Sat lyrics

I have mentioned Ryan Adams often on this blog. For someone who seems like such an ass personally, he still amazes me with his writing and voice. Cold Roses is very near the top of my favorite music from this year.

Well, a friend suggested that I really needed to listen to his first solo album, one aptly named "heartbreaker."

Some of it is funny, like the incredibly witty "Come pick me up" (also on the Elizabethtown soundtrack, I understand).

But then I listened to "in my time of need" and damn near wept. Sparse guitar with a banjo and Gillian Welch harmonizing ever so softly.

"Will you comfort me in my time of need
Can you take away the pain of hurtful deeds
Cause when we need it most there's no rain at all
And the dust just settles right there on the feed
Will you say to me a little rains gonna come
When the sky can't offer none to me
Cause I will come for you
When my days are through"

Adams had to be 23 or 24 when he wrote this. Wow.