy money was
We robbed a man, and brother did we fly
But, the posse caught up with me
And drug me back to Muskogee
It's two long years of waitin' around to die
Now I'm out of prison
I got me a friend at last
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
Aw, his name's codine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Together we're gonna wait around and die
Together we're gonna wait around and die
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If you play this three times in a row at work (or twice along with his cover of "Dead Flowers"), someone from HR will stop by and ask if you're ok.
One time at work someone asked me what I was listening to. I responded simply Townes Van Zandts cover of Dead Flowers. The next day, HR called me down to ask if I was going through anything and if they could help. I had never been more confused. Apparently an old timer overheard and knew the song well enough.
😂😂😂
🙏🏻✌🏻🫶🏻🤙🏻🤘🏻🖕🏻
Toby can fuck off while I wait around and die.
Edit: office reference haha.
@@tgipson20 m
it's nice at 70 to accidently stumble across a talent like this
Never too late. 23 myself, TVZ has been so influential to me as a person the past 3 years.
Cheers brother
Same hear @76
Also seventy. Got to see him many times here in Texas. He was truly a gifted and tortured soul. Tragic at the highest level. RIP, brother.
Now 67 …grew up in Texas .
Never got to see this man in person and really regret it !
So lucky you saw him live………👍🏼
I cry every time I listen to this song... every now and then, everyone needs to have a good cry...
Good authentic folk country American music. A Townes Van Zandt was a great troubadour of American music and the spirit of all us rambling folks
Still my favourite Townes track. From the music to the lyrics to the performance, everything is perfect
Oh ,yes it is perfect .You got that right sir .
Some authentic country going on here.
eeyup
So authentic it’s actually the blues
@@juanbahama8718 *real country
@@juanbahama8718 its country blues
This is country no way blues@@juanbahama8718
Townes thanks for your contribution to life even at its darkest you shine brother
I'm here from Joe Picket, 1X 3. I'm about 24 minutes in, and I just had to pause it, and search for the full song. Wow. All the way from Bayelsa state in Nigeria. Wow again.
Here's to you Uncle Seymour 🍻
One of the best songs from one of the best catalogs of songs by one of the best songwriters our country has been blessed with in the 60+ years I've been alive. TVZ writes about the lives of the people who live on the fringes of society, making them real and human to everyone who usually looks past this group of people. Peace 💚
Yeah, such reality, if he hasn't 'been there' he damn sure feels what it would be like. Awesome musician always.
Townes Van Zandt for ever
Townes and Marty Robbins forever.
I showed my buddy the TVZ biopic Be Here To Love Me hoping it would pull him out of a dark place. It didn't. Poor sumbich drank himself to death at the age of 45. RIP buddy.
Townes Van Zandt brought me here. I first heard this in the early 90s. This song was on a compilation tape, I forget which music mag it was. The song, however, was the one standing out.
Texas legend
Best three things to come out of Texass. Townes, Stevie Ray, and Willie Nelson.
Perfect song title to describe my life.
Perfect harmony and awesome voice
Best songwriter ever, can't stand his singing
I discovered his music watching hell on wheels and the big labewski so I listened to more of him and I always hated country until I heard Townes van Zandt I'd never heard anything like it though he's inspiring
Yep modern country shouldn’t even be considered country anymore
Man. ..this damn song jams ....this made me holler ...lol I needed this
Thank you for posting one of the best story songs that looks at how the vast majority of people in the U.S. get through life. The first song he wrote, from a scene in the movie "Heartworn Highways" (sp?). Incredible images created by such few words.
Sometimes I don't know where
This dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I can't even see the reason why
I guess I keep a-gamblin'
Lots of booze and lots of ramblin'
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
One time, friends, I had a ma
I even had a pa
He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
Headed down to Tennessee
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
I came of age and I found a girl
In a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit in on the sly
I tried to kill the pain, bought some wine
And hopped a train
Seemed easier than just waitin' around to die
A friend said he knew
Where some easy money was
We robbed a man, and brother did we fly
The posse caught up with me
And drug me back to Muskogee
It's two long years I've been waitin' around to die
Now I'm out of prison
I got me a friend at last
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
His name's Codine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Together we're gonna wait around and die
Together we're gonna wait around and die
I just heard his song on the Netflix series Ozark S2 E2. We absolutely love it. Thank you for sharing your incredible talent with us. Rest in peace. (SimpliRV - May 31 2022)
I was pleasantly surprised to hear his beautiful song I'll Be Here in the Morning on Euphoria. Last song in the world I expected to hear on a show like that lol
@@NIKKGAGE1994these shows got some good ppl in them
I found this from The Walking Dead Game S4, it sounds real nice
Waiting around to die TVZ he the man!
