Jason isbell

What can you see from your window? I can't see anything from mine. Flags on the side of the highway and scripture on grocery store signs. Maybe eighteen was too early. Maybe thirty or forty is too....
I got a glass of wine, I got a cigarette I should be feeling fine I ain't feeling nothing yet She's leading the second line Feel like I'm in front of it I guess I am tonight I got a cigarette My glass...
Ten years out of high school, still no idea what to do. You took him home from a nightclub. He took a nightclub to you. Now I watch from the window, too guilty to scream. My feet are like steel. I...
Standing in the window with his tongue hanging out, like the king of something evil in a yearlong drought. With a dirty white suit, a big white hat, a bullet in his pocket no matter where he's at....
My door is locked, my debts are paid. I'll do the Chicago promenade. My back was turned I did not see that shadow climbing up on me. I took my turn at fixing hearts but that goes bad before it starts....
People love to be listened to and represented, and they love it when they feel like you have some of the same problems that they do. Everybody deals with things like romantic difficulties in...
I like those kinds of songs that have details that you remember and that have stories that mean something and that open up into different levels philosophically. I like those kinds of movies, and I...
I'm not trying to steer people in a direction. I'm just trying to move them. Wherever it takes them, it doesn't matter to me. I just want them to be moved in one way or another, and that's a hard...
I'll take a certain concern of my own or a situation and try to frame it around a fictional story, but sometimes just straight-up autobiographical songs work well, and sometimes a story is better. I...
I know people who have written big hit country songs that are really kind of terrible songs, but for the rest of their life, they're the guy who wrote that. You've got to be careful; if you don't want...