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Randy Newman lyrics
My Country lyrics
This is pretty damn close to the way I grew up. The family time was consumed every night with watching television: my mother in a chair, dad on the sofa, me lying on the floor and my brother sitting behind me. That was our family unit, and it's something I was very comfortable with. When I can get my wife and kids to watch television with me, I get a sense of comfort - it's like what I remember. As long as they're watching, I don't have to; I read or something. But at least we're all there together.
The guy in the song doesn't understand why his kids would come over to his house. He thinks, ";They have their own TVs; why do they want to come over and watch mine? If you have a television, why would you go anywhere?"; That's where this person lives - it's his country, televisionland. When I go see my father, he just wants me to go home so he can watch ";Matlock."; But I've felt the same thing. I'm watching a ball game and one of my kids threatens to come over, and I say to myself, ";Shit."; Hopefully I'm not that bad, but I'm pretty close to it.
Other Randy Newman lyrics:
Love Story lyrics
Bet No One Ever Hurt This Bad lyrics
So Long Dad lyrics
I Think He's Hiding lyrics
Linda lyrics
Laughing Boy lyrics
Cowboy lyrics
I think It's Going To Rain Today lyrics
The Beehive State lyrics
Davy the Fat Boy lyrics
Let's Burn Down The Cornfield lyrics
Suzanne lyrics
Yellow Man lyrics
Rosemary lyrics
If You Need Oil lyrics
Uncle Bob's Midnight Blues lyrics
Underneath The Harlem Moon lyrics
Have You Seen My Baby? lyrics
Mama Told Me Not To Come lyrics
Lucinda lyrics
Sail Away lyrics
Lonely At The Top lyrics
He Gives Us All His Love lyrics
Simon Smith And The Amazing Dancing Bear lyrics
Old Man lyrics
Political Science lyrics
Burn On lyrics
Memo To My Son lyrics
Last Night I Had A Dream lyrics
God's Song (That's Why I Love Mankind) lyrics
Rednecks lyrics
Birmingham lyrics
Marie lyrics
Mr. President (Have Pity on the Working Man) lyrics
Every Man a King lyrics
Kingfish lyrics
Rollin' lyrics
Louisiana 1927 lyrics
Little Criminals lyrics
Texas Girl At The Funeral Of Her Father lyrics
Jolly Coppers On Parade lyrics
In Germany Before The War lyrics
Sigmund Freud's Impersonation Of Albert Einstein In America lyrics
Baltimore lyrics
I'll Be Home lyrics
Rider In The Rain lyrics
You Can't Fool The Fat Man lyrics
Kathleen (Catholicism Made Easier) lyrics
Pretty Boy lyrics
Mr. Sheep lyrics
Ghosts lyrics
They Just Got Married lyrics
The Girls In My Life (Part 1) lyrics
William Brown lyrics
Pants lyrics
It's Money That I Love lyrics
The Story of a Rock and Roll Band lyrics
Spies lyrics
Half A Man lyrics
I Love L.A. lyrics
Christmas In Capetown lyrics
The Blues lyrics
Same Girl lyrics
Miami lyrics
Real Emotional Girl lyrics
There's A Party At My House lyrics
I'm Different lyrics
Song For The Dead lyrics
My Life Is Good lyrics
Take Me Back lyrics
Dixie Flyer lyrics
Something Special lyrics
Bad News from Home lyrics
Follow the Flag lyrics
New Orleans Wins the War lyrics
Four Eyes lyrics
Falling in Love lyrics
Masterman and Baby J lyrics
Red Bandana lyrics
It's Money that Matters lyrics
I Want You to Hurt Like I Do lyrics
Shame lyrics
The World Isn't Fair lyrics
Going Home lyrics
I Want Everyone to Like Me lyrics
I'm Dead lyrics
Every Time It Rains lyrics
Great Nations of Europe lyrics
The One You Love lyrics
Big Hat, No Cattle lyrics
Better off Dead lyrics
I Miss You lyrics
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