'Jolene,' Ray Lamontagne, Song & Lyrics
There's a guy in front of the grocery store, looking down at the ground, rocking back and forth on a folding chair, abusing an acoustic guitar. As you get closer you can hear him start to sing, "Cocaine flame in my bloodstream. I sold my coat when I hit Spokane. Bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes. In the early morning rain." Right with his first line, he has earned your attention.
An interviewer in Australia pressed Ray LaMontagne on the inspirations for his songs, where they came from, his artistic process. After uncomfortably deflecting a couple of the questions LaMontagne paused for a long time and then said, "I was reckless with my self sometimes." He didn't betray any secrecies to which he'd sworn, feeling his songs already do it well enough. The accidents of linguistic structures force poetry into sidetracks, sometimes inaccuracies and sometimes embellishments, but while soaking in his constructive mastery, you can also tell it's for real:
Cocaine flame in my bloodstream
sold my coat when I hit Spokane
bought myself a hard pack of cigarettes
in the early morning rain
Lately my hands they don't feel like mine
my eyes been stung with dust and blind
held you in my arms one time
lost you just the same
Jolene,
I ain't about to go straight--
it's too late
I found myself face-down in a ditch
with booze in my hair, blood in my lips
a picture of you holding a picture of me
in the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Still don't know what love means
Jolene!
Been so long since I seen your face
or felt a part of this human race
I've been living out of this here suitcase for way too long
A man needs something he can hold onto
a nine pound hammer or a woman like you
either one of them things will do
Jolene,
I ain't about to go straight--
it's too late
I found myself face-down in a ditch
with booze in my hair, blood on my lips
a picture of you holding a picture of me
in the pocket of my blue jeans
Still don't know what love means
Still don't know what love means
Jolene!
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