Jeremy Lee Renner (born January 7, 1971) is an American actor, film producer and musician. Renner appeared largely in independent films throughout the 2000's such as Dahmer (2002) and Neo Ned (2005). He also offered supporting acting work in bigger films, S.W.A.T. and 28 Weeks Later (2007). He eventually came to prominence for his critically acclaimed performance in The Hurt Locker (2009) which garnered him a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Actor. He then turned out another praised performance for his role in The Town for which he received a nomination for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. This subsequent recognition gave him the opportunity to star alongside some of Hollywood's biggest talent in blockbusters such as Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol (2011) and The Avengers (2012) which broke records grossing more than a billion dollars internationally.
Renner was born in Modesto, California, the first child of Valerie and Lee Renner, who managed a bowling alley. His parents married as teenagers and divorced when he was ten. He has five younger siblings, He graduated from Fred C. Beyer High School and attended Modesto Junior College. Renner is of German and Irish descent.
It was the first time ever he saw her
He saw his future in a long white cotton gown
Sittin' there at the church house, she was gonna get
baptized
They was gonna have dinner on the grounds
So the very next Friday, he got off at the sawmill
He slicked his hair back, he had a pocket full of pay
When she opened up the front door, he was grinnin' like
a possum
As he handed her a daisy, she heard him say...
Hey let's go dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar
bill
They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the
hill
And by midnight we just might wind up dancin' standin'
still
By my Daddy's lanern light, let me walk ya home
After they got married, it didn't seem like no time
They's a sayin' their goodbye's he's a goin' to the big
world war
'Bout a lifetime later, she's a waitin' at the depot
He said I ain't a gonna leave you, no never no more
Said let's go dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar
bill
They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the
hill
And by midnight we just might wind up dancin' standin'
still
By my Daddy's lantern light, let me walk ya home
In front of friends and kinfolk and all of us grandkids
In the same little church house, in a long white cotton
gown
He bent down and he kissed her, he said I'm right
behind ya honey
It wasn't long 'til we laid him in the ground
And now they're dancin' to the tune of a twenty dollar
bill
They've got a fine fiddle band at the barn up on the
hill
And by midnight they just might wind up dancin'
standin' still
Take off your boots
Leave 'em there on the floor
And hang that old hat
On the hook by the door
Leave the horses and cattle
And the ranch far behind
They've had you all week...
Tonight cowboy you're mine
Turn down those lights
On that nightstand
Let all that weight on your shoulders
Just melt in my hands
That ole latch on the barn door
And that broken fence line
Will still be there tomorrow
Tonight cowboy you're mine
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So leave the horses and cattle
And the ranch far behind
They've had you all week...
He said Ill call you Hon when I get there,
Ten minutes later he was in the air,
She dropped the kids at school and headed home,
Walked in and turned the front room TV on
She could tell that there was something wrong,
Every channel had the same thing on,
Now seven years have come and gone away,
But shes still hurting like its yesterday,
Cuz she wants to put her arms around his neck,
and look in his eyes so blue,
and say Honey I dont regret,
A single day I spent with you,
She wants to tell him that she loves him so,
and will until the day she dies,
It aint that she cant let him go,
She just wants to say goodbye
He sits beside her in the nursing home,
Through her silver hair he runs a comb,
He hangs their wedding picture on the wall,
She dont remember who he is at all,
He tells her stories about the life theyve lived,
From their first kiss to their last grandkids,
For seven months now she just sits and stares,
But if she wakes up hes gonna be right there,
Cuz he wants to put his arms around her neck,
and look in her eyes so blue,
and say Honey I wont forget,
a single day I spent with you,
He wants to tell her that he loves her so,
and will until the day he dies,
it aint that he cant let her go,
He just wants to say goodbye
No it aint let that we cant let them go,
Me, I'm just a singer, though I may be well-known
The truth is I'd be nothing without the power of a song
I've been blessed with fame and fortune, oh but in the
A song's what I wish I could've been
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A song lives forever and never ever dies
Sings enemies together and touches so many lives
Words and melody will always be long after we're gone...
Oh, how I wish I could live the life of a song
I could mend the broke and wounded, I could prove that
love is real
And take someone from China to a Carolina cotton field
I could comfort every soldier, hum all the homeless home
I could change the world if I was just a song
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There's an end for me, it's my destiny
But this song will carry on...and it's just three minutes
long
Oh, how I wish I could live the life of a song
Sweet Emmylou, I blew the dust off you
You're the only one who knows what I'm going through
Like the hickory wind, he's gone again
Sweet Emmylou
Sweet Emmylou, as the needle runs through you
The way the pain shines through, well I know you've
been there too
Those Sad Melodies, Oh how they comfort me
Sweet Emmylou
well I hate to bother you again, last time you helped
my poor heart mend
Then he came along
So I put your records all away, thought happy songs was
all I'd play
But I was wrong... oh I was wrong
Sweet Emmylou, what are we gonna do
It's only been a week or two, and he's found someone
Looks like it's gonna be, another night of you and me
Sweet Emmylou
well I hate to bother you again, last time you helped
my poor heart mend
Then he came along So I put your records all away,
thought happy songs was all I'd play
But I was wrong...OH, I was wrong...
Sweet Emmylou
Sweet Emmylou
You broke his arm in Houston
His rib in Santa Fe
Then you drug him through the dirt in San Antone
And last year out in Vegas you almost took him all the
Then you sent him broke and busted right back home
No matter how hard you throw him
He just gets back on again
Oh I'll never understand this crazy hold you have on
Rodeo, Rodeo
Are you every gonna let my cowboy go?
