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Stoney LaRue (born Stoney Larue Phillips in 1977) is a Texas Country/Red Dirt artist. Born in Taft, Texas, LaRue was raised in Southeastern Oklahoma and began playing country music at a young age.
LaRue moved to Stillwater, Oklahoma and began to play in the various bars around the college town, as well as his brother, Bo Phillips and sister, Hallie Bertrand. He befriended Jason Boland and Cody Canada and the three moved into the infamous "Yellow House" where they would have late night jam sessions and entertain other various musicians around the town, like Mike McClure and Brandon Jenkins.
In 2002, LaRue led The Organic Boogie Band and released Downtown, recorded in private sessions at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa. LaRue's 2005 follow-up, The Red Dirt Album, reached the Billboard sales charts in its debut week. The next year, Stoney released his first live record Live at Billy Bob's Texas.
Barbra Joan Streisand (/ˈstraɪsænd/; born April 24, 1942) is an American singer, actress, writer, film producer and director. She has won two Academy Awards, eight Grammy Awards, five Emmy Awards including one Daytime Emmy, a Special Tony Award, an American Film Institute award, a Peabody Award, and is one of the few entertainers who have won an Oscar, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Award.
She is one of the most commercially and critically successful entertainers in modern entertainment history, with more than 71.5 million albums shipped in the United States and 140 million albums sold worldwide. She is the best-selling female artist on the Recording Industry Association of America's (RIAA) Top Selling Artists list, the only female recording artist in the top ten, and the only artist outside of the rock and roll genre. Along with Frank Sinatra, Cher, and Shirley Jones, she shares the distinction of being awarded an acting Oscar and also recording a number-one single on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart.
I've known her since we both were kids,
I recall the silly things we did
She would want to ride up on my back
To keep from stepping on a crack
I didn't think of it back then
But even when she did not win
She was happy just to play
Stoney likes to live out everyday
Stoney, happy all the time
Stoney, live is summertime
The joy you find in living everyday
Stoney, how I love your simple ways
The times when no one understood
Seems that Stoney always would
We walk for hours in the sand
She would always try and hold my hand
Now I don't recollect the time
I fell in love with this old friend of mine
Or when I first saw in her eyes
I first ran into Stoney. . . it was a bar downtown;
Was Richmond, Virginia. . . we were bumming around,
Suitcase to suitcase. . . we started him talking,
Finding out about the things we've shared in the miles we've been.
He had a gray pillowcase full of books by Durrell,
And he had this old concertina, all beat up and she played like hell,
Until you got him started singing those Gospel songs,
Well, he drank all night for nothing, he told his stories till dawn.
And he said, "Come on, get your bag, boy! Sun's up now and it's time to roll!
Hell, you know there ain't no better time than early in the morning
To be out walking down that road!
Just feeling another day beginning while some fools just rushing on by,
We'll be like some Mr. Independence: we're taking our own sweet time!"
We walked on out that highway under a clear blue sky,
I's listening to the tales he told, drinking warm red wine.
'Bout the night he rolled seven; bout some girl he'd done wrong;
'Bout everything he could think of while we walked along.
Yeah, ol' Stoney had a magic; made him hard to forget.
Like the night we flew down the highway (his old pickup, it nearly wrecked!)
Was a crazy woman driving, all drunked up and carrying on;
Till Stoney finally calmed her singing those Gospel songs.
Well, we split the road at Norwood, and he just shook my hand.
He said, "I'll see you some place, friend," but you know he never has.
But we were that free then, just walking down the road,
Never really caring where that highway goes.
Yeah, Stoney was a liar (a bullshitter!) ain't no doubt about it.
It was just the way he told things, and you never want to doubt him.
'Cause he kept you going when the road got rough,
And brought you through the lean times by making it up.
"Hey, did I ever tell you the time I married my cousin up in Las Vegas?"
[Instrumental]
When you saw the red mist, you were horny and pissed
No one tells you when you ought to go home
So you start locking horns, he's a stag to your fawn
Why the hell can't you leave it alone?
Well your arse hit the floor, still you stand up for more
There's no mercy for your stubborn pride
And your girl starts to plead, as your face starts to bleed
But with a drunken arm you flung her aside
chorus
(oh oh) Jake, Jake you know we love you
(oh oh oh) I know you're mad about the liberties he took
(oh oh oh)Make no mistake he'll crush you
(oh oh oh) Can't you see just how ridiculous you look
Well you wont give it up
Cos you don't give a ****
Seems that some people just never learn
Gave your shoulders a shrug,
Shouted danger's my drug
And like a dog to his puke, you return
Well this time was the last
His fist was too fast
His ring the last thing that you saw
And your point laid to waste
As a bid to save face
Left you eating your lunch through a straw
chorus
Mid 8
Your brow frowns and your knuckles drag
You mouth drools and your belly sags
Downtown kicking up a stink
The Drinking man is the missing link
Your brow frowns and your knuckles drag
Your eyes gaze out of two black bags
Around town kicking up a stink
The Drinking man ...ahh
chorus
I only touched your love
As the tips of my fingers tried to clutch your love
I'm sick of this soap in a bathtub love
I need something to hold (ah ah)
I feel deluded
As once again I am eluded
And everything is left unconcluded
I need something to hold
Chorus:
And we know you're there
Somewhere in these murky waters
If you just showed us where
You'd bring to life all that you taught us
Do you just sit and stare?
I know that you're longing to be found
Isn't that what you want?
