Wednesday, September 13, 2017

Running on Empty by Jackson Browne



Looking back at the years gone by like so many summer fields
In sixty-five I was seventeen and running up one-o-one
I don't know where I'm running now, I'm just running on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Gotta do what you can just to keep your love alive
Trying not to confuse it with what you do to survive
In sixty-nine I was twenty-one and I called the road my own
I don't know when that road turned onto the road I'm on

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Everyone I know, everywhere I go
People need some reason to believe
I don't know about anyone but me
If it takes all night, that'll be all right
If I can get you to smile before I leave

Looking out at the road rushing under my wheels
I don't know how to tell you all just how crazy this life feels
I look around for the friends that I used to turn to to pull me through
Looking into their eyes I see them running too

Running on - running on empty
Running on - running blind
Running on - running into the sun
But I'm running behind

Honey you really tempt me
You know the way you look so kind
I'd love to stick around but I'm running behind
You know I don't even know what I'm hoping to find
Running into the sun but I'm running behind


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4 comments:

Dan Tschirhart said...

Hey we've all been there - running on fumes

This could be like the theme song for the rabbit in Alice in Wonderland

He was always late - running to wherever he had to go

and you know he probably skipped a meal here and there

But he kept going - running to that fictitious destination

But I've heard bunnies are like walls when you're playing tennis - just relentless

This is probably Jackson Browne's most famous tune - but I've heard a lot of em

My mom's a fan and I heard a lot of his stuff growing up

So I come from experience when I say - I do not like Jackson Browne's music

Nope - not one bit

I lump him in with James Taylor and Slim Whitman

Another group of musicians who should have had their instruments taken away from them a long time ago

That being said, this song's ok - it's been in a few good movies/shows

If this was his one hit wonder I would tip my cap to the gent

But it's not and he's sold 18 million copies of songs that rival beige pants

My god that's it! Jackson Browne is a pair of beige pants

7:26 PM
Aaron said...

I'm running on fumes. I get it. Life is hard. So hard. Even harder when you are forced to listen to horrible music. I am enraged

9:28 AM
Pirate Aggro said...

Life is hard. But it also has radness. I never paid much attention to Jackson Brown. For some reason I thought he was a person of color. Maybe that's because his first name is Jackson and my mind went to the Jackson 5, or that this last name is Brown and I thought it might be descriptive. At any rate, yes, I know what it is like to run on fumes. But your tank ain't empty until its actually empty. Then you got to call your wife to come and bring you some gas and she scorns you when she does because why the hell would you let yourself run out of gas?

9:30 AM
Aaron said...

Dude. Your wife is right. You are an idiot if you run out of gas after the age of 21

3:47 PM

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