Genius!
Gone way too soon. 😢
What an incredible lyricist
Lyrical genius
Great song, wonderfully sung. It's a shame he didn't have to wait very long.
you'd have to ask him. seems to me he didn't necessarily love being alive
The good die young
written in 1969, he died in 1996
@@frederben4776 27 years. That's no time at all. I remember 27 years ago like it was yesterday.
@ frederbend,
If that’s true that this song, “Waiting Around to Die” was written in 1969…
I’m not the least surprised.
This should have 100,000 likes not 5!
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getting there, slowly :D
Im here because this was Pimp Cs favorite song and now one of mine for years now. it’s cool to see a Texas legend respect another Texas legend from another genre. After listening to this I was able to understand Pimp C a lil more i see a lot of Townes inspiration in his music. RIP to both of them 🙏🏼
Wait, WHAT? Rest in peace?
Did not know that. Love townes and pimp c. Kindred spirits
@@k.hendrickson8735 Townes in 97 and Pimp C in 07 😪
@@MelaniKnight my buddy the pimpc book and showed me this song, I need to get a copy!
Brilliant songwriting.
My fave
awe-inspiring
Amazing 👌❤
FIRST TIME I HEARD TVZ WAS WHEN WATCHING MOVIE "HELL OR HIGH WATER"
AMAZING VOICE AND ARTIST
This is my favorite version.
It’s the best version in existence
Brutal
Legend
Haunting
wow
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
I hate and love this guy so much at the same time. Why did he have to be so good? I honestly wish I never got into his music, now I feel like he's dragging me down with him, especially when my current mental state isn't doing so well either. Who knew art could cause an affection this deep. :(
It so sad😢
❤
Just came across this from Joe Pickett (Tv-series).
This is an amazing song
Great Series
I noticed that this is the same-similar "banjo music" from Rdr2 soundtrack love it 🥰
Woah no shit! I started playing the game recently and I love it, I came her from a breaking bad episode
@@indi1678 wow which episode?
I came her from Ozark s2e2 intro
Does anyone know if this song ever made it onto radio? It's from the mid-70s but I never heard it during that time period and only discovered it on accident. 10/10.
Those who know the feeling know. The ideation every day.
Townes Van Zandt brought me here..
if it wasn't for him we wouldn't be here
this is my new favourite song ever.
Whitey Morgan does an amazing cover of this.
God brought me
Remember me a lot of My name is Carnival by Jackson C. Frank, twice beautiful and sadness song.
5 way bi pass I beat the heart attack the first time getting those same chest pain now.
He loves LEAN
That sizzyrup!!
real
He's talking about 222
I have a number of VanZandt vinyls. Offer me a million dollars. I wouldn’t sell.
🕊️💌🕊️
Those days where you know there no god and no hope.
Naw man the whole point.
Wrong. God loves you very much
We are what we are and we are what?
The fact that unjust suffering and hopelessness exists in the world isn't a valid reason to assume God isnt real. I'm not religous, and I hope there isnt anything after this life, but if anything, the pointless pain and constant struggle that we have to endure proves at the very least that there is something significant about us as a species, and if you're religious I suppose that specialness would be that we are made in God's image, and in the same way God suffered on the cross, we too must suffer on our own crosses.
It's just my interpretation of the song. This song cuts deeper into your soul when your down and out. Brilliantly written
A remake of this artist would be perfect for the TV series the walking dead
😍😍😍😍😍😎😎😎😎👍👍👍
i’m here because i listened to an electronic version of this song first by the avener, didn’t know this was the original
Whitey Morgan covered this song and he did it justice. Townes Van Zandt was a musical genius tho.
4k FROM FRANCE🗳💪🌌
I have been jigabooized to death until the cows come home. Now I am waiting around to die for lack of recourse.
Ozark anyone?
Pimp C Brought Me Here
Has everybody knows about how he wrote some of those songs in a dream state Dillon said same thing 😅
First heard it in Hell on Wheels
Joe Pickett brought me here 🤠🌵
Same
Townzie ma saint o saint zzzapped him purty brain as a teen with electro shock took away his memories made him hurt too much. Fliowers in your codeine TVZ
I tied to kill the pain
……….
It was two long years 💔
……..
Now am out of prison
,,,,,,,
waiting round to die
.
Ozark brought me here
Me 2
This is in Ozark? Thats cool. Townes is one of the greatest if not the greatest songwriter ever.
