Let 'em play their flutes and stirrup my boots and place them back to front
Cause I won't be back on the rider-less black and I'm finished in my hunt
I wanna be in the cavalry if they send me off to war
I wanna be in the cavalry, but I won't ride home no more
Halloween was great, sans having a sick Henry, so no sallying forth and getting candy for him. But he did use his toy front end loader as a candy distributor, so he's still getting the job done.
Ran into a coworker from my old job today who is now in a custody fight with his ex-gf. Makes me sad for their son. He also said that he too hates his current job, but that at a private function he talked to the new owner of where we used to work and he's just working on timing for calling us back.
Which honestly can't be too soon. I really don't want to perfect my ability to talk to kids during a DVA crisis. Heart Attack? Ok. Stroke? Already done it. But kids... yeah, no. I'll do it, but... plus, I can't afford much more of this job $$$ wise.
My mom had to put one of her pups down after a freak accident, and we are all heart broken. He was 4 years old. RIP Charlie the Chucklebunny. You weren't the brightest crayon, but you were a glowing light.
Still working hard, still giving it my all, still tired, and still out at sea, not giving up.
"The truth comes out as the fire burns low
It comes to light as only embers glow
The whiskey talks, the west wind moans in the night
The deadfall's gathered and the branches are cut
Kindling crackles and the smoke curls up
The small sticks catch then the bigger stuff will burn
Chinook dies down as the dark descends
Pine has burned, the ash has cleansed
The message smolders, is lost, but finally sent"- Corb Lund
I get political neutrality is taken for granted in music about past conflicts and military culture, but Corb Lund really didn't need to include a line about riding with Nathan Bedford Forest in Horse Soldier, Horse Soldier's titular track. Like, you already mentioned Custer, you already had your racist white guy from about the same era. I guess it's different because Custer, ya know, died at Big Horn and in THAT verse the lyrics then go on to immediately identify with the Sioux, too. On the other hand, Nathan Bedford Forest did make a big turnaround towards the end of his life, but it's still deeply uncomfortable to be singing a song and get to the part where it's like "I fought for [the first Grand Wizard of the KKK]".
Like, Sabaton's Ghost Division doesn't namedrop Hitler, and I'm still not even totally comfortable with that song because the Clean Wehrmacht myth has been solidly debunked over and over. If you wanna make a politically neutral balled about the people who have fought and died over the course of human history, that already takes a lot of debate regarding how much you can treat "the average soldier" as politically neutral, so why mention specific individuals who are absolutely not politically neutral figures by any stretch of the imagination?
To think a learned chronicler
Like you would be the one
Whose eye for detail
Failed to see him reaching for your gun
But you must be the first in 90 years to meet his death
By way of antique archaic blackpowder pistol's breath
thirteen years ago, there was an Onion bit about a musician who sings about “real country folk” and every song is a cheerful jangly tune about horrifying meth addiction. anyway I think Corb Lund made one of those songs real in his latest album
I like more country than just Corb Lund, but I had to get this shirt. (His site says so many people have said it to him, he felt like he’d give them what they want.)