Dixie Chicks Write Anti-Shrub Song For New Album

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

They've got a new album coming out on May 23rd. This article talks about one of the songs from the album.


The set's first track is "Not Ready to Make Nice," a song the group co-wrote with Wilson that addresses the furor that followed Maines' comments in opposition to President George W. Bush during a March 2003 London concert. The comments got wide play in the media, and led to boycotts and death threats against the trio.

"The stakes were definitely higher on that song," Dixie Chicks' Emily Robison said in a statement. "We knew it was special because it was so autobiographical, and we had to get it right. And once we had that song done, it freed us up to do the rest of the album without that burden."

The track's lyrics are posted at the group's official website.

Said Maines: "This album was total therapy. I'm way more at peace now. Writing these songs and saying everything we had to say makes it possible to move on."

http://www.livedaily.com/news/New_Dixie_Chicks_album_tour_on_the_way-9731.html?t=1

[OrangeCountyDemocrat]

1. Here Are The Lyrics

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

I’m through with doubt
There’s nothing left for me to figure out
I’ve paid a price
And I’ll keep paying

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I know you said
Can’t you just get over it
It turned my whole world around
And I kind of like it

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

I’m not ready to make nice
I’m not ready to back down
I’m still mad as hell and
I don’t have time to go round and round and round
It’s too late to make it right
I probably wouldn’t if I could
‘Cause I’m mad as hell
Can’t bring myself to do what it is you think I should

Forgive, sounds good
Forget, I’m not sure I could
They say time heals everything
But I’m still waiting

[JuniperLea]

2. Those lyrics are painted with a pretty damn wide brush

Could be about anything, really.

[MADem]

6. They're tight enough, but written to last--can't blame them

This is the bit that tells it like is was for them:
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over

[Warren DeMontague]

7. I think the "shut up and sing" reference is pretty pointed, actually.

The song sounds good to me.

[Hobarticus]

8. Hard to rhyme "go Cheney yourself", so I'll let it ride n/t

[Wickerman]

9. these lyrics said it all

I made my bed and I sleep like a baby
With no regrets and I don’t mind sayin’
It’s a sad sad story when a mother will teach her
Daughter that she ought to hate a perfect stranger
And how in the world can the words that I said
Send somebody so over the edge
That they’d write me a letter
Sayin’ that I better shut up and sing
Or my life will be over


other than that I agree with you.

[Lefty48197]

3. FUGWB, and I love you Chicks!

I think Larry the Cable guy told them to shut up and sing too. FU Hillbilly-boy. God, I love tough chicks.

[TalkingDog]

20. The cable guy is NOT a Hillbilly. He's a MidWestern transplant who

is making money hand over fist being a bigot.

If he were a midwesterner playing at blackface he would be shot. But he can play a "hillbilly" with impunity.

Not to threadjack, but slamming someone based on their geographical local smacks of the same sort of prejudicial short-sightedness that leads one to assume that poor people are all thieves (yes, something someone said to me once) or that X (insert generalized stereotypical behavior here).

/rant


find your Hillbilly Liberation Front tees, dry goods and merchandise at:

http://www.cafepress.com/floatinghead

[lonestarnot]

4. Woooohooo Where do I get mine!???

[movonne]

5. I really love these Chicks...These girls have huevos....

[Mythsaje]

10. All props to Natalie and the Chicks...

Good for them for standing up and refusing to back down.

:toast:

[dogday]

11. I love this group, even more since what

happened to them a few years ago... Good for them for writing this, I hope it becomes very popular...

[grace0418]

12. I'm not super into country music but I'll buy this album

just for that song (although I think it could be MORE pointed than it is).

[proud2BlibKansan]

18. I am not into country music either

but I LOVE The Dixie Chicks!!

They are just outstanding musicians.

[DanCa]

13. James Mcmurtry lyrics are much better.

We can't make it here, by James Mcmurtry.

There’s a Vietnam Vet with a cardboard sign
Sitting there by the left turn line
Flag on his wheelchair flapping in the breeze
One leg missing and both hands free
No one’s paying much mind to him
The V.A. budget’s just stretched so thin
And now there’s more coming back from the Mideast war
We can’t make it here anymore


That big ol’ building was the textile mill that fed our kids and it paid our bills
But they turned us out and they closed the doors
We can’t make it here anymore


See those pallets piled up on the loading dock
They’re just gonna sit there ‘til they rot
‘Cause there’s nothing to ship, nothing to pack
Just busted concrete and rusted tracks
Empty storefronts around the square
There’s a needle in the gutter and glass everywhere
You don’t come down here unless you’re looking to score
We can’t make it here anymore

The bar’s still open but man it’s slow
The tip jar’s light and the register’s low
The bartender don’t have much to say
The regular crowd gets thinner each day
Some have maxed out all their credit cards
Some are working two jobs and living in cars
Minimum wage won’t pay for a roof, won’t pay for a drink
If you gotta have proof just try it yourself Mr. CEO
See how far $5.15 an hour will go
Take a part time job at one your stores
Bet you can’t make it here anymore

There’s a high school girl with a bourgeois dream
Just like the pictures in the magazine
She found on the floor of the laundromatA woman with kids can forget all that
If she comes up pregnant what’ll she do
Forget the career, forget about school
Can she live on faith? Live on hope?
High on Jesus or hooked on dope
When it’s way too late to just say no
You can’t make it here anymore

Now I’m stocking shirts in the Wal-Mart store
Just like the ones we made before
‘ Cept this one came from Singapore
I guess we can’t make it here anymore

Should I hate a people for the shade of their skin
Or the shape of their eyes or the shape I’m in
Should I hate ‘em for having our jobs today
No I hate the men sent the jobs away
I can see them all now, they haunt my dreams
All lily white and squeaky clean
They’ve never known want, they’ll never know need
Their shit don’t stink and their kids won’t bleed
Their kids won’t bleed in their damn little war
And we can’t make it here anymore

Will work for food will die for oil
Will kill for power and to us the spoils
The billionaires get to pay less tax
The working poor get to fall through the cracks
So let ‘em eat jellybeans let ‘em eat cake
Let ‘em eat shit, whatever it takes
They can join the Air Force, or join the Corps
If they can’t make it here anymore

So that’s how it is, that’s what we got
If the president wants to admit it or not
You can read it in the paper, read it on the wall
Hear it on the wind if you’re listening at all
Get out of that limo, look us in the eye
Call us on the cell phone tell us all why

In Dayton Ohio or Portland Maine
Or a cotton gin out on the great high plains
That’s done closed down along with the school
And the hospital and the swimming pool
Dust devils dance in the noonday heat
There’s rats in the alley and trash in the street
Gang graffiti on a boxcar door
We can’t make it here anymore

I do admire any country and western singer who makes a stand against the shrub though.

[Beaverhausen]

14. Rick Rubin produced the album

oh...this will be good!

[faithnotgreed]

15. oh yeah - kick for the chicks

who have integrity

im definitely buying their new album

i dont even listen to country music but i thank them for speaking up (esp when it was most unpopular)

[EVDebs]

16. They were right then, they are right now. The rest owe them an APOLOGY !

Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, you know who you are...

[Joey Liberal]

17. I can't wait to buy it! n.t

[trapper914]

19. Played the new song tonight

I'm in the South...geez...there are some people with heads far up their asses when it comes to the Chicks. One guy said they were anti-troop. WTF?