Lucinda Williams - Man Without a Soul
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KEXP
4.6 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 2 April 2020
⏱️ 6 minutes
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Summary
Lucinda Williams - “Man Without a Soul” from the 2020 album Good Souls Better Angels on Highway 20/Thirty Tigers.
"All the money in the world / Will never fill that hole / You're a man bought and sold / You're a man without a soul"
Over the past 40 years, Lucinda Williams has built a name for herself with her vivid storytelling, which has earned her four Grammy Awards throughout her career. But her forthcoming full-length, Good Souls Better Angels, will "forgo the personal and narrative-based songcraft that has become synonymous with her name and instead speaks to some of the injustices permeating our society."
Today's Song of the Day perfectly illustrates this shift. And while she never directly names who the subject of the song is, it's not hard to guess who she's referring to.
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| 0:00.0 | And the You're a man without truth. |
| 0:25.0 | A man of grief, a man of grief, a man of hate, a man of hate a man of in the doubt |
| 0:37.0 | You're a man without a soul |
| 0:41.0 | All the money without a soul |
| 0:48.0 | all the money in the world |
| 0:55.0 | you'll never feel like home. You're a man, barring soles. |
| 1:00.0 | Your man without a soul. You're a man without a soul. |
| 1:04.0 | You blame nothing good to this world, |
| 1:09.0 | beyond a wealth of cheating and stealing |
| 1:15.0 | you hide behind your wall of lies, |
| 1:20.0 | but it's coming down. |
| 1:23.0 | Yeah, it's coming down. Yeah, it's coming down. |
| 1:30.0 | Your man without |
| 1:31.0 | You're man without change, without dignity and grace. |
| 1:40.0 | No way to say the face your man with our soul |
| 1:49.0 | How do you think this story ends. It's not a matter of how. It's just a matter of when it's just a matter of when |
| 2:04.0 | coming down. |
| 2:07.0 | Yeah, it's coming down. Oh, oh, oh, yeah. Yeah. So, There's a darkness all around you to cover all your hiding |
| 3:10.0 | your hiding. There's no light in your eyes. |
| 3:17.0 | You're a man without a soul. |
| 3:21.0 | Now the excess will be closely the satellite will be exposed |
| 3:30.0 | be exposed no dealer in exposed. No deal and no deals. |
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