I adore your love
But it's snakes and ladders looking for your love
Fakes and blaggers claim to be your love
I don't want the fools gold (ah ah)
But I'm in in danger
I'm hungry, angry, lonely and a stranger
I'm livin la vida loca lone ranger
I need something to hold
(Chorus)
There was me with my pride
standing our ground, standing our ground.
we stood and yelled at the tide
to turn around, to turn around.
Well that day would outlive
our best laid plans, our best laid plans
something just had to give
and my castle gave itself back to the sand
I was my own and everyone's fool,
Mutton dressed up as lamb
but now the emperors clothes have been torn
I can see what I am.
so hold my hat for a while
so I feel the rain, so I feel the rain
take an inch from your mile
and start again, and start again.
put a little light in my soul
you shine I'll glow, you shine I'll glow.
see I'm hollow & cold
so let me be the lantern that you hold.
and If I take myself seriously
then I just get confused
They say those who can laugh at themselves
will never cease to be amused.
OUTRO
I wanna find you
I wanna find you
(fall in love again)
I wanna find you again
I wanna find you
I wanna find you
(the stillness of content)
Do you dream like a baby Jailbird? (sitting in a cage)
Do you only know your own world
Do you wonder at your wings, do you wonder at your wings?
Can you follow where the wind blows
In these everlasting limbos that never give you up
but never give enough
She shakes the cage, she shakes the cage (am overcome, am overcome)
She dares the jaded heart to hope again (she bends back the bars .and calls me home)
She breaks the chains, she breaks the chains (am overcome, am overcome)
She calls the faded dream to wake and stirred up the hurricanes of change ( of change)
She's woken a dream from slumber
Shes broken the spell I'm under
I laid a loyal kiss upon the hand of risk
and nothing will feed the hunger and so the hunted (haunted?) becomes the hunter (haunter?)
The bird upon the wire, with the belly full of fire
She shakes the cage, she shakes the cage (am overcome, am overcome)
She dares the jaded heart to hope again (she bends back the bars and calls me home)
She breaks the chains, she breaks the chains (am overcome, am overcome)
She calls the faded dream to wake and stirred up the hurricanes of change ( of change)
Well I bit the hand that fed me and it closed into a fist,
But this damn job was paying peanuts, I was feeling like a monkey in a zoo (a monkey in a zoo)
The safety of monotony had put the blinkers on the base of mediocrity and hook, line sinker I'd been caught (baby we'd been caught)
She shakes the cage, she shakes the cage (am overcome, am overcome)
She dares the jaded heard to hope again (she bends back the bars and calls me home)
She breaks the chains, she breaks the chains (am overcome, am overcome)
She calls the faded dream to wake and stirred up the hurricanes of change ( of change)
When you saw the red mist, you were horny and pissed
No one tells you when you ought to go home
So you start locking horns, he's a stag to your fawn
Why the hell can't you leave it alone?
Well your arse hit the floor, still you stand up for more
There's no mercy for your stubborn pride
And your girl starts to plead, as your face starts to bleed
But with a drunken arm you flung her aside
Jake, Jake you know we love you
I know you're mad about the liberties he took
Make no mistake he'll crush you
Can't you see just how ridiculous you look
Well you wont give it up
Cos you don't give a f***
Seems that some people just never learn
Gave your shoulders a shrug
Shouted danger's my drug
And like a dog to his puke, you return
Well this time was the last
His fist was too fast
His ring the last thing that you saw
And your point laid to waste
As a bid to save face
Led you to eat your thru a straw
Jake, Jake you know their laughing
And though you mind about the liberties he took
Jake, no mistake you'll crash
Can't you see just how ridiculous you look
Your brow frowns and your knuckles drag
You mouth drools and your belly sags
Downtown kicking up a stink
The Drinking man is the missing link
Your brow frowns and your knuckles drag
Your eyes gaze out of two black bags
Around town kicking up a stink
The Drinking man ..........ahh
Jake, Jake you know their laughing
And though you mind about the liberties he took
Jake, no mistake you'll crash
Can't you see just how ridiculous you look
Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh Oh...................
Chimes sing Sunday morn
Today's the day she's sworn
To steal what she never could own
And race from this hole she calls home
Now you're at the wheel
Tell me how, how does it feel?
So good to have equalised
To lift up the lids of your eyes
As the miles they disappear
See land begin to clear
Free from the filth and the scum
This American satelite's won
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
See the steeple pine
The hills as old as time
Soon to be put to the test
To be whipped by the winds of the west
Stands on shifting sands
The scales held in her hands
The wind it just whips her and wails
And fills up her brigantine sails
She'll carry on through it all
She's a waterfall
She'll carry on through it all
Do you dream like a baby Jailbird? (sitting in a cage)
Do you only know your own world
Do you wonder at your wings, do you wonder at your wings?
Can you follow where the wind blows
In these everlasting limbos that never give you up
but never give enough
Chorus
She shakes the cage, she shakes the cage (im overcome, im overthrown)
She dares the jaded heart to hope again (she bends back the bars .and calls me home)
She breaks the chains, she breaks the chains (Im overcome, Im overthrown)
She calls the faded dream to wake and stirred up the hurricanes of change (of change)
She's woken a dream from slumber
Shes broken the spell I'm under
I laid a loyal kiss upon the hand of risk
But nothing will feed the hunger and so
the hunted becomes the hunter
The bird upon the wire, with the belly full of fire
chorus
mid 8
Well I bit the hand that fed me and it closed into a fist,
But this damn job was paying peanuts, I was feeling like a monkey in a zoo (a monkey in a zoo)