You've got a hundred other men
You don't give a damn bout him
But he still loves you
Why? I don't know
Rodeo, Rodeo
From an empty cold hotel room
In some state you left him in
He'll call and tell me that this time he's really
through
Ill get to hold him through the winter
But when spring rolls round again
He'll jump in his truck and run right back to you
You steal his love away from me
8 Seconds at a time
Even when I'm in his arm I know your still on his mind
Rodeo, Rodeo
Are you every gonna let my cowboy go?
You've got a hundred other men
You don't give a damn bout him
oh But he still loves you
Why? I don't know
Rodeo, Rodeo
If you were just another women
Maybe I'll know what to do
He might give his heart to me
But he'd give his life for you
Rodeo
You've got a hundred other men
You don't give a damn bout him
oh But he still loves you
Why? I'll never know
It's too fast, it's too slow
It's too country, too rock and roll
It's too happy, to sad, to short, or it's way too long
Yeah and it's too bad they don't just
Chorus:
Play the song, play the song
Turn it up loud enough we all can sing along
And let the people decide if the music is right or it's
wrong
Man it's a shame, instead of playing the game
Play the song, play the song
It's too Garth, too George Strait
Too right down the center, too left of the plate
The hook's too weak or the subject matter's way too
strong whatever
Yeah and it's too bad they don't just
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Bridge:
and it's too bad, if you ask me,
Our song's gotta be so darn P.C.
so DAMN P.C.
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Play the song, play the song
Play the song, play the song
A hundred times my Mama told me
That boy's trouble with a capital T
You'll never change him, I know his kind
But I didn't pay her any mind
Cuz, I...I...I just loved the hell outta him
Yeah, I...I...I just loved the hell outta him
He used to go out on the town
Close every single beer joint down
But I never asked him where he'd been
When he'd come draggin' in...
Cuz, I...I...I just loved the hell outta him
Yeah, I...I...I just loved the hell outta him
He swore the one thing he'd never do
Is sit there beside me in this pew
So I just smiled and said amen
This mornin' when he walked in...
'Guess, I...I...I just loved the hell outta him
I think what made granddaddy great is that he didn't
work all day
I'd love the time we spent and I'd go everywhere he
went
We'd end up on some old deer trail
And I'd listen hard as he would spin his tales
We were in a field of stumps he said I got a new one
for you hon
These trees once stood tall and I'm the man that made
them fall
I cut 'em up, sanded them down
And you wouldn't believe what I found
past the bark and all the scars
Our home was in the heart of those old trees
God bless who sowed those seeds
A hundred years and they just grew
And only heaven knew what they'd be, to our family
All that time to become what they should
you know Our home was in the heart of the wood
He smiled, said there's my favorite one, pointed at a
cherry stump
He said I couldn't afford the one at Sears so the good
lord planted one right here
He carved out what he saw within and he gave it to my
dad when he turned ten
Past the bark and all the scars
There was a guitar in the heart of that old tree
All from just one seed
A hundred years and it just grew
And only heaven knew just what it'd be
And how that tree could sing
All the time to become what it should
There were songs in the heart of the wood
He said we can mark a tree to keep from getting lost
and it'll always point our way home like that old
rugged cross
A hundred years and it just grew and only heaven knew
what it'd be
And who'd hang on that tree it held the Son of God like
it should
But I know it broke the heart of the wood
i think what made granddaddy great was that he didn't
work all day
I'd love the time we spent
If I leave here tomorrow
Would you remember me?
I must be traveling on, now,
there's places I've got to see.
if I stayed here with you, love,
It wouldn't be the same.
I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you can't change.
this bird you can't change,
this bird you can't change.
Bye, babe, its been a sweet love.
this feeling I can't change.
please don't take it badly,
Lord knows I'm to blame.
if I stayed here with you love,
It wouldn't be the same.
I'm as free as a bird now,
And this bird you'll never change.
this bird you can't change.
Lord knows, I can't change.
If I leave here tomorrow
Got her daddy's eyes and her mama's hair
That newborn baby lyin' there
A grandpa holds his first grandchild
That's a cryin' smile
In another town there's a long white dress
Little church crammed full to Sunday best
Bride's father walks her down the aisle
That's a cryin' smile
It's a goodbye kiss, first day of school
A doctor callin' with them good news
A sinner standin' in a pew
Getting born for the second time
It's snapshots laid out on the floor
Or a loved one back home from the war
Makes tears fall like rain from a sunny sky
That's a cryin' smile
Forty years he punched that clock
For a pat on the back and a gold watch
They called it going out in style
That's a cryin' smile
It's a goodbye kiss, first day of school
A doctor callin' with them good news
A sinner standin' in a pew
Getting born for the second time
It's snapshots laid out on the floor
Or a loved one back home from the war
Makes tears fall like rain from a sunny sky
That's a cryin' smile
A nursin' home has an empty bed
Four generations bow their heads
God welcomes home another child
Started out just nails and leather
Built to last and made for weather
Can't think of nothin' better, than what I'm wearin' on
my feet
They make me taller than I really am
Ain't nothing they can't withstand
a symbol o the workin' man and old cowgirls like me
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Boots are made for sawdust floors
Stirrups on a quarterhorse
To kick yourself when ya been a fool
Climbin' up on barstools
Two-steppin' under neon lights
Ain't too bad in a barroom fight
And kickin' open swingin' doors
That's what boots are for
Been resoled a dozen times
Crushed some cans and soaked some wine
Aww but thats what makes them shine, theyre a part of me
Theyve seen lovers come and go til we met the right pair
at the rodeo oh thats just the way love goes some things
meant to be
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Kickin' off when you're tired and sore