So true...
One of the best buys in all of Nashville is a membership to the Country Music Hall of Fame. We have had a membership every year since moving here. A one year family membership is only $90; and with that membership comes many perks. One of perks is they feature a songwriter in concert every Saturday. You sit and listen to some of the greats in music tell how they came to write their hits and hear them perform their songs.
One Saturday my wife and I were privileged to see and hear a veteran Nashville performer, Larry Gatlin. He told numerous stories about how he came to Nashville and the various personalities he became friends with, wrote and performed with. It was one of those settings where you could have sat for hours and be so entertained.
Are there any more poignant lyrics to a song he once penned?
The heart’s a funny thing
With a mind all its own
It withers like a garden
Left untended and alone
And the thorns of loneliness invade
And destroy what they can’t steal
So easy to hurt
But oh, so hard to heal
I know, I’ve had it happen to me
Time and time again
And it feels just like bein’ turned down
By your one and only friend
So, don’t’ fool yourself by sayin’
That it won’t hurt, the pain ain’t real
So easy to hurt
But oh, so hard to heal
If you have ever been there and had your heart hurt, you know.
“But oh… oh, so hard to heal.”
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November 10, 2014
Keep on,
Larry Adamson