Lyrics for All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down (... as interpreted by Deemer

All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down (... Lyrics

All my rowdy friends have settled down
and they seem to be more in the laid back songs.
Nobody wants to get drunk and get loud.
Everybody just wants to go back home.
I myself have seen my wilder days
and I have seen my name at the top of the page,
but I need to find a friend just to hang around.
But nobody wants to get high on the town
and all my rowdy friends have settled down.

Yeah, I think I know what my father meant when he sang about a lost highway
and old George Jones I'm glad to see he's finally getting straight,
and Waylon staying home and loving Jesse more these days,
and nobody wants to get drunk and get loud
and all my rowdy friends have settled down.

and the hangovers hurt more then they used to
and ...something something... and ice teas took the place of pills and ninety-proof,
and none of us seem to do things quite like we used to do
and nobody wants to get high and get loud
and all my rowdy friends have settled down.

yeah me and my rowdy friends done rowdied on down.



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xo Sarah
12-27-2007

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I love listening to Elliott singing this on Live at the Largo, it's so nice to hear him laugh. :)

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Deemer
01-04-2008

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I know, right? What's so great about the Largo recording is that you can really feel the atmosphere of the place. Kinda gives you a scent of how it must've been to be there. :)

Elliott makes a few changes in his version that deviate from the original lyric-wise.. I made sure this version is the way he did it.

I think it's obvious what it's about: getting older and perhaps feeling more responsible (and the benefits of that change), even though the person singing seems to miss being able to let go, to get drunk and hang around.

Definatly a song everyone can relate to I think, even those of us that don't get drunk too often or use drugs can feel his need to unwind like he used to.

And hey, above all things, this is just a really fun song (especially the Live at the Largo recording anyways) what with all the laughing and all.

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Hey Buddy
01-05-2008

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I love his speaking voice - it's so cute! "Wanna hear a country song?" and "You weren't thrown off by my fuck-up?"

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gayleyo
09-14-2008

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He has the best laugh. This cd makes me very happy. You can tell this must have been a small, intimate show. But did anyone else find the way the cd ended a little eerie? "You weren't thrown off by my fuck up? 'Cause there's more in store..." And then it ends!

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Deemer
10-24-2008

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Eerie, hmm, I dunno if I'd call it that. All that did is make me wish there were more songs on it, really. Plus.. I mean, yeah it's a bit of an odd thing to hear on the last song of a cd, but at the same time I'm glad it's there. It's a tiny look into his mind to me. Brilliant as he was, he definatly did all he could to tell people the opposite. Silly Elliott.

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g0alpost1
05-27-2009

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Live at largo is prolly the best live recordings u will find.. and yeah.. u gotta love the wanna hear a country song?

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