These lines, from Steve Earle’s song lyrics, offer glimpses into life, love, and the pursuit of dreams, all while staying true to the spirit of his music.
Steve Earle Quotes from Songs About Life
- Well, my name’s John Lee Pettimore, same as my daddy and his daddy before.
- Everybody told me you can’t get far on 37 dollars and a jap guitar.
- You go to school and you learn to read and write so you can walk into the county bank and sign away your life.
- Someday I’m finally gonna let go because I know there’s a better way, and I wonder what’s over that rainbow, I’m gonna get out of here someday.
- I was born my papa’s son, a wanderin’ eye and a smokin’ gun.
- Be careful what you wish for friend, ’cause I’ve been to hell and now I’m back again.
- Mama said the pistol is the devil’s right hand, the devil’s right hand, the devil’s right hand.
- I was born by the railroad track, well, the train whistle wailed, and I wailed right back.
- There’s a road, in Oklahoma, straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory, and it goes, forever onward.
- I push that load, from here to someday, I’ll push as long as I’m alive, but I don’t know how long I’ll last.
- I been down this road just searching for the end, it don’t go nowhere, it just brings you back again.
- But you’ve come too far to go back home, so you’re walkin’ on a nowhere road.
- Lovers leave and friends will let you down, but you’re the only sure thing that I’ve found.
- Goodbye’s all we’ve got left to say.
Steve Earle Quotes from Songs for Motivation and Inspiration
- I came home with a brand-new plan, I take the seed from Colombia and Mexico, I just plant it up a holler down Copperhead Road.
- When my boots hit the boards I’m a brand new man, with my back to the riser, I make my stand.
- Someday I’ll put her on the inner state and never look back.
- I feel alright, I feel alright tonight.
- I feel alright, yeah, I feel alright tonight.
- Just when every ray of hope was gone, I should have known that you would come along.
Steve Earle Quotes from Songs About Love
- Hey pretty baby, are you ready for me, it’s your good rockin’ daddy down from Tennessee.
- Hey pretty baby don’t you know it ain’t my fault, I love to hear the steel belts hummin’ on the asphalt.
- Hey pretty baby, won’t you hold me tight, I’m loadin’ up and rollin’ out of here tonight.
- Now, I had me a woman, she was my world, yeah, but I ran off with my backstreet girl.
- Now, my backstreet woman could not be true, she left me standing on the boulevard, thinking ’bout you.
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- My name’s John Lee Pettimore, same as my daddy and his daddy before.
- Everybody told me you can’t get far on 37 dollars and a jap guitar.
- Someday I’m finally gonna let go because I know there’s a better way.
- I was born my papa’s son, a wanderin’ eye and a smokin’ gun.
- Be careful what you wish for friend, ’cause I’ve been to hell and now I’m back again.
- I was born by the railroad track, well, the train whistle wailed, and I wailed right back.
- There’s a road, in Oklahoma, straighter than a preacher, longer than a memory.
- Lovers leave and friends will let you down, but you’re the only sure thing that I’ve found.
- Goodbye’s all we’ve got left to say.
- Just when every ray of hope was gone, I should have known that you would come along.