A guy named colter wall brought me here, look him up Colter Wall
"I want you to give Mercer a message for me"
Who came here from ozark s02e01 😂😂
😊me😢😭😭
The Be Good Tanyas brought me here...
Me too
packs a powerful message: make the most of your opportunities.
I disagree, I think the outlook of the song is inherently nihilistic. The most we can do is wait around to die. When he takes actions in his life, meeting a woman, trying to earn money, he gets nothing for his efforts. He tries to get ahead in the hopes that it will be easier than just waiting around to die, but he fails. I don’t see the message of making the most of your life, I think the song actually espouses the opposite view. In the final verse he has accepted the futility of life, and is resigned to waiting around to die.
Codeine is no ones friend, kids
I LOVE LEAN 💜💜💜💜
speak for yourself loser
tylenol 3 and Evan Williams is better than heroin
Joe Pickett
☠️⚰️⚱️💀
Singalongmtfkrs
Sometimes I don't know where
This dirty road is taking me
Sometimes I can't even see the reason why
I guess I keep a-gamblin'
Lots of booze and lots of ramblin'
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
One time, friends, I had a ma
I even had a pa
He beat her with a belt once 'cause she cried
She told him to take care of me
Headed down to Tennessee
It's easier than just waitin' around to die
I came of age and I found a girl
In a Tuscaloosa bar
She cleaned me out and hit in on the sly
I tried to kill the pain, bought some wine
And hopped a train
Seemed easier than just waitin' around to die
A friend said he knew
Where some easy money was
We robbed a man, and brother did we fly
The posse caught up with me
And drug me back to Muskogee
It's two long years I've been waitin' around to die
Now I'm out of prison
I got me a friend at last
He don't drink or steal or cheat or lie
His name's Codine
He's the nicest thing I've seen
Together we're gonna wait around and die
Together we're gonna wait around and die
Joe Pickett Game Warden brought me here
Yup
I had lung cancer, I was waiting to die, but one day in my room in the hospital I was so drunk with all the Ukrainian vodka I could take, slept this day on my own vomit there in Ukraine all alone.
Breaking bad anyone?
Came from the walking dead season 4
Back to muskogee huh
My brother played this song before he died and how he went out he hoped a train took drugs overdosed and die and they dumped the coal from the train and found him in a pile of coal he died 4 days ago
Townes Van Zandt said he learned to play guitar because he thought it was an easy ticket to money, fame, and women. Though his songs achieved critical acclaim, he mostly only played small venues, and lived in a smal reclusive shack in the woods with no heat or telephone, hopelessly addicted to heroin and alcohol. Sometimes he was so drunk he would forget the words to his own songs on stage. Once, when he lacked money for Heroin, he offered to give the rights to all of his albums for $20. At the end, his alcoholism was so bad that he spent days in bed, not even getting up He tried to record a final album, but collapsed drunkenly and broke his hip. His ex-wife brought him home, where he died.
Not sure what the moral of the story is here.
Joe pickett
Yup
Kto z Polski?
Joe picket brought me here
Yup
Plus… forget to say…throw in 7 excelkent touch therapists who love music with herbal aroma therapy and sage smoke rings…
I’m here because of joe picket
Me too
Shoegazer way before his time. . . .
Billions brought me here
Who else is here from Joe Pickett??
Me
I am
Townes Van Zandt led me here.
Ozark
Same
It is shame that you did not know about Townes Van Zandt
Mr Townes,
Our love is well known, can you explain me how do you play that desk so good? I wonder how you play by just sitting there with no instruments whatsoever, I can hear a sort of cuban box, I guess is the desk while in the wait.
Waiting much Mr Townes?
Devil makes 3 do a great version of this
Joe Pickett brought me here...
Hillsdale is a Kock Brothers far right front, similar to the Heritage Group. The majority of Americans, both left and right, Democrats and Republican, support the Constitution, the difference is in interpretation. Example, a strong central government, agreed but the left don't believe the Constitution supports a dictator, an autocrat, while on the right they support exactly that. The Constitution doesn't dictate policies, but it doesn't support an autocrat, a dictator. Free speech, the left believes what the right says (kill the democrats, vote in a dictator, a convicted felon. We are not talking names or polices, we are talking adherence to the Constitution, not abandoning it, as the right candidate states he will, he will be a dictator, he will seek revenge on all those of his political enemies, so if you support the Constitution, how can you subvert it? Either he's telling the truth or he's lying. The Democrats believe him, the Republicans don't. If you don't learn from history you are bound to repeat it.
Ozark brought me here
Ozark brought me here